Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1865-08-08

North TO follow their example. Ii the South
ern people were to rally at once to elec. un-
compromising Unionists to posts of honor, we
should be inclined to suspect such sudden
loyalty.
In addition TO the above, and on the same
subject, we present to our readers the follow
ing views of the Charlottesville, (Va.) Chron-
icle in its issue Of last Wednesday.
Ofcourse the military power can abrogate
| and nullify all other elections which have
been held in Virginia, and, We suppose, sup
press the State Government altogether
In other words Martial Law in its broadest
acceptaton, would seem to prevail in Virgin
la, and the Civil Government of the State has
not been restored.
We do not mention this to make any com
plaint. We had hoped, indeed, that our ru-
lers would have deemed itadvisable to restore
| the right Of self-government to the Southern
States and we interpreted the Act of amnes-
ty which was extended to the people to have
this design. But if such was not the purpose,
we think it ought to be clearly understood land
we think thatin some authoritative manner the
people of Virginia, in view of the action in
Richmond, ought to ascertain from the author
tiles in Washington the theory upon which
we are to be governed. No amount of legis-
lation in Congress, and no exercise of power,
can create the precise political feeling at the
South which exists at the North any more than
it could compel the State of Rhode Island to
rhink exactly the same things that are thought
in the State of Ohio. We can submit to the
decision of the War; we can relinquish Inde-
pendence we can honestly 90 back to the
Federal Constitution and the Union we can
submit to the emancipation of our slaves; but
we cannot change our nature; we cannot feel
delighteds that we have been whipped we can
not cease to love our own hills and valleys
we cannot but symyathize with those Tho died
fighting by our SIDE, or who have come out
of the war mutiliated, and broken in fortune,
In maintaining a common cause The people
of the South, for example love General Lee.
and if the people Of the North do not love him
neither the stronger nor the weaker party can
change such feelings in the mind of the other
party. If Southern man processes to think
and feel in such matters as a Northern man
thinks and feels, he is monster or hypo-
crite
We can speah the more freely on such
points, because We were no Sacessionist, new
er believed IN Secession and, while we have
many personal friends among them always re-
garded them as a most misc hievous party
But there are no secessionists at the South now
The thing is absolutely relinquished, and the
old secessionists are, perhaps, more uqreserv-
ed in submission to the Union thar the for
mer Union men of the South.
X x x *
Therefore we consider the abrogation of
this election as suggesting disposition on
the part Of the government which does not
consist with any sort of freedom in the cleo
tive franchise at the South and we think it
proper that the precise views of the Presl-
dent should be obtained In order to obtain
them he should be visited by delegates com
missioned blythe people.
A FELLOW in Arostook, Maine, advertising for
q wife, describes himself as follows:
81 am eighteen years old. have good set of
teeth, and believe in Andy Johnson the Star-Span-
gled and the 4th ofJuly. Ihave taken up a State
lot, cleared up eighteen acres last year. and seed
ed ten of it down. My buckwheat looks first rate
and the oats and potatoes are bully. l have rot
nine sheep, % two year old bull, and two heifers
besides house and barn. l want to get married
I want to buy bread and butter, hoop skirts and
waterfalls for the femal lie persuasion during NV
life. That's what's the matter with me. Rut +
don't know how to do it''