Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-10-15
HARDWARE STORE IN STANTON.

BY reference TO our advertising Columns II VIII
be seen that Mr.. GEORGE f. PRICE, is about O.
pening Hardware Store in our town. Such an
establishment, we have no doubt, is much need
ed, and will add greatly to the interest of Me-
chanics and others, in enabling them to procure
articles they have heretofore had difficulty in
obtaining. We wish Mr.. PRICE success in his
undertaking, and hope he may receive liberal
share Of patronage.
GJr Our merchants seem TO be improving on
the hint we gave last week. That's right, gen.
tlemen. We shall endeavor to make our col
leather7
70 The Grand Division of the S. of T. will
hold their annual meeting in Charlottesville on
the Goth inst.
70 We are sometimes compelled to notice a.
nonymous scribblers, Notwithstanding the con-
temptible character of their efTusions, because
some of them seek to impugn our motives. Moth
ing better can be expected from little minds
We copied last week, in the indicator, anarti-
Gle on the subject Of neutral papers, shelving
what the former history of that portion of the
press had been-that these papers had inyaria.
bly, fallen 'sinto the ranks OF Federalism as soon
as they got sufficiently established to make the
experiment. The article was extracted from the
Kentucky Yeoman, one of the most spirited and
able Democratic papers published in that State;
the editor of which paper knew what he said to
be true, and therefore gave the facts to the pub
generally, have said, or extracted from their CO.
temporaries something on this subject; because
they believed themselves justifable i'll so doing
owing to insidious attacks sometimes made by
these neutrals. This was the reason we publish
ed the extract, and will be the reason why we
The right to do so, we presume, no sensible man
will deny. But we are charged by some scrib-
bier in the Court organ, with design to injure
the "Virginia Messenger" and as being jealous
OF the patronage 1t is receiving. The charges
are untrue-and we feel persuaded that those
concerned in concocting the ill-mannered article
which appeared in the organ, would withdraw
it, if they could if for no other reason than thei
own credit-as it was in bad taste, exhibited a
reuengefu spirit, and was not we'll received by
many who are friends to the Messenger, while
it disgxsted manyof our Democratic friends. Il
would be we'll if these candidates for notoriety
were to take lesson from man we once hearc
OF, who made fortune'by attending to his owr
business. We pass by the allusion to one of tbs
persons connected with the Vindicaor establish
ment, as being too contemplate to merit any 9th
er remark than this-that epithes are only uset
by those who cannot make an argument, while
is indicative of a very "sott place" in the head
and in attempting anything for the relief of tn,
sufferers, we would advise them not TO rely to-
confidently upon quach remedies
"By the acaN"-(we are an English scholar)
the messenger has no greater difficulties witt
which to contend, than our jealousy it will enjo
a longer life than many ofits patrons anticipate
and here we would remark that the attack upo
US looks more like an attempt to make capita
for the "Messenger,": at our expense, than dc
sire, on our part, to injure 1T. That story ma
Or it may not gain friends to the messenger,
yet it would be well enough to consider that
might make some for US. We have never hear
of but one instance of a striet neutrality, an
that was the case of an old lady who stood b
while her husband was engaged in conflict wit
panther, saying, "She didn't care dar
which whipped" As our fault-fnders could nc
draw up anargument, perhaps aey can draw a
! Inference!