Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-08-13

it generally eliminates in the very class, per-
ishing in the storm, who were the first TO
inaugurate its fury. ~ "a z
God never made bondsman and now
that the chains that have been forged and
riyeted upon us by Republican rule are be-
ing rent asunder by men who are driven to
desperation in the greatest and most glorious
Of earthly enterprises, now that we are free
to strike, and
-"shout the glad tidings to our host
And bid their hearts and voices tell the
heavens
That they are slaves no more"
now that we can
-"proudly smile
Down on the spangled meanness ofthe Court,
Claiming title, higher than their highest
An honest mana freeman"
they would pirate of promised mercy, they
would encourage higher standard in con-
Quoting political campaigns, they would wipe
out great abuses which have seemingly be-
come part of the governments great re-
forms which they have ignored, cheap gov
eminent which they have made extrava-
CANT and oppressive and vainly endeavored
to consolidate into an Empire. MOI we
have broken your power to do us further
injury, in short time we will rescue from
your grasp trust which you have used to
the serious detriment of the government and
perverted to base and ignoble purposes. We
have no enemies tohpunish. In the accom-
plishment OF our aims, in the course of our
arduous struggles, we have not robbed the
national treasury we have not sowed broad
cast vituperation and SANDER, we have not
INDUCED in violent invective, we have not
made victims of the innocent and unsus-
pecting by holding out rewards, we have
not infringed upon either the security of
property or the provision of the poor, nor
have we compromised oar principles or yield
ed to the enemy. In the language of the
late and gifted Canning, Of England, "What
we have accomplished is, establishing the
foundations upon which the temple of peace
may be erected, we may now confidently
hope TO arrive at a termination of labor and
the commencement of repose. Peace is safe
now because it is not dictated, peace is safe
now for it is the fruit of exertion, the child
of victory; peace is safe now because it will
not be purchased at the expense Of the in
terest and honor of the country, it is not
the ransom to buy off danger, but the lovely
fruit of the mighty means we have en-
ployed to drive danger from our shores"
Weighted down with the accumulation of
advancing years, together with the multiplied
cares and responsibilities incident to domes-
tic life, with the shadows of sorrow and adj
versity following now and then around me,
| have seldom within the last twenty-five
years ventured beyond the limits of my
own household. In my retirement, more
by reason of the force of circumstances than
from desire, have been afforded ain ample
opportunity of watching and studying close
ly the gradual disintegration Of our Federal
system under the vampires of Republicans,
| have lived to see the Supreme Court Of
the land, the great bulwark Of our liberties,
the crowning wreath Of our national glory
and honor prostituted and subsidized to the
service Of the vilest craftsmanship in order
10 annihilate the voice Of the people in the
selection of their chosen Executive. But it is
exceedingly gratifying and refreshing in the
closing hours Of my life, whilst the curtain
is falling, TO realize that the old Democratic
party, under whose banners have assisted
in fighting many hard battles, has given the
death blow 10 party whose rule II govern
ment has been one Of hzte and mlscEgEnAtI0n
and inaugurates an era which foods she
land with hopes Of reform, peace and pr1s
perity. SENEx-
CLIFTON, Montgomery county, Nd