Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-10-14
EPHRATM LITTLEFIELD.

The opinion which we expressed of this indvid-
ual in our first article upon the Webster case, has
been fully confirmed by his subsequent conduct.
While we could not believe him guilty of the
murder of Dr. Parkman, We regarded him as
worthless and heartless man. The New York
papers are very indignant at his connection with
the Parkmau exhibition. The New York Mer-
chants Day Book says:
''lNFAMoUs OUTRAGE.-The announcement
that Ephraim Lttleied is about to exhibit g
couple Of wax figures dressed up to represent DR..
Parkman and Professor Webster, together with a
those indecent outrages the public for which
no common law nor ordinance can possibly provide.
The following remarks from the Sunday Dis
patch are full of sound sense and right feeling.
Our anxiety for the reputation of our city, and
the fair fame Of its inhabitants was materially
Gained when we discovered that the whole audi
ence consisted of some dozen fifteen dead heads.
each and every one of whom, notwithstanding
their long familiarity with scenes of shameless
ness, actually seemed mortified at the position in
which they had SO unwittingly placed themselves.
and as fast as an opportunity offered some one or
more Of them eagerly seized it to make themselves
scarce, 50 that long before Littefeld's prosy and
dwelling harangue was to have closed, he was
left with no one but the ugly bluff-ooking show
man who owns the traps for his audience.
The wax representatives of Webster and Park
man, both of whom are clad in suits of shabby
ill-6ting, second hand Catham street-lookng gal-
ments, are without exception the viest carica-
lures On humanity and the most atroeous bels
on art which has ever come under our observation
And Littlefeld is pure specimen Of the money
worshipping hang dog. We never recollect see
ing so repulsve and repugnant counenanca un
human being before and if he was mixed in a
crowd of ten thousand and we had never yet laid
eyes upon him, and were deputed to select a
wretch from among the lot peculiarly and pre-
emlnently fitted above all his associates for the
degraded business in which he is now engaged,
we should choose him at the first glance.
The human mind can conceive no deeper depth
of infamy than that which must necessarily at
tach to all connected with this vile outrage upon
the common decencies of life. The miserable
mscreant who could engage in such business,
under any circumstances much less after having
been associated SO peculiarly and closely with the
whole transaction, as has this Litteield, must
indeed be utterly and hopelessly depraved. He
who after the unfortunate transgressor has expiat-
ed his offence on an ignominions scaffold, can
thus harrow the already lacerated feelings of an
innocent, respectable, and broken hearted family,
should be hunted out of every civilized communi
ty which he might dare attempt to curse with his
loathsome presence, and we earnestly hope, for
the peace and reputation ofour city, that similar
attempt will not again be made 10 outrage public
decency in this locality. Whatever may be the
faties and vices Of New York society, meannesa
and heartlessness are not among them. Be ad-
vised in time and you may profit by this hint.
Cannot the authorities int eIiere in some way to
shut up this miserable show