Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-09-03
Can't Co.operate.

can't Cooperate.
It will be seen by the following from the
Charlottesville Chronicle that that journal is
not, as some supposed, in favor of cooperating
with the Republican party of this State. 1t
says:
1.-THE Republican party of the North may re
qulre us to subscribe tests that are unreasonable
and a violation of conscience-with the alterna
tive of further disabilities. We, for one, have
gone just as far as we intend to go; and no
menaces shall bend US any farther. We are
perfectly willing to submit to the laws of Con-
gress, harsh as we conceive them; but to suffer
ourselves to be stultfed and degraded by de-
nouncing all that we have done in the past SIX
years, and by thanking Congress for the punish
ment we have received, we have not the slight
est idea of it.
''There are a great many white people in the
South who like the 'co-operatlonlsts that COM
mitted themselves in advanced anxlously lnqulr-
ed how they might join the Republican party.
The only answer in Virginia has been Thank
Congress for the Sherman hellabarger bill;
denounce as infamous Lee, jackson, Johnston,
Ashby, Mosby, and all who lifted a finger in the
late war cut loose from the whites ofthe South,
and ally yourself with the negroes-and you will
be received on probation That is the answer.
''The Richmond Wing is, therefore, in our
to talk of cooperation with party that requires
you to rejoice over your own discontinue
They will not hear of mere submission to the
Reconstruction acts /; they will not hear ofmere
cooperation +; they require you to assume out
and out the Republican livery to endorse the
past of the Republican party, and to commit
yourself to it for the future The Hunnicutt
party IN Virginia breaches that rebel must be
born again; a Southern white is treated as
tubn ha, 4o1
thorough change of nature, before he can act
with the Republican party. This, of course,
excludes the whites of Virginia from the party
and Hunnicutt' object is to exclude them.
If there was among the managers of the
Republican party in Virginia any sort of dispo-
sition towards reconciliation, the Whig would
have secured their approval and good will but
the Ne,0 Nation abuses it in every issue in the
most violent terms.
1--WE admire the spirit in which the Wing,
assailed on all hands, has undertaken the I'M
in Virginia 1t has been, we believe, actuated
by the very purest and most unselfsh motives
But we think its zeal to solve the problem of
the hour, has lured it into bog from which, in
despair of crossing it, it had better retreat in
disgust.
'Other journals in the State may point to
winter sails, and rigging more compact and less
disordered but they have not ventured out of
sight of land, while the Wing plunged into the
storm, and sought to explore the tempestuous
ocean,.
The following is an extract from the report
of conversation between the Washington cor
respondent of the Boston Post and President
johnson:
II then asked why General Sheridan was re-
moved.
''Mr johnson said there were two good eau
ses, but only one had been considered; the first
one was rather of a personal character, and had
been overlooked. The telegram of the 23d of
June, which was so disrespectful to the Execu-
tive, had been claimed by General Grant to be
a private telegram to himself and that no off
cial notice Of its existence had ever yet reached
the President. But the second ground for the
removal of General Sheridan was the exercise
of powers he did not possess, and the exercise
of his legitimate powers in an arbitrary and Of
fenslve manner ----..
II asked if he would be kind enough to des-
ignate what acts he included under the latter
clause Ike
''He said the removal Of Governor Wells was
entirely uncalled for and unjustifable. Cover
nor Wells had placed at General Sheridan S dis
posal the whole civil machinery of the State to
acts Nor had the latter ever indicated or point
ed out single act or word Of the Governor
which was calculated to embarrass him in the
proper execution Of his duty. On the other
hand, General Sheridan had endeavored to ex-
ecute the law as partisan, and had adopted
radicalism as the only true test ofloyalty. His
sole purpose seemed to be to secure negro su-
premacy and degrade the whites; and for such
conduct deemed it my duty to relieve him
from that command.
Il inquired if he did not think Governor
Throckmorton had attempted to thwart the
General in proper execution Of the law.
He answered emphatically, No, sir the
records prove the reverse. The Governor of
Texas also placed the whole civil machinery of
his State at the disposal of the military power,
and aided it in every way possible except in the
manufacture of Radical majority of voters and
in securing negro supremacy. This was Gov
ernor Throckmorton SHINING, and for which
he vas arbitrarily removed by General Sheri-
dan F"
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