Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-11-24
Commencement of a Radical war" OF
President-elect Grant


Wendell Phillips Cracking his Whip Over his Ears
"a good soldier does not always make good
Statesman"
Wendell Phillips (''the man that supplies the
Republican party with brains, - 'the conspicu-
Gus chief and leader of leaders, as he is styled
by the New York independently is out in a
doubleleaded article in the last Anti Slavery
Standard, over his own signature, in the course
of which he says:
If we were Grant, our joy in Vicksburg and
the Wilderness would be drowned fathoms deep
in shame, because history will have to tell that
while we were in command of the army-and
able to WELD it uncontrolled, even in Louisiana,
if we chose-the loyal men of New Orleans
dared not approach the polls for fear Of assas-
sination. One word to the nation from Grant
last spring would have put Wade in the White
House and proclaimed martial law, if necessary,
last week, in New Orleans There are whispers
that Grant favored impeachment the lobby.
Those times wanted no lobby member. IF the
Lieutenant General Of the United States had
then announced to Congress that, in his opinion,
the peace Of the South could not be preserved
with the policy then pursued, and unless that
policy were changed he would not blight his
laurels by holding a sword he was not allowed
to use, does any man suppose Fessenden would
have dared to veto impeachment even to revenge
himself On Wade, to spite Mr.. Sumner, or to
keep his eleven cousins in Office? IfGrant were
the man the nation now supposes him, he could
not have kept silent at such crisis. A man
must love glory oyermuch who would not cheer
fully surrender all Grants aurels rather than
bear the guilt and shame Of that responsibility
not met.
1t must be remembered that good soldier
does not necessarily make great statesman. -
When we talk Of craftsmanship, where was it
when Grant undertook to report the condition
of ten million Of people, scattered over seven
hundred thousand miles, after visit of ten
days? And what was his report?
In December, 1865, when every man not
asleep knew of Johnson's treachery and its
results at the South, Grant reported that ac-
quiescence at the South was SO universal"
citizens SO earnest in wishing to do what they
think is required by the Government" that no
thing but the mere form of military force
would be needed there! And if anything more
should in any localities be needed, it would be
among the freedmen, to prevent them from
taking possession of the property Of their former
masters, and in the seaports
Now, no freedman has ever lifted hand a.
ganst the property of the whites. and, except
New Orleans, the seaports are the safest places
in the South. Was Grant misled by cunning
men about him, or has he no insight of such in
vestigations? Either alternative removes him
from the list of statesmen. But, further than
this, that problem does not need brains A
heart would have made all its intricaces blaze
with light like a July noon.
These are the actions that for us, reveal
Gen. Grant.
AN IMMENSE MONSTER Troublesome AC-
COUNT OF lT.-The scientific world has not
been so deeply agitated for long time as it
recently has by discovery which was made a.
bout three weeks ago The matter is still In an
undeveloped condition, but we make mention
OF the discovery so far as ii is at present under
stood. Some weeks ago DR.. W. e. Webb of
the Union Pacific railroad, and resident of
this city, observed white substance protrudng
from the side of a ravine near Sheridan, Kansas,
which excited his curiosity.
An examination resulted in the discovery of
one of the most wonderful and best preserved
specimens Of the antediluvian monsters known
to science.
1t is huge skeleton Of the lizard species,
known as the mosasauruS, and is eighty-six feet
long; it measures eight feet in diameter at the
rear of the neck, while its jaws are feet long,
and we'll supplied with teeth.
A mosasaurus was discovered In ITO by a
naturalist named Hoffman in the quarres of
St Peters Mountain. 1t is now in the Jarden
des Plantes In ParlS 1t is twenty tive feet long,
and an object of much curiosity. But the one
in question is more than three times as large,
and is at the same time in the most perfect state
Of preservation.
Firmly imbedded in the bank, it will require
great labor and care to bring it out in the per-
feet state In which it has been found It is of
course, Of immense weight, being solidly petrif-
ed.
Communications ofinjuiry and congratuation
have been received from Professor Agassiz and
other learned naturallsts throughout the coun-
try, and they all pronounce it most wonderful
discovery.
1t is not yet determined upon where the fossil
will be placed when extracted applications for
it have been received from many scientific
societies, 1t will probably be sent to the Acad-
envy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. st.
Louis Dispatch.
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