Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-09-03
POLITICAL. TrEMS.

From our exchanges We compile the follow
ing condensation of political news for the
past week -
a dispatch from Washington says: 'sThe
New York Tribune hugs Grant to its bosom.
The Herald drops him, saying, the political
position assumed by Gen. Grant shows our
great soldier in new light. 1t is his first
Development of political genius-his first
and final mistake. The reply of the Presi-
dent completely overturned, Outfanked him.
Grant does not understand the crisis He
cliugs to Sheridan and fOrgets principles"
AT the Republican Convention for Pc
nObscOt county, Maine, in Bangor, on the
22d inst, ex-Vice President Hamlin, being
called upon, made short address, of which
the Bangor Wig gives the following synopsis:
ale thought the present was a time for
action rather than words. The words that
are used, if any, should be short, sharp, and
decisive. There was no hour during the war
of the rebellion when there was greater re-
sponsibility placed upon US than rests upon
upon us to-day. We are not out of our trl-
ais or dangers. Unfortunately in some re-
speSts, but fortunately in others, we have
National Executive who seems bent upon
thwarting the national will and preventing a
proper and just reconstruction. Reconstruc-
ton should ReUer be completed except upon
the fullest basis Of popular justice and lib
erty; and it is our bounden duty to see to it
that no settlement shall be made upon any
other basis. Neither can We do it Rough
hew them as We may, there is an overruling
Providence that will shape our ends Mr..
aamlin proceeded to examine the acts of
President johnson, and declared that his
usuTPations and wrongs have opened the eyes
Of the blind, and unstopped the ears OF the
deaf, to zee and hear what is true, and right
and just. Mr.. JOhnson's acts and policy
were necessary to educate the public mind up
to the right point; and he was fully impress.
ed that the people will have all these things
settled on the right and proper basis"
The New York Herald is severe upon
the new coalition that is to Revolutionize the
country. In recent number it says:-
"After the election of j ohm Quincy Adams,
in 1864, through the influence OF Henry Clay
in the House OF Representatives, John Ran,
dOlph, Of Virginia, denounced the combination
by which it was effected as coalition of the
Puritan and the backlog From that mo
ment revulsion took place in the feelings
and policy of the country, and at the next
large majority. A combination is now being
formed similar in character, but more disgrace,
full and humiliating in some of its features,
for the purpose of forcing new form of gov
ernment upon the country. The laws of Con
gress are giving us union of the two elements
of Puritanism aud negroism. What is to be
the fate OF this modern coalition of the Puritan
and the niger 7"
oil Al.
between the President and Congress is but
phase in the great march Of our revolution.
Congress has no more risen to the magnitude
of the problem than has Mr. Johnson
Failing to comprehend the great principles
that underlie the reharmonizing of the nation.
they have let slip their opportunities, daIlied
with reconstruction, mingled it too much with
political ambitions, forgotten that they were
legislatIngfor the country, lowered themselves
to the narrow scope of party, and have at
last thrown themselves off guard and shown
the vulnerable points in their armor. Thus
light is breaking in. Now let the President
use It. Let him correct his first great error
the retention Of the old Cabinet left by Mr..
Lincoln; let him brush them away in a BODY.
They were born of other times and other
wants. New issues demand new men. Let
us have them"
"A Washington telegram to the Boston
Journal says:
'The President gave an audience this
forenoon tOseveral representatives of the press
from distance, who called especially to see
him. In the interview he said he was willing
at any time to furnish proper information for
publication, but that he had reason within
short time to complain bitterly of certain per.
sons who had been to see him publishing
exaggerated and false accounts of CONVERSE
lions with him. This practice had become
so annoying to him. he said, that he should
take care in future to grant interviews only
to such respectable aud honorable journalists
as he knew personally"
The TTiJunes Washington .orrespop-
dent says that the leading Republican Con-
gressmen are reviving the Impeachment pro-
ject, since the late removals Some of them
who opposed impeachment'at the late session
of Congress. say there is no help for it now,
that nothing else is left to them. The promi
nent movers in impeachment are busy at work