Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-29
A MOTHER LETTER FROM MR. JENI-

A MOTHER LETTER FROM MR.. JENI-
| N FER.-IO the Hon. -, &-c-You will
no doubt have seen some of the heavy denuncia-
lions and still uni just insinuations which the
publication of my letter to you, of the 10th Au-
gust, has brought down upon me- My object IS
not further to notice them, than to correct mis-
tatements of facts into which some gentlemen
seem to have been led. | was not, as has been
stated, member of the Baltimore National Con-
vention, though | was present and saw and heard
much of its proceedings. | acas a member of the
State Wing Convention which met for the purpose
of sending Delegates to the National Convention,
and to appoint Electors for the State of Maryland.
1t has been unjustly, will not say maliciously,
linsinuated that had been appointed an Electoral
candidate, my letter of the 10th of August would
not have appeared. will not believe that any
delegate to that Convention has given countenance
Ito such an lmputaton. Before, and during the
meeting of the Convention | had been asked by
friends to permit my name to be used as an Elec
tor at large for the State of Maryland. Under
lstanding that no other person was expected or de-
sired to be candidate, | consented And the
President of the Convention did me the honor to
nominate me as an Electoral candidate at large.
Before the question was taken, which was expect
ed to be unanimous, another gentleman was nam
ed by his friend. Upon which, hearing that he
INTENDED to permit his name to be used, mme-
diately withdrew mine, to the dissatisfaction of
large number of the delegates. Notwithstanding
these facts, upon the publication of my letter,
there appeared in one of the Baltimore Wing pa
pers the only one to which am subscriber) the
following insidious paragraph:
| s'Was not Col. Jenlter an active member of the
late Wing State Convention, and prominent can
ddate for the Electoral Ticket from the First
District? If he had been successful in receiving
the nomination, would he have come out with his
card;"
i Now, [pity from the bottom Of my soul the man
I whose mind is SO perverted, and whose heart is
so depraved that he can nothing in the con-
duct of a gentleman from whom he politically diff
fers but deception and dishonor. Ask any of my
numerous friends who were anxious that | should
be candidate, and to whom | freely expressed
my opinion, whether did not avow my determ-
nation if nominated, to withdraw from being a
candidate, should the Wing National Convention
nominate Presidential candidate to whom could
not consistently give my support? This is my
answer.
am also charged in that letter, to have made
Ian attack upon the "the political honesty of the Wig
partu of .aryland and the Southern States, who now
rally to the hearty support of the electors of Gen.
Scott" That is an assumption which no man
who has any respect for himself the intelligence
f of others would venture. No such language or
any thing | have done, written, or said. So far
from any attack upon the Wing party of Mary land
and the Southern States, my object was to guard
them, as far as my feeble opinions could do, against
the enemies of Maryland and the Southern States,
and of the Union. Nor shall be constrained or
provoked to make any charge against Gen. Scott,
r or the Wings of Maryland and the South. His
fame belongs to his country, and not to sectional
party of his country. He take of his enc
mil in hut ha mot he saved
J from his friends.
have before stated why could not consistent
0 ly support the nomination of General Scott. ]
will now briefly assign the reasons why Maryland,
of all States in the Union, should not sanction his
nomination. Look over this vast Republic, ex-
tending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, where do
j. you find the little State of Maryland' Separated
from Pennsylvania, bordering upon Mason and
lDixon's line, being south of North, and north of
South. In any disruption of the Union, there she
kpds1a boIder State in peace, battlefield in
In Fer present aim should be to preserve the
Inion regardless of party distinctions or section
al divisions.
e How is this to be done Discard all those who
are for reviving those agitating questions from
whatever section of the Union they may come 1t
> is settled, fixed fact, admitted throughout the
whole South, that upon the faithful execution OF
, the compromise and its attendant measures, de-
pend the unity of this republic. Letus see where
we are to look and to whom for the carrying out
those measures.
: With the noble exception of Daniel Webster
and Willard Fillmore, where do you find upon the
floor of the Senate of the United States Wing
Senator from the North advocating Southern
rights, supporting the compromise measures ana
: the fugitive slave law?
Look on the other side ; see Cass and Dckin-
:, son and other Democratic Senators from the non
slaveholdmg States uniting theirmanly efforts with
Clay and Webster to arrest the deed which threa-
tened to plunge this happy country IN civil war.
At that awful moment it was noble spectacle to
/. witness Clay and Webster, Cass and Dickinson,
when danger threatened the Union, dlscardlng all
political party differences. all sectional feelings,
limiting as one man to the rescue of their country.
similar state OF things was eVlnced IN the House
a of Representatives.
t The two National Conventions have since met,
o and each laid down its platform. Now if there
: ever was device calculated to deceive the peo-
: pie, it is these platforms, both of which have been
violated by their representatives in Congress since
S they were erected Witness the proceedings OF
j both Houses in speeches and appropriation bills,
i and even those who voted for the platforms, do
S not consider themselves bound by them.
Certain it is that, whether we look to either
branch of Congress or the National Conventions
or to the principal actors in the non-slaveholdng
n States, the Democrats are sounder upon Southern
% Rights and the Union than the Wings of the non
slave holding States. If this be the fact, which
j. must be apparent to all who choose to seek the
i truth and the great question is to be the faithful
|. execution of the Compromise and its attendant
. measures, it becomes the South, the whole South.
and Maryland in particular, to discard their party
predelictions and unite with those of the North,
: by whatever name they may be called, in the pre-
servation of their rights and the Union All parties
. in the South are for a faithful execution Of the
COMPROMISE measures except the antipodes of the
abolitionlsts, whose policy tends to the same re-
suits
Why was it that Miard Fillmore and Daniel
g Webster, who were justly favorites of the South
=, and all Union Wings, and whose administration
v was pronounced to be model administration, not
satisfactory to the Northern Wings? Solely be-
cause they were advocates of measures dear to
U the South.
Many honest Mhigs have been deluded and led