Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-08-02
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OOhMO NlCAlEDJ
| Mr.. EDITOR: In our communication of re-
cent date, in which we undertook to present to
! the view Of the people of our county, substan-
tial statement of facts relative to meeting in
| Bryantown, we candidly aver that it was not
our intention so to disturb and derange the moral
and intellectual faculties of an honored son of
our dstrict-so to paralize his crcumspection,
met ,physcal penetration, elevation, &c., las the
phrenologist would call it, as to leave him with
| frothing madness, vainly struggling to revenge
himself by recourse to low, rustic abuse, and
nauseantvulgarity.
The pigeon will futter when wounded but
the VIPER ct 1t ona1e genus, when overpowered,
or roughly handled, will, with one effort, throw
out all his venom, and leave himself powerless
for the want of his weapon; and, apart from the
smile, the charlatan and gasconade when moral
y and intellectually wounded. or rather when
he has wounded himself, will betake to billings
gate and blackguardism.
We frankly own, Mr.. Editor, that an apology.
is due to the readers Of your impartial journal.
for having elected such language from one, to
whom the people have committed high trust !;
but at present we can offer none other to gene
| rous and compassionate public than that we
did not yet properly regard Notwithstanding
all that we had seen) the shallow depths of tt e
ed to tell You, that what was said in Bryantown
on the 18th inst, is known to the people of his
district. The substance, purport and object of
what was said, are doubtless known far beyond,
the limits of his district; but the public must
forever remain unapprized of what was said
rerbatina ct lteratim, in this, as well as in all
such productions in future, SO long as the mes
merzing power Of boisterous and bombastic
defamation, theatrical gesticulations, and high
flown nonsense shall continue to paralize the
Stenographic hand.
"What was done has been spread upon your
useful journal, which fully endorse" Words
also taken from the blank epistle of the Senator
of Charles county. Now, Mr.. Editor, if by,
what was done" the Senator has reference to
the preamble and resolutions, which he so super
ciliously fourished on the day of the meeting
we must beg leave with due Difference to the
Senatorl to expunge the above text altogether
In our former communication we remarked that
it was to be hoped that the preamble and reso-
lutions would be published as they were written
and read, and that no alteration, or amendment
would be made therein, as understood had
been proposed; but which we thought could not
be done, except through the formal process Of
another meeting of the people. Our hopes and
desires have been vain indeed: alterations and
amendments of a vital character have been made
and there has been no meeting of the people,
Now we would ask, what ight has the Senator
thus to rob the people of the whole county, of
what was so generously given them by his dis
trict? Whence. did he obtain this right Ger
tainly not from the people; then he must have
claimed to have been per Sc, the dr0naatis per-
some in the whole play, and thence the right to
do just as he pleased with what he had been
pleased to do. Whilst we would express our
nnfeigned sorrow for the loss the public has
herein sustained, at the rude hands of the Sena-
tor, we would say to the people, be Of good
cheer-become not discouraged, the lost treasure
may yet be found. and it shall be yours
The practcing physicians of Charles county
assembled in Port Tobacco, as you know Mr..
Editor, obedient to call published in the Times,
at time, and for objects therein specified They
did not however, as you have heard intimated
through that greatly expurgated preamble, at
tempt to enter into that contract with the dying
man for they had already heard premonitory
voice, as it were, exclaiH1ing from the high au-
thority of Chancellor Kent which to them sound
ed somewhat thus: "Whereas this mans Jaws
are clinched with congestive chill, and where
as, he is writhlng in the agonies of approach
ing dissolution, and whereas, his eyes are about
to close upon all things terrestrial, and to be
opened upon the scenes beyond the tomb, and
whereas, he now stands most in need of every
earthly assistance; therefore be it resolved, that
any bargain, which You shall make with him
shall be null and void, and of no effect
! Having had premonition Of all this,
they very pru'lcntly avoided any such contract