Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-20
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.


- The Governor elect of Virginia, Gilbert
G. Walker, arrived at Binghampton. N. Y,
his native place, on the 10th, and wasserenaded
by the 44th regiment band, and large body
Of citizens. The Mayor, Common Council,
and firemcu participated Judge Rauson
Balloon made speech of welcome, and Gov
ernOr Walker, in his response, spoke of the
greeting he had received from his old friends
as more fattering to him than any success he
had achieved. He claimed that his election
in Virginia was the triumph of the policy of
Grant, and of the reconstruction measures of
Congress over carpet-baggers who had no
interest in the State. The demonstration was
in no sense political.
"A recent letter from the Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore Gazetfs writes -
81 have positive information to-day that the
Sumner maliguants intend to oppose the ad-
mission of Virginia. Then will come "the
tug Of war" Mary still doubt whether Cen
eral Grant will stick to his present colors
-"Fields Cook" who has been rather
notorious in politics down about Richmond,
siuce the election, has written card, in which
| lie says that his coIored brethren acted very
improperly in voting for the now expurgated
| clauses of the Constitution-an1,t that for him
self, he intends hereafter to eschew party
| politics and act a freeman He wants,
now, RECONCILIATION and peace" Better late
| than never.
- The Washington Republican Grad. }
understands the situation in Virginia Sin q
horn" when it says: Governor Wells and
his friends cannot fail to give Governor
Walker o cordial and unshrinkipg support
Personal differences will vanish in the presence
of the great good work that dies in front of
the Republican party"
Judge Paschal of Texas, leading Rad
ical, publishes a letter in the New York Tri-
6une, in which he says, with more of earnest
ness than of elegance, "Did I not know how
deep-seated it is, would answer the great
| lie that no white man labored in the slave
States by asserting what tie statistics will
| prove, that there never were eight millions OF
| Europeans or European descendants in the
! whole world who performed as much out door
field or agricultural labor as those same eight
millions Of poor white trash and 'rich nabobs'
who were supposed to work nono.'
Some enthusiastic Conservative, in one
of the counties in Virginia, was so much
pleased with the course of colored man in
lis peighborhood, who, in spite of threats,
voted the Conservative ticket, that, since the
election, he has given the voter "a mule and
forty acres of land" This is the only case in
Virginia in which the Radical promise of
''forty acres and a mule" has been realized
and in this instance the gift came from a Con
sentative
The New York World says that Gen.
Sheridan is being put in training for the Rad
zeal candidate for the Presidency il 1872, as
successor of General Grant. This is the secret
of the move to make him President of the
Society of the Army of the Potomac.
- The Fifteenth Amendment to the con-
stitution, proposed by Congress, has been
adopted by twcnty-three States. The votes
of four more States are still required to make
it valid as part of the constitution.