Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-01-16


If you are offended by the sketch, beg
pardon. Whether you beg pardon now
or not is to me altogether unimportant.-
In making such sketch, you have, in my
Judgment, manifested a want of knowledge
of the proprieties of life and turn my back
upon you. Saying this, l walked away from
him, and took my seat in the door of the
house. Discovering that one Of the party was
absent, remarked, lsuppose your friend has
goneinto some corner, out OF view, to sketch
my dwelling. Thereupon he made his APP
pearance from behind small log house,
used as poultry house, where he had squat
ted, and approaching said, Governor Thomas,
will tear this up. Whether you do so or
not, is to me, matter of indifference--but
] am constrained to say, that your presence
is no longer agreeable to me. used no UNI
kind or violent language, nor made any
threats They left my premises in hurried
manner, and it would seem from what they
have caused to be published, that they ap-
pretended personal violence; In this, they
certainly deceived themselves. Their pro-
cecdings excited contempt, no other emo
ton. THERE'S but one gun upon my premises
1t was an old one which belonged to my
father, which was In the loft of the house at
the time, which has never been loaded or
discharged TO my knowledge for thirty years.
So, that their statement, that got down my
gun and intended shooting them is a. false
hood.
al was not aroused. | was, it Is true, pro-
voked to find that persons who had been
sent to my premises by the superintendent
or the b. & o. Road, who had been treated
as gentlemen, who had been welcomed to
the best had to offer, should be engaged
in peeping into and around my dwelling
to get material, over which themselves and
roudies might "laugh" The home | am
obliged to occupy, was not put up by my
direction and does not, therefore, furnish
any evidence of my taste in architecture
and as to the articles used in housekeeping,
that furnish in part material for this vulgar
invasion Of my private life, were such as
was able to afford, and are not more insight.
ly than other kitchen furniture unavoidably
kept in the home of every man who does
not take his food raw.
"That part of the article which states
that have for many years manifested symp-
toms of insanity cannot speak as its auth
or merits, without doing violence to my own
sef.respect. If this was true, does not any
conductor of a newspaper degrade his paper
when it is prostituted to the wanton, unpro-
voked, unfeeing circulation Of that which
should not be considered a crime--but ca
'lamity When this charge, twenty years
ago, was first put into circulation, knowing
tbs purpose it was TO be used for, | disdain-
ed 10 notice it in any manner whatever, but
lefa L 70 others to judge Of ~ Justice and
truth from my life, conduct Snd convoraa-
ton.
al was at that time acting as Governor Of
Maryland, and continued TO do 30 for more
than three years afterwards. When my term
of office expired engaged actively in the
practice of law, and for five years, whilst so
occupied, | was retained in tho trial Of every
important cause on the Dockets Of Freder-
ick and Washington counties. In 1860 l
was a candidate for an important office be-
fore one Of the most respectable and intelli-
gent communities in the country. In the
midst of whom had always lived to whom
my whole life, private and public, was known
and well understood and was elected by a
large majority. In 1853 was a candidate
for seat in Congress before the same peo-
ID of Frederick, whom have so much low
Inland whom have served 50 faithfully,
anNAgain received n large majority"
Concealing whatever may have been my
thoughts, carefully folded the manuscript
with the copy of the paper, and walked
across the room to the window where the
Governor stood looking out upon the street,
apparently lost to everything around him.
noticed that he was deeply affected the
stern rgidity of countenance he wore upon
entering the office, had disappeared his
hand trembled like leaf when shaken by
the winds, and his voice almost choked
of utterance as he asked;
"What think you, induced these men TO
make such public notoriety Of my private
lifey Is not my secusion in the wids of the
mountain sufficient evidence that have no
further ambition to crafty, no enemies to
punisbY Does not my retirement from pub
lie and professional life furnish abundant
proof that with me-
the hurry burly's done
the battles lost and won
ado you know, and can appeal 10 that God
who can hold the seas in the hollow Of his
hand and lash the mountains into dust as 10
the truth Of the assertion, that for twenty
odd years not single ray Of sunshine has
fallen upon my heart, and why the clouds
should grow backer and blacker as seek
rest from the tdrmoIls Of strife am unable
10 fathom"
Governor, | remarked these gentlemen
have acted unwisely and imprudently,
their own better Judgment must have, be.
fore this, full satisfied them. feel satisfied,
that this public invasion Of your private life
was not the result ofany feelings Of hostility,
or from any desire 10 tresspass upon your
feelings; but, are you not aware, that 10 cor
rupt, morbid and yitiated has become the
public appetite from feeding upon the fash
ionable literature emissaries Of the day, that
Of this character hunt for Just such material
whether II be from the higher or lower walks
Of life
Without comment upon what had just
said, he extended the SITUATIONS Of the day
and len me alone ! after wards understood
that he had caused his manuscript 10 be
published In the Independeat, a small news
paper published at Piedmont w. Va. do
not remember 10 have learned that II APP
peared In any other paper
CONCLUDED N OUR NEXT IssUE.
So
A wife wanted her husband 70 sympathze
with her In "A feminine quarrel but he re.