Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-03-11


part Of his desperate clan Sfor the purpose of e.
vading he issue" and keeping up agitation
Does he hope that the miserable slang of his
croakers will be listened to longer with patience
by intelligent men! Let him write on Let
him ''review" my "course." I fervently ex-
claim with one Of old, ooh that mine enemy
would write a book" In the estimation of this
people his teeth are drawn-his bite, though
mad, is harmless When the bold ISLANDERS were
first put forth, many were asounded puzzled
They could rot believe and yet it was difficult
to suppose that any one would be so wicked
aud reckless as to publish such fasehood But
the moment the calumniators refused to submit
themselves 10 the only legitimate tribunals to
test the truth or falsehood of the charges the
difficulty was over, and nothing remained but a.
mazement and horror at the thought. that any
should have been SO wicked and gardless OF
their own reputation as to make such accusa-
tons and then refuse to have them investigated.
Refuse, too, OH such pretext Public opinion
was to decide The issue had been submitted to
public opinion! When, & by whom! How could
Public opinion decide without the facts being
ascertained and how could the facts be ascer-
tanned except before a legally constituted tribu.
nal :! Such luggle was never tried before; and
MIR. Editor, while intend still 10 watch the
progress of this faction; and may occasionally
feel called upon to question them, I will not
trouble you with any more regular contributions
If they desire to elicit truth will cooperate
with all my heart. Ifthey choose darkness, ii
sufEces that their ject is understood and they
deceive nobody but themselves.
One parting word of advice to the ssOlapod
Clique" Some of them, presume, are qoung
men, who have encouraged the hope Of rising
in the world The cruel war they have been
waeing against the quiet of society, has, proba-
bly,, been prompted, i'll part; by the unholy am
hltlon OF bringing themselves into notice-in part,
by the backing encouragement of men in whom
they confded, but who have not thought it prat-
dent to show themselves in the fray. 1 have
long marked the villain spider dragging the
splendid butterfly down from its native Heaven
to his own humble level and lurying it in his
dark den. But never have | seen the ugly
murderer clohe himself in the beautiful wings Of
his Victims and soar aloft. Darker and deeper
was his own degradation fer every victim he
inundated Let every young man take warning
from the spider, and learn that 10 one ever ele-
waited himself by dragging others down.
l had written thus far and was about signing
my name when the unlocked for obituary of
poor independence" appeared in the neutral
Messenger. "David prevailed over the PILLS
tine with q sling and with stone" In his last
moments understand he complained bitterly
Well if his ashes will rest more quietly let him
be "a copy" | lad never perrseG Murray's
Dictionary or should not have subjected him to
such pain
The dying giant, in ertferis, declares, 'sOur
"institHtons here have no more ardent friend
ethan am and those who have occupied the
"same ground i'll this controversy. My heart
''swells with pride when contemplate these
monuments OF Virgnias noble generoslty:"-
The poor fellows heart was given 10 swelling.
1t swelled with Indignation and scorn when he
was charged with hostility to a Church around
whose altar he said his nearest and dearest
friends and relations kneeed, and in the same
breath he denounced that Church as corrupt 10
a man. 1t now swells with pride and friend
ship for the Institutions here, and in the same
breath grudges the carriage and horses in which
the poor insane are allowed to take exercise, and
brings it as a charge of corruption against the
Directory that they paid $500 for them: An
Ox-cart would have been cheaper. Would his
little heart swell with pride to see them riding
in that. Oh yes. They are nothing but fanatics.
Why build a greenhouse to please their eye?
Why employ an ornamental gardener to beautify
the grounds for them! With all his love, his ar
stocratic nose is as much turned up at them, as
it is at the unlettered men of the country In all
this, however, as we'll as in regard to the salary
the Court of Directors have thought proper to
give their superintendent and assistant physi-
clans, there is slight difference of opinion be-
tween them and Independence, !" and they have
the Legislature on their side, OF which the Ola
podans have such horror SO that he is very
much in the condition of the modest luryu1an
who complained so Justify of his eleven obsti-
nate fellows. AS for the ditch, it was dug
understand some twenty years ago, when with
an appropriation of 3 500 the Directory deter
mined 10 do the best they could-take the water
from hfcDowelFs spring. When an approplia-
ton OF $4,000 was made they abandoned it, as
was right nor had it ever occurred to me what
use could be made Of it till the mortality among
the Olapodians suggested it as their most ap-
proprlate burylng ground.
In conclusion, (tor | respect the maxim 'Eit
you can say no good of the dead say nothing
regret sincerely that our departed contemporary
got into such passion about those rumors, as to
pronounce them, in his own peculiar and eau
tious manner, "AeS, when it was plain that he
could only speak for one of his numerous clan.
am afraid some people while he is in his watery
grave, 'the ditch," and unable to defend himself
will be malicious enough 10 say that dog 18th
hit 1t would have been so much more becoming
for him to have said; like a man who would no.
under any circumstances affirm, what he could
not possibly know, that he himself was guiltltss
leaving others to make their own defence.
| can only say that | am not personally cog.
infant of the truth the rumors, but from in
formation believe their Truth can be establish
ed A CITIZEN.
ea- By way of finale to the 'pious controversy
we admit the following into our columns:
Fo2 THE FINDICAToR.
Ma. EprroR-'I am an humble. plain. I'M
pretending man-one of the people," and desire
to be enlightened on some points not yet brought
out in the paoeis controversy now prosecuted. 81
have been told'' that the storm now raging abou
certain officers and public Institutions is not t