Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-07-21
For the l,iindisotor


| M, Eattor:-In your issue of the 18th
inst. | observed an article over the sigma
ture Of "a VOTER" calling the attention of
the people of the Waynesboro' district, to
the Importance Of selecting four suitable
persons to be voted fof and elected to the
Office Of magistrates at the ensuing election,
aud with all the low epithets of one who
had imbibed too freely of The ''nean whis-
| key" which he speaks Of as being vended
lin this district, be charges the former mag
is:rates with not performing their duty. -
At the same time recommends two gentle
men from this town as candidates for the
Office. who will discharge the duties faith
fully and fexrlessly. IL this communca-
ion it is not my Intention to call into guess
ton the abilities Of any man, therefore
will pass to another consideration of the
question. by observing tina: the gentlemen
named 10 his communication are we'll qusl-
fed for the positions.
He attempts to enumerate the defects Of
our former magistrates by speaking of the
number Of ''liquor shops where .mean
whiskey and brandy have been sold in broad
lay light" and the circumstance of a '.bar
having been opened recently. where sorry
white men and mean n groes resort and are
made drunk by very mean white man."
This correspondent from the above extracts,
| should judge, was bitterly opposed to liquor
selling. But the question arises. how does
he know that those places are visited by
sorry white men and mean negroes :
without he has played on the same stage
himself aud at the same time2 How does
no know that it is '..'mean whiskey" that is
sold there without be has partaksn from the
same we'll? How does he know that per-
sons visiting there, are made drunk by a
Every mean white man." without he has
visited there and in cibed too fire.. .ly Of the
intoxicating cup. and perhaps insulted tho
Landlord" and got kicked out of tue house
and now in revenge for that treatment he
'lenounces this 'landord" as "mean viii o
msn;' been face to face. but through the
columns Of your paper aud under the sig@
nature Of "a Voter "
| The very fact of his having resource to
this mode of defaming a man shows very
/ plainly that the writer of said article is un-
doubleday one Of those ''sorry white men, >
and not in the least possessing that moral
courage % give his signature to an article
which be would wish the public to believe
he intended as ''ccrrector" of the morals
of "little Tammany." tut which. in fact,
was in revenge for that very mean white
man" giving him lesson in good behavior
which he had forgotten
If"A Voter is a youth who has but
turned his teens. he should be learned to
reason and reform both his morals and WORDS
before entering on the arena as ''corrector
of morals. But should he be one whose
grey hairs ought to secure him from insult,
had not depraved nature debarred him
from that protection, it is indeed pity that
he has thrown away the opportunities for
improvement. and allowed vice to prevail
when the passions have subsidized and spend
the remainder of his days in attempting to
make all persons with whom he comes 10
contact appear as no better than his degra>
did self. A DEFENDER.