Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-10-16
Land Sale.
TCOMMUNICATIoN.7

MIR. EDITOR ALLOW me, II you please,
small space in your columns and l will pro-
mise to be brief in dealing with your CORES
pendent 'No. g." When he leaped upon the
arena with such flourish and aimed his
fusee with such murderous intent at my de-
voted, but him, offending head, must con-
TESS to feeling of trepedation; but thanks
to his fusee, it contained neither ball nor
powder. There was only snap and fix.
After being duly heralded week in advance
l expected the gentleman to- come up with
arguments, not display of 6ufoonery, was
led to expect an intelligent attempt at refuta-
ton not whole column of indecent raillery
His play upon the word Pomonkey displays
neither aoI nor ,oisdons it panders to the
taste, am sure, of but few of the readers Of
the "Times." Some it may amuse, others it
will disgust, while none will be edited. Po-
monkey, l will say for the enlightenment of
the gentleman, designates district of this
county inhabited by men who are mentally,
morally and physically, peers to the people
of any section of this realm, lao abiding,
order-louing and se!fprotecting community,
with
ssTears for those who love them,
And smiles for those who hate"
La aanalsadina-aau- san,aala-aa -4h1-f
part of bis communication, l will say that if
the Van Amburgs are really about anu need
good czo,on, the gentleman has sufficiently
recommended himself: "By their fruits ye
shall know them" .- q. -
Now let us follow him up to where he be-
comes serious and processes to reason. He
declares this road law to be onerous, and to
prove it. asks What other county in the State
has such one !? and answers-None. The
only inference I draw from his language is,
that it is onerous because peculiar to Charles
county alone. Many of our counties have
their local and peculiar laws, not in operation
elsewhere. But does it follow that they are
all onerous because they are only practiced
at home? 1t is true that the people rejected
this law in St. Mary's-that was all right
and proper; the majority of the votes cast
were against the law, or else it would now be
in force there. The majority of the votes
taken here were in favor of the lawOtherwise
it would not be in operation here. This is
all on the square and easily understood. l
will undertake to say though, that if this law
had been made to take effect from its passage
and not been submitted to the people for their
rejection or acceptance, there would have been
voice of dissatisfaction louder and deeper
and more extensive than the murmurings of
to-day, and with a better show Of reason
You have crammed this law like bitter pill
down our unwilling Threats, would have been
sung into the ears of our Delegates until their
heads grew dizzy. But they knew US better,
and by letting us decide the matter for our
selves, placed it beyond our power to MUIR
muir or complain, and whether with or with
out precedent, think they acted wisely, for
can see no wrong in allowing a people who
are deeply and vitaNy interested in the pas
sage of law to decide for themselves. And
to say that they were unadvised, untutored
and unqualified upon that occasion-the 9th
of June-is preposterous. Had the law moi
been published? Can our people not read
Or don't they understand what they read?
q am courteously asked for the authority
upon which our Delegates acted, in remittine
back to the people their delegated authority
or power, and as courteously reply, they
are all of age, ask them. But l can poin
the gentleman to precedents without the aiG
of all the lawyers, which covers the ground
I think, exactly. We, the people, are sore
reign, ALI government of right originates
with the people, and they have at ali times
the inalienable right to change their form o
government. They have twice exercised this
privilege in the last decade of years. Twice
have we sent delegates to constitutional
Convention, to make for US a new Constitu
ton. Now think it has been decided by
most potent and grave statesmen, that con
vention can make the constitution which they
have framed operative with or without sub
hitting it for ratification to the people. Ye
in beth instances referred to, the constitution
| were snhnittad tn tho poon1e and their f7p7e