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duties, an honorable retirement in which their declining years may be passed. But no such law should be mandatory. Some of the wisest and In the Senate on Tuesday, as was to have been best of American judges have retained their 196 expected, the President's Christmas Proclamation energy and vigor of mind until very old age. became the subject of notice. Mr. Ferry offered The most striking and familiar example is that of a resolution calling for a copy of the document, Chief Justice Taney, whose wisdom shone with

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He accompanied it with some remarks, in which life. The true mode would be to provide for the he repeated his approval of the Amnesty itself, voluntary retirement of a judge, who has reached but doubted whether the Executive is invested the prescribed age, and secure to him a liberal 201 with the power to grant it. If it be the object of pension. He can best determine whether his inthis resolution to originate a discussion of the firmities require his release from constant and 200 extent of the constitutional authority conferred arduous duties; and there is little danger that THE STATESMAN will be mailed to Subscribers upon the President to grant amnesty, it may re- such decision would not be made with conscienout of Town, and furnished to Newsdealers in the sult in some practical benefit. We take it, how- tious regard for the public interests. City every Friday evening: Subscription price ever, that a feeling of hostility toward Mr. JohnThree Dollars per annum-payable in advance. son lies at the bottom of the whole question. A number of distinguished Virginians, among Persons residing in the city can be served by Car- Mr. Howard's remark, that the Proclamation them such men as A. H. H. Stuart, John B. riers, by prepaying at the Office, or at the rate of seems to have been intended as a Christmas pres- Baldwin, and other original opponents of secesThirty Cents per month, payable to the Carriers.ent, from the President of the United States, to sion, lately met at Richmond for the purpose of Books intended for Review should be sent in the President of the late Confederacy, is very conference in regard to the present political conearly in the Week to receive prompt notice. Ad- characteristic of that Senator's well-known amia-dition of Virginia. Their deliberations resulted vertisements must be left at the Office on or before Thursday, otherwise they will be too late for inser- bility. While Mr. Frelinghuysen exhibited his in the conclusion that the short road toward the usual extraordinary acuteness by the distinction establishment of a permanent State government he drew between offences in England and this lay in the acceptance of negro suffrage, if it be country. There, according to his idea, the King accompanied by the removal of the disabilities represents the sovereignty of the nation against which deprive the whites of the right to vote and which the offence is committed, while here the hold office. These gentlemen are sufficiently true people represent their own sovereignty. It does to themselves to declare that, in their judgment, not seem to have occurred to the New Jersey the negro is unfitted for citizenship; but they are Senator that the question depends solely upon the willing that all political privileges be conferred extent of the prerogative granted by the Consti- upon him if they are to be equally shared by the tution, and to what branch of the Government it white population, without limitation or excephas been entrusted. The power to grant amnesty tion. This proposition fully meets the former tebelongs either to Congress or the President, and quirements of Radicalism-but we have every the only tribunal to decide between them is the reason to apprehend that its later purposes have Supreme Court. It has already declared that been so far advanced that no degree of submission the latter may, by general proclamation, at any can secure any liberality toward the native white time after the commission of offences, and before population of Virginia. When we hear the views and during the pendency of legal proceedings, of Governor Wells and his cabal of carpet-bagpardon offenders; and that his power cannot be gers formally heralded as declarations of Virginian limited by Congress. It is because the President sentiment, it is not difficult to anticipate what reis the Constitutional representative of the sover- ception will be given to the real representatives eignty of the people that he has been invested of the people of the State. with this power. The whole question, therefore,

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lies in a nutshell. Does the right to pardon in- There seems to be some difficulty about the reclude the right to grant amnesty? In other peal of the Tenure-of-Office Law. General Butwords, is Executive clemency to be confined to ler was understood to have taken it in hand, but individuals, formally specified by name, or can it some suspicious people charge him with a purbe extended to classes?

