Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-07-09

Of course, the true policy OF kindness, which
Mr.. Greeley has advocated from the first, is the
true policy of reconstructing fractured friend
ship, national and individual /; always has been
always must be. Brave and generous natures,
which would never yield to menace or intimida-
ton, peculiarly accessible to kind demonstra-
tons. They will no more permit themselves to
be out-done in concilication than in valor. No
man or nation was ever inspired with feelings
of attachment, by kicks and cuffs. The ex-
tremists of Congress are fond of appealing to
the vigorous exactions of the old Jewish law,
can eye for an eye and tooth for tooth.
They find it convenient to forget that those
stern maxims were expressly repealed by the
Divine Founder of the Christian Faith; that
the sternness of the Law gave way to the be-
nightly of the Gospel, and that Love is the
instrument by which the great Monarch of the
Universe seeks to conquer the rebellious world.
So that Mr.. Greeley is ON the right track, both
as Christian and statesman and unless the
senseless spirit of Hate and Vengeance becomes
dominant, the result will prove that he has been
the Prince of the Paciication and Reunion of
America.
Whatever sense of selfsuficiency may in
duce Juarez and his followers to think, the
world will understand that they owe their sue
cess to the Intervention, countenance and aid of
the United States In addition to the moral
support given to them by the press and public
men of the country, it was the direct action of
our government that prevented the Emperor of
Austria from sending reinforcements to his
brother, and it was the same direct action that
constrained Louis Napoleon to withdraw his
army. The world, therefore, will conclude that
we had the power and the right to forbid the
execution of Macmillan, whose life was brought
into peril by our agency, and the world will hold
us accountable, in some measure, for his death.
We did put ourselves to some trouble to ask
that the life of the noble and unfortunate gen.
tleman should be spared, but the semi savage
who rules there seems to have felt no sense Of
gratitude or obligation to us, and for the great
service that we had rendered, declined the poor
return of sparing one life. We predict that the
day will come when Juarez himself will need
mercy, and at the hand of this Government
dent of the Petersburg Lader writing from Bat
| timore says: j.
''But there was pulpit prodigy here the
same day, who is growing into such fame as
bids fair to rival that of Spurgeon. His name
more Conference, we believe, Of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church-South. He has not been
| long at this calling, and was an unlettered man
in humble life but comparatively few months
back, when his talent was revealed to friend,
who aided him to the short culture with which
he is producing such wonderful effect His
power of oratory is said to be miraculous, and
his reasoning faculties no less so. People here
and in the Valley flock to hear him, and his in
fuence is talked of and felt everywhere: l
could not gain a seat in the church in which he
held forth Sunday night; but several friends
who were more fortunate reported that all the
praises they had previously heard bestowed up
on him fell far short of the real height of his
powers Certain it is, that hereafter he will be
so famous as to cause interest even to this mea-
gre notice of his ministerial beginning.
FREEDMEN AND THEIR CONTRACTS. -The po-
litical agitations and league organizations are
beginning to work fearful mischief in the rural
districts, as might have been, as was by all calm
and sagacious persons anticipated MIR. William
Allen, of Claremont, had a very large crop of
wheat and just as it was ready for the sickle
the freedmen employed by him or a very large
portion of them, left the plantation, and came
| to Richmond. Mr.. A. Immediately represented
the fact to Gen. Schofeld, who had one of the
| freedmen arrested and brought before him.
The acknowledgment of the freedman estab-
lished the fact that he had broken his contract
without cause, and had, with his colleagues,
left Mr.. Aliens very large crop to be entirely
| lost so far as they we're concerned. The Gen
eral had the whole of them arrested and con-
veyed back under guard to the plantation,
where they were required to go on with the
harvest, the guard remaining to see the work
done.
It is plain that if such faithlessness is per-
mitted the crops of this State must be greatly
curtailed We learn from many districts sad
accounts of the irregularity Of the freedmen
The party missionaries" are paving the way
for the perpetuation of the Bureau and the
''rations. ''-Rictn,ond Dispatch.
The following letter from Judge Underwood
was no doubt thanked by Senator Under
wood We publish it as warning to our peo-
| pie:
THE REGISTRATION IN VIRGINIA.
| To the Editor of the Chronicle
| During the past three weeks the registration
of voters In Virginia has been nearly halt COM
pleted lOO 900 names being enrolled; of these
So, 900 are colored and 1000 white, and Of the
latter at least $1,000 are Radical Republicans,
SO that we now stand:
Republicans, 900
Rebel sympathizers, or Conservatives" IS, 900
Majority, ,OOO
There has been much more enthusiasm and ac-
tivity among the Republicans than with their
opponents, and the proportions Of those to be
registered will be greatly changed, though | do
not believe the majority now secured will be
much reduced.
Yours truly,
JOHN G. UNDERWOOD.
CoNFIsCAToN.-In the Senate, Wednesday,
Mr.. Sumner submitted the following, and asked
that it lie on the table for the present:
Resozred, That the reconstruction of the rebel
States would be FASTENED, and the best interests
| Of the country promoted if the President Of the
United States, in the exercise of the pardoning
power, would require that every landed proprie-