The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-04-08

@i1"|oiJ Va 'hS NNoHeiS, "'N ~
speaks well both for the spirit of
the age and the dignity Of the pro-
fession, we find editors who, while
they sacrifice their own principles
to the party whip, and work obe-
diently in party traces: yet refuse
to prostitute the columns Of their
papers to the advocacy Of meas
ures they know to be unjust and
unrighteous. The editor of the
Nation, in it's last issue, hitherto
the rade mecam Of radicalism, thus
washes his hands like modern
Pontius Plate of the sins Of his
people. while contemplating the
elevation of Ben. Wade to the
Presidency:
"He is lamcntably ignorant with
regard to the various economical
questions by which the country is
beset. and, if he has any opinions
on finance at all, they arc probably
not very favorable to the main
tenance of the national credit. In
Ills selection Of his Cabinet, he is
likely to prefer zeal-of which we
have already as much as the coun-
try can stand-to discretion and
knowledge, which the country is
dying for wantof. What is worse,
he will probably, with that blind
reverence for party traditions and
practices for which men of his
stamp are generally remarkable,
feel that his first duty in office is
to use the Federal patronage to
help the Republican party at the
Presidential elcction--which is
simply another way Of saying that
he will do what he can to increase
the corruption and debauchery,
waste Of the public money and
degradation of Government Off
cials. which have made the civil
service as great disgrace as ever
befell a Christian country. For
the like Of it, we have to search
the chronicles Of the worst Euro
pcan monarchies in the eighteenth
century" ..--
The New Orleans Times thinks
it high time that the people of the
North should become alarmed at
the conduct Of their accredited rep
resentatives. By permitted pecu=
lations and wasteful expenditures,
they have ruined the credit of the
country ; by trampling under foot
all the laws and traditions of po-
litical economy, they have in a
great measure destroyed our com.
mcrcc,. and transferred what re-
mains of it to foreign bottoms by
encroaching on the. chartered
rights of the other departments OF
the Government, they have sapped
the foundations Of our political in
stitutions, and completely destroy
ed that balance of power en- which
our republican system depends tor
it's solidity and perpetuity. A
House Of Representatives which
has arbitrarily denied representa-
ton to ten States Of the Union.
though imposing on them unjust
and iniquitous taxes, has, notwith-
standing its incompleteness, pre-
ferred letters Of Impeachment
against the President Of the Uni
ted States, on grounds which are
at once ridiculousIy fimsy and
wickedly partizan, and a Senate,
which has no pretence to being
such Senate as the Constitution
requires, yet undertakes to per-
form the high duties ola court Of
impeachment, on an authority pre-
tended to be derived from the Con-
stitution! Blind, indeed, must
that man be who sees nothing OF
usurpation and danger in all this.
Though the weight Of radical op-
preston has thus far rested chief
ly on the Southern people. yet the
returning tide is even now begin
ming to sweep against the breast
works Of the North. destroying
the profits of a sectional industry,
which rested for protection upon
fraud and the thin bubbles Of kite
flying spectators, which they had
fooIishly relied upon as substan-