In accordance with previous announcement, The Statesman makes its appearance to-day with the addition of four pages to the sixteen which have heretofore constituted the complement of each weekly number. This enlargement of the paper has been forced upon the Publishers by the rapidly increasing demands upon the space at their disposal for advertising purposes. The necessity for it has come much sooner than they expected-much sooner than under the most favorable circumstances they had a right to expect. The success of the paper the increase in its business, have been beyond the most sanguine expectations of its projectors. For weeks past, not only editorial and other reading matter in type, but even advertisements entitled to a place in its columns, have been unavoidably excluded for want pose to delay it long enough to enable the President to pocket the bill with fatal effect; and thus of room-until within the past week the quantity Sometime in the early part of the present ses- subject General Grant to the limitations of authorof matter so left over has amounted to many sion of Congress a bill was introduced which pro- ity which Congress has inflicted upon Mr. Johncolumns. The present addition of four pages, or vides for the retirement of the Judges of the son. It is reported, also, that the majority of the twelve columns, affords room for all-space for all Supreme Court, with a pension, after they reach Judiciary Committee are unfavorable to a speedy advertisements, and opportunity to make such the age of seventy years. We have not seen the report of the bill, if not opposed to its adoption. additions to the various departments of criticism, with any certainty, of its character. It is un- we have no means of knowing. There may be details of the bill, and cannot therefore speak, What this all means, and how much of it is true, literature and news, embraced in the scope of pub-doubtedly a sound and just principle that pro- growing up into form and strength some opposi lication, as may make the paper more worthy of poses to secure to those who have spent a lifetime tion in the Republican party to the President of the liberal and gratifying support it has received. in the discharge of the most important public their own selection. What are the causes of the

9th. Southerners find pleasure in the tourna

dissension time will reveal. At present, the most gress of civilized nations and peoples." In the probable seem to be General Grant's nervous hor- meantime, there are wide-uttered suspicions that ment. ror of all office-seekers, and his understood hos- troubles are fast gathering about his own dynasty; 10th. Southerners wear black broadcloth coats. tility to all of the numerous "rings" and combi- and the coming year may be marked by sudden, Of course the tu quoque line of argument is nations which are arranging fresh schemes to and perhaps violent political changes in France. always an easy one, but it would not befit humble plunder the Treasury. A victory without spoils There seems to be nothing of a very important rather prefer to admit unreservedly the whole inwaiters upon an august judgment-seat. We will soon arouse the mutiny and rebellion of the character to note in regard to Spanish events. whole army of Radicals. The reports of disturbances, more or less serious, dictment, and take a lesson in nationalism. It The accumulation of new wealth is beginning in different parts of the country, have been fol- was undoubtedly provincial for Grant to kill Polto exert an influence upon the values of real es- lowed by almost immediate announcements of lard: it is national to represent the "Southern tate and municipal and State securities in some their suppression. And in every instance their people applauding the crime." It is provincial parts of the South. In New Orleans the prices effects have been to weaken the influence of the for a solitary eccentric journal to spell publick of property are said to be advancing rapidly, and Republicans and strengthen the hands of the ad- with a k: it is national to intimate that this is stocks which are sold at that important money vocates of strong and stable government.-The the received Southern orthography. It was uncentre of the Southwest, are said to be in new Captain General, General Dulce, has arrived questionably provincial for two nameless persons good demand at remunerative rates. These re- at Havana. It is likely that his administration to be late in perceiving the merits of Goethe and sults are attributed to the influx of Western cap- will be characterised by the adoption of measures Buckle: it is national to take this as the standard ital and enterprise. Parties from Chicago and of liberal reform, which will allay much of the other Western cities have purchased sugar estates; feeling existing against the Government. It is and one of the largest grain elevators in the coun- certain, we infer from the most recent intellitry is stated to have been erected at New Orleans. gence, that he has at his disposal ample force to This intelligence furnishes a sharp commentary suppress the insurrection. Such a result will, upon General Grant's recent conversation in re- possibly, interfere with Mr. Colfax's favorite idea gard to the restoration of the Louisiana levees. of acquiring the beautiful island without payThe committee who sought to obtain his ap-ing a price in gold or silver. proval of a proposed application to Congress for the Government's endorsement of State bonds, to be issued for that purpose, were very bluntly snubbed. In answer to their statement that thousands of acres of the most fertile land were over

of all culture at the South.

It is provincial to imitate the Waverly novels: it is national, we suppose, to copy those of the Braddon school. It is provincial to respect men of science, though born in our own borders, and critics, though of a past age: it is national to sneer at and despise them. It is provincial to preach the Gospel of Christ, as it was preached eighteen hundred years ago: it is national to reject whatever is not acceptable to the Connecticut churches. It is provincial to take pleasure in fine horsemanship: national to We people of the South have certainly much prefer the nobler game of base-ball. And finally, to be thankful for; both for blessings manifest it is inexpressibly provincial to wear black broadflown and useless, he replied with asperity: "Let and for blessings in disguise. Our social system cloth. At this charge we can only abase ourselves them stay under water until their owners are will-having proved imperfect, our brethren of the and grovel in the dust.

