South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-04-03

left Baltimore on the Oath ult, for New
York, en- route to Canada, there to await
the next call for his trial.
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TIE HERALD on INpEACHMENT.-In
an able article on Wednesday last, the New
Gork Herald exposes the cxtreme folly Of
the charges agains, the President, and clos
es as follows The whole trial would be rid.
iculous were it not for the grave consequent
ces with which it threatens the peace Of the
abroad, the stability Of our institutions, and
the dignity of the American people. New
or before have we seen so complete and
crushing rejoinder to partisan charges as
may be found in the Presidents answer to
Butler, Stevens and company. The defence
is perfect in its mere statement without
calling single witness; and if Chief JUS
tice Chase could rise to the full greatness
Of his duty he would at once put the black
toothcd and black hearted Old Woman of
the Radical party out of court, on the
ground that her accusations, even if proved
IN their extreme extent, are too utterly tri-
vial and too obviously malignant for the
serious consideration of serious men in such
serious times as we have now fallen upon
Ia VIRGINIA A STATE The question
whether Virginia is State in the Union,
says the Southern Opinion, "seems to de-
pend for its answer, in the Radical mind,
entirely upon varying circumstances. For
instance, Virginia is State in the Union
for Underwood, both as Judge and Sen
ator but she is not State in the Union
for any body else, brought before Underwood
on hdbeds corpus, and seeking relief from
military Imprisonment. That underwoods
documents may 60 free, Virginia is in the
Union but that a citizen Of the State may
not so free, she is very much out of the T.
mon.
"Yet the Supreme Court has plainly re-
spondcd to the query in the affirmative, and
it should not be any longer mooted ques-
ton. Ia very recent decision, following
up former ones of the same tenor, that high
body says that the "efforts to draw off ele-
ven States from their allegiance to this Co
vcrDmcut, and the setting up Of the So call
ed Confederate States Government were IL
legal, The States bring still constitutionaHy
IN NE Union"
lin ike manner Congress, during the
'rhoie ,co1, recognized Virginia a State in
the Union, by allowing certain men TO re-
present her as Senators and it was not I'M
til the war was over that this representation
such as it was) was put an end to. 1t Is
certainly difficult to explain how Virginia
was State in the Union during the cxis-
;encc of condition Of war, and yet ceased
so be such on the establishment Of peace.
Judge FISHER, Of Washington, however.
like Underwood, finds no difficulty in suit
ing the status Of Virginia to the occasion.
and he, in contempt Of the Supreme Court,
has decided that she is not State in the
Union As TO the fact, Fisher is right
hut it was lis province to declare the law.
{ was bis duty to uphold Virginia right,
and not to recognize the actual condition
put upon her through fragrant wrong
Another strange circumstance in this
matter is, that fragment Of Virginia, com
posed Of certain scceling counties, has been
acknowledged by the Government a. a State
IN the Union, has its Senators and Repre-
scntatlves in Congress, aud is accredited in
every way as an equal among the other
states, while Virginia herselfi is treated as
an unorganized territory Congress there
by reversing one Of The plaiuest demoustra-
'ons Of Euclid, and proving that q part is
greater than the vhoic. No wonder, after
this, that that ingenious body essays to show
that black is white, or, at least, that ne
gro is the cluaI Of the white man"
EEL is said that the Committee Of the
House Of Representatives on coinage have