Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-10-31

cratc party. III the VOters OF the country
will not close their eyes upon the truth of
this assertion Grover Cleveland will be our
next President, an event which will be
creditabe to the intelligence and wisdom of
the people, and tend TO advance their pros
peritv and establish their interests On solid
foundation.
The hour for argument is closed, and an
hour freighted with heavy responsibility
lies just before US. The great work which
the people have now in hand is paramount
TO all other considerations. 1t rises above
everything else. 1t is the great move of
rescuing the government from the hands of
punderers and violators Of the honor and
public faith of the nation.
If the Democratic party would preserve
the sacred trust years ago placed in its
keeping, it must close up the column and
prepare to meet an enemy which is en-
trenched behind fraud and supported by
every monopoly which now curses this fair
land, and which is paralyzing the energies
and the bone and sinew ofits best and truest
citizens.
We say to our Democratic friends, are
you ready to meet this emergency2 Have
with your neighbors, have you thrown out
your pickets, are you ready for the great
battle of Tuesday next?
We ask these questions because it is our
hnv an
interest in common with you, and that in
terest is the perpetuation, through constitu-
tiona channels, of our government, wisely,
honestly and economically administered
so administered that no man need complain
of tho weight of the currentof civil power.
We ask you these questions because we
have shown you from time to time that the
country is surrounded by peris of an awful
magnitude, and consequently that it is drift
ing along dangerous chasm, that the ffilO-
critics of a great and free people are being
made subservient to Tic private interests of
high public functionaries into whose hands
he.ve been conhded grave and sacred trusts.
We ask you these questions because moth
ing but the nterposition of the intelligence
and wisdom of the people can stem the cur
rent of evil now coursng the land, and
check the mad, wild and dangerous career
of the Republican party, and give to the
country prosperity and repose.
We ask you these questions because there
arc bounds in the moral as well as the ma
teral system TO the dominion of evil there
are limits to the injustice of nations as well
as the guilt of individuals. There is time
when cunning ceases to delude and hypoc-
risy to deceive, when power ceases to over
awe, and oppression will no longer be
borne. To that hour, to that avenging hour,
we are rapidly approaching, when evil will
be overcome with good, and when the life
blood of an injured people will collect al
the heart, and by one convulsivc effort throw
off the load that has oppressed it. 1t is i'm
possible that the oppressed can longer beck.
on the approach of a power which comes
only to load them with heavier chains it j:
impossible that nation Graded in civiiza
|
erty can long continue to bend their free
born heads before the feet of a corrupt and
fraudulent party, or that it can suffer the
stream of knowledge which has so long an.
mated their soil to terminate at last in the
deep stagnation Of cruel despotism. Fol-
years our attention has been fixed upor
that overgrown and guilty party, which has
been fertile in nothing but fraud and crime
In the widest hours of its triumph, in it
boldest usurpations of the rights of the peo
pe mid the clouds that covered its black
est deeds we recognized that il was dead Il
the moral stability of justice. 1t was rad
ated by no beam from Heaven, it wa
blessed by the prayer of no good man, i
was worshiped by no patriotic heart
, Thank God the hour is on the wing whel
it will fall, and the same sun which nov
measures out with reluctance the length o
its impious reign will soon rest over ii
, ruins.
We repeat, the hour for argument is owe
- the line of battle has been drawn. Close u
the column, sound the tocsin and place til
sentinel on duty. Remember, eternal viz
lance is the price of liberty" but inactivit
> and submission means slavery and degrads
ton.