Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-10-08
BUSINESS MEN ALARMED.

TRADE of abuse and misrepresentation which
the Republican press and leaders continue
to hurl against the South has aroused seri-
GUS apprehensions with the leading business
men of the North and West
They do not hesitate TO say in the most
unqualified terms, that such course is pro-
ductive of great injury to the commercial in
will bring about segregation and isolation
of that branch of our industries which is so
essential TO our national and individual
prosperity.
With view to correct the evils that must
necessarily result from such an unwise policy
some seventy-five Of the leading wholesale
merchants of Cincinnati, irrespective of
party, have inaugurated movement which
has for its object cessation of this bitter
crusade against people who, since the ter
mination of our civil war, have labored ear
nestly and zealously TO restore their broken
fortunes, to cultivate confidence and bring
about a community of interest and relation
with all classes throughout the entire
country.
The men who have taken the initiative in
this measure, are men of wealth, of large
business capacities and operations. They
watch closely the fluctuations of the markets
and study the causes which bring about de-
preston in trade, or which may tend to
| destroy or weaken the confidence of com
mercial relations. Thoroughly practical in
their views, keen and sagacious, they per-
ceive as easily as the mariner descrys the
coming storm, the slightest ripple upon the
commercial stream and can tell whether it
is indicative of good orevil. They have not
been slow to realize that this violent vituper-
alton upon the South by the Republican
party will result in driving large and pro-
ductive trade from their midst, that the
avenues to this large and growing section of
the country may be closed against them
that Southern trade and commerce will
seek markets in those sections of the country
where the people are noble and generous,
and not among those who are blinded by
prejudice and who seek to throw every i'm
pediment in the way that may obstruct
their social and material development.
They are not slow in approaching the fact
resources necessary to their regeneration,
comfort and opulence, and that the high
ways which are daily grooming under the
product of her labor may be closed or de-
| caNta1 that hos loo l,,,,
ufactured at home and from her own ports
will be borne to every land the sun shines
on, those staples which are daily augment
ing the wealth Of the country.
1t is said that there is point at which
forbearance ceases to be virtue and there
is perhaps no class Of people who are better
able to appreciate the truth ofthis old adage
then the practical business men of the coun-
try. They cannot fail to have observed the
tameless silence with which the Southern
people have borne every invasion of their
political rights, every species of oppression
and wrong They cannot have failed to have
noticed that, whilst they have strangled
their feelings, exercising such rights and
privileges as the party in power chose to
give them, with dauntless energy and cour-
age they have succeeded in restoring life
and beauty to land which was torn and
devastated by war, until they now challenge
9 the admiration of the world and are in DO
sition to ask no favors. And that it is moi
at all likely from such a favorable stand
, point of material progress, they will continue
to have business relations with those who
have shown no sympathy in their misfor-
tune and have no appreciation oftheir efforts
to bring about that reciprocity of good will
which would inevitably work to their mu-
tual advantage.
These men discard the idea that either
the election of Garfield or Hancock would
tend to injure the business interests of the
country, but that it is the preaching of hate
by the Republican party that will eventuate
in stagnation of the country's industries.
Whilst we cannot agree with them, as to the
results that would follow the election of
Garfield, wecan readily perceive the strength
OF their views in relation to the curse which
is daily poured upon people who have had
the firmness to endure all and been mag
unanimous enough to forgive