Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-07-02

following gentlemen as the Executive commit
tee, viz:
JNO. K. WOODS,
G. w. HUNTER,
DIR. ATKINSON,
JNO. B. HOGE,
@ DAVID DRAKE.
jed Hotchkiss was selected as the leader of
the meeting for the first five Sabbaths. ,s
We are pleased to see this spirit of unity
manifested by the christian people of Staunton,
and we trust this meeting may be the means of
doing much for the advancement of the Re
deemer's kingdom and to the breaking down of
the strongholds of sin.
From letter written by Raleigh T.. Daniel,
Esq.,, of Richmond, on the questions of the day,
and the duty Of the people, in response to the
letter of number of citizens of Caroline county
asking his advice as to the course they should
adopt. we publish the following extracts:
''But many cover at the muttered though
impotent threat Of coniiscation. We even saw
branch of the legislature, scared at the sound,
attempt the power to extinguish the State,-
the creature to destroy its creator, to wipe out
the existing political community and replace it
with mongrel mixture Of every condition, RAGE
] and color afraid even to protest even to weep
| by the grave of liberty, least its lamentations
| might be overheard And declare it wrung
my heart with keener pang than did the sight
of all the precious blood of soas and brothers
shed in vain upon the field for it spoke Of the
| detection, the abasement of the popular spirit,
! it brought home the truth that if the State is
destined to perish it will be there. ia the halls
that she will fall, and BY the hands fher sons
GAS to confscation by Eoagress of Southern
property, in any event that can coaar. put the
threat entirely out Of view. Fear alone lends
it terrors-fear, the most unreasoning and I'M
reasonable of the passions It is chimera,-
no more. Two years Of incubation in Congress
have failed to hatch the monster. Net even a
bill for it has been reported, the appearance OF
which would be the signal Of demolishing ex-
plosion to its authors.
THE Form OF OUR GOVERNMENT CHANGED.
We have repeatedly asserted that the form of
the United States Government was changed by
the war. Governor Ticknor Curtis, of New
York, in recent letter, thus alludes to the
same fact:
''In my view, therefore, we are brought to a
definite issue, which can be easily seen. We
have changed the form of our Government from
the supremacy of written Constitution to the
supremacy of the will of party welding the
physical power Of the nation. The issue is,
whether this is to continue and to be perma-
nent condition, Or whether we are to revert to
the Government Of our Fathers. It is said that
revolutions never go backwards. Whether this
one will be an exception it may require more
| than mortal prescience to foresee. We have as
yet had but very little to encourage us in the
hope that it may be So for it is plain that since
we ceased to be at actual war we have not cho-
sen to restore the conditions of actual peace,
| although we could easily have doneit; and that
while the Constitution might have resumed its
rightful supremacy over our actions we have
not permitted it to do SO.
An exchange calls attention to the astound-
ing fact that 'the War Department now ex-
ponds twice as much as the whole cost of the
| Government in Buchanan time Half of the
whole cost is in keeping an army at the South,
where it would have cost nothing if the States
had been restored as they could have been a
year ago as well as to-day, and should have been
as soon as honorable after the war closed. =
Those who advocate or threaten the continued
barring out Of these States favor the continued
oppression of all the people by taxation so high
that business withers and dies beneath it, and
it must land us in the end in a financial crash
that will sweep the country. When that shall
come it will not be difficult to know who and
what is the cause"
! Fred Douglass is now worth over 100000.
| He has not been given any Office of importance
by his party as yet, but if his wealth continues
to increase he will soon be able to buy his way
| to Congress
By the way, the treatment which Douglass
has received at the North is the best evidence
Of the hypocrisy and meanness of the Radical
| party. He is the best type of an educated ne
gro, and yet he has never been given any office
or position of honor or trust by those who have
| been seeking for years to impose negro suffrage
and equality upon the people of the South. IF
| Douglass did not own property to the value of
$3.50 in New York, he could not VOTE But in
the South the whole negro population, ignorant
and debased as it is, are turned loose with the
ballot in their hands and high offices at their
command This fact shows how mean and
cruel and loathsome radicalism is.-Lynchbwg
Rep.
e.. 81
| What man is there now SO base as to refuse
to register? 1t might have been possible some
months ago that few might have hesitated
when they were not able to realize the frightful
danger; but the man who refuses now toregister,
gives his support to the Sharks, and is either
moral poltroon or deadly enemy to his friends,
| his relatives and his native State.-NoJoM
| Nrgintaan.
| MASONIC RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT
The Masons of New York are making the most
liberal preparations to give President johnson
grand reception on his return from the East.
1t is estimated that between ten and twelve
| thousand of the order can be got to turn out,
| while Brooklyn and Williamsburg are to join
in.