Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-01-07
POLITICAL BRRvITIEs.
A Radical newspaper boasts that IL

BILE sums IN savings banks during the last
year. That may be so; but, says the st.
Louis Republican, poor laboring white men
in the North might deposit considerable sums
in savings banks, too, if the Federal Govern
ment would furnish them houses to live in,
food to eat, clothes to wear, and schools for
their children, as it does for the negroes
But, instead of such fayors, the white men
of the North are compelled to furnish all
these things for themselves and then pay
taxes to support negroes and enable them to
lay By money in the savings bank besides
1t used to be said that this was a white mans
government; but through radical bureaus
and such like agencies, it is practically
government in which white men have to labor
and pay taxes for the benefit of negroes, and
yet, in the face of these practical facts, the
Radical demagogues talk about " equality be-
fore the law"
"A case is now pending before the United
States Supreme Court, which, it is thought,
will elicit decision of the question of the
constitutonality of the United States legal
tender act The case comes I'D from Oregon,
whose statutes require payment of taxes col
lected by the sheriffs to be made in coin to
the several counties, by whom, in turn, they
are paid into the State treasury. The sheriff
in this case having paid the amount collected
by him in currency to the county, alleges
that he has thereby made a valid TENDER
Mr.. Reyerdy johnson represents the State
of Oregon Senator Williams appears in the
case as representative Of the county.
- 1t seems to be settled that Hon. Thos.
A. Hendricks will be nominated for Governor
by the Democratic State Convention of In
diana, which meets on the 9Th of January.
William II. Holman, who has been promi-
nently spoken of in connection with the
second place on the ticket, is understood to
have declined the honor, his people in the
Fourth District thinking he is the very per-
son to beat George W. Julian for Congress.
The New York Herald recommends,
perhaps seriously, as the proper mode of deal
ing with the Mormon problem, that Uncle
Sam shall buy some of the Sandwich Islands
and turn them over to Brigham Young; or
if that project fails, send the Mormons to
Alaska, where among the native Esquimaux,
poligamy would be nothing new.
"A letter from New York says that Mr.
a. II. Stewart and his friends are energeti-
cally at work getting out their commercial
circulars in favor of the Grant movement
These circulars will be sent to every city and
town in the United States, and the first fruits
of them, it is expected, will be the holding
of public meetings, in every direction, to re-
spond tho Cooper Institute nomination The
World Of that city throws cold water on the
whole proceeding. A New York telegram
in the New Haven Reporter says that Mr..
A. T. Stewart has received long private
letter from General Grant in regard to his
recent nomination by the late Cooper Insti-
tute mass meeting. He accepts the resolu-
tons, authorizing the committee to proceed
and push forward his claims for the Presi-
dency. It is said that there is not one word
of politics ia the Grant letter from begin
ming to end.
1t is reported that should there be a
split in the Republican Convention, and Chase
be the candidate of the Radicals, that the
friends of Grant will not allow the Southern
States to be restored to the Union in time to
vote for President as they are all regarded as
sure for Chase. Thus are ten SOVEREIGN States
of the Union to be made shuttle cocks, and
to be knocked aboutat pleasure by the radicals.
"A San Francisco correspondent of the
III, 80 Id - /
Grant has endorsed Forney's editorials, the
Pacific States may be set down for the Dem
ocratic nominee for the Presidency. He says
the Radical element in California amounts to
nothing, and if General Grant has made any
such avowal he could not carry California,
Oregon or Nevada.
- Reports from New Hampshire arc en-
oouraging. Discomfort prevails in the Re-
publican party there, as in other States where
elections have taken place, and large num-
bers of those who have heretofore been iden-
titled with that organization are uniting them
selves with the party Of the Union and the
Constitution.
The Radicals submit with perfect OBJ
sequiousness to the removal of Pope, Ord
and Swayne. They scarcely murmur at what
would have raised tempest few months
ago. There is a species of dog, called the
Spaniel, which never seems to love its master
half as well as just after receiving sound
beating.
Thomas R. Trowbridge, of New Haven
declines to have his name go before the Re-
publican Convention of Connecticut in con-
nection with the Gubernato1ial nomination.
Connecticut is no longer considered to be
desirable place for Radical aspirants
- 1t is stated that communication is in