The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-09
Gov Kemoer's Letter.


e1rIsagaat St me honor of tir, III stios, al the
reiti greEs 81 sosie;y, is limo manner 50 sig
lRug demonstrated as in the Wesldsburn+lf ems
per excitement which has lately been disturb
II the minds of small politicians everywhere.
His generally when 4 fortress is invulherabie'
or the assailants themselves are helpless Ill as
sault, that they turn and -relll eactr other
Gen. Grant, tosay the least, has 50 conducted
himself as the executive of Federal Affairs as to
silence the inyectives which were hurled at him
i'll TIE XII Klux times, (lnd BY no one more
vioiously than Kemper himself,J AMI for want
o; something better, there springs up this com
plication in which the Governor is the assault
ed, by reason OF hisa,tasiSs,ipport OF the: fEesl
dent. This is really an. anomaly Yet t. y
part of the secret history of the agencies erl-z
ployed to defeat Hughes in 1873. ]. -
That there should II ,vef.taye been any Woro
said in this connection, BY those who supported
Kemper, the letters themselves exhibit, we
-think-that no goo can inlse to eithrr party
to the controversy, is equally plain. Wienoat
pretending to assaii OR j,stf On the partial ev-
idence before us. for without the letters writ
ten by Col. Mostly, Gov. Kemper's replies are
still suggestive;of ssiiiisll osttions I'VE
can safely say that tliere4isno asserteds TACT N
theseletters at variance with the resoIees OF the
conservative convention thnt#5 dominated Kena-
per, and which declared fo the world that there
should be no opposition, to &Srant5s 9ets, because
they we're his, and, ! in1faaptiallX wherein he
did right he should be supported: "a Coy hsm-
per could, with perfect consistency. from this
stan lpoint. make a conditional pledge of co-ope-
ration witlGen. Grant; and is not for those
who made the resolve to condemn him. The
lash of party whips llas.esaaesaaia athegedays to
drive men. and it is significant of brighter
era, when a Governor can assert his feaity to
the right Independent of party, and to tight on
that line even for brief summer season. Only
those should complain who are willing to &C
knowledge that the Convention resolue was
cheat, and a snare-;a t!espieabe pieee Of party
chicanery. :.
After all this hellabello 81 Bargain, we have
not now in rremsmbraaasee .:ete Teditons wlthtl e
temerty to assert that Kempers- Was sreccre.s
ant because of these letters las they develop Of
themselves. a.s>G.s -
The appeal was, made, to. Grant men from
the stump to support Kemper. THIS was a Part
of the programme. There could have been no
harm in correspoaiding withgoL Mesbysa friend
of Grant, in connection with that support. II
it was wrong. to. effect such an association, it
was equally wrong to speak in advocacy of it.
So that honors are easy between the Governor
and his conservative friends or enemies. We
supported Hughes-not by anEtmeans Hughes
and his negroes, lin the sense that the sill-tem
per and shallow intellect Of Kemper would
have it-but Hughes for Che good Of all, both
black and white.
| We give Gov. Kemper's letter and his expla-
nation, without disposition to criticise them
harshly, notwithstanding we do not admire t? C
constructive morale involved, nor can we recog-
nize the abandon inMhieh they were written,
as instinctivcly genteel. We have not forgot
ten his manly and cogent message yetoing the
Petersburg charter. wherein he antagonized
his party in the Legislature, and are disposed te
Eaccord to him, for this reason, an honest pur-
4 pose to act for the right, in spite of party die
tation. The idea that a sConservative organi-
cation should control, f,.l.. or wrong, the acts
of individual members, is not only preposter
Gus, but approaches the Ridiculous; and Gov
Kemper's voluntary statement OF opposition tt
Gen. Grants financial views would have beer
made with better grace, had he developed :
plan of his own, and not followed the clamo1
of his party organs. Is he an intiationist? If so
let him say SO. If he is contraetionist, lei
him say So. If he is in favor of hard money as
4 a true basis FOR currency, then he agrees witt
+ Gen. Grant, and Gen. Jackson, and Benton
and Silas Wright and l'hos. Jefferson, and al
the old democrats. But if he is for flooding
the country with paper, which is a sign and
not value, nor the representative Of a vslue
| then he is with Morton and Logan and the: Con
gresham from this district, These matters
however, We refer to the Conservatives for ad
iustniert. AS for ourselves. we will give KEN
per credit for what he may do that is right, as
the Conservatives pretended to do with General
Grant. We never have. believed that KEN
per was great financier like John I. Har-
ris, nor so profound char1atan lis Sandy
Stuart, but he towers as high above the ''bull
eater' of the broomsages, as he does above the
carpet -baggerss and the ehartists:: We are very
sure the Kemper of 1872,, 4stunpiligs agains'
Grant and for Greedy, is not the Kemper Of
1874 partially upholdng the administration O
Grant. and defending the rights IF the people
against the mad resolves of conservative
Legislature; and Ne thankful that. he is
not. -,
i DEATH OF BISHOP " HEb4 Telegram
was received in this city Monday evening, an.
nouncing the death of Bishop Whelan, which
occurred at Wheeling 11YssYas, on the. 7th. Ills
remains will be inferred on Friday the 10th
4 He was native of Baltimore, and aged 81
!. years. He was edgeateasa# Mount ST. Mary's,
and had been Bishop 33 years. He was
first made a Bishopso avirsinias and resided at
Riclmolala When TIE IL . RHSsshoprick of Wheel.
ling was created, he was transferred to thai
field. He was greatly beloved by his Church
lie received dey6ted att 9eQfns thes Sisters
in charge q @st.s Agnes fIaspital,s wherehe died
Rev. Father Parks IN sss HI and .Rey
Fathersallivan, vIss1sefsnt, and was attended
: Eby DIR. Milholland. of Baltimore. and DR.
Campbell, Of Parkerssbb{aigsss WHO lad long beer
4 his medical adviser. 4.-sf ss ses+ ~. .tz. .
|. Bishop Gibbons was elssgsrranhed the painful
intelligence, at Rawley Springs, and we pre-
sumo instantly started to Wheeling.
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