Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-10-24
correspondence to the journal.

Over the signature of Portcullis we have
Journal, that VIGOROUSLY filthy, mercenery
sheet, adopted by the RAIDS as their organ, (by
the way emnently fit fer the nasty work. and
edited By one Crane, from that delightful por
ton Of the American Continent where was in
spired that pathetic song ..Well hang JEFF
Davis on a sour apple tree, &C."
OF course we felt some curiosity as to he
identity OF this correspondent, and after care
fully perusng it We felt satisfied in regard to
its authorship, and scarcely feel that We need
hesitate in saying that 'tPortcullis is only the
s',son, de plum of one L. Edwin Dudley, Mas
sschusetts pettifogger, who perhaps may have
run ene-horse Juvenile school in some out Of
the way district at home, and having charac~
teristic desire for promotion, finding that
s.Sparta had worth Ter sons than he,' to care
after took bis Mcguffy's Eclectic First in one
hand and perhaps halter in the other, started
on his pilgrimage Southwark but finding the
Southern mind somewhat inclined 10 the theory
that the representatives of the "Pllgrim Fa-
theirs had degenerated. W hich materially les
sened the chance for paying school, or that
pasture fields were too we'll looked after CON
cluded to satisfy himself with the clerkshp of
Shenandoah County, to which position this
deectablc gentleman, byssgross and notorious
misrepresentation made to Gen. Schofeld has
been duly appointed and installed.
more outrageous imposition was never
perpetrated upon any community thanthat, in
the appointment of this same L. Edwin Dudley
to the clerkship of this County. And in thus
making this charge, we relieve Gen. Schofed
from and unkind or intentional completely in
the matter. 4 bare statement of the facts
warrants this exoneration of Gen. Schofeld
and it is due that they should be given to cor
rect any misapprehension of the spirit of our
people.
On the death of the late Incumbent of the
Office, th County Court, of which George Rye is
President, appointed Nathaniel Barton, a 10y
al citizen of this county to fill the Office pro
ten, which duties be performed with efficiency
and satisfaction to the members of the bar and
the citizens generally of the County But
Rsdicalsm is ever on the greed, and Mr.. Bar
ton being a respectable mhite Loyal gentleman
did not suit President Rye and several boot
licts of the same nefarious political persuasion,
incompetent themselves to discharge the duties
of the office, must needs send to pantheistical
Massachusetts, and we have vomited from her
nauseated stomach Of state, sick with every
direful Infection, tool--a cod -faced individual
responding to the signs Of the Union League
Association, without any known personal char
,acter. a4ad xholiy unreeommended as to quail
fcntion. At the September term of the Court
Mr. Rye, P. j., proposed that Dudley be re-
commended to Gen. Schofeld, to secure to him
tho appointment of Clerk for this County
The majority OF the Court thought differently
and refused to endorse this itinerant Office
seeker and recommended Mr.. Barton as a very
3 suitable person. But. ever alive and active to
party advancement, these few rule or ruin,
sopntry hating officials, in the
name of the court--representing falsely and
unfairly the claims of both, secured through
the basest and foulest means the apptitment,
Of this &, Edwin Dudley, to the clerlship Of
this county. 1t was SO represented that the
esurf SO recommended him, when in fact only
two members could be induced to favor the
!. sscheme ut all ; and in very truth, cut of the
entire number of magistrates of this county a
respectable minority could not have been induc-
I'd to endorse the proposition of the Presiding
Justice, George Rye, to recommend Iris Rad
zeal impo ration.
Nsronly the false representations the fact