Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-10-04
TCOMMUNICATED.
L. G. EDELEN, Secr,y.


MFR. EDITOR: By a recent melancholy be-
1vI reavement which has cast SO sensible a
gloom over our social circle together with my
own incessant and laborious enga gements, | have
been commanded, until now, to give no more
than passing thought to yet a'ot1le, last and
final effort of the Senator of Charles County
And if were to tell you that again willingly
present my name to the public gaze through the
press of my county in connection with a matter.
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bered by sorrowing community, should in
deed, do but little justice to the feelings that
possess me.
have but very few words to say. | have
felt and still feel that my cause has been fairly
presented, impartially adjudicated, and that the
Senator has been irrevocabiy adjudged guilty by
the popular verdict
Iwould gladly have let him off upon better
terms. l would gladly have spared him the
pain if be has not rendered himself insensible
to moral Impressions with which it now becomes
me- not grat;litousy. not Extensively, but in SELF
preservation, to torture him. A word upon the
record The Senator first washed his hands Of
the whole affair Then in kind of mock deri-
sion of the dueJo, calls for the Of the party
who had written certain communications. We
next hear from him. as endeavoring to enuoie
the public to locate at the door of the proper
party the basencss of the fas eloods which these
communications contain and having furnished
the people with the necessary facilities for this,
by presenting to them the name of George D..
Mudd as the author of the communications, bids
again 'sgood bye and expresses himself per-
fecty satisfied. am here, Mr.. Editor, forcibly
reminded of the fellow, who very presuningy
considered that he had shielded himself from all
impending harm during a severe storm. There
came flash of lightning and shattered into frag-
ments the stately oak, under whose branches he
was SO irreverenty bidding defiance to the ee-
ments, and during the resulting disturbance of
his mental equilibrium. he was accosted thus !:
John, can't you pray % ''No, can't, but I'll
tell you what it is; it is crowding on me here
so that something is got to be done, and there
is no two ways about it"
Now, after the Senator's declaration of perfect
safety and satisfaction, it would seem that it
crowded on him SO heavily, that something had
to be done and what has been done is just ex-
acty what he has done, which must appear
from the following afirmations, positively. and
deliberately made.
Certificates.1
| hereby state, that know of no falsehood that
DR.. Mudd has told in reference to the speech Of
Judge. Gardiner. l did not think it courteous and
respectful the profession to be charged as pick
pockets and murderers. / believe DR.. Mudd to be
a man of unimpeachable veracity, and did not in
| tend to sign my name to such certificate as APP
peared in the Port Tobacco Times of recent date.
When Judge Gardiner called ON me was profess
sonally engaged, and must say that If the certif-
cate which appears is the one to which signed my
name was greatly mistaken with regard to its
wording. JOHN MCKAY, V. ). &
! Sept. Goth, 1860.
hereby certify, that l was called on to-day by
DR.. Mudd to know if could show any falsehood or
untruth that he has written told in connection
with the matter between him and Judge Gardiner?
II answer deliberately, No. was induced to be-
| lieve from what Judge Gardiner said to me, that
bv the certificate which signed, he desired to set
tie the matter between himself ana DR.. Mudd, and
certainly did not intend to charge the Doctor with
any dishonor falsehood.
| ~ JOHN r. JOHNSON.
Sept. Goth, 1860
I feel it to be my duty to say. that never de-
signed desired or intended to charge DE- Mudd
with any untruth- or falschood in my life,
Sent. 26th. 1860. G. w. SMITH.
l herein state, that Judge Gardiner called on me
at church to sign cerificate-to take said certlh-
cate and get some other signatures to it, stating
that by this the matter of difficulty between HIM
self and Dr. Mudd would be settled and disposed
Of called on but to sign this certificate, and
he refused to do so, saying that he had not heard
all that had been said in relation to the matter
sent the certificate to Judge Gardiner with my
name alone subscribed to it. ! did not intend to
charge DIR. Mudd with false statements made
in his communications published in the Port
Tobacco Times. | know of such untrue OF
false statements, and have made no such charge
knowingly. My intention was to make peace, and
do away with all unkind feelings between Judge
Gardiner and DIR: Mudd. thought t!!at il the