The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-12-04

The Sitaatioas---S Spirit q the Nsrthcrn Press
we continue our usual summary, taker
from the incompatible Washington Evenins
Express. ~
The New York Herald, Independent, il
its leader asks If statesmen or stoekholder.
shall govern. The conduct Of the present
and the next Congress will decidethe question
Ii the currency be contracted and specie pay
ments forced with our present enormous debt
that debt must become a perpetual burden
1t, however, is notwithout hope that meas
ures will be adopted to stop contraction d
the currency, to pay the debt as rapidly al
possible in lawful money, to take away the
monstrous privileges Of the national banks
and to substitute for their circulation legal
tenders, and to thoroughly revise our revenue
system so that taxation may be reduced
In another article it refers to the action
Of the New York Chamber Of Commerce,
and insists upon the necessity Of more circu-
latlon, in order to develop the resources Of
the Wet and enable the South to renew
and increase its share in contributing to the
national wealth. It notes the activity OF the
Formesa pirates, and says they are keeping
the United States feet in those waters be-
fore the public favor for which ssthe long
winded Admiral Of our. China squadron"
will be duly thankful. It alludes to recent
French pamphlet, and thinks there is but
small reason TO doubt that Napoleon is the
author. 1t also refers to, Hon. Horatio Sey-
mour's declination Of the Democratic nomi-
nation for the Presidency.
| The New York Tribune, Radical, thinks
the rumored pledge Of Austria to uph old
Turkey and the Pope more likely to damage
Austria than help the others. It comments
on the value of Thanksgiving Day as pop
ular festival in strengthening domestic at
tacAments, as well as in evoking as eminent
of national gratitude. It claims that North
Carolina has pronounced in favor of con-
vention in nearly every county. 1t says it
would have deferred financial discussions till
after the message and reports were in, but for
the hot haste Of the infationists, whom it calls
the lineal successors Of those engaged in
Shay's Rebellion and the ssCourt Party after
the war Of 1872. It insists that speedy re-
sumption should mean resumption at once
sets forth its advantages in the reduction of
prices and checking of undue speculation,
and claims that the only real obstacle is the
want Of will, and had the deed been consum-
mated before this the business of the country
would have been in the healthiest possible
condition. 1t protests against the existence
of fogging for punishment in Delaware, as
an afront to the whole Union, and quotes as
a sample Of steep ciphering the figures Of
the Hartford Times, which puts the public
debt at thirty-six thousand millions instead
Of twenty-four hundred and ninety-one. It
thinks that Mr.. Colfax has fully recognized
the. West in giving it twenty three chairmen
of the fifty House committees. The Men,
phis Avalanche having proclaimed free negro
labor a'tailure, and urged the change into
stock and and grass farmers, and the employ
ment Of Irish labor, the Tribune says the
I.ishman would not put up with the rusty
bacon and cornmea,, ;yyhich con..en the former.
He must have his milk and potatoes and buss-
ter. Besides, his labor r stteriy aunsk illsik
Labor, however, is now hing not EDITION. -
But even lsbor alone cannof eonseFt xorn-eat
cotton felds into grass I'D b adyodaaas
thu Eestabliehmsnt by ofT n6dsl
lksma and sinsisas that the kre thsusanas It
acres Of hilly land lying waste that might be
put into blue grass, and Of lowlands that if
drained would raise timothy. And it insists
that the Southern whites must learn to trust
the blacks, who though ignorant and super
stitious, are familiar with Southern ways,
and will be more satisfactory than any North
ern laboring population. Under a Southern
sun the negro can work to better advantage
than any white race, whom it is absurd to
suppose can endure the malaria and the heat
The New York Times, Republican, COM
mends Mr.. Wilson's report on impeachment
as immeasurably ahead Of the others in grasp
Of thought and clearness Of reasoning, and
styles the majority report as a mere partisan
document. The report of Messrs. Eldridge
and Marshall Is less weak, but also partisan.
But Mr.. Wilson destroys the ground on which
the impeachers stand, and by his Just inter-
probation of the words crimes and misdemean-
ors shows that partisan majority cannot do
as it lists. He tears in pieces the mere mass
of gossip which is dignifed with the name Of |
evidence. 1t discusses the late French PAM
phlet entitled. Napoleon III. and the year
1863" and says if not written it was inspired |
by his Majesty, and pronounces it the dove
Of the ark of peace, 5avowiag, as it does, the
right Of Germany to. consolidate itself in &C.
cordance with the wishes Of the people. Its
tone is, however, quite hostile to Italy. The
Times insists on the reduction Of our army
from 10000 to 10000, and the consequent
saving Of $20,00O,000. General Grant "a
vors reduction also. ST
The New York World, Democratic, thinks
that if we had no better reason for: giving
thanks, the fact that we have Thanksgiving
Day on which to do so should render the oc-
,asion respectable in our eyes. It thinks it &
great absurdity tosuppose that the President
IAN be impeached only for indictable offences,
ind states at length it's reasons 80 i,
The National Intelligencer comments on
egistration and electiotat the South. In {
florida six election districts choose nineteen
delegates to the convention. The negroes !
egister 1869 votes, and elect sixteen dele !
ates-one delegate to every 47S voters /
he whites register $3.50 voters, and can +,
lect three delegates one in every 1910 {
oters In eastern and southern Florida it is
he same thing ) out Of eighteen delegates,
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