Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-02-15

ROCKVILLE, FEBRUARY ~ lcol'
Editor Il the Sentinel
What cain he mean by this? lie puts the
woHs II quotation marks, as if taken from
y1S last communication. Bat used no such /
words about him, and would not call him
a. an old sore-shouldered, blink-eyed horse,
without spirit for | have too much personal |
respect for him and regard for my own Dig /
nifty to do SO. | cannot think he intends 1t
as a choice mOrse selected from his store Of
classical literature. He has too much good |
taste for that lie probably remembers when,
few years ago, party sprung up IN thls
land, which disappeared before the voice OF
truth and right, like mist before the morning
sun and whose very name has become by
work and reproach-eyen an insult TO Mr..
DAVIS, Nov, to be classified with them-he
Nheaded their county ticket, as a candidate for
" Commissioner Of Public Works. Ashamed
Of his companions, but willing to take Office
under them, he sent member Of that party
as a messenger into the lower counties, with
circulars, showing himself to be an old line
whig Ii Inc is thinking about the horse,
(which Messenger, sent by myself and 9TH
ers with documents, which unmasked his
double-deallag, rode, he is very much mis-
taken when he calls that horse a sore-shoul-
. dtred blinker, without life. He was tip-top
deuce recommended him when he takes the
field as my Generdi.
After all, he may mean myself; for he pro-
misses 10 use plenty OF soap and water to
prevent contagion. | admit he did tho
roughly "soap" me at our late county meet
ing with his professions Of patriotism. 1t
was his fault that time but the NEXT time he
soaps me, either with "soit soap, ror with
" bard soap and water" it will be m,y fault.
Mr.. DAVIS says - he makes no such profess
sion as TO beng willing that majority
should rule, " us | do, and that 90 this differ
ence is fundamental, and will perhaps forever
keep US apart And 50 it will, unless he
Will hencetorth lay down, IN truth, his patti
zan tricks, and rise to the digniiied conduct
OF 3 Mary land patriot. lie charged my con-
duet, at the county meeting, as being partl-
zan. | denied the charge, and called on him
for The proof, and he could not produce it.
| charged him with beng partizdn on that
occasion, and proved il 50 unanswerably, that
he was forced to admit it. lie said in his
speech, at the county meeting, g he had lett
boule that bright aud lovely morning, when
The earth was whitened with mantle of
Gcecy snow determined 10 offer a resolution
calling upon the Governor for an immediate
eonvocatlon Of the Legislature, in terms much
stonger than my substitute; but that he had,
since leaving home, changed his mind.' lie |
now admlIs, that at that very moment, he
was bound ~ a caucus resolution OF his party, !
offered by Nj. Bowie leaving the calling OF
the Legislature together to the discretion of
the Governor. He now claims a sort of Pha-
raseical excellence over me, for " never fac
tiously opposing the will OF majority when
fairly anu legally expressed" This, | pre-
sumo he intends to apply to his majority OF
tteo at the county meeting. But he cannot
say the proceedings OF that meeting was
fair and legal expression of the will OF u ma
iority Of the people of this county, without
reference to party feeling, when he admits Mr.
Bowie's resolutions were the result of the de-
alterations of ii party caucus, and when he
knows that members OF that caucus drummed
up supporters OF those resolutions upon mere
IL party ground, conceaLing the .fdcts all the
time from the public. II he expects me to re-
cognize and acquiesce in such fraud as a
o fair aud legal " transaction, he will be very
much mistaken. BuL not The least dsreputa-
Die part 0. his conduct was his effort to bring
reproach on me, by saying in his first COM
munication, that my exposure Of the outrage
which hud been committed on the pubic
Twas SO framed as 10 place him. and those
with whom he aeled, but especially himself,
in a false position, by statement and insinua-
ton, that he roas then boundby a purity caucus.
lie mas, contrary to my expectation, "unwise-
ly chosen TO become the herald OF his own
shalne;" for, in his last haSty Greenwood
letter, rot unlike Gen. Scots haSty plate
Of Sup - letter, 10 The ldnentcd Marcy, add
mted he aid attend caucus previous TO the
county meeting, at which Nj. Bowies reso-
lutions were agreed upon That is u clean
breast of 1t. But he oqulvocateS-plays the
.'deceptous lawyer when he says it was
an open meeting Of the friends of the
Union. Was not all OF the large number
of the subs tanti1l citizens of the county, like
" to attend the approaching county meeting,
friends OF The Umon? Ii not, | call on him
TO specify any one or more who was not -
and | caution hm not 10 make an assertion
which he cannot prove when put TO the test.
And when the county meeting had organized,
and a motion was made TO appoint commit |
tee to retire ano prepare ana report business
TO the meeting for It's action why did he not
rise and Say, that matter had already been I
attended to by previous caucus of the
friends Of the Union, and then present MIR. |
Bowels resolution, il he intended TO act fair |
ly as friend OF the Union, and to keep the |
apple Of discard out OF the council OF the
people, assembled on an occasion involving
the Safety ot the State, and their own lives I
aud iiLeriiesl The mass meeting was called |
by advertisement, in the county paper, to be
held in the Courthouse. All PERSONS ire |
to consult and act for sel-deience. The eau
Gus call was written by one, and signed by |
three other persons; ali opposed TO the Demo- |
Gratis and IN what terms was il LOuched? IL |
was sent 10 a secci few of trusty leaders, and |
not even 10 the masses OF that party. The
meeting was not held at the Courthouse, or |
at a tavern, but in lawyers office; and yet,
Mr.. Davis says it was an open meeting Of /
the friends OF the Union" am friend of /
the Union, So long as it remains o Union of
the coequal States, restrained by Constitu-
uun, written in terms too plain to be per-
yeried TO destroy the rights OF any--so plain,
that g the wayiaring man, though fool, may
read anu not err therein"
why dlu not receive an invitation? Why
did not his worthy friend, DR.. HARDING, or
other Democrats, receive one2 II any such
were invited, ! should like to hear their
names. Nj. Davis know, from our converse
tion at November Court, though, our Union
was IN imminent danger OF destruction, and,
that WAS ready and anxious TO extend n
saving hand but he also knew, considered
the destroyers were the Republicans of The
North, and my purpose would be to insist
that they should stay their DESTROYING hands
and he considerd, il seems, that the DESTROY
ers were at the South, and his object is TO CO.
erce them TO remain in the Union, and submit
TO be robbed OF their negroes and equal rights
IN the territories, and their lives and homes
endangered by servile war, under the Repub-
licau policy and laws based on an abolition
construction of the Constitution. lr this
view Of the matter feel complimentcd at
not being invited TO attend caucus designed
TO pre-ocupy and mslead the public MUD in
that direction. Ii the resolutions were so
dignfied, patriotic, AID free from party BIZ
rs, as he asserts, why could he not risk
theig fale 70 q "digniied. patriotic and free