Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-26
A Rejoinder-Tenderly Dedicated to
A. B. D.

Mr.. EditOr Mr.. X. Il. Herche presents his
compliments, and desires to say that he does
not consider it at all indictive of any inherent
worth upon his own part that Mr.. A. b. d.
should turn aside from his beaten track and
coudescend 10 notice what he terms an anony-
nous publication, because his verbosity in
print is a chronic joke in this county-a
household word from Dan to Bersheba. Every
body knows that he is always ready to de-
scend from his pedestal and descant upon
any subject-from a needle to an anchor
with garrulous prolixity to the public, but
ineffable ecsacy 10 himself, feveling in its
inimitable pathos and perspicuous piquancy,
and when he imagnes that his javelin has
reached its mark TO perform convolutions
very much akin to those of an Ashantee
chief in full war paint, or the didoes of an
Indian Medicine man. Not at all compl-
mentary, Mr.. A. b. D., to be held at the
point of your pen Indeed, find it exceed
ingly difficult to assume a sufficiently serious
mood TO antagonze your OGgdries, but the
important position that you claim to occupy
at present president of the School Board
and the udicrous figure that you cut therein
demand it.
In what part of my article do | say that
your position as regards the Normal School
and the course of studies in the public schools
of the county, is thus and 80, and defy its
contradiction
Censrue my phraseology in your loosest
manner, and you will find that the sentence
complained of has reference TO that which
succeeds it, not that which precedes it.
| pardon your o6tuseness upon the ground
of lack of broad and liberal educational
training in youth, the same that you aoould
(if you could) mete out to the rising genera
ton.
Optics keen, he hath ween,
To see those things that can't be seen.
Nothing was said about the law in reference
to prescribing the studies in the public schools;
! am supposed TO be as conversant with that as
Mr.. A. b. d. is. An avowal of your individual
predictions was solicited, which you evade
in toto, and hedge yourself behind the law.
Now it is plain axiom that no law can be
executed to its full extent it the animus oil
its executor is hostile thereto. Where was
the writ of habeas corpus in the hands oil
Lincoln, when our best citizens were i'm
INJURED in dungeons damp and dark Where
were the Southern provinces when our con-
stitution was held in the mailed hand Of
Grantism2 What to-day is the hope of the
Republic of our fathers, when partizan judges
smirch their ermine with partisan inierpre-
lations2 This dodge wont work Mr.. A. B
d. come out, come out, because know thai
you are in there.
AS coming events cast their shadows before
So the sunset of life gives me mystical lore
] say to you in all seriousness, and plead
the cause of the people-plead for the laten
intellects that now slumber upon the bosom
of the cOunty-for the flowers that may blow
and waste their fragrance on the desert air
that Monigomerians do not want the higher
branches Of education as now taught in theiI
public schools dwaried but want them in
their full fruilon, and can they expect this
when their should-be nurturer breathes oil
them frigid breath that will CONCEAL The
blood in their veins, or so dwarf them thai
the fair and luxuriant scholastic garGen tina
our county now presents will be one vas
pumpkin patch2
Mr.. A. b. d. is held responsible because il
is perfectly apparent, even 10 the way far
ing man, that he is the kite, while the res
aud residue of the school iunciionaries art
mere supplemental appendices bob
tailed ut that. Now, since the gentleman
failed to answer categorical question, the
only true inference is that the original hy-
potheosis is correct, and that the President
Of the School Board OF Montgomery county
Individually and per Sc, favors the teaching Of
the three RS only. In reference to the Nor
=
b. D., 10 prove your present status2 How
many changes have come over the spirit Of your
dream since those halcyon days when you had
/ the pleasure of drafting laws2 To how mauy
/ points of the compass has your needle veered
/ since those beatifc moments when YOU sat IN
legislative halls7 Is any ordinary compass
marked with sufficient number of points Of
direction to indicate your vibraiions2 trow
not. Could any thing less than frst-clas,
microscope detect them 2
! lou cannot 90 back further than twenty-ioui
hours and then give ample bond and secu-
rty that you wont change in the next TWEEN
| ty-four, before the people of this county vii
stop drinking lager beer long enough to lister
| TO you.
| You went back too far, Mr. A. b. D.; lac,
the orchestra while the bands plays the noe
II is not my intention to specify unless yot
insist Consistency was on Uisn from eartl
| when you were born. You never met her lac,
to face in your youth, and you would ncye
recognize her now in your age But didn'
you exhibit a strange freak Of effrontery il
this Normal School matter when you at
tempted to deduee a sequence from your pub
lie record
Why, Mr.. A. B. D., your public record
will prove anything, but the lasting sham
about the matter is that II squrms so that /
wont stay proven, Your public record vii
prove that you are Federal, Wing, Free
Soiler, Union Man, Seeessioust Rebel, lie
publican, Know.Nothing, Radical Ute In
dian-dnyihing but a Democrat. Your public
record is paradoxical, even a very Pandor,
box, IL you please. Pray do not open 1t again
know that you are n great reformer, ant
so is Que Denis kearney. But II you are no
Consistent you have one big argument il
your favor, and that is, neither was Horace
Greeley when he ran on the Democratic licke
for the Presidency. Like unto like, and kind
unto kind
had hoped that you had mended your gait
since you became an incumbent In oifice-th,
sage Of Chappequa would have done that
much IL he had been elevated 10 the presi-
dency--but how about this Didn't you tel
"a certain Mr.. Dulany. of Baltimore city, Ia
whom the old Board was indebted for books
that you did not propose TO pay any dtbls
contracted by your predecessors Finding this
MahoRie reputation unpopular, didn't you
come direct to Rockville, and through reso.
lutiou Of the Board, proclaim your adhesion
| TO the debt-paying side Of The question: Why,
] Mr.. A. n. d., IL this be true you have fairly
aud clearly out-mahoned Malone. But, II uiis
/ Is not correct, here Is something true as Holy
/ Writ, and I DEFY It's sticcessfM contradiction.
/ Didn't you have violent aspirations, almost
congesiive ihroes, for a seat Ia the Consii-
I tutional Convention o. '672 You failed to
he nominated in a free, fair and open conyen-
ton Of the Democratic and Conservative
citizens Of Montgomery county. Now, didn't
you 80 TO the polls on election day and east