Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-09-15

gc at home and abroad acacA 0ttests its ddcaaoqes
IN this hnc.
N 4 any and chimerical are the stories re-
WI lated by correspondents of the radical
press of the North. who write from pretend
Cd localities ia the South, and who serve up,
for the insatiate nsaw of the Northern masses,
dishes, which ought to satiate the appetite of
the most rabid radical among them, Some
of these radicals, of the naore moderate kind,
like those men of the North who really loved
the Union, for which they fought and bled,
are exhibiting considerable nausea from the
over doses administered by these garrulous
correspondents. They, experiencing the eff
tects of a healthful nausea, begin to under
ftand these penny line scribblers, who either
80 through the South. not to see what they
should gee, Or in their quiet apartments in
the North far from scenes and things which
they pretend to describe, Gull from their i'm
aginations long and prosy articles, which the
most casual observer must know and under
stand to be entirely without foundation.
To feed the popular mind Of the North, at
present, upon marvellous and inhuman stories
Of cruelty to freedmen and indestructible an
imosty to the Union, is their object in order
to create feelings of hostility and keep alive
those engendered by hohy contested strug-
gle, and thereby prevent the contamination
of what the men who fought and bled in the
struggle most earnestly desired, the preser-
yation of the Union of our fathers. To do
this may subscrve temporary purpose, but
must of necessity, ultimately, when truth and
reason shall be heard, rebound to the ever
lasting disgrace of all such scribblers, who,
attempting 70 retard the restoration Of order
and prosperity in the South, are retarding,
not only the prosperity of the North, but of
the United Republic.
Our readers can scarcely realize the extent
of the wonderful Munchausenism emitted by
these real or pretended travellers through the
South in search of news We clip "a portion
of one of the latest, from correspondent,
who signs himself 'sNIendez Pinto" and STYLES
himself Raleigh Correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press So utterly incredible is his
recital that we incline to the belief that it was
intended as caustic sarcasm against the re-
laters of wonderful disloyalty and terrible
cruelty on the part of the whites of the South.
Whether it is a genuine correspondence or
intended as piece Of irony upon the wan
aering scribblers who infest the South, but to
defame us; it sufices to show the animus of
the hireling writer's sent among US. Here
it is:
Judge Carter, who has returned from an
extensive trip through the South, states that
the cruelty to the freedmen and the homicides
among them by the whites are increasing to
a fearful extent. For the most trivial Of
fences the poor blacks are hung UP to the
forest trees by their thumbs, and Jud &c Car
ter assures us that while in this position they
are frequently stuck full of pine slivers, which
are set on fire. Judge Garter saw portions
of one freedman that had been subjected to
this treatment. The missing portions had
been manufactured into sausages The wife !
of a notorious secesslonits, residing at Pei-
can Turnout, on Saturday, deliberately |
butchered one of his servants for attempting |
to eat an apple plucked without permission
from the orchard. As fast as children are
born they are thrown into the wells; and SO
sIarmingly extensive hast his practice become
that in one section-Guerrillas Retreat-the |
wells were all choked up, and many of the
whites by a stroke of retributive justice, had
died Of thirst. Judge Carter passed through
the great pine woods south Of Raleigh On
every tree at least one negro was suspended, |
as often by the heels as the head; and some
times there were so many freedmen to pine
that it resembled banyan tree"
Whether 'Mendez Pinto is regular cor
Or merely writes in caustic strain
to defeat the object of the scribbling wander
ers, who do not try to represent the sentiments !
and feelings of the Southern people, we trust
he may write often and more marvellous sto-
ries still, for the tales he tells utterly destroy
the effect intended by those who write more
plausible imaginings of Southern sayings and
doings.
W. notice the fact that President J ohlr-
w son has accepted the invitation, ex-
tended to him by the large and enthusiastic
meeting held ia Richmond short time since,