Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-04-08
The True Issue.

The Radicals will make every effort to divide
aud distract the Conservative party on minor
issues. This is our danger, and forewarned we
are forearmed The only issue before the peo-
pie 10 the next election will be, shall the Offices
and honors and the tax-laying power be kept in
the hands of the taz-paying people or given
over to the party Of oppression and ruin-the
Radical2
The vital question is as between the ascen-
dency of Radicalsm, Carpet-bagisln and Negro
ism on one side, and that of the tax-paying
people or the other. The Richmond Dispatch
well says:
We merely wish to warn the people of Vir-
GINA that there seems to be disposition in
certain quarters to raise new issues If they
favor such course, let them say so. If not,
let them see to il that they are not misrepre-
sented in the next State Convention Of the Con-
sentative party.
1.-THE people tacor Mis course of having such
issues aoithin the party, the State as GONE
# they favor q square fight s0itb RadicaliSm.
the State Is SAVED.
the memorial volume recently issued by the Vir-
GINA Military Institute concerning the late
Commodore Maury, the New York World says:
Sin looking through this graceful tribute to
the memory of the dead, the writer could not
help thinking that if Virginia was loved. she
deserved to be loved. She honors her children
in life and mourns them in death. Some States
and some nations do neither.
Pork PACKING.-The Cincinnati Price Ger
rent gives the number of hogs packed in the
West during the season commencing NoVem-
Der 1, 1872, and ending March l, 1878, at s.
234 OPS, against 4, 1881 ,588 during the previous
season, making an Increase of 400, 44O IF to
this total be added 100000 hogs packed at new
points, the aggregate increase will amount to
500, 440.
The New York World puts the case with un-
usual neatness and delcacy when it OBJ
serves that "a Senate presided over by Henry
Wilson and having in Its membership such peo-
pie as Spencer, of Alabama fraud elected
Morton, Of Indiana aud Patterson, of South
Carolina, can hardly enter On any work of puri-
fcatiOn without treadiDg dangerously near the
confines OF suicide.
Crime continues to increase at such rate 10
New York and Chicago, that the papers are
talking again of lynch law They will have to
come to that at last. Where judges and juries
cannot or will not protect communities, self
preservation requires that they take the law in
to their OWL hands.
The right Of freedom is vested in those only
who have the capacity and the will to act in a
proper manner. Freedom Of action conferred
upon those who possess not both Of these at
tributes must inevitably disorganize society,
demoral!ze the people, and force them back to
barbarism.
The Rev. DR.. Newman is going around the
world. When we see such men as the Rev.
DIR. Newman Start around the world we always
regret that the world isnt great deal further
around than il is
General Roger A. Pryor has been invited to
deliver the annual address at the approaching
Commencement exercises at Hampton Sidney
College.
When Brigham Young IS children sing Faith
er, dear Father, come home, " the effect is said
to be wonderful. The old man comes home
without delay.
Z. b. Bristoe, the Baltimore agent Of Finch's
whisky, manufactured at Pittsburg, has been
arrested for enforcement and bailed in the
sum of $4,000.
The London Times wants to know why Viz
glnia doesn't pay her debts, ard reminds US
that credit is the basis Of prosperity and the
occasion Of capital
a boy, somewhere 10 Western Texas, recent
iy found seventy twenty dollar gold piece buried
in q stable.
Col Forney is SO superstiious that he will not
start on any expedition on Friday.