Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1855-09-15

is scarcely necessary to say that would
scorn to allow it to influence me. 1t is
hardly necessary to say to you, and
others to whom / am at all known, that,
while | have never been violent parti-
san or zealot, | have always been con-
sistent achig in politics, and in religious
faith Protestant But, in the one and
in the other, | have endeavored to ex-
ercise a spirit of liberation, as most
congenial with truth and sincerity in
both and if while in active political
life though now for some time past out
Of the vortex, L have endeavored to
practice liberation towards my opponents,
| certainly will not now abandon a spirit
sc essential to republican freedom, and
especially at a period in our affairs when
the nation needs the united efforts of o5l
her conservative, patriotic, and truly
national men, of every party and section,
to avert impending dangers which threat
en- our government and people. and in
an especial manner our own region of
the country,
AS to several particulars which you ire
port of our conversation in Raleigh about
the practices and worship of the Roman
Church in Spain, and especially as to the
statement that many or that any Protes-
tants, denied the right Of Christian bur-
ial, being given over the anatomisti !"
and as to the sale Of indulgence" if
you mean the sale of indulgences as
practised in and before the time of the
Reformation, and not the worship of the
Virgin and the Cross, constantly found
in public places of worship, and often in
public offices and streets, with inscrip-
tons and placards attached, promising
indulgence for sins on condition Of pray
er and payment of certain moneys, with
which every traveller in Spain and some
parts of the continent is familiar; ard Is
to some other less important particulars
to which you refer in this part Of your
letter, can only remark that there arc
several discrepancies from what was really
said, and that you are evidently mista-
ken, without intending TO be so, in sew
eral matters Ialluae to it, also, for the
purpose Of slowing how easy it is to
make inaAvertant mistakes in attempting
TO report a casual conversation had IL a
cursory manner and in the frankness of
social and friendly intercourse. Deen-
ing this portion Of your letter irrelevant
to the main subject, and that my reply
may not be too long, omit any further
observation upon it.
As to that portion Of your lcltor which
refers to the publication Of mine to YOU
Of the 9th Of July, have to ayillat :
desire sud fs-sss''f-rz ,..ssst, ~ I; i,sil.
subject was allu le1 60 again in ia lie
the correction should be made ~ tub-
fishing all and not merely part IF the
letter-thc differences made by mo as
well as Che facts stated-for / think that
both were necessary to the correction
requested and u just understanding Of
the matter. AS, however, similar
statement was made in my letter to Mr.
Eds of July 23d, which has been pub
lished, | do not now deem the publica-
ton of the one to you important. The
copy of it which you supposed you had
forwarded to me was not the same, but
a copy Of my letter to you of the 20tll
of July, requesting the publication Oh
that of the 9th as soon as possible; Of
which letter, however, | had retained q
copy when written.
+ AS to the statement Of the Union Of
July %, charging you with suppressinq
my letters &C., &C., | freely admit there
was cause of complaint; and as soon as
saw notice of it in another paper, (for
did not see the Union itself) | sent q
note, dated July 80, to the editors of that
paper, Of which enclose copy. Wheth-
or it has appeared Or not in that paper,
do not know, but presume not from you.
letter and thereforeI willagain, at once,
forward a copy with a request that it be
published, or that the offensive portion
Of the statement be corrected.
! remain, very truly
and respectfully, yours,
ID. NJ .BARRINGER.
Hon KENNETH RAYNER, Raleigh, N. G.