Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-10-22
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SCHLEY AND URNER.
The Political Campaign, in Frede'1ck County
"A Terrible ATTaig'1naent Of the Republican
Odntlidnte for Conqress IN this District.

"a Terrible A7YaSgnnaent Of the Republican
Cdndsdate for Congress in this District.
On October 9th, Hon Frederick J. Nelson
made very stirring speech at Buckeystown
to large assembly of people, from which
we extract the following:
In referring to Mr. UrnerI desire to speak
ofhim as public man only, and to hold him
responsible only for his own acts and utter
ances, or the acts and utterances of others
which he has publicly approved and adopted.
OF his private character / have nothing to
say. So far as / know it is unassailable He
is my professional brother and personal
friend-if he will permit me to call him So
and within the sphere of these relations l
entertain for him nothing but the kindest feel
ings. In political affairs, all this is changed ;
and it will be no surprise to him to learn
that regard the whole course of his public
conduct as controlled by considerations OF
personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT or party success.
He was State-rights Democrat; he became
consolidation Republican from purely
selfish motives and, since then he has ap-
proved every act Of his party, in Congress
or out of it, however repugnant to public
justice or hurtful to the liberties of the peo-
pie. More than this, in the newborn zeal
Of a recent neophyte, and in an overweening
anxiety to further his own promotion, he
has not hesitated to scatter broadcast senti-
ments repugnant to every Christian feeling,
and doctrines subversive of public morality.
This is strong language know it and use
it deliberately; but that you may see that l
am justified in so doing, / desire to call your
attention to publication which Ihold in my
hand. 1t is speech ofthe Hon. r. /. Harr,
of Michigan, delivered in the House of Rep
resentatives, June 1, 1880. Mr.. Harr says:
"Now am not disciple of that school
who teach that the voice of the people is
always the voice of God. Vo1 P0puS, Vor
Del has by no means always been true in the
past. The voice of the people is the voice of
God only when the voice Of the people is in
favor Of the right When the people are
composed mainly of the rabble, they seldom
voice the will of the Deity. The Oog pop,tIi
in Jerusalem, over eighteen hundred years
ago, cried cut Cruelty Him. Cruelty Him ?
and thought to silence the g0E Del by mailing
the carpenter of Nazareth to the cross, but
the voice of God uttered amid human agony,
Father, forgive them, for they know not
what they do has come down to us full of
pathos and grandeur through all the cen
turtles.
"The voice of the people joined with that
Of Calvin in directing the fagots to be lighted
about the quivering flesh of Servetus, but
the voice from the skies has since been
heard, and the verdict is well nigh universal
that the best man in the vast throng was the
one they burned at the stake Again, in our
Town day, the zoe pOpuLG was loud and clam
orous, demanding the execution of the err
ratio hero Of Harper's Ferry; and those peo-
pie thought they had silenced the g0g Del
when on the I'd day of December, 1859, at
Charlestown, Virginia, they strangled to
death poor old John Brown. How short is
the vision ofman How tar-seeing the light
Of the Almighty Call the old man crazy
if you will; still, l say it fearlessly, aye,
with deliberation, to-day | would rather
have his place in history than that of the
great leader of the Lost Cause: for, blink it
as you may, jefferson Davis will go down
in history as a man who lived and struggled
that he might make slaves of his fellow-men,
while John Brown will be written down as
man who lived and struggled and died
that he might give freedom to a race. There
can be no doubt as to which of these men
God will select when He makes up His
jewels"
Now this speech, my fellow citizens, from
which | have just read these infamous SEN
timents, was sent to citizens of this county
under the frank Of the Hon. Milton G.. Ur
ner. The copy from which have read was
sent to Mr. William II, Lakin, who is known
to you all as one Of our best citizens, and one
of the most substantial farmers in the county
Here is the envelope with Mr. Urner's en-.
dorsement upon it. BY this endorsement he
has adopted its sentiments and made himsel
responsible for them, as a man makes him
self by the endorsements of apromissory note
and by circulating he has commended then
to the adoption Of his fellow-citizens. Viii
you, gentleman, also approve and adop
them? Christ, the son of the living God
himself God, figuring in the same category
with Michael Servitus, the heresiarch, ant
John Brown, the murderer The Jews cru
Gifted the Goldman between two thieves, be
hold this new crucifiXion.
This is the language of eloquent bias
| phemy, but is it the language Of Christian
gentlemen? The swinish Ingersol Nigh
well applaud such All utterance, but did yol
ever imagine that the respectable Milton G
Urner would ever descend TO such level
May not say of him, as Judge Black sale
of Garfield, when he passes into the do
mains of politics, his conscience loses it
grip. Tell me, is it not the universal voic,
of all christendom, and is it not written il
the statutes of all nations, that who's
shedeth mans blood by man shall his BLOOD
be shedg Was the zoe popili, then which
demanded the execution of the murderer
John Brown, the voice of the "rabble," o.
the zoe del? Mr.. Urner says it was the voic,
of the "rabble"-whose voice do you say i
wasp Mr.. Urner says that John Brown wa!
the "erratic hero" of Harper's Ferry-wha
do you say he was? Mr. Urner says wher
God makes up his jewels, he will select ,Johl
Brown to shine respendent for ever in Hi
crown OF glory. Did he not make a mis-
take and mean satan" when he wrote God
Is this treachery of Mr.. Urner to the uni
versal teachings Of christianity the onl,
pledge he has to offer of fidelity to hi
party? My friends, l do not know that | an
less ambitious than other men, but do no
believe that all the glittering honors Of th
world could tempt me to utter the senti
ments of this infamous speech which Mr.
Urner has so lovingly adopted and so wide
ly commended to the approval of his fellow
citizenS