Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-01-10
EDITORIAL BREVITGEs.
The Radicals have a Nan 10 l..n


borough States. San Domingo is expected to
furnish two radical senators. New Mexico
aud Colorado ore also to be brought in, and are
expected by the use of Fedetll patronage to
give four more radical Senators. But to make
sure, the plan is now to carve n state out of
MOrmOndOm aud Brigham Young's followers.
1t is said that Fitch, who has just been de,
teated for Congress in Nevada, proposes to EN-.
igrate to Utah and become one of the new
senators. Brigham Young is expected to &C.
quiesce III the plan to surrender his political
power in consideration of being allowed to
hold on to his religious and financial leader
ship. IL is understood that in order to the
perfect arrangements the old Republican OPP
position to the twin relic Of barbarism is to be
much modified
The New York Herald, which is quick
to observe the changes in the wind, thus
specialized upon the result Of the Georgia cleo.
ton. 1t says: 1.-The Georgia election is a
decided Democratic victory, disastrous Re-
publican defeat, for it indicates n reaction
down South, which, by the year 1872, will
have carried over every Southern State to
the Democracy. What, then, with New York,
Connecticut, Indiana, Missouri, California and
Oregon gone by the board-what then we
ask is the chance for the demoralized and
divided Repub!icaus2 Let the 'bloated bond.
holders tremble. Their six per cent, inter,
est in gold is getting to be very interesting
problem, and the late ex. President Buchanan,
who would not risk u dollar in these Govern
mentsecurites, smelt the rat. All the South.
ern negroes, as we'll as the Southern whites,
are ready to sustain the theory of Buchanan
concerning our National debt and its securi-
ties, and this is the DRIFT Of this Georgia cleo
ton"
All attempts to patch up truce between
the President and Senator Sumner have sig.
nally failed. 1t is a war to the knife, aud
knife to the hilL For the good of the country
it is to be hoped each will destroy the other,
and the Radical party ut the same time
Sumner is right, for once in his lite. aud the
people are with him. The San Domingo bust.
ness is a monstrous wicked job, and we hope
Sumner will cry aloud and spare not until the
corrupt sharpers who are working it up for
private gain are overwhelmed with popular in
digna;iOn.
The result Of the late election in West
Virginia has been officially announced. The
vote for Governor was the largest ever cast
by about seven thousand: The majority by
which the Democratic candidate was chosen
was two thousand one hundred and fiFty.-
Democratic Congressman were chosen in the
First and Third Districts, both OF which arc
represented by Republicans in the present
Congress. In the Second District, the pres
ent incumbent, McGrew, IL reelected by a
majority reduced from one Thousand four hun
dred to nine hundred.
- The New York Star asserts that the
President and Butler fully understand each
other in the matter of the Alabama claims, and
that they are resolved, for party purposes, to
force England into n war, whether she will or
not. The Star says: "What does Ulysses
want? Is it to Perpetunte n dynasty, or to
gain glory for the nation? The balnrce of
glory, especially since 1912, is in our hands.
lie will run the risk of reversing it. Just Ms
Napoleon, though inheriting the glories Of
Jena, resolved to give the Inundated foe
another chance of recovering his rcnown. We
would gladly, indeed, see Ireland independent.
But General Grant has no real inteLtoI of
making the A0bgn,u a new wooden horse
for the sackiug OF the modern Troy. and the
release of Ireland from British hands lie
and his party hate the Irish, and would never
use them except on this side of the Atlantic,
to shed their blood for his glory and then to
he quarreled with"
u The Raleigh On. c. Sentinel says that
since the late elections the loyal league has
been busily engaged in burning the barns of
Conservatives in Caswell county, and that
these outragcs are of almost daily occurrence.
The same paper gives an account of the ar
rest of a negro caught in the act of setting
fire to barn, and the testimony of the prisO-
ner, which is, that he was acting finder orders
from the loyal league of Raleigh, and that
certain parties are regularly detailed to apply
the torch, and others to shoot the owners of
the property when they appear. 4 nice state
of things, truly!
The new King of Spain las arrived at
his capital, amid the most unbOunded demon.
STATIONS of Joy on the part of the inhabitants.
But the very breath CT Madrid is full Of
change, and it is by no means impossible that
he will share the fate of poor Maximillian in
Mexico or be cziied from the country. within
less than six months. 1t Is hardly reasonable
to suppose that the pretended enthusiasm OF
his subjects is genuine, from the fact that
curses loud and deep were but lately hcaped
upon him by almost all of them. The MUIR
der of Gen. Prim is an orhiuus hint of the
fate that may be in store for Aosta.
- General Grant is the first President of
The United States whose personal integrity has
ever been questioned, or who was supposed to
control the Presidential Office in such a way as
10 make for himself and family pecuuinry fog
tune. Since his acceptance of valuable pres,
cnts from every quarter, and t,is appointment