Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-08-13
For the SENTINEL
Hate and Miscegenation.

"Now fore Heaven, you're kind,
You've scourged, and chained, and Knocked
u.s. made Gods earth
A dungeon and a living grave and now
When we are free,-our swords in our right
hand;
Our tyrants shivering at our feet, we pirate
or promised mercy, bark We, ifyou yield not
The wolf shall howl in your spoiled palac
Better were America made a wild, than be
The home of bondsmen."
Twenty years of experience must have
deeply impressed and satisfied every impair
tial observer of the past that the Republi
can party is an agglomeration of fanaticism
and hates. 1t has miscegenated with every
thing that is corrupt in politics, impure in
principle, debauching in power, venal in
truth, bigoted in religion and as a conse
quence of its moral depravity and disgusting
practices, 1t has as II consequence placed in
nomination a candidate for President whom
they dare not refer TO in the light of the YER
dict pronounced by n committee of his peers
Caught in acts as perfidious and disgrace
full as damned or blackened the record OF
any land at any time, it has promised reform
only to make the fact still more prominent
that it would be as reasonable 10 attempt to
reform the habits of the vulture or stay the
breath of some fearful pestilence with a CO.
logne bottle. Governed by its instincts it
does not think; impeled by its hates, it has
no need for a heart with the rapacious greed
of a famshed boa, il moves to kill and pauses
only amidst the desoation and ruin it has
produced. 1t laughs at virtue, tramples
under foot truth, exalts perjury, rewards
crime, pensions, fraud and manufactures SIAN
der, all said and done to enable them to
hold the balance of power 1t does not hes
itate TO falsely and maliciously sully the
good name and reputation of any man not
among their number that he may lose the
confidence and respect of his fellow citizens.
Nordoes it hesitate TO elevate those who have
shown themselves to be vile, who have
proved recreant to the trusts committed to
their care, who have committed such guilty
acts and practices as forever disqualify them
from holding positions in which exalted
probity is the supreme demand. Whilst
crying out for reform in the conduct of the
campaign, they have never paused in piling
falsehood upon falehood, in uttering the
vilest ISLANDERS and sending them broadcast
over the land. Their mud batteries have
been at work, from the very hour the Illus
trious American was nominated for Presi-
dent and though his name and fame are as
unblemished and stainless as his sword, and
his deeds of valor have gone sounding
throughout the world, still Republican or
gans and orators have sedulously cutivatd
every opportunity for gratuitous and inta
nous defamation. Those whose imperative
duty as good citizens mindful of the honor
and integrity of the nations honor at home
and abroad are not necessitated to undergo
such attacks. They have but TO lift the
curtain, they have but 10 turn over the re-
cords OF history and point out the reports Of
committees or the opinions of the highest
courts In order 10 establish the crimes and
corruptions of those who seek 10 control and
administer the general government.
History affords no example of an era
similar TO ours under Republican rule in
which innovations have been SO ruthlessly
and hastily pursued, ambition so blindly
worshiped, the experience of all ages so
haughtily repudiated and trampled upon, in
which the rights of persons and property
have been so rccklessly violated, revolution
lied, altered and abused. If we pause but
for moment 10 speculate and trace
these fearful disorders TO their source, we
cannot fail TO discover that they terminate
from the pride Of little knowledge from
historical analogies imperfectly understood,
examples of antiquity rashly misappled,
dreams ofperfection crudely conceived, spec
ulations of the moment instantly acted upon
Every man can speak and write of politics,
but there is not one in ten who can under
aiand them, every man ilatters himself that
ne knows something of history, 10 be quail.
fed TO reason in il correctly requires the in
cessant study Of half lifetime "a little
knowledge" says Bacon, "makes men ire
ligious, but profound thought brings them
back 10 devotion" In the truth uniolded by
this great man are 10 be found the sources
OF those miscries with which our country has
- long been ~ unfortunately inflicted, these
acts Of invasion which have so conspicuously
marked the mad career Of the Republican
party. From the very hour that this party
assumed the control Of the government we
have boen inflicted with such an accumula.
ton Of rash and indecent legislation, such
an abrogation Of all respect for constitution
al reconstruction, such subseryicnce 20 the
auiocratic will Of the leaders, such depart.
ure from the venerable landmarks and ira.
ditlons of the past, such disregard for truth,
and such adulation for perjury and bribery
that am led 10 a rciteaiion, that the Repub.
lean party Is thing ofhate, vengeance and
miscegenation, and those who would know
Of it iniamy and wicked designs, can read
II IN the organized plunderings aud wrong
which have been heaped upon a conquered
people.
II h however matter Of great congratu.
laiion aud relief 10 know and feel that their
vocation Of preaching hate will soon be at
an end, their power 10 disregard our rights
and iniiict wrong will soon be at am end.
u would seem a. II, al particular periods,
from causes inscrutable 10 human wisdom,
a universal frenzy RnIcs mankind reason
experience, prudence, arc alike blinded, but