Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-05-15
tsa1ssa For the Spectator.

tsss 9 - For the Spectator.
Messrs -Editors.-I told you some weeks
since that am alawyer, and became so because
that profession has been for ages the enthusiastic
friend of liberty So far do carry my love of
perfect freedom, thatI give to every puppy the
unrestrained privilegeof growling to any tune
that his own nature, or bis masters orders
may dictate, and to every blackguard the right
OF freely using the only vocabulary he has learn
ed. You see then it would be Inconsistent with
my principles, to make any quarrel with the
Billingsgate epithets 90 thickly abounding in the
last effnsion of "A Countryman." Some might
designate them as simpudent, low, the impotent
scurrility of q fool who felt that he was laborng
to sustain desperate cause.-the last kick of
dying Bullock"-I pass them by with the more
liberal commentary that .they are the natural
and inalienable right of the poor being to whom
other weapons of defence has been denied by
too frugal nature" Now to the argument.
have nothing more to say about those "boDds."
have given the views about them which the
ignorant Judges and Lawyers of the county had,
perhaps, unwisely entertainedunti the necessities
of the canvass raised up an unlettered Country
man" to speak about them "as never man spake"
before. In reference to them Twill leave "a
Oountryman" in the hands of one, apparently as
unlettered as himself, and when our world shall
get quite around, with its tail where its head
ought to be, perhaps, it may be illuminated and
convinced by the bloody "see to" between "a
Countryman'' and ''Oooneyp1 contemporary
pugilists with Sayers and the, "Benecia Boy
If Cooney shall consent to stake up his gage"
which rather apprehend, from the scurvy man
ner in which ga Country undertakes to
treat his effusions, there will be pair of bloody
in
.sCooney" will teach "a Oountryman" how to
charge his valuable productions as being dark
and unmeaning, and beneath the notice of any
sensible man." He will show him by "knoek
down. arguments, that they are as sensible as
his own and as full OF meaning as an egg Is OF
meat, and the only reason why "a Countryman"
won't answer them; is that he can't. shonld
not be at all surprised if it should turn out that
this only new made friend of Mr.. Fultz, hss bY
the proud self-conceit and unwarrantable re-
Dukes of "a Couhtryman" been turned back to
bis first love, and that this and many more re-
cruits for Thompson, will prove to be the only
fruit of his labors. He must learn to feed DIS
''babes" on new milk. Not on IRE. - ..,,,
You have a new accusation against Judge
Thompson. When will your black list be filled
out To hear you and s'Junius," and your prin-
cipal, one would suppose that instead OF being
the presiding Judge, he has been for the last
thirty years the principal criminal of the Cir
cult and that while the Outr8ges to right and
Justice and law called loudly for reformation,
even your patriotic virtue needed the stimulant
of q salaried office of two thousand year to in
duce you to expose his crimiDality. To believe
your clamor, the good people of the Circuit must
first believe in the existence of desperate state
of public morals, in which you and your coad-
tutors fully participated, and at which, you all
;nlyo thob bop of I'd
testify. But they do not believe your clamor,
and at this moment they are nauseated and dis
gusted with your petty prosecutions and shame
less falsifcations of all truth, and even OF the
records of the County. This last precious charge
of yours is this ''Upon the death of Mr.. Kin
ney, one of the Banks of Stanton, (you think
the CENTRALLY was appointed Receiver, IN his
stead, and gave but one bond, as he did, and the
Receiver ever since hes given no other bond
Besides this, the singular fact ofa Bank cor
porate body-being made an officer OF the Court,
suppose is unparalleled in legal history. -
Who are you my sOountryman"- you talk
SO much and so confidently of law, and legal his
tory2 Ons might we'll suppoee you to be the
mighty Fultz himself, and that your efnsions
are only a long tail to his own cards, so learn
edly do you discourse, and so positively affirm OF
legal niceties. All are prone to conclude either
that you are yourself lawyer or that you have
q lawyer to think for you, and that too, not one
imbued with the high and noble principles OF
the profession, but what they call "a trapper,"
dealing in catches and sharp tricks. No plain
and bona tide Countryman ever quibbled as you
do. But to your last charge.
Mr.. Kinney died in Nov, 1859; the Central
Bank was appointed Receiver of the Court in
November, 1857-two years before his death
mot upon his death, as Countryman recklessly
affirms. That Bank gave bond on its appoint
ment, in the penalty of $4,000, with ample se-
curity, as the record shows, and it is true has
given none since.a But will not the people be
surprised to learn that the Act of 1862, on which
"Oountry ymann raises all his camor, authorizes
the Court to order an investment OF funds paid
into Court in Bank stocks-which everybody
knows are not as safe as Bank deposites- and
yet this fault-finder is raising clamor about the
danger of loss to suitors from depOsites in the
Bank-when six per cent. compounded interest
is secured by. the terms of the order, and when
the money is perfectly safe. But this appoint
ment of "a Bank" is unheard of. Why is that
wrong, Mr. Countryman2 The Bank is a person,
and it is a safe depository What moie-unless
you are aiming to secure that little loaf to your
self, under the new Judge, by raising clamor
against Corporations ?" But let me assure the
people that SO far from the appointment of q
Bank "Rsceiver" being unparalleled, ]" it is often
done by the other Courts of the State, and al
ways by the State itself, and always, believe,
when Bank is at hand. "Oountryman" can
find one instance by addressing the Clerk of Al
bemarle. .,.s ...s..
But will not dignity the rant of this writer
with further notice. The time is approaching
now for action, and am we'll content to await
the music of the Polls, land to let "a Country
man" and "Jnnius" and their party be judged by
the people Of the Circuit, who have heard US
all, and are prepared to render verdict both in
the case of Judge Thompson and in the case of
his maligners. 1 sus.lust ssa' Z.bA
For the Spectator.
To the Physicians of the County. o''
I 1t does seem that our Legislature studies 10
add to our burden Of taxation, while she does
nothing to defend US in our privileges, so dearly
paid for. gu !. .Q' '...i i sha sloE ailig
We thought our license tax was high enough
last year; but this Spring we find that we are
taxed still higher. 1t is true that the law gives
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