The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-09-16
Spirit of tha Northern Press.

Spirit OF th0 yNQFthren Press.
Yhe New York Herald, Independent, qus!e
from book just published, made up Of he
writings Of John NJ. Daniel, when editor of
the Richmond Examiner during the war,
which it supposes is intended as a Democratic
campaign document, though it cannot conceive
how such things are to help the cause of
Seymour. 1t suggests to Nh. Reverdy John
son, in case Disraeli declines to pay the Ala
bama claims, to return to Washington at once,
The New York Tribune, Radical, prints
story about the expulsion of the negroes
from the Georgia Legislature. It protests
against it in the name of justice and liberty. It
says the day for such injustice passed away
when the flag that represented slavery and
rebellion was folded in the valleys of lower
Virginia It has an article on the national
debt, which it says the people can and will
pay. It is not nearly SO difficult an underta-
king as was the overthrow. of the rebellion.
The New York 1Insss, Radical, comments
on the canvass in the West. Itsays the West
will not barter away the fruits of Union VIC
tory on any terms. It has its own ideas and
preferences about bonds and currency but
these are as nothing, -in.its estimation com.
pared with the vital question which separates
the parties. On that question the West is
with the Republicans. as the progress of the
canvass satisfactorily shows It approves Of,
an adde's Issued BY the colored people Of
Charleston, ia which they declare that thew
will not sarrende. the right to vote, and that
they WiilIqt~be ooerc6a into voting for Sey-.
mour and Blair. r. t,ea5-.se -.
. The New York, NorM. Democratic quotes
from and replies to the Times in regard to
the So uthern governments and the result of the
election. 1t says victory consists in the de-
moralization Of the enemy. And SO it is in pol
iticy. The old Wing party was respectable in
numbers when it was last beaten in 1859; it
died of that defeat because it was demoralized
The Radical policy of reconstruction is 50
shocking to good sense, SO repugnant to the
Constitution, SO generally condemned by the
intelligent public opinion Of the section where
it operates, that nobody will expect It to be
pepetuated after the election of a. Democratic
President. In nearly every Southern State
the whites are majority and with the pres
tige and moral support Of great Democratic
victory they will easily control the existing
State governments, and all needful changes
through their instrumentality. .Ssrs'
/ The National lntelzigencer. refers again
to the Resecrans Lee correspondence, and
thinks its exposure has knocked the very
ground from under the feet of the Radicals
that they have used up the thunder furnished
them by the indescreet utersance Of Wade
Hamton, snd stripped Of that capatal they
are now bankrupt. It does not wonder that
feeling this, the Radica! party are now uncom-
Portable and furious. It applauds General
Lee for his quiet course in relation political
matters since the war but commends his hon.
esty when sought out by General Rosecrans
in repeating testimony which has been given
again and again as to the desire ofthe South
Iern people for peace. It notices the fact that
Lee has only spoken when called upon by the
Republicans, and when to be silent would
have given opportunity for Radical falsehoods,
and that his utterlnse; are abundantly confirm.
ed by Grants testimony, which Sumner de-
nounced as a embarrassing report It
says Before denoucing General Lee, let the
Radicals settle their account with General
Grant, whom in 1866 they denounced and
repealed as witness to-day, their accepted
candidate for the Presidency" ~.
The Washington Chronicle, Radical re-
view the situation Of the South, and after de-
failing the condition of affairs in the reeonsruc-
ted States, says it is logical sequence Of An
drew Johnson's .treacbery. while at the same
time it is MARI alaQs fulflment of his proph-
ecies in June, / 8 It claims that if ever
reconstruction has loved ITSELF essential to
the happiness Of . whole people, it has been
SO proved by the tfeachery and ingatitude of
Southern leaders, .~s