Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-04-20
For the SPECTATOR.
Letter from Philadelphia.


Letter from Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, April 9th, 1850.
Having spent many months in the
States North of the Potomac, giving
good attention to public and politica
opinion, [ will respectfully submit the
deductions drawn from careful cOnsid
Grafton of the coming Presidential cam.
paign, involving, perhaps, consequences
as important and issues as serious as the
campaign of 1860.
You perhaps are well convinced that
the mass of Republican minds are too OBJ
tuse and thick in contemplating moral
and constitutional Law to perceive any
of the fine lineaments of its equitable
and equal obligations, or to entertain
any sentiment of loyalty and obedience
to what is its impartial, and what ought
to be its imperishable duties. Now,
while this may appear true of all the
Republicans, this mad faction of third
term men and their third term favorite
being the man to hold over by force of
arms till he knows he is elected to a
fourth term, are believed, in their own
party, to be rash enough to plunge the
country into revolution, internecine
war, despotism, and then through to
psS1P &3 oa f5Ssdfnf hoid th5 5sg f9E
ali the time
What everybody else knows the Re
publican masses are beginning them
selves to know too, to wit: that this
faction means to wrest the Presidency
from the Democrats in 1880, as'they did
in 1876, by fraud or violence It looks
out in this fact-there is no one spoken
of save Grant, who did call the army to
Washington to protect him and the Sen
ate, while they were ousting Tilden. and
Blaine, who said in his Utica speech, no
matter if Iilden were elected, he should
not take his seat, and Sherman, who put
up the returning board jobs for them.-
The voting people in the Republican
party remember full well as q bee in the
bonnet, the buzz of resistance from the
Democratic ranks in 1876, when Tilden
was unseated, and that such q matter
would not be tolerated again. They
mean to repress any opportunity for
such an effort, by voting in the Demo
cratic candidate, provided q just and
excellent man should receive the nomi-
nation. BuU two points of availability
are of decisive weight in elections the
popularity Of men or measures, a party
ONtNNNhh iOA ~ SlI } SsilO GStulIOO IClJ up
on the popularity Of any of its men
alone, nor can it rely upon the popular
ity of its measures alone, but must most
carefully utilize along with its most
available men its most feasible meas |
ures, and arrange its campaign most ju |
diciously to absorb all the discontented |
OF the opposite party. There are but |
few men in the Democratic party who |
can DE relied ca to carry their own |
States, even where they have carried |
them before, having been mixed up in |
the greenback miscarriage. General |
Mcclellan, q gentleman Of military
character, would most probably carry
New Jersey. The only civilian who can
be relied on to carry his State, with any
reasonable certainty, and the most i'm
portant State for the Democrats to carry,
is the Hon. Judge Turnkey of the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania. It is
claimed by some that Judge Field of the
Supreme Court can carry the Pacific !
slope States; by others, it is asserted he
will lose the State of New York, owing !
to the bitter h0stillties between his |
brothers, the Hon. David Dudley Field
and Cyrus W. Field, against the Tilden
party of New York. No New York man
can carry the State of New York in it's
"a S7SAit Niot4ttNiNti SO&IG1tAoLt. EcCALIci
Bayard is too plainly implicated in the
Secession fiasco to have any availability
The most available civilian in the
Conservative party is, think, the Hon.
Judge Turnkey of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, He carried his State in
a fair popular election, against an hon
orabie and excellent opponent; he is a
man OF great dignity, his moral and re-
Hgious character is nothing short of a
thing OF beauty. He has worn the er-
mine Of the high judicial office to which
be has been elevated without 0ffense or
complaint; he is utterly unassailable
besides, no man of any party ever
wished to assail him. He stands avant
all party lines, conceded scholar,
iurist, statesman, and a gentleman.
Rightly set before the people. believe
he would be the most popular and prac-
tical nominee for the Presidency, who
could be produced from any party
His thorough integrity, his thorough
legal requirements, together with his
known piety and unfaltering firmness
in the execution of justice, has thor
oughly established the belief that no
citizen however humble, however re-
mote, however unpopular, will ever
fail of exact and full justice adminis-
leIct III JuUSo 1IuHheyS ) tOuIb WiIE-
out fear, favor or interest
In the present distracted state of the
Republican party, "Trunkey, Truth
and Law as the battle cry of 1880, will
carry for the Consers ative party Penn-
sylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, and perhaps many
more Northern States. VIII be Presi-
dent, restoring National unity, Peace,
and !SGtTjHticn hpiipVn
sENEX.
VICTORIA AS A VYIrE.-Theotior
Martin has omitted some OF the minor
episodes of domestic life of the Queen
and Prince Albert, which would, per-
haps, have cast him his SPURS had he re-
lated them in his Life OF the Late
Prince C0nsort." When the august pair
were first married, although the match
was one Of love at least on the Queens
part, her Majesty could not always con
troll her temper and Oil the occasion of
one of these triiling quarrels which oc-
cur even in the best regulated families,
she threw a teacup at the Princes head
He, excessively indignant, retired to his
apartments and locked the door.
The Queens anger having somewhat
abated, she thought him sufficiently
puniSneu, anu kIIocheu at HIS uOoI, ~
the question, "W hos there?" she re
piled in in imperious tones, THE Queen ,
Prince Albert did not answer, and
she went away. By-and-by she thought
she would try again, and to the Who's
there?" answered "Viotoria." Again
there was complete silence, and she
again retired. With the perseverance
characteristic of woman alarmed at
the trouble to come, she determined to
try a third time, and, in response to the
"Who's there ?" replied sobbingly,
''Your own loving wife" This brought
Prince Albert to terms, and peace was
re-estabished. 1t is said there was no
more teacup throwing in the happy
family.
Yet Victoria always remained an exact
ing wife. a1d never allowed her spouse
what is in bourgeoisement known as a
latch key. AS the Prince presided at