Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-05-10
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Euarper,S WeekEy5

HaFper7S SscCAEya
For thirty years the publishing house oi
Harper and Brothers of New York, has
been making money out of the South. =
Within ten years, millions upon millions
of copies of its publications have found
sale within eur midst. Harper's Month
| ly Magazine. we learn from competent au
thority, has had monthly circulation of
from fifty to seventy FIVE thousand copies
south Of Mason's and Dixon's line. The
sale Of the pictorial paper published by the
same house has been almost half that
|,amoont. And now, would Southern peo-
pie like to know the temper of the vile
sheet they have SO long patronizcd and fos-
tored fostered, we are ashamed to say
while meritorious publications of OIL. own
have, lahgdished, sickened, and died, for
the want Of 1.-THE of the support accord
ded to iiarpre's Weekly.
/ We quote from the last number of the
Weekly, in which appears ferocioas and
boodtnirsty editorial upan the war, out
| Heroding Herod in its violence, and fatty
vieng with the Tribune In chat RESPECT
!" The rebels have appealed to the sword,
and by the sword they mist be punished.
Baltimore should be instantly seized and
occupied Two columns-one from New
| York and Philadelphia, the other from
| Harrisburg should move on Baltimore,
and hold it under martial law. In case of
resistance the city should be shelled. Bal
timore sectred- either as city or ruin
the Governments should operate on Vir-
ginia. in base line from Fort Monroe to
Washington City. Both lines of the Poto-
mac must be secured, and this done, a
column should move on Richmond 1t
should be in possession Of the Government
before the first of June.
| Kentucky and Missouri, we notice, evinee
a tardy sense Of their national obligations.
But Kentucky may as we'll understand at
once that she cannot occupy an atti
tude of neutrality in the present contest
II she is not for US she is against US, and
really, in the present temper of the North,
people don't seem to care much which way
she goes. If she is with us, We expect to
see her riaemen ii DIR ranks, IF she Is
against us, in few months Ohio viii pro-
badly be aiming SO, 600 negroes who have
fed from slavery in Kentucky. X
The war is nov begun. and the trade of
the year IS as thoroughly ruined as it can
be- We shall do no mischief by prosecu-
ting the Var vigorously By prosecuting
lit vigorously. We shall secure peace and
a fair, tfaae -rest year. <
Ii the South expect that our gallant
volunteers are going to hunt the slaves
that may run away as they approach, they
labor under delusion. Wherever the o.
States Army goes. local, municipal and
State laws viii Sc Superseded BY martial
law, aid tie fugitive slave act is not to Be
found in the army regulations. Whatever
may be the intentions of the government,
the practical effect Of war in the South
ern States, Waged by the Northern against
the Southern men, must be to hberate the
slaves"
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In another column, the publishers an
nounce, as an extra inducement to people
to subscribe, that it will have four artists
in the South during tie war, one Of whom
is now in the Southern Army in Virginia
Two practical suggestions may be drawn
from these quotations.:
First Tt is manifestly tic duty Of every
newspaper seller, newspaper buyers, and
postmasters in the Southern country, to
stop Harper's Magazine and Weekly i'm
mediately. Another copy of either of these
vile publications should never be permitted
to circulate upon Southern soil. Book
sellers should likewise refuse to purchase
any more Of Harpcrs' publications. The
Harpers have made fortune out of the
South. Let our people resolve that such
infamous treachery and ingratitude shall
&c: &c earp..a;ahed.
Secondly. The special correspondent, or
artist. of Harper's: Weekly, now il Che
Southern Army Of Virginia, Should be root
ed out, and given ten r.inotes to leave the
State, otherwise lis body should be used to
adosn one Of the tallest trees in the vicini-
t.. In the latter alternative, one Of our
Richmond artists might sketch the scene.
and transmit copy to Harpers' Weekly,
as farewell contribution from its Sc spe-
Hcial' in the Southern Army in Virginia.
1t might then be appropriately said that
he DREW even his last breath in the service
of his employers.