SOUTHERN PROVINCIALISM AND
NORTHERN NATIONALISM.

ing that Northe men and Northern capital North, whose own was working so harmoniously But while we congratulate the Nation, the should come in and protect and improve them!" as to need no further supervision, kindly under- North, and ourselves upon the existence of this We are far from assuming that General Grant took, at heavy cost, to reorganize it for us. Our large-brained and great-hearted censor, we are knows everything--but the fact might have been legislative and administrative systems being ob- not yet quite disposed to renounce all our provinincluded in his stock of knowledge, that Southern solete, the same generosity has furnished a corps cialism. We are inclined to say, with another planters cannot sell, and Northern capitalists of political engineers, of various complexions, provincial of antiquity

won't buy, lands that are ten feet under water. who engage to furnish new ones on the most ap- Ægrotare malimus quam esse tuâ salute saniores. His criticism was, therefore, peevish and petulant proved model. And now, as a crowning felicity, We are still provincial enough not to estimate -and not at all practical. we have in the Nation a lofty metropolitan cen- the moral character of the whole North by solisor, who, happily uniting closeness of observation tary instances of crime, nor by the standard of A Conference of representatives of the Great with breadth of generalisation, and tempering the many who profess to represent it. We are proPowers of Europe, including those of Turkey austerity of justice with the grace of courtesy, vincial enough not to take the utterances of silly and Greece, will assemble at Paris, to-day, to con- undertakes to redeem us from our last remaining or malignant Northern papers for the expression sider, and, if possible, arrive at some permanent defect: that of provincialism. of the views or feelings of the entire Northern solution of the Eastern Question. With what Provincialism is rather a mild word in itself, people. We are provincial enough not to sneer results this Conference will be attended is more but like the word loyalty, it has been found capa- where we cannot argue, nor to vilify things that than doubtful. The leading London papers ap-ble of indefinite expansion; and in the present we do not understand. And we are so inveterpear to unite in considering it useless, and there instance it seems that on all points in which the ately provincial as to believe that out of ten culseems to be no well founded expectation that any South differs from the North, or from the censor's tivated gentlemen at the North, nine will read permanent benefit will be secured by its delibera- own particular views, she is provincial. But his this paper in the Nation with indignation and tions. The presence of the Greek and Turkish charge is divided into several heads. The South disgust. representatives will prove a source of embarrass-is provincial, he asserts, because :— ment and dissension, since, of course, they will present with partisan earnestness the views of their respective governments. And it is not probable that either will be content with such recommendations as the Conference may conclude to suggest. It is certain that the efforts hitherto made by the Great Powers "to bring about the triumph of ideas of moderation and wisdom, both at Athens and Constantinople," have not yet been successful. We do not perceive that a renewal of these efforts at Paris is more promising.

1st. Grant shot Pollard.

BRITISH FLUNKEYISM.

2d. The latter unfortunate person spelled "pub- It is impossible not to be struck by the lick" with a k. marked change which the tone of the English 3d. An unnamed essayist called Goethe "an press and people towards this country has underacute German philosopher." gone since the close of our civil war. Before 4th. An unnamed Professor was late in discov- and during that war, America and Americans ering the merits of Buckle. were a favorite subject of detraction and ridicule 5th. Southern novelists feebly imitate the in the mother-country. That there was any Waverly novels.

honest or generous sympathy with the South on 6th. Southern scientists still respect Messieurs the part of the English people is extremely Maury, Nott and Gliddon. doubtful. Individual cases where such sympathy 7th. Southern critics still value the criticism of was both felt and expressed, there may have been. The address of Louis Napoleon to the Diplo- Jeffrey and Dr. Johnson. That the fortitude, capacity and courage displayed matic Corps, on New Year's Day, was character- 8th. Southern ministers still preach doctrines by the Southerners in their unequal struggle, ised by his usual laudation of peace, which he which the churches of Connecticut have re- with inferior resources and diminishing numbers, justly styled "so necessary to the welfare and pro-nounced. against increasing and overwhelming odds, should