Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-01-14
POLITICAL BREYITIEs,

dancocK ana lion. Il. a. hendricks, u. ..
Senator from Indiana The Morgantown
CIV. Va) Post is in favor of an outand-out
soldiers ticket: For President, Gen. Grant;
For Vice President, Gen. Sherman. John
Hickman is named for the Vice Presidency
by the Chester county CPa,) TiIage Record.
In the National Convention of 1860, Mr..
Hickman received ffty-eight votes for this
Office. A correspondent of the Boston Post
suggests the Democratic party blazon on its
banner the revolutionary names of Hancock
and Adams as candidates for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency. The Ellsworth Id
vertiser, new paper just started in Kansas,
expresses its choice of Daniel w. Voorhees,,
of Indiana, "a man we can trust" for the
Presidency. Speaking of the Vice Presi-
dency, the Madison (Wis) Journal express
es preference for Hon. Geo. S. Boutwell,,
of Massachusetts,, but thinks Governor Fen
ton equally trustworthy, and for some reasons
more eligible as candidate At fair held
in Findlay, Ohio, a gold headed cane was
pnt up to be voted for, and presented to the
most popular candidate for President. The
vote stood S07 for Pe1dleton and 543 for
Grant. The cane was presented to Mr.. PEN
dleton at the State Convention, held on the
Sth of January, by the Hancock delegation.
According to law the term of Governor
Peirpont expired on the first Of January land
good many of our exchanges are arguing
therefrom that the office is vacant and should
be otherwise filed. Our friends forget that
according to law" Peirpont was never Gov
ernor of Virginia, and that therefore he was
never more entitled to perform the Execu-
tive functions than now. Apart from the ut
ter futility of any attempt to remove him by
process Of or appeal to law, we should regard
such effort as unfortunate in the extreme just
at the present juncture of affairs For he
could only be succeededsby some appointee
of the District Commander, who would GER
tainly make some selection from the Radical
ranks We cannot be accused of any par
TALLY for the present incumbent, but he is at
least in bad odor with the Republicans of the
State, and is not, therefore, so likely to lend
his aid to their Vaccinations as would be
new man taken from the received communion
of Underwood, Hawxhurst and Platte. We
trust that the subject will not be agitated
further.
The N. Y. Tribune says that "individ-
ualIy and collectively" Congress might be
impeached every season, for scarcely week
passes but public money is used for purposes
for which there is no warrant in law or Con-
stitution." 1t goes on to speak of the speech
es which are published in the Globe, (al-
though never delivered at round cost to
the Government of the $4,000 salary and
IS 500 for Il private secretary, which Mr..
Foster drew for two years, although entitled
to only the salary of Senator; of the same
which Ben Wade is drawing, and of many
other things not recognized by law or honesty.
It also declares that large number of the
paid clerks and officers of the House have
been drawing government pay whilst acting
as Southern Radical missionaries under the
orders of the Republican Congressional Com
mttee. When a Radical organ finds itself
compelled to expose and denounce the dis
honesty of its party leaders, who can doubt
that corruption in the so>called Congress has
reached its utmost limit d.
- The committee appointed by the late
conservative convention to issue an address
to the people of Georgia and the United
States, have done so. The address sets forth
that since the termination of the war the peo
pie have complied in good faith with all the
legitimate requirements of the government,
and earnestly worked for the restoration of
the State to its constitutional rights in the
Union
The address enumerates the grievances suf-
fered by the people from Congressional lgis-
lation in the enactment and enforcement of
the military bills. 1t appeals to the people of
Georgia to organize for selfprotection and
ceaseess opposition to negro supremacy, and
to the Northern people to come to their rescue
and unite with them in the patriotic effort to
restore and perpetuate a constitutional gov
ernment. The address is signed by Elk Gov
ornor Johnson, Benjamin Il. Hill, and three
others.
A few days after the late "election" in
Fla, numbers of negroes focked to the towns
and county seats to get the rewards prom
Used them in the 'loyal leagues" for voting
the Radical ticket. They arc disappointed
of course, and went off finally, in a very ugly
mood. The following are the items ofthe bill
of wants which one of them prepared as re-
quested by the Radical demagogues who re-
ceived his vote: ''Two barrels of flour, fifty
pounds coffee fifty pounds sugar, four hundred
pounds bacon, one bolt calico, one bolt domes-
tic, half barrel molasses, one double barreled
shotgun, one pistol" With the negroes thus
cheated with false promises and the whites
crushed to the earth by military power, should
constitutions based on such fraud and force
be permitted to stand Certainly not; and
they will not endure two years.
A Radical member of the Un-C onstitu-
tional Convention at Richmond is very much
exercised for the devising of some plan to Sc
cure justice for himself and confreres at the
hands of "the rebel journals of the State"
Have we not done them Justice. and if not,