Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-11-10
THE SENTINE Ell
ROCKVILLE, MD.
Friday Morning November 10. 1882
UPRISING OF THE PEOPLE.

The elections which were held on Tues
day last in twenty-three States of the Union
have sent thrill of terror into the Republi-
can camp. 1t was nothing more or less
than an uprising of the honest masses of the
people who have for years been suffering
under corrupted and continued system of
legislation which had grown to be so burden
some that its evils could not longer be borne.
1t was against that character of legislation
which finds its parallel in the darkest and
bloodiest pages which has chronicled the
decay and final disintegration of Republics,
the freedom of whose people and the sim
plicity of whose institutions has been the
song of historians and the admiration of
patriots for centuries.
This great rebuke upon the part of the
people first developed itself in the famous
Tilden campaign Of 1875, when it swept
over the land with the poisoning breath of
the sirocco. But the voice OF the people as
expressed under the laws Of the land was
by a system of unblushing and wicked
Vaccination strangled, and with boldness
Of effrontery which would have chilled the
wickedness of Jeffries, of England, or a
Nero, of Rome.
More CALLING than ever was Austrian
tyranny, these pirates who had continued
control of every branch Of the general gov
erpment under the great steal, fastened the
yoke of vassalage and continued their des-
poliation.
But the period of upheavel on the part of
the. people is heard again throu ghout the
land. The elections of Tuesday have been
general in their political tendency. We
made gains in every direction and to such
an extent as assures us of the control OF the
next House of Representatives by large
majority.
But IL was in the old Empire State New
York; where it seems to have caught the
frightful madness of some demon of hell and
went breaking and crashing through every
valley and leaping DER every hill top until
a perfect sun-burst Of victory lit up the
State. 1t did. not stop there; on went this
great wave ofpublic indignation rolling and
laundering amid the mountain Businesses of
the Keystone State Of the federal arch, Penn
sylvania), until wreath of glory and honor
hung gracefully amid the Democratic col
umn.
Massachusetts, with her Plymouth Rock
and her Henry Ward Beecher, who has
done more to shock the moral sense of the
world than any other man of the present
age, became alarmed, and catching the in
spiration of the hour joined in the grand
chorus which is but the prelude to that era
of reform which is to bring relief to the
people
Connecticut one of the original thirteen
States, was not behind and nobly and
bravely lifted in triumph the Democratic
colors.
Thus as we have already stated this cleo
trio cry of the people has secured the con
troll of the House of Representatives of the
48th Congress. Ii this Democratic House
will not be able TO carry out such system
of reform as will conduce TO the better hap
piness of the people Of the entire land il
will at least be able to defeat that terrible
extravaganza Of reckless and corrupt lcgis.
lation which has entailed so much mis- cry
throughout the land.