The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-05-20

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nit commanders of our new vessels to be
judges of offences committed in the fishing
waters, and the arbiters of the penalties I'M
posed, would eventually lead to difficulties or
a question which requires delicate negotia.
ton. Nor is the proposition of Mr.. Spald-
ing to send vessels to protect the rights Of
our fishermen, according to existing treaties
much wiser, as with the abolition Of the re-
ciprocity treaty there exists nothing but the
old vexed controversy The only way to
reach it is by another treaty, not by resorting
to violence. Disraeli is fighting on the no
principle, and if the Liberals continue to
press him will dissolve Parliament for new
election, which, in view of the fact that a
general election under the new reform law
must take place next year. is not desired by
either party. The Anglican hierarchy are
coming to his rescue, and it is manifest tho
Tories will make an earnest, determined,
| though unsuccessful fight. 1t devotes cou-
| pie OF columns to an analysis Of the tax levy
as amended by the Senate, and as finally
passed.
The World replies to the Times utterances
about disagreement in the Democratic party
as to the payment of the public debt 1t says
that Mr.. Belmont has never stood higher in
the estimation Of the party than to-day. He
thinks the debt could legally be paid in green
backs, but regards the question of no ;mme
date practical Importance. If it he true that
Mr.. Pendleton's views are making Roadway
in the East. the tendency is not towards a
Family feud," hut towards party unity. Il
is not alone in the Democratic party that Mr..
Pendleton's doctrine is making progress and
gaining new disciples Whatever be the mer-
its Of tie doctrine, it can neither split the
Democratic party nor damage it in the Pres
idential canvass. As question of financial
expediency, there is no reason for paying the
bonds in greenbacks which is not equally good
for buying them with greenbacks and wheth-
er paid or bought, the Government must
equally raise the means by additional taxes
The only practical question, therefore, when
we probe the subject to the bottom, is, shall
we increase our already heavy taxes? It is
idle to quarrel or split hairs over the legal
point when it is SO evident that the debt could
just as ehectually be extinguished by buying
the bonds as by paying them, and nobody dis
putes the perfect right Of the Government to
buy them with greenbacks. 1t alludes to the
passage Of the bill for admitting Arka nsas.-
The condition imposed that the negroes shall
never be deprived Of the right Of suffrage, is
perfectly nugatory. /, is, like the reconstrac-
ton laws, violation Of the Constitution
With Democratic Senate and House, how
can the Republicans enforce the condition.
IF the military cosrcion were removed, the
hegrc governments would not stand month
in any of the States A Republican Senate
cannot make appropriations for maintaining
armies to support the new governments, nor
has it any authority to compel Democratic
President to enforce laws which the Supreme
| Court will have adjudged void for repugnance
to the Constitution. It concludes, therefore,
that this desperate attempt to secure perma-
nent ascendency in the Senate will be of no
ultimate advantage to the Republican party.
It has very amusing article in ridicule of
Mr.. Logan's course in sending copies of his
speech abroad, and says it has at least the
comfort of knowing that if any Of the people
to whom Logan has Sent his speech ever read
it they will die of the job, which, as they are
all Bfitishers, and necessarily, therefore, enc
mics Of American freedom, will be very good
thing. If now Foruey will only follow up the
operation by sending copies Of his ';Latters
from Europe" to all the Bloated arstocrats
and degenerate despots whom he ever saw or
SO much as heard Of during his travels. the
country may really get into debt after all to
two worthy public servants who thus far on the
whole have got pretty badly into debt to the
country. It speaks Of Hon. Robert j. Walk
er's views iu opposition to impeachment. It
ridicules Colonel Forney's account of the Ku-
Klux- Khan, and confesses no disappointment
that he does net give the slightest explanation
of ''that little deficit"
The Intelligencer says: Soon the Sen
ate, acting as the Court of Impeachment, will
proceed to pronounce verdict upon the arti-
cles charging President johnson with ''high
crimes and misdemeanors." The people await
the verdict with composure, and whatever the
Senate may pronounce will by them be re-
viGEed. The action Of the Senate is, of course,
to be submitted to their dispassionate and dis
interested judgment. Impeachers themselves,
discarding principle as possible motive for
| the action Of the doubtful and doubted Re-
publican Senators, suggest that policy may d.
vert their votes-a policy founded upon an in
| stinctlFe fear Of the consequences of the Pres
ident's removal to the future success of their
party. Under the caption of Congressional
sovereignty, it says: The people count Tor
nothing. Public opinion is cipher. The
distribution Of powers in the Government is
a farce. Our written Constitution has no val
ue. The executive and the judiciary are not
coordinate departments, but subordinate crea-
lures in despotism of faction, directed by
revolutionists and disgraced by corruption
There is nothing but Congress in the sstima-
ton Of Stevens and his fellow-d estructives-
'.The sovereign power in this Republic is the
Congress Of the United States" In another
article On impeachment it says the Republicans
are brought to this singular tezt-that they
are required to obey the Constitution and
acquit'the President, or obey the commands
and orders Of their party and remove the
President without cause The issue il fairly
made up and so fixed that the responsibility
wholly thrown upon thu Senate. Referring
| to expulsion Of three Baltimore Aldermen
charged with corruption in office, it observes
that it is the habit of Radical members of Con-
gress to stigmatize the people Of Maryland
and Of Baltimore with epithets of .;disloyal-
ty," and kindred denunciation, intended to
misrepresont and iniure them In the public