Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-03-30
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 80, 1877

had it. He is nearly three-score years in
age; he has been an active and, we pre-
sumo, observing politician; he was SOL
der from the opening of the war, and has
been in public life ever since; he has seen,
year after year, the reports of the troubles
in Louisiana and South Carolina; he has
read them in official reports-one Of them
signed by his ice-President- has seen
them aired in every journal South
and North, not wearing the official
collar of Radical servitude; his Sec
rotary of the Interior spent one whole
campaign in the most just denuncia-
tion of them, and his Secretary of
State has spoken of them unsparingly, ard
his Postmaster General knows them by
heart. Putting aside all the rascality
enacted in both States in the last Presi-
Dental election, the President knows to-
day, as well as he ever can know, as well
as every reading man in this country
knows, that the present State governments
of Louisiana and South Carolina are not
the choice. but are the detestation of their
people, and are only kept there by the bayc-
nets of the general government, and yet be
wants information" on the subject-more
information!
What can be said to such a proposition
as this, or to the President who makes it!
What would be the good of repeating all
the information, which is stale in the ears
of the country, over to him.? The facts
have been proved everywhere-from the bal
lot-boxes in the States, ito the Congress
sional committee rooms in the national
capitol Afidavits to them are piled
mountain-high in the archives at
Washington. What does he still wait
for? Has probably the thought fiji
ted across his brain-and this Is count
ing all his promises as earnest-that there
is anyway savoriBg of a compron Use that
can be adopted; that by some strange
political alchemy the oppressor and the
robber may he made to peacefully mingle
With and rule the oppressed and the
robbed? If so; if this madness has en-
tered his mind, then we can only look
forward to four years like the past.
WADE HAMPTON and CHAMBERLAIN
are both in Washington to consult with
him at his invitation, but what more can
they tell him than he alreadyknows h
Is getting up committee to 60 to. Louis
lana, but what more can it report if it
goes, Of which we have great doubt for the
President has no right to send any COM
mittee anywhere, than he already knows.
1t is beyond doubt that HAMPTON was
elected by the people of South Carolina. as
it is certain that NICHOLS was elected III
Louisiana. They are both exercising theii
Offices, their competitors are merely perched
ON the bayonets of the U. S. troops and
make hardly show of governing the PEG
pie. Would it not be astounding ii the
President Of the United States in dispu
ted CUB. rnatorial contest in New Jersey
were to decide which was the rightfui
governor, and yet all President sHAYEs
diiatory movements point TO an award
as it were, by himself Of dispute State TIT
les. This is something his predecess"l
might have doue, but is not what th'
country expects of him. He must see tbs
effect Of even the attempt-the abolition.
of the army Of the United States. Tb'
Democratic Congress which he will sool:
have to calf together will not vote one dol
lar to the maintenance of an army. The
last congress refused to do this, and the
right arm of the government is now living
OIL tick. Every day of delay about with
drawing the troops is hardening and con-
solidating the opposition of the Democrat
ic House of Representatives until when II
meets. HAYES recommendations will
meet the same treatment at its hands thai
ANDY JoHNsoN's did from Republca'
ouse-contemptous. He has no supper
in the Senate when he CAN count on wit :
out Democratic assistance.
There is no way out OIL his dilemma but /"
keeping his word. No matter what he has
said technically, he has in spirit pIonis Il
thatthe South should have local self govern
ment; the world knows what that means
the Southern people knows what it means
and he knows what it means. Ii he h
tends that his administration shall have
SUCCESS al all in the four years to come,
he will withdraw the troops. He will g;
his ''infoimation'' from the constitutions
which forbids his meddlilg with Stat
governments and treat the Southern States
as he does Massachusetts,. With them il
is all or no; hing, and we incline to the
opinion that he will give them all.
The statement of this paper of tic
feeling in the Valley concerning Consel-
vatye candidate for Governor being "to
Holiday before any other man and any
other man before Mahone," has stirred W
some Of our cotemporaries-that is tie
Richmond ''Whig,r Petersburg POST, .
and Shenand oah 'Herald."
The 'sNhig,' thinks Mahone's friends
who are scattered through the State will
be aroused by the announcement. The
fact is that in this section the friends
ara so few and scattered that they don't
amount to anything when they are
aroused"
The .Post'' takes it as blow at the
Southside. So far from it, E. B. Berkeley
of that section whose name has been prom
ineily mentioned, has many friends here
and SO would any ether Southside man
except Gen. Malone, have.
The Herald" which is for Holiday first
thinks that Malone sis the second choice
of as many people here as auy other of the
named candidates" Perhaps in Wood
stock
The Richmond "State," enterprising,
and bold, and thoughtful and sauty as
well, celebrated its birth day last week
with new suit Of type and nearly 500
daily circulation. Many sepulchres OF
dead evening papers in Richmond gave up