The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-10-23

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rect summary u shs Washington Evening
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The New York Times, Radical, commends
the sentiment Of WADE Hampton, that me-
groes should be permitted to vote BY State
action, With an intelligence qualification, aud
claims that universal negro suffragewas forced
on the party BY the action of the Democracy,
and that the violent and arbitrary manner in
which Congress has acted has had much to DO
with Republican reveres. ~
The New York Herald believes that Mr..
Chase's star has waned, says there is : gem
eral uprising Of the Conservative masses Of
the great Union party af the war in the name
Of Gen. Grant and il 10 folly to speak Of other
candidates for the Presidency if Grant is in
the field. The preliminary. skirmishes have
swept out the Radical Jacobins and their rev.
olutionary schemes, and they must now drop
intp the rear or join the guerillas. The reign
Of common sense il At hand, and Grant IL the
coming man. %.s':1
The New York Tribune, commenting on
the explanation Of Veteran Observer, says
emancipation and negro soldiership were side
issues, until the party were compelled to re-
cognizs them. Restoration is urgent, and
postponement on party grounds entails defeat.
The negro question cannot be lodged. The
Republican party must enfranchise the blacks,
end every Republican not ready for that had
better join. the DEMOCRACY. It thinks the
President will test the. Legality Of the tenure
of-Qf6ce bin, as the bun tests the constitution
ity:ot a-locomotise;s ,.ss
The late elections, says the National Intel
ligencer, baye yindicated the Constitution
Those Congressmen, who have avowedly re-
pudiated the CONSTITUTIONS had all taken a
solemn oath to support the Constitution, and
it was therefore inanifestly a false oath. If
they fail to heed the great reaction at the
polls they will be ground to powder. The
people have pronounced in favor of return
to the reign of a written Constitution and
laws, and it remains for every officer Of t.4e
Government to give effect to the great prin-
ciples on which the institutions Of the coun-
try rest. -.
The World speaks Of. the approaching cleo
ton and says the: Republican party stands be-
tween the horns of thissharp dilemma with
Radical candidate d negro suffrage plat
form they are certainto be whipped; while
if the party makes pretence Of moderation,
and runs General Grant, the Radicals will
bring out separate candidate. It declares
that the Republican nomination. will be given
to Gen. Grant against noisy, simulated OPP
position, meant for no other purpose than to
lay the foundation for Radical bolt. But
it thinks Grant is too-shrewd to be drawn in
to such trap, and it. warns him against the
crooked and slippery ways of politicians It
justifes the reported.in intention of the Presi-
dent to test the constitutionality of the ten
ure Of Office Law before the Supreme Court.
This is right possessedby every citizen, and is
the indispensable means Of maintaining the
Constitution and keeping the Legislative branch
Of the Government within its prescribed
bounds. It notes the change made manifest
by the recent elections, and says the Radical
reign Of vi.uperation and violence is over, ard
if destruction is not to follow on the heels Of
defeat that party should think twice before
paying the least attention to that wretched
old Pennsylvania anarch (Thad. Stevens)
who is half crazy with bafled hate.
The Washington Chronicle quotes from
the Charleston Mercury, and says the recent
elections have given the Southern leaders re-
newed hopes of ultimately achieving their
purposes. But the Chronicle declares that
the Radicals acW organize the governments
of the Southern States on the painciples of
justice and equal rights. They will go on
wi their policy Of negro suffrage, and will
not abandon one jotgor title of those high
principles for which;we have hitherto strug-
gled, until the theyshall be triumphantly es-
Etablished in the institutions of the country.
The people have learned that the Southern
traitors are enemies, Of liberty, and they
mean to enfranchise the only large element
devoted to the suppnrt.tf liberty and union
in the late rebelii6 silk States. The Chronicle
prints letters from Senators Wade and Sher-
man, and is pleased that they still stake the
same high and 91compr pmisipg ground upon
the duties ofathe hour 1T discusses the
prospect Of war in Europe, and in another
article it asserts that 1.-THE negro soldiers in
Baltimore did not FIRE until after great provo
cation. It charges that The Copperhead mem
bers Of the Councils. are doing gross wrong,
against ali the public schools BY delaying the
appropriation for the white schools, in order
to defeat an act of justice to the colored
schools. :.
+ THE SHERMAN AND sJoejHNsToN TREATY.
Every one can understand that if General
Sherman's treaty with General Johnston had
been approved byHhsga Administration, or ly
General Grant, allsshe States would have
been in the Uniohi'id June 1865; the country
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