The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-06-03
Shirt Of the Northern Press.

Spirit Of the Northern Press.
We condense the following from that able
journal, the Washington Express.
THE HERALD speaks Of how much the
President has lost by his slowness and excess
i've caution. When be first entered upon the
Office Of President he should have appointed
an entire new Cabinet of men who would not
only have been in harmony with his policy,
but who would have represented the strong
Conservative elements Of the party that elect
ed hin, in the country. He made q great mis-
take, and both he and the country have suf-
fered for it. He has now an opportunity to
repair in measure the damage already done,
to strengthen his Administration, and givea
great impulse to the Conservative mo, smept
which has set In He should remove every
member Of his Cabinet. The present Cabinet
is a dead weight, or worse, upon the admins
tration. Let him form his Cabinet Of such
men Is Fcssenden, Henderson, Trumbull, and
it would soon neutralize the power Of the ia
Goblin faction. It speaks of.the condition. of.
our national finances, and says that while it is
not improbable there will be . hard struggle
for initiation, it is to be hoped that the infa-
tionists will be defeated and the public credit
preserved and strengthened through all the
turmoil Of party strife. It calls upon Grant
to act like an honorable man, cut himself adfift
from Che piratical Radical crew, who are using
him as a tool for their own plundering pur-
poscs and decline the nomination for the Pres
Eidenoy. It comments on Thurlow Weed's card,
and calls upon him tor come out with bis re-
served facts and statistics. Itadyoaateas the
scheme of placing the telegraph under Gov
ernment control and the extension of the tele-
graph and cheaper kilograms. 1t favors e
full examination into the impeachment busi-
ness, and thinks the most astounding devel-
opments will follow thorough and overhaul
ing oe the jobs of the Radicals for few years
past. Thinks war will not disturb Europe
for the present year. =. @
/ THE TRIBUNE objects to adjournment on
the LIST Of July. because Congress ought first
to provide for the efficient collection of the
tobacco and whiskey tax, the full restoration
/ Of all the Southern States, anq the abolition
Of the Freeamen's Bureau This will spike
the guns Of the Democracy. It thinks the
treatment of contumacious witness by the
House the greatest of farces. 1t says that
With the retirement of Stanton the LINCOLN
administration passes into history Stanton
was trusted by Lincoln. conlplimented by Sc
ward, and then thanked by Grant. His strug-
4 gle with treason in buchanan time and with
treachery in Iphnson's gill be lnemQrable.
The administration passes into the hands Of
Messrs Chase, Fesseadea 4 Co., and the Sec
retary has made all the sacrifice that can be
expected. It reviews the testimony as pub
lished by the impeachment managers, and
thinks it establishes the fact Of bribery, add
I gays that Audrey johnson, whom single shot
from the traitors hand placed in the Presi-
dental chair, remains there by the vote Of
another Il says ecclesiastical reconstruction
goes hand in hand with political, as is seen in
the Methodist Church, which has organized a
number or conferences in the South, among
them two colored, whose delegates were sad
mittsd at Chicago. Propositions also are
under consideration for the reunion of the two
African with the. parent body. 1t says Gen
eral Butler has shown how gold secrets will
leak out.
The TIMES says that the restoration Of the
national unity was the object Of the war, but
this is unaffected with the Southern States un.
represented. The Democratic party is pleds:
ed to reaction and against:negro suffrage, and
: the country eannet afford to have the ollq
questions reppened, nor can il. afford to dis
pense With the South in Congress. If Grant
is elected recQpstruction will go on as it has
begun, but if defeated reconstruction must be
begun de mopo. It condemns veteran o.
server" for his snser at the eonscieuces o.
} Messrs. Fessspden, Trumbull, and others, and
wonders at it, as he is not political hack OF
veteran in the divinity Of party. Votes are
in the estimation Of some men all that's neces
sary to conduct a party, but brains and cha.
acter are no less indispensable.
J The WORLD says the suffrage plank il
the Chicago platform is tumble Of nonsense
The only consistent position for the Republi
caps, after what they have done, is that of Mr.
Stevens, that the regulation Of the suffrage
in all the States is invested in Congress, which
is bound to establish uniform rule What
eyer may be the theory of the Constitution OF
this subject, it does not contain two doctrines
but one. When the Chicago platform put
forth two, it stultifes itself It is as prepos
ferrous in theory as the party is inconsistent il
practice. It denounces the FreedWen's Bur
4 eau as a swindle that should be stopped. The
fact that. such swinde should be CONTINUED
shows to what straits Raaicalism is reduced il
j: its efforts to prelQng, not merely its power
but its existence as party. 1t alludes te
j: Napoleen's speeches at Orleans, and says that
after reading them # is exactly as wise as be
fore. It sneers at NJ, Calfax's mcdiocrity
1t says assurance and hrayeq energy have
done moae for him than lifetime afsolid ser.
vice from Trumbull and Fessenden has been
able to accomplish for themselves. It is the
era of mere politicians in the Republican party
and demagogues autter forward for awhile
till, party and all, they go to their own place
!. The INTELLIGENcER, commenting on the
SO called managers investigation, says This
committee brings before it Dy summary pro
cess whomsoever any one Of its members plea
Il ses subjects these witnesses to an inquisitior
absolutely forbidden by the fundamental laws
LOT the nation, incorporates them for pleading
/ their co Institutional rights, and converts tbs
J nations Cap0tol into a prison house The