The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-11-06
The Sitnatl0it- -4SniritSsof Leading North


The SituatiOii.-lSnIritssof Leading North
efn Papers.
We condense the foilogi ng trom the WASH
ington Evening Ex press.
The New York Herald, Tnde pendent, specs
ulates on the;next Presidential election, and
says there seems to be i common understands
ing and sort Of condition among Radicals
and Copperheads, Chase Republicans and
Seymour and Pendleton Democrats to Kill
of Geneaals Grant as a Prcsid ltial candid
ate. With General Grant as the Republi-
can candidate the issue OF the Presidential
election is aforegene! conclusions III E would
sweep the whole coun.ry-N North, South, East,
and West The Chase maragers and bank.
ers Of the New York Republican camp are
working like beavers to reverse IN our No
vember election the tremendous October YER
dict Of Ohio against Chase and his universal
and immediate negro suffrage. 1t res Jews
the posltion.of Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens, on the
Constitution, and says, as Wendell Phillips!
long ago denounced the fundamental law of
the land, calling it a compact with hell and
death, SO Stevens trampled upon it and cast,
it away. 1t notices the triumph Of the blac'.s.
in the Georgia election aud says: "This is
the most abominable phase barbarism has as
sumed since the dawn of civilization. 1t was
all rigly and proper to put d. IN the rebel
lion. II was all right, perhaps, to emarci-'
pate the slaves, although the right to hold
them had been Acknowledged before. But it
is not right to make slaves Of white men,
even though they may have been former mas
tcrs OF blacks. This is bat a change in
system Of bondage, that is. rendered the more
od;ous and intolerable because it has been
inaugurated in an enlightened instead Of
dark and uncivil.zed age.
The National Intelligencer is deyoting its
leaders to negro suffrage, supremacy, and gov
eminent. Shall wehaye negro suffrage, me-
gro supremacy and negro governments in ten
States Of the American Union? The Federal
Government has been utterly subvcrted in
order to achieve this end. This, the work Of
Northern Copgress-of Mr.. Wade aud his
Radical cohorts. When Mr.. Wade submitted
the minor question Of negro suffrage to his
own onstituents they repudiated it, and, bet
ter ill, they repudiated him. We call for
the repeal Of all tic unconstitutional legisla-
ton by which negro governments have been
established and demand that the great State
Grim nails who have trampled under foot the
\ leral system to accomplish such ends shall
be punished Ohio rejects suffrage OfMr.
Stevens manifesto it say the question to be
made before the country is, whether we shall
adopt the Steyens- amnef constitution, or re-
turn to the Constitution of 1889. The pro-
spectis that Congress will .utts " fail in the
attempt to force such q constitution, under
the dietation of a lew rabid Radicals, upon
the old loyal States. The consequence must
be that those States will insist upon the re-
storation Of the prescribed States to their
proper places in the Union, with all their
rights over the subject Of the elective Ian
chise.3s .s4s.Baa. +sn as sf,.a
The New York Times, Radical, says that
Mr.: Stevens, ting on the principle, that
aged statesmen are often Lore influential in
their retireL 1T than during tnair public
caree' has Issued a document in,the hope of
making more of an impression than his wan
ing energies will permit in Congress- Dua
it lac' all the qualities of those Of Jefferson,
Madison, and JoF Adams ssincoherent in
its style, loose and inconclusive in its argu-
ment, and unsu aimed by anything in the
Constitution Or his DRY Of the country
! His friend asked whether we aaoey are likely
/ to approach any nearer to the TRUE principles
Of liberty than our fathers did under their
old and constrained Constitution. TIE
Times thinks not, but Mr.. Stevens thinks we
can Is much better than our fathers, and in
order to do it we must undertake the regula-
ton of the suffrage question by Congress.
The New York World Democratic discusses
the right Of the Southern negroes to the suf-
rage, and remarks that it is sophistry to con-
found the retention Of the elective franchise
with the re ention by the negroes Of their
freedom. Freedom is an original, inalenable,
ind ;spensable right, inherent in manhood,
derived from no covenant, compact, or legis-
layion whatever. But the right of suffrage
stands upon an entirely different footing. It
is purely thirg Of convent; on or Of law.
The Southern negroes would be cruelty
wronged in remandi1g them to slavei ,, be-
cuse they were always wrongedin subiecting
them to slavery. But nobody is wronged by
exclusion from the suffrage unless previous.
possession has made ita vested right.
| The Washington Chronicle, Radical, notes
| the progress of reconstruction, and says ofthe
Southern whites, tits perhaps better pill
for them to swallow, the sharing of political
power with their former slaves, but it was no
doubt quite as bitter to have to acknowledge
their freedom. They would submit to .desti-
ny as far as to be restored to forfeited rights
in their own may, but submission to the will
of the loyal nation is beyond the reach of
their philosophy, It suggests to members
Of Conventions already elected the propriety
Of providing in the constitutions, for the cleo
ton Of Legislatures at the earliest practical
Bile period after the. adoption Of the same.
EXHIBIT OF WHITES AND BLACKS IN SIX
OF TIE SOUTHERN STATES following
exhibit presented by the census of 1860 is
suggestive:
louisiana Whites, 357 ,45e; blacks, $780,
373. There are 4S counties in this States.
The blacks have a majority in 32 counties.
ARKANSAS counties where the
blacks are in majority IL s7'
Fzorida.-W Whites 77,447 blacks, 81. CIT.
81 counties, in Of whicAg the blacks are in
the majority.