Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-11-06

ment. Yet, notwithstanding it's impotency
there is still within it deep significance.
betrays either the hollowness of cause,
weakness of mind, or depravity of beart.-
Not wishing to invest "No. 8" with either o
the aforementioned attributes, we must con
clude that the insipidity of his production lie
lin his cause. AlAE.stE : ~. lti2oS
He who quits the path of logic to f"unde
about in the slough Of personal detraction i
either driven from the path by insnlted rea
son or possesses an unconquerable passion f"
uncean things. Where reason is wantin!
epithet aboun6s; where defeuce is weak abus
is strong: where purity Of language is un
known vulgarity takes its place. He wht
opposes his opinions 20 meters of strife, tt
the inhamers of the passions and jealeusies o
men, must be prepared to encounter fou
words and low detraction. They are cheaI
and sush spontaneously from the hearts ant
mouths of unlawful champions, from thos'
turbulent and restless men whose chief deligh
and advantage seem to be found in breaking
the peace of society and setting man agains
man. This is none the less true of thos'
whose actions are circumscribed within mar
row limits, than of those who crush the hap
pness of nations! None the less true of :
few busy little men, incapable of grasping {
more digni6ed and elevated subject than ;
little local road law, than of those wicked in
cendiares who rouse State against State. i
is none the less true of those engaged in dns
lawless action, the tendency of which is to ar
ray neighbor against neishbor, and friend a
gainst friend, than of the miserable tyrant
Nero, whose principle pastime consisted ir
plotting mob-riots in the streets of Rome
Scurrilty and Misrepresentation are the only
weapons of such. 1t is, therefore, no matter
of surprise that refined and intelligent readers
should, in these times, frequently have thei'
sense of propriety shocked by gross unseemly
publications. IF opinion can be sustained
let them, in the name of reason, be defended
with decency as we'll as ability, and not be
polluted by language which the very ink
might blush to record.
After a rapid flow of disconnected and un-
iutelligble stuff, the first intelligble sentence
reached by mo 8" is the unfounded asser-
ton that 1--WE are the victims of an onerous
law" which he seems to think capable ol
proof from the fact that no other county in
the State has such a one. This has already
been noticed by "Pomonkey," but will admit
VI tCLCdt Sdi duu pituCdltOus LIZ dCuobC'y
asks why they have not such a law, and as
de6antly answers because neither the people
nor their representatives, in any other county
except St. Mary's, ever thought of making
such law" Doubly blessed people of those
twenty other counties, of Maryland, whose
minds are incapable Of thinking oppression.
Had the idea only entered their heads pre-
sumo they would have forthwith saddled
themselves with an onus. Consequently they
deserve no credit for doing justice to them
selves. But, pray, why have they not thought
of it? Not, surely, because they are barren
of thought, as some people are of regard for
law. Perhaps it is because they have no need
to strain their invention to find relief from
dangerous or impossible roads. They may be
alive to the advantages of good state of trav-
el and with means, energy and labor, may
provide it, But is their failure to adopt such
a system a reason why we should not, or a
proof that theirs is better than ours, or that
ours is valueless and oppressive? Countries,
like families, regulate their internal affairs as
best suits them, each, perhaps, attaining its
ends, though by different means. Because
your neighbor sweeps his hoor with sedge
broom are you to be denied the, privilege of
sweeping yours with corn one? ''---
But 10 what respect is this system an oner-
Gus one? Its burdens fall alike upon ALL
If it oppresses one it oppresses all. If "No.
4, or any other number. Why is it oppres-
sve? Gentle shepherd, tell me why. Its
oppression consists in ''involuntary servitude,
is the cry. And, pray, who make it? Did
none who shout it never claim this servitude,
We, at least. take it for granted that such is
the case. ltiproceeds, then, from the aadaci-
ty of some who have all their lives, until for
chilly prevented, been claiming and receiving
this species of service, and whose throats are
still hoarse from howls of denunciation against
those who abolished it. 1t comes from the
mouths Of those who required it, not for the
public good not for the mutual aid and con-
venience Of the whole community; not for the
common interest of all, but for their wn self
ish advantage. Is it not strange that this
barbaric mode of service should not have long
ago been renodnced by these latter-diay saints?
In what nook or corner of their hearts have
they SO long kept concealed their sacred re.
gard for the rights of man? Turn, gentle
reader, to the communication of "No. 8" and
read his eloquently expressed faith in the
'sbright, unobstfucte1 light emitted from the
sun of truth and justice. "sfiSee how proudly
be boasts of its being canopy enough for bis
protection" Then go with me, in imagna-
ton, to bis silent chamber and listen to the
mournful sobs as they burst from his stricken
heart, which throbsin remorseover the ollen
time when he held the, trembling slave in
the chains of involuntary. servitude." Watch
Ills tears fall thick and fast over the melan-
choly fact that while this "bright light" af-
ferded such ample protection to bis head, it
failed to shed one single ray upon the hapless
head Of his unwilling slave as he tolls under
the whip Of "involuntary, servitude. y r Hear
him perplex himself with the agonizing con-
undrup,. Why that pure light, which has
eyer. played it's sffulsent beams around my
Caucasian head, should have SO long refused
to touch ympathetic chord of my Caucasian
heart. which beat with savage emotion while
my y)u1consenting slave groaned beneath the
burden o5 involuntary servitude?"
Involuntary servitude, indeed! Away with
this sickly sentimentality.f We have all had
enough 9of maudline philanthropy: THE
whole country has been undone by it, and
millions are sick Of its very name. 1 would
not be.sunderstood, however, as dshonorine
this great virtue. PROPERLY directed, tits ons
of the purest aud most generous emotions o
| the human heart, Bnt when false objects are
made to plead for its exertion, that in its sa'
cred name unholy designs may be advanced