Valley Virginian

It becomes more evident every day that the Radicals in Congress, are maturing or have matured a deliberate plan to overthrow the Executive and Judicial Departments of the Government, and having drawn all the powers of the three co-ordinated branches to themselves, establish themselves permanently in power, in defiance of the voice of the Northern people, expressed so recently at the polls, against their destructive policy. - Those sanguine persons who so fondly relied upon the decency and conservatism of Senators, sworn as jurors to try the Impeachment of the President, must have been sadly disappointed by the proceedings of that body on Friday last. On that day the President was summoned to appear before the bar of the Senate, to answer the charges against him by the House of representatives. In obedience to this command, the President, by his counsel, Messrs. Stanbery, Curtis and Nelson, entered his appearance and demanded the very reasonable time of forty days to prepare his answer and defense, to the numerous charges brought against him. This demand was of course resisted by the blood hounds, who are termed the "managers of Impeachment, on the part of the House of Representatives," and the "high court of Impeachment," after retiring for consultation, (a thing so far as we are informed, unheard of in any court here or in England,) entered the following laconic order:

"Ordered, That the respondent answer to the articles of Impeachment, on or before Monday, the 23rd day of March, instant." - So that the President is required in the greatest State trial the world has ever seen, to prepare his defense, which will most probably require the attendance of numerous witnesses from all parts of the country, in ten days, just half the time the Legislature of Virginia thought it necessary to give the debtor, on a notice to collect the interest on a debt of $100, barred by the stay law.

Last year we honestly advised the colored people not to vote; to hold aloof from all participation in the political struggles then going on. Again we repeat the advice. It was a white man's war and a white man's political fight now. You incidently [sic] made your freedom by it, and, if that's anything made, you are the only winner in the game. So let well enough alone - work hard - make yourself so useful that the country can't do without you, but avoid voting and politics. You can not effect the issue, in the long run, as you are only 3,000,000, with no increase by immigration, to 40,000,000 white men on this Continent. You can and will only be used as tools to promote the designs of "mean white men," and be made an "obstruction" to the prosperity of the whole country. If you vote for the Radicals you cannot expect us to employ you any longer than we can get other labor; and you enlist yourselves in a vile crusade against the dearest rights of your best friends - the Southern people. If you vote Conservative the Radical Yankee idea of exterminating your race, and filling your places with free white labor, will soon be carried out. You are between two fires; you are in the most helpless condition of any body of people on earth, unless you pursue the safe road - taking neither the right nor the left, neither Radical nor Conservative, but holding to what you have with content. In all kindness; as a friend of the negro race, in this place, we throw out these suggestions. They are as true as that there is a God above us and honestly told, not caring whom they may offend. You must "learn to labor and to wait," or you must perish. Choose ye!