Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-12-01
Gen. Grant as President.


General Grant will not carry out to the full ex
tent the views and wishes of the party of de
struction Especially does every reference o
this kind from those who supported Seymou
and Blair seriously af1ict them. A kint
word-a hint that his record does not justif
any other conclusion than that he will prov,
conservative in his course of action-an offe
OF generous support if he should realize the ex
pectations that even the Conservatives of hi
own party entertained of him-s seems to sti
up all the bitterness of their natures. Now
this is to be regretted, but we cannot help it,
We have no right to withhold the expression O.
views and opinions of intelligent people who
have the good Of the country at heart, and fee
deep interest in the success of Genera
Grants administration. IF our Radical friends
have made mistake in their man; if they
having selected him for success merely, now
regret the act, it is no fault of those who are
now for sustaining him if he shall faithfully
adhere ''to the landmarks of the Constitution.
We are among those who are willing to believe
that Gen. Grant means to do right, and in this
belief we find ourselves sustained by the Dem
ocratic press of the country
The following from the York (Pa.) Demo
crot and Press, edited by G. F. Black, ESQ.,,
son of Hon. j. s. Black, is in print:
1t is our opinion that General Grant will not
be three months President before he will incur
the high dlspleasure of his present partisans.
Already the Springfield Republican and the
New York Times advise him to reverse the
policy of the party in several essential particu-
lars, and already Phillips is in the lecture-room
sounding the loud note of warning to the pure
and straight-out Radicals. When that time
comes, and Grant is branded as ''a traitor to
his friends, his defence will be very plain
and Just one: ou never appropriated me
until 1867. Then you did SO only because YOU
were forced to it, Before that you were for
anybody and everybody in preference to me-
| accepted your nomination, because it was Of
fered to me first. | might have had the Dem
ocratic nomination and been elected all the
same. L saved you from certain and merited
defeat, and cannot perceive how that circum-
stance places me under any obligations to you.
My whole lite has been spent in opposition to
you. l stood between you and your meditated
vengeance upon Lee and his soldiers In my
famous 'whitewashing' report [ told the sol
emn truth about the peaceful disposition of the
Southern people, and then earnestly besought
that those States might be permitted to resume
their proper places in the Union, and be heard
through their own representatives [ swore
North Carolina proclamation, both when it was
prepared by MIR. Lincoln and when it was pro-
mulgated by MIR. johnson. [ at the same time
gave it as my opinion that the submissive and
pacific temper of the South ought to have
been taken advantage Of to give self govern
ment, peace, and security to the whole land [
am not given to much talking or writing, but
what have said has been uniformly Conser
vatlve or Democratic in sentiment When you
sent Wade to examine me talked horse, and
AwfeH you sent the colored man [ talked pups
When you sent Forney couldn't make up my
mind to talk at ALL Even when I accepted
your nomination | did so without committing
myself to your equivocal and unintellgible
platform. [ expressly declared that [ would
be guided by events, and follow the will of the
people Of this latter, [ find the most solemn
and authentic expression in the Constitution of
the United States, which have sworn to sup
port. You cannot complain that you have
misunderstood me. You nominated me in
obedience to the conservative sentiment of
large majority Of the people of the country
You nominated me, and they elected me be-
cause l was not q Radical My administration
must proceed in harmony with these opinions"
Early In the coming winter the Supreme
Court will decide McCardle's case, and follow
ing their own authority in Milligan's case, they
will pronounce the reconstruction acts with all
the negro oligarchies which have grown UP un-
der them, unconstitutional and void General
Grant will undoubtedly accept their decision as
the law of the land, while the Radicals will
just as certainly repudiate it, as they have al
ready done the plalnest provision of the Com
stltutlon. The issue of such conflict cannot
be doubtful. The Radical two-thirds in the
House OF Representatives melted away in the
late elections. What they saved of their ma
jority was saved by Grants great name. With
all the Conservative Republicans and the whole
Democratic party at his back, Grant will grind
the peStlent factions to atoms.
What we have here written is upon the sup>
position that General Grant will maintain his
selfrespect, that he will not belle his own
record, and that he will not allow himself to be
bullied or deluded into betrayal of his own
heart and conscience.
The White House-A Story Of Love in
the Kitchen
Washington Correspondence St. Louis Demo-
crat.
II was hearing plentiful gossip upon old
Washington, the other day, from an old lady
resident, when she alighted upon this anecdoe
of romance, associated with the official term of
John Quincy Adams Mrs. Adams was a
naughty woman, and her favorite nephew was
one Ben johnson HELEN, young student or
lawyer HELEN going often to the White
House, saw there as domestic or servant of
his aunt a very beautiful Irish girl. Mrs.
Adams suspected nothing Of his susceptibility,
till one Sunday night it was reported to her
that her nephew was escorting the beautiful
'Biddy home from church. She upbraided
the girl severely, who replied that she could
not prevent Mr. HELEN from following her in
the street. The young man was debarred from
seeing the girl for good while, till one day
she disappeared. Mr. HELEN had married her.
She lived in retirement in this city many years,
and her children rank among the most excel
lent and reputable citizens here Of these
there were half dozen distinguished for their
appearance and character Clifton HELEN,
one of them, was for a while law partner of
General Thomas Ewing. One of the girls
married Attorney FAINT, of Richmond. The
father is dead. If living he would be septu-
genarian. [ save this piece of Kitchen Cabi-
net history, and bequeath it to that promised
Jenkins who shall swoop upon the old clothes
of antiquity some day, and trace the holders
thereof down to their button makers. Mrs.
HELEN is still living in this city, stones throw
from the general postofice, and her children
were staunch and splendid Unionists during
the war, worthy to rank with the legitimate
Adams family. Mrs. Adams never forgave her
g., l.,