Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-06-05
COM M u MIC A ITO n.

Mr.. WELLS: ask once more place il
your paper. ePlanter" has seen fit to per
vert my language to suit his own purposes
cannot return him the sneering compl
menr, which he in his generosity awards me
-s',he mastery talent displayed by Ole
Charles, for crowding together things which
have no agreement with each other, which
stare and wonder how they have beer
brought together, ,'-because it is utterly
impossible for me to discover any thing in
his communication worth a compliment
unless i, be The mas,erly talent he displays
in Jumping, regardless of any thing like
fairness,-likely being at loss for other
amusements. He has leaped over just six
,y-two lines of my last communication, to
bring in juxtaposition two paragraphs, and
then triumphantly exclaims, "Reconcile
these conflicting propositions, who can, and
admire their consistency, who may can
not do the one or the other.'' If this is a
fair way Of arriving at ones views, by
taking isolated paragraphs, it would be
equally fair to interpret the Bible by the
same rule, and learn our duty by the fol-
lowing disconnected passages in tha. holy
book. 1t is said in one place that Judas
"went and hanged himself;' in another" ego
thou and do likewise" The gentleman is
perfectly welcome 10 all the advantage he
imagines that he has gained by this mode
Of reasoning. ] care not-my object has
been attained. The question is now before
the people, and time will show which mode
Of appointing the Judges will be adopted
which party will prove the more democra-
tic, that to which the gentleman says he be-
longs, or the Whig party to which his hum
BILE servant belongs.
As to all my other incongruities mention
ed by "Planter,'' will only say, that they
arc the creations Of his own Imagination
mere "(ancy sketches to amuse
and divert the Democracy and prevent them
from committing the heinous sin of elecling
their Judges. The question, according to
s'Planter's" showing, is too complex for
them, it is only y understood by men Of ge-
MUS and extraordinary learning-,he diff
ference in being "capable Of governing them
selves" and elec,ing their agents, is so great
tha, il is not understood by ordinary minds.
And as s.Planter'' seems to think that do
not understand the subject, it would be on
]y wasting time to explain my ignorance
when am sure he would not be bright
enough to understand what really does moi
exist. The fancy, however, pleases him and
does not hurt me.
My "soap bubble" which 'Planter" seems
to have handled so dex,erously in his jump
has proved strong enough 10 bear analyzing
and may ye. cause collapse Of the genius
that first made the grand discovery that the
election Of Judges by the people originated
to the N orth with the Barn-burners. He
says he is snot aware that State, south OF
Mason and Dixon's line, has ventured on
this untried experiment." elec,ing Judges
by the people. ] can inform the gentleman
that the State Of Mississippi. some i('eer
years ago, ventured on this experiment
and New York only some four years since
Whether the former State borrowed it from
them or.h and the radicals Of the democracy
nicknamed Barn-burners," cannot inform
him, but will refer him to MIR. FooTE of lha
State. The National lntelligencer Of tht
9Th of May. published a few remarks made
by this gentleman, in the Senate, on the 7lh
from which ! extract the following "Mr
Foote said sometime ago, in the State o
Mississippi, the life tenure of judicial off
GERS was changed, and we have since seer
the extraordinary benefit that has resulted
to our State from that alteration. Some ff
teen or sixteen years ago our life tenure
for Judges was changed, so that the Peopl
were enabled to elect their Judges them
selves once in four years." Here, MI
"Plsnter,' is a "fixed fact" that the Sou'l
adopted the system before New York, AM