The family visitor. [volume] (Pruntytown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1858-1860, 1860-04-13

lue o. y: II: u. company IN very
summary way displaced you.
Italso displaced at the same,
time, and as far as is known, for
the same reason another Of its
counsel who had been much Ion
ger in its service, whose eminent
abilities are fully attested by the
fact that your democratic Gov>
ernor choose him from among
all the lawyers in the State,
though differing from him in poll
itics, to prosecute John Brown at
CharlestowD. The country
knows the abillity-aud fidelity
with which he discharged
that duty. And the democratic
Legislature, because Mr.. Hun
ter was a Wing reduced his fee
five hundred dollars what COM
mittee who investigated his SER
vices estimated them to be
worth. The B. & 0. R. R.
Co., like all other public agents
have a right to remove their
employees. | recognize that
right without murmur, and
treated my successors with
courtesy. Did you submit
without a murmur when you
were removed from the B. of P.
w, and treat your successor
with courtesy? You have pur>
sued DR.. Kidwell with maligni-
~ to the present day, because
the people preferred him to
you.
My dear Cononel, to show
you that there are other
traitors in the South than
myself, will refer YOU to the
act of the Mercantile and other
Clerks at a public meeting held
in Petersburg, Va, on the 26th
March 1860. In this petition
TO the General Assembly of
Va, and among other things
they state that
o. a clerk receiving a salary OF $1,000 90
pay tax of $50 90 or two per cent on the
whole Should the owner of the meager prop
ertv be possessed of Il slaves, which If sold
wo'd realize Sill, 900 oo'from'which by hire be
would derive an income ofS250o 90, he pays
q tax of only $40. 20 on the same and receives
the same protection of the Government for
all his own person, whereas salsried clerk
possesses no property whatever, receives pro-
lection of his only. The slave existing an
inheritance to his family when the owner is
dead: the clerk 8 sallery is totally extint when
the recipient dies o. becomes from other cans
es incapable Of earning it, They ask that
this abuse might be corrected. Don't you
think they are traitors; that they are trying
70 destroy slave property? "And if they de-
stroy slave property, why may they not de-
strov every other2''
You charge me with trying
to destroy property. The
charge is too contemplate for
notice. The very reason Of my
complaint is that my property
is taxed more than its propor>
ton for the support of govern
ment, while your "niggers'' are
exempt. Or do you mean that
to tax "niggers'' adralorum as
horses are taxed will destroy
that species of property? If
that is your meaning, say so.
But Col, you say l am only
to live till CATER the Charleston
Convention; that after that
my ''harvest shall be death" p
This is a short respite.
If am to die / hope to die
this side Of the Pennsylvania
line, and not be killed with a
corn-cutter. ''But of this you
are a better judge than l am"
:, You say: 81 am DONE"
l hope you are now satisfied,
and that hereafter, you will con-
fine yourself to something by
which you ARE fitted by ma
ture, and not exhibit yourself
through the columns of a news
paper, to your shame and the
contempt OF all sensible men,
All the merit there is in your ar
tical is in. your extracts, with
which the public are familiar.
Your plagiarisms are peurile.
n.