The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-12-11

Importance to the County, and to the State, to
induce this County to subscribe 100000 to
aid its construction, and will that subscription
eventually return to the County more than its
amount in prosperity and in money? Let
the opponents Of the subscription lay aside
their captious and unreasonable objections, and
meet these questions fairly and squarely before
the people. CLINTON.
The Situation.--Spirit Of the Northern
Press.
We again acknowledge our Indebtedness to
the Washington Evening Express.
The New York Herald, Independent, COM:
ments upon the Grant meeting at the Cooper
Institute. It declares that the utter annihi-
lation Of Radicalism could not have been ac-
complished in any other manner SO effectually,
as by the overthrow Of the Radical party, by
majority of fifty thousand in the State and
nearly severity thousand in the city of New
ork, since it has been generally, conceded
that the voice of New York will decide the
Presidential contest. 1t calls upon the people
all over the Union to make haste to rise in
their strength and forward the Grant move
ment. IF the people will take the Presi-
dental election into their own hands, they
can bid defiance to both Radical and Copper
lead opposition. 1t eulogizes Grants course,
and callssupon the respectable portion Of the
people to|eire effect to the verdict Of the re-
cent election b. entering at once on the grand
Conservative campaign of 1867. It notes
the trial and conviction Of poligamy Of Rev.
Edward Dunbar in Minnesota and says the
confidence of the Western people in mission
arieS from Y ankeeland has been considerably
shaker Iss event. It says there must be.
acombshasipn of all the Conservative eleme-
ments Se3se 40 Bubcessful stand can be made
against Chase and the Radicals.
The New York Tribune, Radical, doubts
the statement made in French quarters that
all the European Governments, except Hol-
land and Belgium, have agreed to the confer
ence. 1t says that the carefully worded plat
form on which General Grant was nominated
at the meeting in New York, plainly ignores
his support as a Republican candidate. The
lifelong opponents of Republican ideas might
stand on that platform, but General Grant is
not to be held responsible. He will speak
for himself at the proper time, with the
frankness of soldier and the earnestness Of
patriot, and if on the side of humanity, pro-
gress, and equal rights, will ALLEVIATE from
him the noisiest of his present supporters. =
Those who hold that all men are created
equal, and those who hold that a bluck man
has no rights which the white man is bound
to respect, cannot be united on the same man.
It condemns the excessive verbiage of the
official communications with Congress. It
comments on the political executions of the
Fenians at Man chester, and declares. that
Allen, Larkin, and Gould will hcnceforward
be the most formidable of Fenian chiefs, be-
ing held up as heroes and martyrs by their
countrymen. They fought in good faith !;
were earnest, though misguided. The Gov
eminent yielded to a popular clamor and per-
petrated blunder.
The New York Times, Republican, says
the Grant meeting was in all respects strong
enough to show the drift of public sentiment.
The movement cannot be=eentrolled by poll
ticians 1t has spontaneous origin with the
mass of the people. Grant unites in him
self the ideas, as well as personal qualities,
which will harmonic the country, and his
published testimony leaves no doubt as to
where he stands, and gives entire satisfaction
to the mass of the people The Times af-
firms that the language Of the law comforting
the power on the Secretary of the Treasury,
to fix the regulations under which informers
get share of the proceeds, does not author
ize him to change his regulations when once
fixed. It censures the folly of the Pope in
undertaking to increase his army. That
army is inadequate to his protection. He has
had small success in relying on mercenaries,
and he can i'll afford the expense. A thous-
and soldiers would be as valuable as his pres
ent force, and hundred would do as we'll as
thousand. The announcement is made,
however, as a notification that he does not
propose to weaken his temporal power. 1t
says the world wonders at the long peace in
Mexico; six months quiet in that country
while there is powder to be used and men to
be shot, is marvel.
The New York World, Democratic, says
the censures Of the Republican organs on
the courageous and able message of President
johnson would be better bestowed if given
to Congress, which has violated all the deco
rum and even all the decencies due from one
department of the Government to another
It has kept committee employed for the last
eight or ten months in raking all the cess
pools of scandal to besmear his personal
character and discover some pretext for his
Congress has had the despi
cable and indecent meanncss to pry into his
alleged amours and its committee have heard
perjured witnesses, who invented what they
failed to find. And after all this eontumeli-
GUS and insulting treatment, tie Republicans
have the face to complain Of Mr.. johnson
because his message is not abject and concili-
atory. The popular fat has gone forth that
the reconstruction policy of Congress cannot
stand, and it wishes the President would re-
peat it in every COMMUNICATION he has occa-
sion to make The Republicans know that
their reconstruction policy cannot stand, but
they are willing that the people should groan
and sweat under the suspense Of it for anoth-
er year, for the sake of giving them the ne
gro vote in the Presidential election. 1t
quotes from memorial Of citizens of Louis
lana to the President, depicting the dire con-
sequences of the reconstruction policy Of
Congress, and declares that the industry and |
labor of the North will demand that the prob
lem of race in the South be adjusted. Black
vagrancy will not be permitted. White men
in the Northern States have enough to do to
support themselves without being taxed to