Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-02-14

belovedNold State, we might now, at your
hands, Lave had civil war raging all along
our borders Small it is, but firm and pa
triotic, end devoted to our once great and
glorious Union; and every member, if need
be, will cheerfully lay down his life in de-
fence of, that Union and not in the enact
ment of treason; nor, sir, is that small but
patriotic party to be despised, for its con-
centrated vote has the balance of power here
and may tell fearfully in some of the coming
results
But i. is easy to understand the object Of
your reference to- that party in this form.
There are among us certain class of citi-
zens callsd Catholics, and in this allusion you
intend hhold again to them the dish out OF
which yeu would invite them to take fresh
sop. Y3u know an illustrious parsonage
was sopped with by his betrayer; Judas
Iscariot fwas cold-blooded hypocrite. This
firm and patriotic class of our fellow citizens
will be found, in the main, firm in support
of the Union they love, and stern in beat
ing back the religious fanaticism of the
North !nd the fre-eating treason of the
South. They begin now to understand the
wolfsh cry. Here another event of history,
recorded in simple though expressive Ian
guage, gay not be inappropriate can old
lion havng become stiff, SO he could not
we'll hrllt, fcigned sickness and confined
himself.o his den, and sent word to all IL the
beasts O. the forest that they should visit
him and administer to his wants. Suspect
ing nothing wrong, they visited him con-
tlnually and none returned, for he derowcd
! them Here reynard's shrewdness was
too much for the old lion; and approaching
the moVh of the den, he bid good morning
to bis majesty; his majesty invited him in
but he .frclined and declared he was in a
hurry. Why, said his majesty, the other
beasts fave visited me! Yes, said the
shrewd ind critical reynard,-I see tracks
gong ~ but none coming out-good morn
ing to ybur majestyr' l am in a hurry.
Now or the practical application of this
fable. Nm all the territory heretofore ac-
CURED. by conquest or purchase. the Catho-
llc rell4on and power were in the ascenden-
cy at ia time of the conquest or purchase
now both are PROSTATE in the dust If this
Southcf Republic is formed agrecably to
the pol1y of your party, which has the as
cendenit there, there must be annexation,
BY mea { fair or foul, perhaps to Cape Horn
with sasthrown in for good measure
and kshar~ fifty years after the hap.
pening the event there WIN not pe, ar
that region of country, Catholics enough to
make mile stones for your party. 1t is not
improbable large portion Of this class o
our fellow-citizens have discovered, that
heretofore. their tracks have all been going
in and NONE coming out.
A brief allusion again to the imputation
that / was seeking to suck the government
pap. Here retort is cogent and at hand
[ have shown you the seeding States dc
not intend to return, but will set up fol
themselves voluntary republic" as they
style it. Have you co-acted with this move
ment, and if so, do you expect to suck The
pap of this voluntary republic? Who viii
be it's first congressman from this district
or may be its first Governor of this State
It is astonishing how the rabies or rage
with which your party is possessed acts up.
on it's individual members. A mad dog il
thrown into spasms by the sight of water
and l have seen members of your party
thrown into spasms through the force of tha
rage with which they seem possessed, at the
bare expression, 1.-The house is on fire %
heard of one who declared that unless the fire
was extinguished by the secession of the State
he would 60 to the SOUTHEAST if the commu
nifty would not be relieved by the emission o
such material and be glad to be rid of it. jus
as the whale was relieved when it vomited u,
Jonah-for [ have no doubt Jonah was
most unpleasant inmate of the whales belly
l discover am long way ahead of you
[ will therefore conclude and wait for you
For the purpose of ridicule and contemp
you have been pleased to compliment nj
with nice piece of poetry-may | recipro
cate the compliment:
els there not some chosen curse
Some hidden thunder in the stars Of heaven.
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin. -
S.
MIR. EDITOR In my last communica
ton, promised not to trouble you agai1
soon, unless with better cause in han,
than [ then had. Whether this promise
brohen or not, is for you to decide. In dis
cussing the dogma, that ''aU men are crea
ted free and equal," I dwelt entirely upo
the doctrine Of equality, without noticin
the other member of the sentence, ce,-uniye,
sal freedom. It has since occurred to M
that it is equally capable of profitable dis
section. And in doing so, shall not con
form my arguments to the modern idea, c
endeavoring to escape the sentence pronoun
ced upon Adan after his fall, ''that in th
s,reat of thy brow, shalt thou eat bread,"-
t but deal with men and things according t
5 the .focts and realities, known and felt, b
every inhabitant of this sin-troubled world
t since that fall. Webster defines the wor
, freedom to mean, "a state of erenptio
t from the po,cer or control of another, ,"-thi
perhaps is as good definition, as could
$ given and, if it be true, then we are Oh
l liqed to conclude, that, as no man is entire