Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-02
POLITICAL BREYITIEs,

- 1t is q TACT worthy OF note InS' Va ~
nineteen Senators who voted to, acquit Presl-
dent johnson. eleven were elected as fepuo-
licans -Four Of them, howeyer-Dooiittie,
Norton, Patterson, and Dixon-had been
ostracised previously for refusing to obey the
commands of the uuscrupulous demagogues
who control that party, and now every Repub'
licau puppet and upstart in the country Is
reading the remaining seven out of the party,
because they would not perjure themselves
and vote contrary to their convictions. The
truth is, the Republican party is the most
tyrunnical political organization that ever
existed in this country. If any of its mem-
beers, high or low, dares to raise his finger
against Stevens, Sumner, and the other high
priests and their satellites, or his voice against
their revolutionary proceedings, he is at once
debarred from further communion at their
political table. If the work of 'purging"
20 on at this rate little longer, all the brains
and honesty Of the party will have been kicked
out, and the corruption that remains will be
destroyed by spontaneous combustion.
The Alexandria Gazette in noticing the
pilgrimage of the puritan Ella through Vir-
ginia, says that he unfortunately commenced
his labors in Winchester, where he was met
and the kinks takc1 out of him by Andrew
Hunter. He next appeared at Harrisonburg
where Col. Baldwin made mince meat of his
address. 1t is said that there never was such
an instance of complete hash. Next he
held forth at Staunton whore Alex. II. II.
Stuart, as Sir Jonah Darlington says, "buther-
cd him upand s!ithcred him down." In Char
louisville, Mr.. Ella was answered most effec-
tually by Mr. Shelton T. Leake. lie is said
to have acknowledged that ne had no idea
"there were such smart men in Virginia" as
he met with .
The recent seizure of whole mass Of
private kilograms at Washington, ostensibly
to SEQ if somebody had not been attempting
to corruptthc Senate, but really to ascertain
for party purposes what correspondence ac-
compauicd and grew out of the defeat of i'm
parchment the New York journal Of Conn.,
1,lerce dcnounces as an infamous violation Of
private rights, adding: "There isnot a State
in Europe, west of Russia, where any of these
acts could have been attempted without ere
atng a whirlwind of excitement dangerous
to the hand that welded such an arbitrary
power. Our fathers would have hurled from
any station the man who dared to suggest
such an insult on ind ividual rights"
Joe Brown, the cred hand traitor" who
cast the vote of the Georgia mongrel delega.
ton in.the Grant-Colfax convention, is pro-
nounced ga chivalrous Southerner," good
patriot" ga thorough Unionist," and all that,
by the Radical press It's all because be
has Joined the Radical ranks, swallowed
the nigger and sunk his fellow rebels into
political! perdition. Such a fellow is just
about fit for his present associates. He would
steal sheep or rob his grandmother.
In Ohio political reaction keeps pace
with the wishes Of the most ardent friends OF
a speedy return to the old constitutional form
of government At a late hotly contested
election for Marsha, Of the City Of Dayton.
in which nearly 1880 votes wore cast, the
Democratic candidate, John Ryan, was elect
cd by forty-fvc majority. At the last cleo
ton the Republicans succeeded in Dayton by
some two hundred. Everything is looking
we'll in Ohio, and the vote of that State may
be safely counted for the Democratic candi-
date for President.
old Elihu Washburne, "the watchdog
of the Treasury" has secured the passage Of
bill appropriating 367,OC0}to supply "de-
ficiency' in the reconstruction expenses in
Meade's District. A fine old watchdog Elihu
is, to be sure ! snarling at other people, while
he is gorging himself with plunder. But
how came this deficiency" in Satrapy num-
Der Three? Is the appropriation made to
cover the expense of bringing relays of ne
groes from one county to another to vote for
the "Constitooshin," or to cover something
else that can't bear exposure
AT Radical meeting held in Wash~
ington city on Friday last, and which was
addressed by Senator Harlan, Representative
Stokes, aud other great lights of Radicalism,
a negro orator read Chief Justice Chase and
Messrs Trumbull, Fessenden, Grimes and
Henderson out of the party, declaring them
to be hereafter unfit associates for any honest
man That's high-strung niger
RSy- a Jefferson county correspondent re-
grcts to state ''that his county continues
under Radical rule, simply because the opposi-
ton leaders make no effort to redeem her
Evcort few who read the Rc0iStcr the pcc-