The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-11-03
Answer Of Col. Webster to Mr.. Charles D.
Bouldin's Card.

answer OF Col. w eDster TO Mr.. CharlesD u.
Bouldin's Card.
1t has not been my habit to trouble the
public with matters personal to myself,
but Card" signed "ChnrIls ID. Boul.
din, Union Nominee for Sheriff. with
postscript sigued &c. d. B - which APP
Eeaied last week IN two OF our county
papers, making Il terrible onslaught on NE
and The Baltimore Custom House, is SO
remarkable, not to say amusing, dist hey
Lave to call the pubIic's attention to GER
tain portions of it.
Mr.. Bouldiu, among other things, says,
'Hhe division in the Union party, and the
nomination of another ticket in opposition
t" the ticket nominated at the regular
Union Convention, has been brought
about b. personal enmty entertained to-
wards me by Edwin IL. Webster, Collec-
tor cf the Port OF Baltimore
This is the first ntnatou that | have
had that Mr.. Bouldin and myself we're
not upon friendly terms lam totally uu.
conscious of having rtalned uukud
feelings towards him, aud ii tie has been
cherlShing personal cnmlty to me, it has
certainly been without my prUvocatiau or
consvut. True, had heard that since the
nomination Of tie johnson U1ion Ticket,
at Cuurchvile, the oil gentleman had
been induI gng IN "tomper," aud calling
people generally great many hard names
myself amo"g them, saying, among
other thugs, that Ned Webster had al.
ways been II rebel bat this never gave
ne mnmcut's concern, or excited the
slightest chile against him. Nor GOES
this Card" 81 lis have any such effect
on the contrary, it rather eXcites my SYM
pathy, that one OF my friends and ueigh-
bors should thus mike such an unbccum.
ing exhibition Of temper III public
When Mr.. BouIdn intimates that the
large and respectable mass meeting that
assembled at Churchvi,Ir, and which [
did not attend, was brought about by my
influence, be does me too much honor. [
would be very proud to think that my
feeble influence could, in one short week,
assemble such IA gathering Of the solid
Union men of Hartford. But do not try
to deceive yourself OF other people on
this subject, Mr.. Union Nomluee for
Sheriff" 1t was the general indigna-
ton and disgust felt for the action of the
packed Bel Air Convention, aud not my
Influence, tina, br, ught together at Church.
vile those hundreds Of Union men to re-
pudiate your ticket and your Convention,
aud 1t is for the same reuson-becausc the
managers of your. packed Convention re-
fused to endorse the policy Of President
johnson, and nominated gentlemen, the
opinions of the most Of whom ole often
sive to them, that the great majority of
the Union men of Hartford, who DO their
own thinking and their own voting, will
not support your ticket at the polls and
in this, ] am free to say, they have my
hearty concurrence aud corporations
While | can irul y say | have no uukind
feeling towards any gentleman Of your
ticket, yet fealty to the Administration
which appointed me to a responsible po-
sition, and duty to my country's best in
terests, require should take this course.
Mr.. Bouldin further says. "no Union
man has stood tirmer and done more for
the political advancement of said Webster
than myself-not only myself, but my
whole family" Now, | wish to make
public acknowledgment of gratitude to
Mr.. Bouldin mot his family, for doubt
if he has been authorized TO speak for
them,) for his great services in my behalf
and to confess that he ''has done more
for my political advancement" than any
body else-in fact, that he is entitled TO
all the credit, if any there be, for the little
reputation ] may enjoy, either In Hartford
or elsewhere. And in proof that this &C
acknowledgement of gratitude is genuine, |
wish to say, that in addition to the many
good turns have endeavoreu to do him,
as we'll as his family, ever since ] entered
public life, if he will promise to get over
his temper after his defeat for Sheriff, and
indulge in it no more, will use all my
influence with the Collector of the Port
of Baltimore, to get him that office in the
Custom House for which he has made
application within the last two months,
and which application, | know, he will
urge, as soon as the election is over.
EDWIN Ii. WEBSTER.