The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-12-25


never drawn 1000 from the party treasury,
and never aougHt to profit by its psrty sill
|'s Tts VbrIa III III. prudence and
patriotism With which General Hancock is
]aa3ministering tie Affairs Of lis department
attest the wisdom OF Pnsident johnson ID dis
placing his predecessor. General Sheridan sre-
moyal, which it was asserted before it took
place would make him the next President, is
much more ikelyto conf rthat' honor upon his
successor, If Gen. Hancock continues to evince
the consummate civil prudence he has thus far
exhibited. HbIds fair to place him among the
small number from whom the Democratic can
didate will be selected, while Sheridan 'ssuppos-
led claims have gone into total eclipse. Itcalls
attention to the dire results Of the Congression-
al reconstruction scheme It says in every
'unreconstructed" State there is intense suf
1fering. The people are poor, those who man
aged to save anything from the wreck which
THE war caused having lost it since There
lis no work to do, and no capital to encourage
labor. Want stares the people in the face.
Meanwhile a, portion Of the negroes, cajoled
by certain mischievous bodies from Northern
States into believing that they are the sove-
|reigns Of the soil, are committing out RACES,
I the bare mention Of which makes ones blood
run cold. Further along. in the same picture
may be seen squad Of military sattaps, &C.
'Iting under orders from Congress, and chuck
Hing at their success in obeying the orders
\ Of their masters. Such are some of the
prominent points Of the picture to which it
Invites the attention Of its readers. The on
lily light spot in the dark picture is the move
ment on the part Of the Conservatives in the
Southern States to urge the people to repu.
date at the polls the work done by the Radi-
Gals in the several State conventions.
! The National Intelligencer replies to the
chronicles articles on Chief Justice fancy,
and the bred Scott decision, concerning the
rights Of negroes, Our revolutionary fathers,
whatever they may have thought (and they
did not think much) Of THERE social or
moral rights believed that negroes in this
country had no political rights which white
men were bound to respect We defy pro-
duction Of a word Of. history, or fair deduc-
ton to the contrary. What our fathers be.
|lieved Of negroes the Radical reyolutionists
NOW maintain Of white people in the District
OF Columbia, and were actually carrying it
into effect (Which our fathers never did fully
.lof the negroes although we arc as white as
they, and have had, through our ancestors
and ip our own persons, as much to do in
making the constitutions, laws, and institu-
tons Of this country as they have and have
Gas negroes never have) exercised as much
!, as our oppressors, the right of self govern.
ment, and must consequently have, of course,
the same privilege Of denying them (our op-
pressors) all rights, if we. had the power
This would be land it isl resolving the ques-i
ton Of right into the question of power
!. It notices letter from the Washington cor.
respondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette to that
journal, wherein it is said "Just at the pres
ent every member of the Republican party
seems bent on saving it. There is perfect
panic on the subject" What wonder is it
that this usurping Congress should be in a
state Of panic after their disastrous ship
wrecks Of the present year. 1t is a melan-
choly sight, indeed, to behold great party
in state Of panic, resulting from acts, as q
whole, the most infanQus that ever disgraced
dpartisanship in popular and constitutional
Goyernment in any age or cline. So bad is
!. the national status thai an abundance of
men Of thought and Of public and private
virtue have grave apprehensons lest the seeds
of political RIGHTEOUSNESS are sown 80 deep
in our system that its days are numbered be-
yond rational prospect Of redemption.
Il The Washington Chronicle thinks General
Grants letter to the President. protesting
against the removal of Secretary Stanton,
Exhibits in . strong light the thorough SYM