Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-11-13
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
[From tie Petersburg Index-Dem. I

! Let us put oar victory to the best possible
use Whatever Civilizations may be natu-
| rally INDUCED in; whatever wild sho"tS
I may mingle amidst the te detu1ls nj devouter
| lips: let lis, at any rate and III AL events,
mark the celebration Of our triumph with
sober discretion aud moderation. We have
| WOn-OF rather, alas. our brethren of the
| country have won for uS.ln opportunity
which may be improved OF lost as wisdom
orfoily S5lall direct the hour, TO reEalr our
Wastedfortunt sand to restore the civil null
nenta and safeguards which protected our
| liberties in better days But if drunken
| excess Shall mar the first passages f this
success il mel, so long deprived of their
rights, Shall show that they have forgotten
how to exercise 5hem-as men long blinded
lose the Use of their eyes we shall not
long profit by the occasion which Providence
las opened SO happily befor us. We will
be but worsted, not bettered or benefi' ted,
by the results that have been reached, dsl-
less the first use 10 which our advantage
is applied is the renewed, more solemn
declaration that our purpose is our own
rights, and the wrong of no other citizen :;
unless we abstain from all such sudden and
radical revolutions Of pretended ameliora-
ton, as would unsettle the foundations Of
our social and civil fabric.
[From the N. Y. Republic-Radical ]
When old Massachusetts deserts the Re-
publican cause. defeating Governor Tai
bot, and electIng three or four Opposition
Congressman by heavy maiorities--Mr
Butler being left at home, and tile old di~-
trict of MI. Dawes captured by an out and
out Democratic would seem almost as
useless to depiore defeat in other States as
to indulge in explanations over the cleo
ton of Mr.. Tilden as Governor of New
York. The heaviest calamity to the Re-
publican party-and we only hope it may
not prove national miSfortune-is the re-
VerSal, by yesterdays results, OF the ma
iority and control of the next House of
Representatives in Congress. This new
body will not convene until December Of
next year, and will then be held in check,
as against immediate mischief, by Senate
Of decided adverse politics. But in the
meantime, and looking to almo imme-
diate consequences, we apprehenh that the
effect Of the elections Oh the finances and
credit of the government, tie Currency of
the country and the price of gold-the lat
ter influenced by the indefinite postpone
ment of specie payments, or equallZlng
paper with gold will prove anything but
favorable to the stability Of trade, or the
early restoration OF confidence in "good
times"
[From the Abingdon Virgnian.l
1t tells us in terms too plain to be mis-
taken chat the South is no longer to be
treated as a conquered province, bat DIS
States with equal rights IN ,er the consti-
tuition; that there must he real and not
imaginary investigations of the frauds and
corruption that stalk abroad in public
places that there must be a thorough re-
generation Of every department of govern
ment. ntate or Federal, that has been I'M
der control Of that party that has brought
ruin upon the country. Let dependency
that hangs rs a nightmare upon oar peo-
pie be dispelled, and let lis hope that the
near future has in store for us u joyful eX-
oduS out OF the many sad scenes that has
darkened our political pathway during the
last ten OIL fifteen years.
[From the Shenandoah Valey.l
That great field Of the demagogue-the
negro-has been ploughsd and harvested,
and famed generally, until it has become
exhausted, and will not raise even black
eyed peas. Sensible men, both North and
South, have learned that there are great
interests com nOn to both whites and
blacks, and that there are great questions
involving the property and general welfare
OF the people, with cannot be laid aside
order that noisy fools may air their ig
norances passion and folly by cries Of i'm
%elnary Southern 0ntrages, while the DEM
agogue covers up his corrupt practices I'M
der the garb Of patriotism.
From the Winchester TInes.l
While the restoration of the true princi-
lies of the Constitution cannot be complete
until the White House and Senate Cham