Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-24
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.
: Now that the elections are over, says

Now that the elections are over, says the
Boston Post, Mr. Greeley, that rawhead and
bloody bones conjurer, announces that outrages
at the South are over too! The coincidence
is as remarkable as anything in fiction can be.
When bloody outrage was needed to quicken
some kind of electoral. blood, 1.-THE Greeley
cupboard was unlocked and out came the very
article. The work being now all done, the
cupboard is shut and locked tight again, and
the motronly Greeley turns and shakes his
fingers at theipeople of the North with "You
can have no more outrages, my children. -
The farce is played out. The political philos-
opher is now at liberty to study into the marvel
of whole peoples willingness to engage in
business by which they would have, as they
believed, everything to lose and nothing to
gain. But such sort of blatherskite logic is
precisely what is run in the Greeley mould.
And all it leads to, in due boomerang sequence
and order, is that these outrages have entirely
ceased because there is no longer any demand
for them in the political market
From indications, the incoming admin
stration is not to b. marked by system Of
economy. Before Grant is officially informed
O. his election, the New York! Times advocates
increasing his salary to 100000 year
That journal says:
The salary of the President is $4,000
year. 1t was fixed at this sum in the early
days of the government. At that time it
represented five times as much if not ten times
as much, as it represents now. 1t is altogether
too small to support the President in proper
style, and to enable him to meet his necessary
expenditures as Chief Executive of the nation.
1t ought to be, at the very lowest, 500, 900.
| We have no doubt that the next Congress
will take some action in this matter. President
Grant should not be compelled to live in the
cheap boarding house style.
The recent Presidential election shows
that nearly five millions of votes were actually
polled. Ofthese the Democracy cast two and
quarter millions. But in Virginia, Mis-
sissippi and Texas elections were not held
Had the people of these three States been
permitted to vote, says the Washington En-
press, they would have given majority of at
least $50, 900. Then take the number of dis
franchised in the States of Missouri, Tennes-
see, West Virginia, North and South Caro-
lima, Alabama, Arkansas and Florida, aggre-
eating at least $50 900, and we find that if
Radical editors tell tie truth, the '-reJeF
army will outnumber that of the "loyar' army
by at least quarter of million.
I
Col 7. j. Florence, member of the Demo-
csatis National Resident Committee, contains
a short editorial, concluding as follows:
The radical attacks already made upon
! General Grant are but the dvdnt cou,riers of
quick coming propositions from the high
priests of Radicalism to give Mr.. Colfax, and
not General Grant, the Republican. electoral
votes for President. 1t will not be.to us the
most astonishing thing in the world if the
Democratic electoral votes should be required
yet to make General Grant President. At
all events, let your lamps be trimmed and
burning
- Mr.. Seward, it is said, has issued an
order that in all communications hereafter
issued from the State Department the title of
s'Hon" shall be ignored. The term has grown
into such disrepute by indiscriminate use as
to have ensured its bestowal on negro officials
the browning act to stamp it as an unmiti-
gated nuisance.
The salary that suficed for Washington,
Adams, Jackson and Lincoln is not large
enough for Grant, but it is to be increaaed
four-f fold. that he may keep the state of q
King. Will the tax payers bear it in mind
that no sooner have the Radicals obtained
their votes than. they devise new schemes to
squander away the publicmoney.
1t is said that the testimony brought
before the Congressional Committee now sit
ting in New York to investigate frauds, shows
that distillers are as successful in evading pay
ment of the tax now as they were under the
old law; and all that is manufactured escapes
taxation,
The New York Times thinks General
Sherman will be the man nearest to General
Grant, and the most influential in his counsels,
whether the former shall be Secretary of
War, General, or Lieutenant General.
REAL AND NOMINAL vALUE.-We are
apt to value a thing in proportion to what it
costs. Estimated by this standard Radical
ideas are the most precious things in the