Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-06-22
Communications.


FOR THE SENTINEL.
Mr.. EDITOR: feel it again necessary
to notice your very geatlemanly and re-
rdcto"S correspondent, Ono of the Peo-
pie. hardly thought, from the length
OF time which had elapsed, aud from the |
lesson which had been read him, that he
would be likely to enter the lists again.
But, 10 and behold we have him before
us in the pitiable condition of man
vainly struggling to release himself from
the letters which bind him, and which
were woven by his own hand, and fas.
tened on by his own passions and blind
hate. lie squirms and wriggles like an
eel that, taken from his native element,
makes desperate the vain efforts to reach
it again
showed, presume satisfactorily to
all, in former article, that Gone of the
People, " (perhaps one of the Office lSceh-
erS would have been a more appropriate
cognomen p had either ot1lfaHy or igao-
ranHy written and published fatsehoods,
gross and palpable, and that the proofs of
this fact were at hand | therefore natu-
rally supposed that, if ignorantly done,
when these talaGies were exposed, he
would promptly retract and maize the
amendt honorable. Not so, however He
now first attempts to extrcatc himself
from his unenviabe position, by another
silly attempt to identify =" Medley's. 3"
lie then tries to be funny, and then
to'Hyi Auon, he tries tho vein of satire !!
But, finally, as it impclled by wicked
fate, he retires to his wonderful fort.
falSehood, to carry him through his diff
cultles and perplexities Poor mau from
my heart | pity him, and would lend him
helping hand if could. | commits
crate his hapless condition, but his per-
verseness and determined obstinacy pre-
clude me from attempting to aid him.
In his great desire to discover the real
simon pure =" Medley's, " he is led into
many vagaries; and as he himself tells
you when he thought he had graspcd the
substdnce-see he had only the sha-
dow and this, too, after weeks of dill
gent search and incessant toll. What a
ddrToc(ng disappointment, poor man
lie now, Tor moment, appeara to be
satisfied that he has been barking up the
wrong tree; but suddenly concludes to
try another shift, and demands Of I" Med
ley's" proofs of his innocence of the
charges he, Zone Of the People, -
brought against him. and which " Med
ley'S," i'll a former article, in rather I
positipe and decided maunor deiued il
toto. He says he will =" ,,ct..ct ,s2tlt is.9 >
unless the proots Of his false charges be
presented. Now, with all due Difference
for the gentleman prof0und erudaton
and legal lore, " Medley's" bcgs leave
to suggest to him that it is, or was, an
old maxim Of law, that The 0ccaser must
Prore the accRsed guilty; or his GttLing
TO substantiate bis charges, of itseif, was
au acqulttal of the accused party. | in
tend this, however, only rs a very modest
hint to this new Scion Possibly it may
have happened that, in the state of general
distraction, incident upon his long search
and subsequent disappointment, ia the
realization Of his fond hopes, this aid
principle of law was overlooked, or else
'ttoo, like the old School Law, was too
old fogyish for this fast maa-though,
individually, | rather incline to the
opinion that it was owing to the first
named cause ; for judging from his last
dispatch, he still, with obscured optics,
though with an unhagging zeal, dash
en- madly on within the charmed circle OF
his disordered Imagination determined
at all hazards, to bring 10 light this man
who he has determined from the begin
ming must be " MeJley's"
/ have from the first striven to drive
from his mind this delusion, by pointing
out the many sad blunders and egypgious
| mistakes this hallucination was leading
him to commit. If / mistake not, /
gently reproyed him for some bold asscr-
tons, and what might almost be termed
staHders, which bad, meihtagly no doubt,
crcpt into bis first public arraignment Of
Medley's." also limited to him, that
the question before the people was not,
who " Medley's" was, or who he ,oos'nt.
but whether the lately enacted .Schooi
lar was to be beneficial or otherwise TO