The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-24
TELL US OF THE NIGHT.

Although the new Reconstruction
bill has passed the House by vote of
1923 TO 40, and the Radicals cvince no
disposition to abandon their schemes of
oppression, there are some cheering in
dications that the night of gloom which
now envelopes us is not to be of indefi-
mite continuance. True, we have pri-
vate advices from Washington of a We
ry responding nature and correspond
ing closely to the tone of portion of
the public prints; true, the New York
Albion, the organ of British opinion in
the United States, comes to the con-
clusion that at this time the worst con-
sequences are seriously to be appre-
hended, and says :--"The people of the
entire nation are likely to become so
evenly divided in sentiment that an
early renewal of actual civil war is not
ut all an unlikely occurrence. We
write these sentences with regret, but
at the same time with deep conyic-
tion of their truthfulness.
Nevertheless, there are signs from
many quarters, which are well calcula-
ted to inspire hope. Buffers amend
ment to the new Reconstruction bill,
by which the appointment of civil Off
GERS was to be taken from Grant and
given over to the Mongrcl Conven-
tions, was defeated by the decisive
vote of 112 nays to So yeas. Some of
the-ablest organs of the Radicals, such
as the N. Y. Post, the Cincinnati Com
mercial, the N. Y. Times, the Brook
lyn Union, the Cleveland Herald and
others, are opposing with great force
Congress. and confessing frankly that
the sentiment of the country is une-
quivocally hostile to the mad legisla-
tion of the hour. The National lntelli-
gencer is making revelations of STAN
toms profiigacy which cannot fail to
astound and disgust the people. Fur
Their, President johnson, in CONVERSE
tion with the correspondent of the N.
Y. World, announces his firm determi-
nation to resist "a revolution, which, If
suffered to go on, may have an effect
more damaging than the late war. -
Still further, al intelligent gentle-
man, just from the North, assures lis
that the reaction is going on with in
creased violence, and that the people OF
the North are as decided as it is posi-
BILE for people to be that negroes shall,
in no contingency whatever, rule the
white men of the South.
All these signs put together should
rcassure us, and inspire every Southern
Conservative with an intlexible spirit
of resistance to Radicalism, come N
what shape it may. 1t is pretty clear
to our mind that there is no immediate
danger of war. Our conviction is that
Grant has been made the witless vic
TINS of two deeply laid plots--one OF
the part of the extreme Radicals, to use
him for a while, and then throw him
overt GARD in favor of Chase; the other
on the part OF the Democrats, to per-
nit him to make himself ridiculous and
so ensure the election OF Sherman OF
Pendleton. We know that nearly two
months ago, all the needful material
was being gathered to prove that Grant,
as a soldier, was an arrant humbug;
and the present tone of Democratic pa
pers and their correspondents is evil
dencc enough that this material is about
to be USED without compassion.
1t is possible that large bondholders,
like A. Il. Stewart, Vanderbilt and AS
tor, may stake Grant in war upon
the public liberties. If the Senate
unite with the House in the passage of
the bill making Grant Dictator, and
the bill be passed over the President
veto, there will then be good reason to
believe that the bondholders have de-
creed war. But until this event occurs,
there need be no undue alarm.