Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-02-17

al with its truth, its be .uty and Its value,
we leave aSentincl' this MOI nlns IN posses
sion Of the field.
spEculAroes AID ExrnKTIoEkRs.
Do these abandoned sinners '~"d US, or do
they ssarre US. Do they hsp. DC do they
hinder Us to get food and clotan'. That Is
the question. The Dispatch Q Us part,
is c.ca, and decided:
Tho Yankees are monsters n,.ueh to
starye us to death if they coua'- IA they
can't; whilst TIE Spectators can and are 40
iag it, and thsn .lay tho blame upon the Yam
KEGS!
We really ti,on: BIT that spectators, who
consider Che pub &c wants, and supply them'
and take tho utmost price thoy can get ior
supplying them, were, in their own rather
shabby way, useful species of cscaturos.-
We thought that, sOithout their speculations
and the high prices which tempt and reward
them, no community, in our presect circum
stances. would ever be supplied with aoy-
thing at all. II the prices sud profits were
mt just now exorbit.rt, they would not ex-
ert themselves to clutch thea; and, if they
did not exert themselves, why We should ges
less than We do, and pay higher than over:
One caonot love spectators, blocksde-run-
ners, "ertorionsrs," &c.-they arc whole
some provision Of nature, that's ell. And
we should even have no otjecuen to join il
any moderate abuse Of them; because, in fact,
they are willing to take il; they feel, that if
they are paid for the merchandise, they are
also paid for the abuse; snd srs too honest to
e7ade their liabilities.
We sayEe are willia:s to ahuss the w-etaaen;
and tho rather that it is the only sa,isfhc-
ton we Arc ever going to get out Of them
When we say "speculatora and extor:ioEe r:,"
mind, We do not mena-sud presume the
"Dspatch" does not mean ..torss!al2erS, en-
grossers and reyraters. These classes OF crimi
mails arc punishable at com 4 on law .snd ought,
in every instance, when found out aad ccnyict-
ed, to be visited with tho most condign
punishment which the law can inlc:. 1t is
not worth while vilifying thess rascals; let
them be fined and imprisoned. By "a9ecn!s-
tors" you mean those who en3cavor 70 sup
ply the wants Of Il community, and when
you speak OF "extortionsrs" you mean sia-
ply persons who sell what they have at tho
his hest price that the consumer vii! suEmit
to pay. These are tho men to be outraged
and insulted lin general terms, howeVer,) be-
cause We canno. reach them in any other way.
Congress cannot stop them, fortunately; and
in fsct they are moro essential to Us than
Congress. The Presiden. himself can only
deprecste and demonstrate, mildly and persua.
sively, As we do ourselves. The unpleasant
AMI gaeedy wretches defy US all, are above
us 81. therefore, LIT US take it out in hard
words; aud Rs We cannot hope to indito any
more little; and scathing than those which
the "Dispatch" has poured upon them, we
have the pleasure Of ado rting its language, as
follows:
It suits the self deluaion of spectators to
lay all their sins upon ths Yankees, but
there are no Yankees more mean, mercen-
nary, snd dsvlish, than the hypocritical
wretches who are eternally bawling out
"Ysnkees" to divert attention from their own
robbery, murder and treason. Those hide
their enemies in war, they practise upon
their friends in peace-picking their pockets,
starving them to death, and exposing the
Southern cause to greater peril Of dsstruc-
ton than the combined armies of Yankee.
dom.
This is pretty bad but this is nothing
A Doctor Styles, it seems has found moro
atrocious language than any which had oc-
Cured TO the aDispatch;" and that journal is
ain to refer extortioners to tho Doctors pam
phlet that thoy may SEQ themselves gibbeted
Tor this world and the next, as only Chris
tain Minister can serve them:
If these Isint compliments are quite made
quate to their msrits, We recommend them to
borrow DR.. Stiles's pamphlet (buyins it
might involve the expenditure of halls dol
lar,) and read the just md terrible philippe
upon their tribe which that pamphlet con-
tains. 1t begins a. psss q and ends at page
80. They needn't trouble themselves with
any other part OF the aildrsas, rs the remain
der is generally devoted to those classes Of
sinners who are not pas. praying for, and in
that they can have no possible concern. But
We insist they shall road from page %, begin
ming the "infernL greed Of the SPECTATOR"
to 30, ending, "Drowning his soul in perdi-
ton and destruction"
We approve Of this entirely. sDrowning
his soul in pcrdition' il the very phrase;
snd~ws felicitate DR.. Stiles on having given
us formula to curse and damn tho wretches.
Only, lot Congress not attempt to touch them!
The slightest interference with their opera
tons would reduce US to Iuin and despair
We are not without hope, therefore, that the
various bills which have been proposed in
Congress, imposing heavy penalties upon t1a-
ders who shall charge moro than - per
cent. over cost price, or oyar the price Of three
years ago, will 30 allowed to retain in their
passage that valuable --per cent. Blank
per cont. ought to be the precise limit.
We observe that several ahcemakers and
tanners in North Carolina have been stopped
In their business by the operation of some
State Law against extortion, for charging
moro than IS pnr cont. profit, or something
Of that kind. Well, we have no fselinps to
spare for these sufferers; but bow much more
leather, how many more shoes, will DO made
for that in North Carolina
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MORE AHD M0RR CURRENCY.
In our remarks on "MoTe Currency" ia
Thursdays Enquirer we were in error in
saying that the new paper money-making
concern was based upon the contingent per-
Torrance Of an iron contract. Tho whole