Alexandria Gazette

THE ASSISTANT treasurer of Richmond has published the names of the people who have tendered him coupons in payment of their taxes, and, it is understood, did so under the unwarrantable instructions of the indemnifying board of the State, which is composed of the first and second auditors, the secretary of the Commonwealth, the treasurer and the attorney general. The tenderers of the coupons are justified in what they did by the highest court in the land. The indemnifying board and the treasurer referred to are justified by no law and no court, and should be punished for a deliberate and concerted, though vain, attempt to injure certain people in Richmond. What would any of the board or of those who obey their commands think of a man who should publish a list of their debts or anything relating to their private affairs? And yet such a publication would not be half so malicious as that of which they have been guilty, for its animus was to boycott people for doing only what the law authorized them to do.