Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-07-19

for the Presidency is not the work of an
hour or day. 1t is the growth of length
of time. The people have looked on the
gross destruction Of their rights by the pres
ent Executive and his tools in Congress
with contempt and disgust, and deep down
in their hearts determined to free the coun-
try from the incubus of selfshness and in.
competency which the merest accident thrust
upon it. The more they looked at the do
ings and reflected on the motives controll-
ing the present Administration and its ed.
visers, the more determined they grew to
rid themselves of Grant and bis unparalleled
nepotism, unwarranted assumptions and his
pernicious advisers. This feeling continued
to increase, and permeating the masses of
the entire country, has forced the profes.
sional politicians to stand aside, or else give
echo to the voice Of the people,
The first indication given of this great
idea was by the Old Dominion, in her own
local affairs. She made it a success, and
every man, white and black, Conservative
and Republican enjoys here to-day freeo
dom from prescription not enjoyed in the
borders of our trammelled Southern sisters.
Missouri took UP the song and Tennessee
followed in her wake, and both with eminent
success. The people of the whole country
looked on with amazement at this popular
move, and profted by it. Men were not
thought of, the great idea being to secure
honesty, integrity, justice and common sense
in the positions of authority. The Labor
Reformers initiated this, in national point
OF view, in the nomination of Davis as their
candidate for President. This was well re.
oeiyed by the people generally, because of
the very reason given above, want of pref
erence for men. When the Cincinnati Con.
vention nominated Greeley, there was, for
short time, disappointment that Davis was
not the choice, but the principles enunciated
and their endorsement in Greeley's letter of
acceptance turned the tide of feeling and in
dictated him as the choice Of the people to
carry out the great reform in the conduct of
national affairs. Party, like in the reform
movement in the great State of New York,
was forgotten, and men of all sections and
of previous political proclivities united in
the patriotic cry for Greeley and Brown
reform. honesty and justice. So loud, deep
and long was the patriotic pecan, that the
Baltimore Convention, with an enthusiastic
harmony unparalleled in such bodies, raised
aioft this banner-the banner of the people
ana it needs no prophetic ken, in those who
have noticed this movement, from the time
it was cloud no larger than hand in Vir-
GINA, until its vast proportions over.sbadow
the whole land, to foretell the elevation of
Greeley to the first position in the country
by political ground-swell such as has new
er been witnessed even in this Republic.
That this is to be the result, no man who
notices tho signs Of the times can fail to see.
With such an accomplishment, it would fail
to attain its perfect success, unless it recog.
nized the initiators Of this great idea.
First and prominent among these is Gilbert
G. Walker, who championed its inception
in Virginia, and by whose success Virginians
were relieved of the burdens borne under the
previous State administration. Coming as
Northern man among us, yet he realized the
condition, at that early day, and exhibited
that liberal spirit which endeared him to and
made him Governor Of Virginia He is a
man of executive capacity, as witness the
general concurrence in his course as Gov
ernor, and man of ability, as his campaign
in Virginia, where strong prejudiess ex-
listed agaist him, plainly exhibited, and we
predict the effect of his speeches in the COM
ing State and National Campaigns will fully
confirm.
At this early day, we take the occasion to
aiiude to him and remark upon the eminent
propriety Of his elevation to Cabinet posi-.
ton, to assist in running the great National
Liberal movement, which idea he was the
first to give yigor and effect to in Virginia.
The North Carolina Campaign is growing
hot. The Administration is sending men
and money into that State to control the
election if possible. The Courts and off.
GERS are still crying Ku-Klux and arresting
innocent citizens for political effect. The
Conservatives, however, are not idle. Gov.
Walker, of Va, ex-Gov. Vance and Sena-
tor Ransom. of N. c., Senator Upton, of
Nebraska, and Senator Stockton, of New
Jersey have taken the stump in that State,
and Carl Schurz is to be there shortly, and
If they don't make it warm for Boutwell,,
Wilson 4 Go. and the money bags of Grant
and his officials, then we are no prophet.
Rev. I. K. Muusey. a member of the
Holston Conference, and an Uncle of Rev.
De. VIM. b. Munsey, Of Baltimore, died on
the 4th inst, at Charleston, Tenn. He
was native of Bland Co., Va, and was
most estimabie christian gentleman.
The Enquirer says the best pronunciation
of Chappaqua is chop,auay, and Greeley
proposes to "chop awayv the timber Of Rad
icalism which the Liberal Republicans and
<s-,,t;1oo have so effectuaGlv pirdled DIV