Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-11-21

us, for we have grievously offended without ut
tering word on the subject!
In the gentleman's next dash at us, he HIM
self is cat fault" He conveys impressions not
spoken, insinuatcd or thought of by us. s'1he
return Of peace was not any portion Of our
paragraph. Look for yourself reader.
Their, after flourish over the monumental
city, (poor Baltimore,) the gentleman turns
handsome period on the heel of Florida, and asks
U.S. "Do we agree in this point? Or do you (us)
desire peace by the withdrawal" &c. If the
gentleman will take the trouble to read our
paragraph-(by the way, have you ever read
it?)-and place grammatical con ru ton upon
it, he will, we opine, be ashamed that he ever
propounded the question. Perhaps, however,
diving together in harmony, fellowship, &c., is
not part of the gentleman's creed. If SO, we
humbly beg his pardon, but do not for mo-
ment yield our position.
Again he asks, "On which side are you p
We do not feel under any obligations to the
gentleman to answer, while we dispute his au-
thority to question us touching this matter. If
he cannot or will not read Alright what we have
already so plainly said, as to our agreement
with him, he will be just as likely to miscon-
strue any other answer to his question.
The latter part of the gentlemans commune
cation is couched in language, with the charac-
ter of which we are by no means familiar, and,
not being gifted with such style Of writing, we
are compelled to pass it over and leave all COM
ment to an unprejudiced community.
A word now upon the affair generally and we
are done with the gentleman.
1t is true that we attended the NJ E. Church
on the Sabbath N question and heard the Rev.
w. Fl. Bodies discourse; it is true that he based
his discourse upon the text mentioned; it is
true that we made notice of the fact that he
discoursed at the M. E. Church, and reported
fact when we said 'the discourse was suited to
the times and savored alternately of war and
peace;" and it is true that we agreed with the
gentleman and the Apostle in wishing that eve
might lead a quiet and peaceable life in all god
illness and honesty" We never spoke, or in
sinuated desire, for unconditional peace, and
as proof positive of this assertion we refer the
reader to our article. So much for the truth
fitness of our report.
| And now as to the gentleman's object. That
his objections are far-fetched, there can be nc
doubt; that some other object, than mere objec-
ton to our article, was in the mind of the writer
is we think equally clear. If his object be te
get up quarrel with us, we beg to inform him
that we are not of a querulous disposition, ano
are further restrained from such idea by the in.
junction of the Apostle, to "lead quiet and
peaceful life" and we think he who does moi
subscribe to that text is either an in6del OF
something equally bad. We never quarrel un-
less we mean to fight, and in this case we have
no intention whatever of fighting, so the gen
tleman may as well desst if that be his object
for we again assure him that we cannot consci
entiously accommodate him.
) We cannot close without brief notice of ths
military stationed near here. We have had