Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-06-16
Blabber's Letter.
Head Quayters-Army Of Occupation.
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and went on peacefully aud serenely writing
OF our Improvements and other everyday
matters in us impartial and genial manner us
knew how. You may judge Then of my sur
prise when on opening the Sentinel OF last
Friday there uiet my gaze the astounding
captions with which Y. pEeiaced his letter.
When read that terrible synopsis, argument,
syllabus. or what ever you may call il, was
almost petriied with an Undesirable terror.
had to take several long breaths and smoolhe
down my righl-slarieG hair before dare read
the letter itself Ny fears suggested a problem
in proportion that had hardly the courage
TO attempt to solve. | thought if his head
lines detached and abbreviated us they necessa-
rily must he are so scdthing and crushing,
what must his letter be2 The letter where he
can elaborate, drive home, and clinch his
damaging relorts. However, read the letter
aud then | augheded at my fears, for found
| they were groundlesS.
Y had made u mistake, the headlines must
have belonged to some other letter, they don /
iii The one that follows them, at all. Let us
have the other letter, please, won't you, Y. +?
Y refers to my letter Of two weeks siuce
first as II fuslade and then as acanonade, and
that it was opened on him Oh, no, Y, you
opened the ball yourself | simply captured
some of your guns and turned them on you;
| if YOU don't like the kind of ammunition that
| fell in your ranks you must blame yourself.
! didn't load the guns, | took them from you
ready charged. True, you attempted TO dis
charge them al me, but either your skill or
luck failed you. From the manner in which
YOU wrthe and whine | fancy succeeded
better
Y. complains that do not fight in an open
controversial field. He oughtnt 10 do that
| for didn't come square out from behind the
conventional sMr Editor and addressed him
| in proper person That didn't look much like
Sinking And excuse me, Mr. Editor, if do
the same in this letter. don't like to talk
at a man. I'd rather talk to him.
Now, Y, will you tell me what the subject
! of controversy between us isl For the life OF
| me can't tell. The only point on which we
have ever differed that can remember, was
about that road. That was settled long ago
| you beat me all hollow on that and give il
| up like little man.
| think you have been reading over your
| own letters and through some hallucination
have believed they were mine. Well, this is
rather complimentary to me- rather like that
view Of it in some respects, but think so
principally because think that the estate
| mentsn and "repetitons" about which you
so vaguely growl will be found in your letters,
not in mine Therefore must decline, with
thanks, the name you propose fer me, viz ::
pretty Poll'; besides am neither pretty
| enough or green enough for such name
| You may have it Yourself But, Oh, Y, it is
| too bad too dscourging, that after all my
pains with you, after talking to you like a
mother-n-law-wth all the name implies
you should be so splenetic; that you should
| still be building up straw men with bad traits
that you may give vent TO your virtuous in
dignaiion in knocking them down. You
| build up one in your last letter THAT wond
tear open the wounds of the physically or
mentally deformed and expose them TO the
brutal eye of the public,'' aud then very pro-
perly read him out of the society OF gentle
| men Now that is all well enough-only amt
you trying to insinuate that Blabber has done
| this? If not, what sense in putting it in the
connection you do
But here is something, Y, from your last
| letter that is so bad that its almost good inst
| for its recklessness "Ile fBlabber) even goes
far as to review my language, my grammer,
and ideas He has made it his business TO re-
| peat this several times, and when charged
| with Standardization the ink used in making
them is hardly dry-he has not the honesty or
! the manliness to acknowledge them,' &C.
! Now Y haven you lost your temper again
You shouldn't lose your temper, always keep
! your temper ] don't think you would have
written what have quoted even if you were
| out of temper, but that you know never use
the naughty words that are deem necessary to
reply to such language. But were TO say
it is true, Il mean tAe quotation | would
well | would not believe myself
| writing about acknowledgment admis.
sons and apologies, you appear TO labor un-
! der the impression that have done great out
rage 10 YOU or some one, and for " hich am not
willing to atone. Now | make you PROPOSE
ton ii is this Do you reduce TO writing every
statement in the Blahher letters as published
tina: has given you offense, state wherein each
| statement has offended You or wounded your
i sensibiliies, and l--if | find ! have in any
respect been unjust or even hypocritical-will
make you such an apology as will do your
| heart good one you can cut out, put up in a
frame ana show TO friends that come in. II |
have done you wrong | oweit to myselfas well
as to you to make reparation. Do this now or
forever after hold yonf peace on the subject
Lie is too short to spend much of il in growl-
ing and whining Just for The sake of seeing
your growls and whines in print.
! But Y. your last letter hardly calls for so
much lejoinder from mel rel in simply as a
matter of courtesy to you For to continue
our military figure, your letter was merely II
sally to look up your dead and wounded in
the last fight, and just out OF spite you had
10 fire o! an old bluuderbluss or two, perfect
" reckless whom you hit or if you hit any
body. Your warlike and pompous headlines
are about as appropriate to your letter as il
would be to send out the full regimental band
| with The SQUAD that buries the dead on the
abandoned battlefield. | thank you, Y, for
| the kindness you manifest in the close of your
letter. Again, goodbye
Mr. Editor trust Mr. Ephrnim Ploughman
will not think me meddlesome if | take issue
with him. wouldn't like to meet him a
spelling match, but think he is good ma
tured sort of a chap and will not knock my
head off with hoe if ! differ with him. He
! does not like it because Montgomery county
has no delegate to the St. Louis convention.
Now up this way we don't care a cent about
it. We look upon all kinds Of officeholders
| as kind of necessary evil that we would
| gladly do without if we could. And though
delegates can hardly be called oficeholdets,
still we don't want any more nominees of any
kind ;han the law requires. And then not
having delegates at all gives nc occasion fol
jealousy to those who would not be delegates
any how / might agree with him on the
kicking business if he would just designate
who it is we are TO kick. have several friends
who might be helped by good kicking.
An Improvement in GAINESVILLE that
! haven't mentioned before is in The demand for
the Sentinel There is great call for it, and il
contents are eagerly read Subscribers for il
sometimes have to wait until the borrowers
get though. If you could just send up extra
copies in advance of the mail, won't say
| how many you would sell.
A mad-dog was killed here last Sunday
morning but not until he had bitten several
other dogs. Now if these several other dogs
can be killed before they bite any one why
that will be still another improvement.
Yours, BLABBFR.
Musical Entertainment.