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WAYNESBORO,
NOVEMBER 3, 1861. !
)lr, JAMES II. IIANIBIj.I« our nuthor- I
...•'I Agent, to receive nud receipt for money line i
lb > TmlopoiiJet South.
Tho Speculation Abroad.
Never before in (bo history of any
people, hits a position so paradoxi
cal been assumed, as the one onr j
heartless speculators in our suffer-1
inns and privations, now present to
tile world. Men, boasting ot their I
patriotism in every thoroughfare
and by-way, heralding their names
through the public Gazettes, as
agents and committees for aid. and
comfort, to the half clad and shoeless
soldier, lighting for tho defence and
projection of their property; and
ailing aloud even to the pouilcss to
come forward and contribute their
mite to the relief of the sufferings of
tho land; while at tho same time
they are buying up the indispensa
ble necessaries of the pcdple, and
hoarding them up in hidden places,
thereby presenting the semblance of
rout scarcity, and then. dealin;
them out at 1 ho most unholy extor
tion.
Thus impoverishing the resources
of tlmir country, and from out the
penury and beggary of their peopb
making their “wealth lusty” and
their days full of cheer aud'easc.
“Buying and selling and lying in
sermon style; with ono hand puttin
a penny into the urn of poverty, and
with the other taking a shillin
out.” Wo say! how insincere, how
ignoble must such beings feel in their
own consciousness. .
The extortion of our city mer
chants is not only dopriveing thous
ands from aiding and comforting
their poor soldiers now in rags and
sufferings, battling-for their rights
and liberties, hut is shrouding the
laud in want and misery; and worse,
it is evoking a spirit of vengeance
which will soon spring an up
heaval against law and order
and these heartless, inhuman!
wretches, who have sacrificed truth,
faith, integrity, charity, benevolence
and all the tender sympathies of life
for an hours worship of their Gud-
manion, will pay the forfeit of their
base prostitution. We are glad to
hear that the people arc concerting
to institute a most rigid economy
and to forward agents to purchase
their supplies iu hulk and to spot
these Shylocku of our cities by re
fusing to drop a dollar with them
now or hereafter. If the future is
ever the counterpart of the past,
then these flourishing speculators
will surely receive their just reward,
and Machiavelli's apothen of history
will he vetifyed; that “war makes
rouges and peace hangs them.” We
decline in this issue to publish the
several communications on this sub
ject, and the call to convene our
citizen to considerate the matter.
Wo will give our rensons privately
to tho correspondents for so acting,
and suggest that the people tnetno-
ralizo our Governor and Legislator,
as several States have done, and
hope that they will endure a little
while longer until a redress of their
rievancus can be obtained with order
and >formnl legality. For tho honor
of our land and the well-being of our
society let us avoid tho terrors of
riots, even though they be to cleanso
our country of the vile herd.
