Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20
Staantott Spectator.
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1879.
The New issue for the Presidential
Campaign.

TUESDAY, MAY ~, 1879
The New Issue for the Presidential
Campaign.
The Springfield Republican, the ac-
credited liberal republican organ seems
to fear that the Presidents vetoes will
not have very profitable effect upon
the fortunes of the Republican party In
the campaign of 1880. 1t thinks that
one of the ''compensations" of the Pres.
ident's attitude is the 'set- back" it gives
to the Grant movement. The vetoes, ii
contends, place the Republicans on the
side of the use of troops at the polls
"that is not what the veto says, but
what it will mean to the great mass of
stalwarts." In other words, the people
will commonly agree with what the AL
bany Argus says of the recent messages,
that "Mr. Hayes writes of elections as
events that require the treatment that
armed invasions and rebellions require.
He writes of the people as an enemy
He writes of elections as hostile proceed
ings. This is the whole burden and
bearing of his veto." With the repub-
hcan party occupying this illogical and
dangerous attitude, to put Grant for
ward as it's candidate in the next CAM
paign would at once awaken and alarm
the whole country and be suicidal in its
effects. The veto and the nomination
would be collated together as affording
evidence of a conspiracy against the lib
critics of the republic. Hence, as the
Republican party is not to be supposed
as contemplating suicide, the effect of
the two vetoes is ito put a diminuendo
on the Grant movement, and to give in
creased prominence to Hayes himself,
and still more to Sherman, or Wash
burne, who next to Sherman is the best
Representative of the field against the
favorite." Moreover, the firmness OF
Hayes in a critical emergency will serve,
the Republican thinks, to assure the
stalwarts that they can carry out their
programme nearly as well with civil
ian as a military candidate, and SO have
the effect to make them look less per-
sistently towards Grant. The Demo.
Gratis, on the other hand, will be able to
give the new issue large dimensions in
putting it before the country. "Army
outrages have always been on small
scale in this country" says the Repu6-
lican, ''but they never have failed to
elicit popular condemnation" The in
cident may have been insignificant in
every case, "but the flagrancy of the at
tempt against free institutions has never
failed to give it magnitude in the pub
lie mind and weight upon the popular
conscience. It is as when the murder
Of child on Cape Cod shocks the whole
country from the paganism of the mo-
tive of the terrible deed" The issue, in
other words, will not be made upon the
actual deeds of the army at the polls, but
upon the possible consequences of such
authority in the hands Of the Executive,
and still more upon the right or wrong
of allowing such an authority to be re-
tanned, and to be retained by means of
the exercise of the veto power. Mr..
Hayes says that he will not use the
troops at the polls, and thus, by implica-
ton at least, condemns the practice, yet
he refuses 70 permit the repeal of the
statutes from which he derives power to
do this thing which he repndiates. This
position is illogical and can be easily
and effectively assaulted. Whether the
Democrats have good sense and sound
judgment enough to profit by the ad-
vantage which the President has given
them remains to be seen.
RESIGNATION OF DIR. G. III. Toy
In the Southern Baptist Convention at
Atlanta, Ga, last week, the resignation
J of Rev. DIR. G. H. Toy. Professor of Old
Testament Interpretation in the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
caused profound and universal regret.
1t seems that DR.. Toy, in the course
of his studies, has gradually adopted
views on the inspiration of the Bible
which, while they do not in the least
lessen his belief in the Divine authority
of the Scriptures, or any great doctrine
which they teach, are yet so at variance
with the commonly accepted theory of
inspiration that he felt it his duty to
present to the Board a carefully pre-
pared statement of his views, and, in or
der to relieve the Board of embarrass-
ment, tender of his resignation.
After full consideration of the whole
matter, the Board felt constrained to
accept the resignation, as it deemed it
impossible to retain as teacher of theol-
egg one whose views of inspiration are
so at variance with those of the denomi-
nation.
The chair thus vacated, will be filled
by Rev. Basil Manly, D. D., LII. D.,
now President of Georgetown (Ky.)
College, and brother of Rev. DIR. Charles
Manly, Pastor of the Baptist church OF
this city. 49,
NEGROES RETURNING SOUTH.-The
ueXTOcS w aO WeIG ucluuGu anu WoAb Va
Kansas Oh false representations, after
suffering great hardships in that State,
are returning to their original homes in
the South. A colony of So who had gone
from Warren county, Miss. on the l4th
of March, went back 70 their Sonthefa
homes week before last. The people OF
Kansas did not want them to remain,
held indignation meetings at the arrival
of negroes in their State, and gave the
poor deluded negroes sufficient cause to
repent having gone there, and to desire
to get back South as soon as posi- ble.-
Hundreds of others are anxious to get
back to their original homes.
The Nav York Nation makes the ex-
cellert oint that the writers and speak
who have most to say, about the con-
dition of the colored people. and say it
in the Dlost vehement way, are, as a