Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-30
The Presidents Tour

and company were escorted 10 the foot OF Wal
nut street, this morning By the City Troop
and the train left Camden at clock. MAJOR
General Meade joined the party, also General
ButtcrGeld, representing the citizens com
mittee of New York They reached burllng
ton at 9 o clock. and were greeted with caeefS
by the crowd
TRENTON, Aug. 29.-Ater short delay at
Burlington to allow the crowd to greet the
President, Gen. Grant, Admiral Farragut and
Secretary Seward, the train started and passed
through Bordentown, where similar scene
occurred, and General Meade was also grceteu
with cheers.
The President was welcomed by the Mayor,
and addressed by Alfred Reid, president OF
the city councils. The President rendered his
thanks for the honor
Secretary Seward Introduced to the crowd
Gen Grant and Admiral Farragut, who we're
received with hearty cheers. lie then INTRO
duced the President, saying:
"You see before you the President tie
has done bis whole duty, Cheers. If we
are now to have peace and Union anu one
common country, our duyls done. 1t Is with
you, the people, to do yours Cheers.
New York, August 29.-The Pres ldent and
party arrived here at one o'clock, and were en-
Enthusiastically received by assembled thousands.
They were escorted by division Of cavalry up
Broadway to the City Hall, where the mem
bers Of the city council and the heads OF the
departments were presented by Mayor uott,
man, who delivered formal address in behalf
Of the city.
The procession passed out Of the park and
proceeded to Fifth avenue and 18th street,
where the military were reviewed. The pro
cesson was large and imposing one, such as
has not been witnessed in this city for long
time.
All along the route to Dolmonlco 5 there
were immense crowds, who repeatedly vel
coined the city's guests by cheers.
On arriving at Delmonico'a, the President
reviewed the troops, and was subsequently
called upon for speech, but declined TO make
Que, saying that none was needed alter the
demonstration which had been made to-day
Il lcaye,' said the President, the ConStltu
ton and the Union in your haEdS.
Along the route Of The procession flags were
displayed ia all directions, and occasionally ap,
propriate notices and Inscriptions Of welcome
met the eye. Many places Of business were
closed and everybody seemed to be taking 1
holiday. ... "...t
MARYLAND. The politicnL condition Of
Maryland during the late war is thus sketched
by the Baltimore Gazette The fall election
of 1861, by which Mr. Bradford was made &c
appear as the successful candidate fOrthe Office
Of Governor, BY an Immense majority OF votes,
was VIGOROUSLY one Of the groSScst Outrage$
ever committed, by fraud and force, upon pop
uar suffrage.
With the elections Of the autumn OF 1861.
the whole political machinery Of the State
passed into the hands Of the 'loyal'' minority
and it was used as unscrupul0usly as It had
been seized The Executive and the Legisla-
ture-and in many cases the judlcary-vled
with each other in the contamination Of every
scheme that could reduce the 'disloyal' ma
jority to helplessncSs and vasSa!age. Backed
by the bayonets of the Federal soldicry, and
encouraged in every infamy they could devise,
by the unsoldiery political rutfans, who in
turn commanded this military department,
they rcvced in usurpation, oppression and
plumber. What they could not do by the
Statute book and By judges and packed juries
provost marshaIs and detectives did for them.
They caVad convention and overturned the
WIlOle pONliCdi SlClll Vi tilJ DthtC ~ d hCH
Constitution, which they loisted upon the PEG,
ple by cooked up vote ofther own adherents,
under military surveillance. By system Of
Oppressive test oaths they thenccEorth Con
stitutionally dislranchiscd twO-lhirds Of the
voters Of the State, and, by the provisions OF
an ubiquitous Registry Law, enabled their
partisars still further to extend the disiran.
chisement The close OF the war found the
majority of the people Of Maryland thus bound
hand and foot, and the election now coming on
will afford them the first opportunity they have
had since the spring Of 1851 to express their
feelings and opinions with any approximation
to freedom. Even now the stringent provs-
ions of the Registry law will exclude many
thousands from the polls let it be expoundc1
and administered as literally as it maryland
it is yet to be seen how far the partisanship Of
the ''oyal' officials having charge Of the bal
lot boxes and the preservation Of the peace,
may still neutraize the efforts Of the people to
resume the power which belongs to them.
The atrocious falsehoods told about Jefferson