Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-04-07
"COlOnel' MOrsell.

agrees with us in the conclusion that after
exculpating the Aarecate in the matter of
the patent outside article, it cannot con-
sistently blame the TINES. 1t frankly adj
mits that, as it was in error in assuming
that 70 inquiry had been made of us to
elicit the information contained in the
"patent outside" article, it was also in err
ror in its structures upon the TINES. We
beg to assure our esteemed neighbor that
we have always desired to preserve AMIGA
BILE relations with it, and have never will
lingly done anything tending to disturb
those relations.
Our esteemed neighbor also denies hav-
ing made any assertions derogatory of the
TIMES, which it did not publish In its
col mns, and repudiates all slanderous at
terances regarding US that may have been
made by its canvassing agent to whom We
referred. Our esteemed neighbor goes
further and pays "Celonei" Morsell quite
a handsome compliment and insists that
Colonel having made the assertions con-
corning the TIMES to which we REFEREED
We are sorry to have to say that there is
no mistake whatever in the matter. We
have The most reliable and cumulative evil
dence of his repeated SANDERS of our pa
per.
While we accept our esteemed neigh
bors reputation of the ISLANDERS to which
We referred, we cannot pass by its pane
gyric upon the Colonel without COM
ment. 1t has never been our fortune-or
misfortune, as the case may be to sec
| Colonel" Morsell All we know of him
comes from the perusal of some of his let
tiers to the present proprie'ors ofthe TIMES
and the character given him by prominent
and reliable business men of Washington
and BALTIC. The first knowledge we ever
had of the existence of the individual re-
| ferred to was after we mad been nearly q
wear connected with the TINES, when our
attention was directed one day to letter
addressed to the firm of S. o. Wells & Co
proprietors of the TIMES, purporting to
come from one James S. Morsell. This
letter, after indulging in some rather Sc
we're structures upon the writer's son, who
it seems was also engaged, though in a
much larger and more respectable way, in
the advertising business, and making
plaintive reference to our failure to answer
his previous favors, went on to importune
US to allow him to continue'to canvass tor
the TINES in Baltimore and Washington
We called Mr.. Wells attention to the let
ter, and inquired if he had replied to it,
to which he responded in the negative
stating that his experience and that of his
father with Mr.. Morsell had been so I'M
satisfactory that he had concluded to have
nothing further to do with him. Altho'
the chirography and photography and syn
tax of the letter, and the uncalled for
structures upon bis son, hard = impressed
us with the idea that the writer was AN
old gentleman of the first responsibility
much less a Colonel" sti We requested
Mr.. Wells to reply to his letter and polite
" inform him that we did not desire to
engage his services. 1t was then, we think,
and not until then, that Mr.. Morsell pro-
posed to become the advertising canvasser
for the Independent, and then. We believe
for the first time, that he became Colonel
The next we heard Of The Colonel we
were credibly informed by The very best of
authority that he was calling on every one
of the old advertisers of the TIMES making
the false representations We have hereto
fore referred TO, endeayoring to make our
patrons believe that our paper had gone
down and was no longer valuable as an
advertising medium. and thus divert a
way our advertising patronage. Now we
submit. to our fair minded readers the
whole conduct of The .'Colonel," including
the fact that after importuning the new
management of this paper for the privilege
of canvassing for it, and upon being pc
litely refused for valid reasons, he has gone
around making slanderous assertions con-
corning it, for which he had no shadow OF
authority or justification, in a mean and
sneaking en1eavor 10 injure its business
prospects; and will leave il to hem to de-
termine if the Colonel has not l'etn
guilty OF conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman"
Our information that the Colonel" was
of that condition delectable of which
there nothing collectable" came from
prominent merchant of Baltimore city OF
the very highest character, who was very
we'll acquainted in Calvert and all the to-
bacco growing counties; but this gentle
man informed US at the same time that we
need not tear the ISLANDERS OF the elder
Morsell in Baltimore. because his charac
ter was so well known there as to render
him powerless to do injury. We fear our
neighbor has made "some mistake" in re-
gard to the "Colonel's" real state, but we
have written to the proper parties for re-
liable information upon this point, and, il
we find our nelghbor is right, we shall
hold the "Colonel" to a stric. accountable
ity for his conduct.
The Inspection Law.