Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-11-01

nevertheless, The pow
and their mandates have,g16
to be obeyed as their pleasure y hdS
and submissively courted. In all matters
of political nature at the district meetings,
as we'll as in the county convention their
views have to be carefully ascertained and
their tastes, prejudices and partiaties have
10 be cautiously. delicately and fastidiously
catered TO by the carpet-baggers and their
sympathetic friends.
The reason for all this is obvious at the
first glance. The two thousand and three
hundred negro votes constitute more than
four. fifths of the Republican vote in the
county, and the carpet baggers appreciate
the fact that with this vote dissatisfied
and inliarmonious the Republican party in
the county would be "the little end of moth
ing whitfield down TO point-and that
consequently they, the hungry and design
ing carpet baggers, would DE unable to fill
their wallets at the expense of the solid tax
payers of the county. 1t is well-known
Tact as the past thirty years experience has
fully attested that the carpet Dagger cares
nothing for the material progress of the
Southern people-nothing for their pecu-
mary condition and less for their social status
and wants. They would shout hosannas
To day If they could see us the helpless slave
Of the negro population and without dol
lar in the world. Wherever and whenever
they have obtsined control in any Southern
State, or any portion Of any Southern State,
their system of legislation has been such as
would enable them to inaugurate system
OF plumber. Can this be denied-look at the
Southern States Immediately after the war
when the carpet baggers tro0ped down like
carrion birds and swept over this beautiful
land with all the fury OF a cyclone, with all
the whitening devastating effect of the parch-
ing breath oi u sirocco Some of their lead
ers went To the penitentiary, but the rest Of
them filled their sacks and made for home
They went to the South to rob and 10 plum
der and the Republican party encouraged,
aye, assisted them in their organized system
Of plumber aud the poor ignorant blacks
were Instruments which they were able to
manage by the most wicked and cruel de.
ception. The assertion that the carpet bag
gers are interested in our material and social
advancement is false They flock here from
u desire Of greed-they are our unlimited and
undesirable guests. They have no sympa
thy with our people-no desire TO see our
institutions Of any character prosper or
course, we do not include in this category
that sturdy, hardy and industrious pepula
ton that comes TO our county from other
counties oi this State and other States, but
applies to that class OF carpet. baggers who
come 10 our county IN order To make poll
tics trade and TO enlist the support and
and sympathy vi the negroes.
The negroes of the county are aware of
their influence. They realize the fact that
the Republican party OF the county is pow
erless without their united strength and they
know, too, what the carpet baggers are after.
They are fully alive TO the situation, conse
quently in Republican council they speak
az they think and demand that which they
want, but in which they are often deceived
by reason OF the voraciOus appetites of their
comrades in spoils. Be it remembered, how
ever, that this deception or broken promises
do not arise from any want of desire to
CRAFTY the Ebo-skins, but is rather the off
spring OF avarice.
Now, If by accident or otherwise Re-
publican representative should be sent from
this county this winter TO Annapolis, he
will go AS the slave, messenger and mouth
piece of this element. He will be there to
do their bidding, to execute their commands,
70 support aud defend such and all meas
ures as will be to their interest-and he
dare not disobey his lords and masters, the
Ebo skins and the carpet baggers. He will
he there as the special advocate for divis.
ion OF the official patronage of the State
He will be there as the friend and cham
pion Of any legislation that this element
may demand with reference to our public
school question, even it be the opening OF
the doors Of the white schools TO the young
Ebo-skin and further, if it is so ordered, to
have The appointment of Ebo.s skins as
school masters and school mstresses in
white schools.
Think OF such condition of things, white
man, and tremble for the security and hap
piness of your homes
All, say some Of the better class of the
minority element oil the Republican party
of the county: "There is no danger nor
likelihood of such legislation being demand.
ed" There is danger, there is likelihood of
just such legislation being demanded. 1t is
a fact that cannot be truthfully denied that
the negro element not only IN this county,
but throughout all the Southern states, is
assuming an aggressive attitude upon this
very question. They have passed resolu-
lions in their meetings in the City of Balti-
more, in Washington, in Richmond. and
throughout the South TO this effect-aye,
further. they have declared in the most en-
phAEic manner that there must be social rec
ognltion. Il was only few daysago that Rev.
W. 3. johnson, q eolored Baptist preacher