The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-11-20

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The Sitnatien.--Spirit Of the Northern Press.
We continue to oopdense from that inval-
interchangeable Washington Evening Ex-
press
The New York Herald, Independent, spec
ulstes on what will be the conduct Of Con
gress on reassemblins. It thinks that in its
pride and modification it may become more
reckless still and defy public opinion but il
they should dare to act SO they will only in
tenslfy the odium with which they are now re-
garded. Congress has done as much mischief
as it well could in reference to Reconstruction,
but the day is not far off when the people Of
the whole North will demand the emancipa-
tron OF their white brethren in the South
from the barbarous rule Of the negro. The
question which now overshadows all others
Is that of our national finances. The stu
pendous debt and frightful taxation of the
Federal Government are the result of Radi-
cal Republican misrule The first duty of
Congress is to reduce expenditures to the ut
most and correspoudingly lessen the taxation.
The cotton tax and all other burdens on pro-
duction should be removed, the currency no
further curtailed and greenbacks issued in
place of national bank notes. 1t speaks of
the unbounled revenue frauds, and sees no
other way out Of the difficulty than to
repeal the laws and make new ones send
McCulloch to Indiana and his subordinates
somewhere else.
The New York Tribune, Radical, talks of
Andrew johnson speaking a piece and
thinks fba H. hlo for
swinging round the circle, and for the abb
sence of any allusieato the fact that his Elk
celency was formerly mayor" It credits
the fact that negotiations have been On foot
in regard to St. Thomas. It gives the aver
| age Republican majority in iowa at 20,723.
In reply to T. Sctutz, of the Radical Ger
man Club, it says the laws have always for
hidden the Sunday liquor traffic 2. The
Republican party has never taken ground on
the liquor question. 8. It claims the right
of every Republican to think on it as he
peases. 4 DIR. Schutz's platform was re-
jected by the committee. but Informally sub
mitted to the convention, and declared car
ried. 1t claims that the intelligence and
moral worth of the State are on the side of
decent legal respect for the Sabbath. It
charactcrizcs as an eyeess owl the writer in
the Express, who claims there has been no
Presidential election for years, as the people
were on a Big Drunk in 1860 and over awed
by the military in 1854. 1t regards it as a
remarkable fact that the Prince who was the
first to demand national unity should now
be its leading opponent. France is silent
about Germany, but thwarts both Italy and
Greece. France insists on conference. as
all Catholics are interested in the fate of the
Pope, while Italy asserts that status of Rome
ispurely an Italian question. Napoleon keeps
his purposes dark about Greece but Russia
is bent GU protecting the Christian population
1t declares that Mr.. Pendeton in his Mil
waukee speech has discovered the invaluable
secret OF living on the interest of ones debts,
and in reply to the World prefers the confer
ence of the whole people at the ballot-box
to the conference Of any number of eminent
citizens
The New York Times, Republican, approves
the Worlds advocacy Of compromise as the
basis of national restoration. but not of its
plans, which assume that the Democrats will
be masters of the House of Representatives
and Of the White House, as for instance its
proposition about the conference of sixty or
eighty men of eminent standing. The Dem
ocracy cannot prevent reconstruction on the
basis proposed by Congress; they can only
obstruct, for the conference proposed would
act in the interest of the Worlds schemes
Unauthorized conferences effect little; wit
ness the Peace Convention in 1861 and the
Philadelphia Convention of 1866 A Con-
stltutlonal Convention may be desirable by
and by, bit for the present the law as it stands
should be observed. and the violent tenden-
/ cies OF the State Conventions toned down.
| We have the three formal statements of the
Pope. the French, and English Ministry
The first uses the language OF helpless complaint
and wrath, speaks OF tins Garibadians as serv-
ing under the standard OF Satan, actuated by
u dlabolical spirit and breathing carnage like
rapacious wolves. The French note charges
Italy with failing to keep It's engagements,
but declares that France will Withdraw as
soon as the necessity for its presence is re-
moved. The Italian manifesto demonstrates
with France tor its intervention, aad the
/ Pope Tor his policy, but, in intimating the
possibility Of checking he revoiutionists it
comedies that an Italian or French garrison
must be stationed at Rome. Its tone is more
vigorous and independent towards France
than was supposed.
The course Of the ignorant black delegates
in the Alabama Convention is spoken Of at
length in the Worlds leader. 1t denounces
the universal negro suffrage scheme Of the
Radicals, as an effort to hold political power
by means of brutal black mob driven to the
polls like cattle.
The National Intelligencer's leader is up
on the public debt and the way in which it
should be managed, 1t speaks of our pro-
gress and the wonderful achievements of our
labor, and says they all came Of the oneness
Of our Government. The only thing want.
ing to day is wise comprehensive statesman
ship 1t calls attention to Mr.. Gladstone
financial speech, and declares we must be per-
tectly faithful to our financial engagements
The Constitution must be restored over all
the States. The downtrodden whites in the
South must be raised up. The odous cotton
tax must be repealed and our imprisoned
shipping must be released. What we want
is fidelity to our free system of laws. It
speaks Of the expected report of Mr.. Wells