The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1862-02-01

&S~We do not intend to be drawn into con-
troversy with the vulgar scribbler who styles
himself editor ofthc Baltimore County american.
He who wrestles with q sweep is sure to be be-
smutted. We felt it to be orr duty to notice the
Sanderous fling at us which appeared in his
sheet of the 10th ult., which, by the bye, was
only in keeping with the general plans and rur-
poses of his Black Republican masters, and in &C
cordance with the views and feelings of many of
their camp-foowers in our own county. This
being done, we had hoped to have dismissed the
subject from our mind altogether. But the fell
low, anxious for a little notorety has again dip
ped his pen into the NORWOOD, and cuts out
right and left TO satisfy his readers of the fact
which Dame Nature has long since faithfully per-
formed for him-of his Anticipated imbccility.
Heheads his article "TAe Traitor Paper A:yis'
and styles us the "individual Cox" to which
we have no serious objection. A grunt from
hog is characteristic of the animal. Had he allu-
ded to us in more respectable or gentemanly
manner, we might have been misled in forming
an estimate of the character of the man; but as
"murder will out" and "blood will tell" we
have now no difficulty in arriving at proper es-
innate of his ability (beg pardon of Murray and
Of his decency.
In our notice of his former article, we attempt
ed to account for his unwarranted attack upon
our little paper by imagining that he might have
been present at the Bacchanalian feast of the Bati
more County Jury, and that his ideas had becomS
disarrahged by over-potations, or that he had
been worked into pettish mood on account of
not being the favored recipient of his share of the
"crumbs' which fell from the masters table, or
excluded from participation in the "handings
around" among the faithful in the way of pap;
all of which he classically pronounces "a lie, as
he was at no supper given by the grand jury, and
did not apply for, nor would he have accepted,
anything at the hands of the present administra
ton"
When we intimated that the editor might have
been present at the supper alluded to, we did it
innocently, because we had no information rs to
his social standing in that section; but, on bet
ter acquaintance, we cheerfully make the amende
honorable, and acquit him on that charge, whilst
we can appreciate the good sense and respectable
ity of the gentlemen having the supper in charge
in preserving their entertainment from the pre-
sence of such an ignoramus
As to his ''not applying for anything at the
hands of the administration" we believe every
word of it. The fellow certainly has sense enough
to know that there is no place now in the gift of
the government that he could fill with any credit.
But this is an "age of progress" as we'll as Of
brdss-and, although we believe he str lined a
point to speak the truth when he says that he has
applied for nothing, yet 1--WE can very readily lima:
CINE that, by his ardeat endeayors 70 induce the
government to go into the wholesale hanging O,
traitorsas he calls the advocates of State Rights
he is looking out for lucrative appointment
as Jack Ketch, which Office he. would no doub
fill with marked ability, and with credit to hi
native Northern State and his adopted county,
This seems to be the fellows only idea and i
was this, perhaps, that induced him to solicit tn,
office of Sheriff of Baltimore county ut the hand
of the late American party, when that party wa.
80 abundantly furnishing food for the galows il
the way Of Blood Tubs, Black Snakes, Plug Ug
lies, ct id omne genus,
But "this, man Cox is a remarkably dangerou.
fellow, and he had better be secured in som,
way" Don't trouble yourself Jack. We fee