Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-02-18
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

The distress of the country is on the
increase. Every day announces fresh sus-
pensions and bankruptcies. All this is the
legitimate result of Radical rule. Let the
responsibility rest on those who have
wrought the mischief. Let not Democrats
be tempted by Radical taunts to thrust
themselves forward to bear the brunt OF
evils not of their creating. No doubt spe-
Gle payments, and three per cent. a month
and widespread ruin would be very agree
able to the money-changers, hut the party
that takes upon itself the responsibility
for this result can anticipate only one re-
suit to itself-annihilation at the POLLS
R,chmon Wing.
At this moment we are using every ar
gument to stop emigration from passing
beyond Virginia and other old States, at
least until they shall be filled up;
and if what General HaZen tells us be true,
that the belt of country between the one
| hlndredth meridian and the Sierra Neva-
da mountains is an arid desert, sterile and
unproductive. we cannot see any hope OF
peopling it by emigration. And were it
not Il barren waste, is i; good policy in us
here in the South to build roads to carry
people away from us, When we want them
| to fill up our waste places and make our
| lands more valuable and productive p
Richmond Wing on The Tom Scott s'South-
ern P0cifc." -
The splutter and pretension about the
numerous investigations the Democrat S
have instituted will amount to nothing
unless it be damage to the PecksniffS who
have initiated them. They will be some
thing like their retrenchment in cutting
down the salaries of the poor clerks, the
West Point Cadets, and the cLnsulates,
when they do not now get enough to sup
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for the Texas Pacific Railroad, appropria-
ton for the re air of the levees Of the Mis-
sissippi-a huge and costly undertaking
| involving millions and the refunding OF
the cotton tax about $50 900, 000.-Staarlton
Tirginian.
If the Governor is to be an eastern man
we are for General Fitz. Lee against the
field. Our reasons are as follows: He
is progressive and aggressive /; he is for I'M.
migration and developmt Mt he is nc
hair splitter nor obStructioniSt; he is a fine
speaker and polished writer he is look
ing to future instead of everlasting pra
ting about the past he is democratic il
his views and works for the people. in fine
he should be our next Governor-General
for he has every requisite for a live Execu
tive Christiansburg Messenger.
We take no stock in Bruce, but it il
something to the credit of the African ract
that one amongst them, violently injected
into high political position, has had thu
sagacity to see that he was put there
through. hypocritical motives and that in
stead of unlimited equality and colder
liberty that were promised hissrace the,
are, after all, but political slaves. Rich
na0nd Dispatch
"While it is conceded that Mr.. Georg,
A. Bruce, our new Flour Inspector, is ;
proper sort of a man, there is no little in
! dignation expressed that the Governor
fill the office. The Governor doesn't car,
for the 'sindigration, and MI. Bruce vii
probably survive it, Richmond Letter IL
Petersburg Ne,cs.
Staunton is trying to have the Revenu,
Collectors Office removed to that plac'
from Harrisonburg, and the papers of TIN
last named place are highly indignan
thereat. Down here VIC don't care a straw
how the fight goes, but will vote for thu
removal of the whole blasted Revenue con
Germ from the tate.-Sbenanoah Demo
crdt.
Gamblers are having rough time o
it just now in Virginia. One named Viii
liam Roganni was convicted in Stauntol
last Friday in two cases for exhibiting ia
70, fined $235 in each case and sent fiv
months to the city jail for both offences
In Richmond the court has them all on
big run.-Petersburg Ne,os.
We learn that Staunton, in addition t.
its endeavors to get the Internal Revenu
office and United States Court removed
there, is moving also to get the capitol o
the nation removed from Washington t.
Staunton.-Harrisonbaug Commonwealth.
:. Senator Cochran's effort in the johnson
and Knight case today in favor of sendin,
the election back to the people, was a mag
nifcent fort.-Peters6,wg Neles.