Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-04-17
Familiar as a household word,
His loved and honored name

Familiar as household word,
His loved and honored name!
Let but the standard of this Constitutions
Union Party be committed to the hands of Johl
Minor Bolts, and the people will rally around i
with an enthusiasm which will secure the pozi
fans, and what is far more important to tn
uture welfare of the country, that will ensur,
success. PUBLIUs.
For the Spectator,
Messrs. Editors:-I cannot complain of th,
rule you have adopted, requiring communication,
to be handed in on Wednesday. The reason,
you give for it prove it q necessity. But, O
course, it prevents an extended reply in youl
next issue, to what had appeared in your last
Fortunately, the vanity of ''Junius" and his dem
agogue appeals to the lowest passions of the bn
man mind, require no answer. His be the task
to assail decent people for the crime of being de-
cent. dismiss his nonsense with the single re-
minGer that he addresses the wrong audience
and should migrate to the more congenial at
mosphere of the "the Five Points" in New
York. Let him answer those questions too, SC
often propounded- stopped those wheels
and who uttered those phillippics2 aiss
am glad to see that ''my Countrymann has
at last thrown off the mask and makes war in
earnest. His bitterness is the ranker, for his
efforts hitherto, to conceal it. Persecution
open, unsparing, maligDant-is now the order oi
the day, and "a Oountryman" will s'endeavor
first to prove that if Mr.. Fultz had assailed Judge
Thompson, he had not done it unjustly." 1t is
q fortunate thing for the cause of truth that
this mad "Bull of Bashan" is becoming enraged
--he will be very apt to let out some startling
facts. The public will remember that some
time since this voracious instructor of the peo.
pie charged ~" and others with persecution OF
Mr.. Fultz for insisting that he meant. to assail
his competitor. Now, driven to the wall, and
convicted of the fact that he could have meant
no one else, he contesses and justi,Sss. Bat he
has, in thus acing lost his character for veracty.
How, after this fragrant admission of an attempt
to deceive, will be ever again expect honest men
to believe him, when he asserts fact. Oh.
"my Countryman," thou hast perpetrated worse
than scrime-a blunder. aEsgpssaaa as4
But let us follow this reckless writer in his
mendacious charges against man whom this
Circuit has delighted to honor, and who, ac-
cording to IA Countryman's" own admission,
However hypocriticaly inade) possesses all the
virtues that adorn humanity. Who has hired
him thus to falsify truth and justices What
does he get for it?
He understands that N. @. Kinney, having
been appointed Receiver of the Court, soon af-
ter Judge Thompson was promoted to the bench,
(Which was in 1881 remained in office without
giving security, until 1852"-more than twenty
years. Had "a Countryman" gone to pure
and truthful source, he would have learned this
charge is utterly untrue and slanderous, both to
Mr.. K. and Judge T. The records show that
Mr.. Kinney, in 1881, on his first appointment
as Clerk, gave bond and security in the sum OF
$40, ,000 for the faithful discharge of all his du-
ties as such, and that a new bond was given by
him at the beginning of every new term of office
in a like penalty with security, until his death.
Until the act of 1852, requiring the appointment
of general Receivers, the Clerk as Clerk had re-
ceived the money paid into Court, unless it was
specially committed to another Receiver, and
was responsible as Clerk for the due accounting
for it as for one of the duties of his Office, and
his securities were bound with him. So all the
old slanders having been disproven, here is the
first one of the new batch, spreading over 81
years of Judge Thompson's life, nailed to the
counter as ''false, forged and counterfeited." y
Why, one who can thus recklessly and at a ven
ture bring serious accusations against the hum.
blest citizen, cannot have proper appreciation
of the sacredness of human character Thi.
man must have some unholy purpose of his owr
to accomplish. 0AI .gssg
Under the law of 1852 the necessity first arose
for the general Receiver to give 9 distinct bond
as such, and it is admitted Mr.. Kinney thus
gave bond as required by the new law. Thai
bond was in the penalty of $40, ,000--ample, al
| is believed, to cover all liabilities. This bond
says "A Conntrymon," 'could only be valid fol
one gear from that date, for it shall be given
annually saith the law" Is tiny Countryman'
| a lawyer2 Then let him come out and show
that he is such a one as that his opinions may
be received as judgments truly expounding tht
law. Such everyday lawyers as Jno. B. Bald
win and others have brought suits on this bono
without regard to the time when the money
was paid in, and confidently expect to recover
No Court has ever yet held the opinion so dog
matically given by this s'Bull of Bashan" to bt
good law. Yet, in his nalignity against Judge
Thompson, this scrub lawyer, getting his opin
ions second hand from his aiders and abettors
and to serve bis purpose, announces to The
world as fact, what is the mere impression O
| ignorant malice. There is no clause in the &C
| of 1852 which makes it mandatory on The
Court to require new bond every year. i
may be done if the public interest demand it,
But will even this stickler for the letter of the
law contend that even if no money was re-
ceived still new bonds must be given, or that i
the monies were already amply secured, the
Judge must without necessity urge new bonds
new stretches of his credit on the Receiver
This new smare's nest" my poor sCountry.
man." fear will turn you out but a cory colt
| But go on. Make new inventions of slandel
and accusation, from now till the day of cleo
| ton. 1t is almost here, and you have struck 9
mine of new fabrication Push it through, anG
am greatly mistaken if the people of this Cir
cult will not teach you and your co-workers al
the polls, that the slander and persecution o
their faithful public servant will be Indignantly
frowned down, Let me tell you that Judge
Thompson is in no danger from your puny as
saults-that he will be dearer to the hearts o
the people for having been assailed and villi6ed
by your clique, and that In proportion as you
invent new slanders as fast as the old ones van
ish before the light of truth, in that proportion
you sink yourselves below the reach of the hand
of Resurrection. 4.
THE NEGRO FEvER.-There is perfect fever
raging in Georgia now on the subject of buying
negroes. Several sales which have come under
our eve within a month past afford an unmis.
taxable symptom of the prevalence. of disease
in the public mind on this subject. In view OF
the fabulous prices offered for this species OF
property, rejecting men are led to the inquiry,
what is to be done TO supply the deficiency
which is produced with us by the great demand
for negroes in the Southwesta We are unable
to give any satisfactory answer. But, so far as
the effect which these high prices are to have
in our own State is concerned, we think we can