Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-01-14
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

panic in the shattered ranks of the broken-d down,
rafting old bones OF the rotten Radicals You
can judge OF the CONSERVATION into which it has
thrown the negro supremacy party, when John
w. Forney, OF my two papers, both daily, !"
devotes three columns and a half In the Press
and the Chronicle, In denunciation OF it and
| those honorable, heightened gentlemen who
composed 1T. The banquet was made up OF
| those opposed to the destructive principles OF
| those who wish to place the negro, not only up
on social equality with the ladies and gentle
men Of the land, but rulers over their former
| masters and owners; and eventually produce,
not only war OF races, but reign OF anarchy,
terror and tyranny, and savage negro diabollsm.
1t was an occasion OF good feeling, conyiviallty
and social reunion Of Oid-line Wings, Demo
Gratis and Conservatives convened around the
festive board with a congeniality of sentiment
and reciprocity Of feeling to bury the negro su-
premacy Radical party as deep down as Tophet.
In response to regular toasts, speeches were
| made by Honorables jeremiah S. Black and
Benz. w. Boyer, Pa; Senator Doolittle, Of
Wisconsin; Reverdy johnson, OF Maryland;
President johnson; Judge s. s. Marshall, OF
| Illinois; Attorney General Stanberry General
| Thomas Ewing. Kansas; Judge Marvin, Fla;
Hon. w E. Robinson, NJ. c., of New York.
Letters were read from Ex-Presldents Buchan-
an and Pierce, Secretaries Seward, McCulloch
and Wells Hon. George Il. Pendleton, Of
| Ohio; Hon. j. V. L. Pruyn.. New YORK Post
Gov. Bramlette, kentucky; Gov. Parker, New
Jersey; Gov Stevenson, kentucky; Gov. Per-
ry, South Carolina Elk Gov. Seymour, Con
necticut Ex-Gov Bigler, Pa; Ex-Gov. Swami,
Maryland Hon. John Quincy Adams, Mass;
| Hon. Charles O'Conner, New York Rear-Ad-
miral Radford, u s. n Gen. w. S. Harvey
Hon. T. 2. Blair, ST., Maryland John B. Sin
clair, Democratic candidate for Governor Of
New Hampshire Hon. f. Z. Pilisbury, Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor Of Maine; Hon.
Charles &. Greene, editor Of the Boston Post;
General Hon. r. Vaux, Elk Mayor of Phila.;
Hon. John A. Greene, of New York Hon.
August Belmont, New York Major John Tyler,
Jr, and Hon. Alex. Ii. LII. Stuart, Virginia,
Ex-Secretary OF the Interior, whose eloquent
and highly appropriate letter was published in
advance OF all Others and upon the appearance
Of which, in the city papers here, not only clio
tied much comment In political circles, but tele-
graphed, IN e.ctenSO, to Northern and Western
journals, and this, as might be expected, raised
the envy and indignation of ''Colonel' John
w. Forney.
In an editorial upon the matter, in the
Chronicle headed, Latter Day Democrats"
quotes the following extract from Mr.. Stuart S
letter
I'm former days. when I visited Washington
as representative OF the people, OF IS the asso-
ciate Of Webster, Crittenden and Corwin, in
the executive councils of the nation, felt that,
in the eye of the law at least, [ was the peer Of
the Hottest in the land. | was privileged to
think freely and to speak freely on all matters
Of public concern. Were | to join your circle
now, [ should feel painfully conscious OF the
difference between your position and mine No
| DIM hn
yond the reach of hobeas corpus, and no per-
suasive bayonets admonlsh you to speak with
dated breath. y With me the case might be
different. But be that as it may while Vir-
ginia mourns L cannot rejoice. While the cy-
press encrcles her brow | cannot Irvine the
myrtle around my own
After consong himself that ''all the waters
of Lethe can never wash out" Mr.. Stuart
reasonable record, because Mr.. S. did not
take up arms against his own household, and
put them to the sword in behalf of discovered
and rotten Union, delivers himself thus
Before the rebellion no committee would
have thought Of inviting him to jackson cele-
bration Of any sort. Are we to infer that the
course he has pursued since the rebellion broke
out has entitled him to the consideration Of
those who profess to be Jackson's friends?-
Does active partici pation in treason entite a
Cabinet officer Of the very last Wing and Know
Nothing Administration that governed the
country to a card Of admission into the Jackso-
MAN ranks? Who is it that dares assume to
give the countenance of Andrew Jackson name
to treason? BY what color of consistency are
the lifelong enemies OF the man and his prin-
ciples asked to participate in celebration os-
tenslbly to do him honor? There is something
rotten in the State Of Denmark "
Was not Forney first Democrat? Is not
''hlS last end worse than his first to quote
holy writ and all the waters Of Lethe' will
not wash negro princi pies out of his hide, nor
the spicy breezes from Ceylon's isle naturalize
congo odor in Forney nostrlls. His continual
harplng on treason may result as disastrous
ly to him as that of the poor italian painter,
who endeavored to paint the King Of Darkness
and, tor this purpose, conjured up in his imag-
nation the most hideous spectres possible to be
conceived by the human mind, and kept them
continually before him till at last the poor paint
er became thoroughly convinced that he was
pursued by devil, and died raving maniac
in a Lunatic Asylum.
About there being something rotten in the
State Of Denmark, [ have no means of ascer-
tanning; but there is dead duck" rotten to
the core in Washington, politically, is an indis-
putable fact and, morally speaking, too, he is
not much better, if we are to credit the evidence
against the Forney- eating dead duck in tn
celebrated Forrest divorce case. En- ducky
The Revenue Bureau has made the following
decision, which will be of interest to land-own-
ers in the beautiful Valley of Virginia:
"A written agreement to sell and convey real
estate, upon the fulflment of specified condi-
tons, such as the payment Of certain sum of
money, should be stamped at the rate of five
cents for each sheet or piece Of paper upon
which it is written, but if the instrument CON
talns the promise OF one Of the parties signing
it to pay certain amount of money on demand,
or at time designated, it should also be stamp
ed at the same rate as promissory note"
The debt Of the Government amounts to So
642, 326, 253. As. Cash on hand to pay it in
greenbacks $25, no, $40 II specie, slOS, $780,
253. Ct; total cash on hand, 1874, zoe, 603. So
Uncle Sam and Brother Jonathan ght, from
the above exhibit, go into bankruptcy, or ask
for an extension Of time.
SIDNEY.
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