Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-10

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around the bases of the hills at Appoma' toy,
,resounded the echoes of those farewell guns
which sounded the funeral knell Of dead ia
ton, when exhaustion and the wsarying drain
upon energies of hope SO loae deferred had
reduced to half-crazed despair tn, spirit 81 as
! gallant men as ever brealhed the red air OF bat
| tie; : and when was tniled for deposit in The
long Senate Halls Of the pas, Baarer which
had shone over victory as brilliant and I>e:oI>m
as unainching as ever ll1m;ned The history of
any era of bloody woe.
At daybreak The doomed army was drawn up
in a circle, surrounded BIZ its myriad enemies
Conflict began with light, as the head OF the
columns moved northward aod found the last
avenue of escape blockaded Fora short while
sounds of battle rang ferce|y out upon the
morning air, and wild cheer went up from
the Southerners as after gsllan! charge, some
of FitZ Lees cavalry (among them our OWE
18th returned with a mounted battery Thy
had captured entire Almost before the times
OF enthusiasm had died out: The firing c aSed:
astillness of death pervadrd ry'hing, ana
soon strange whispers went about among the
men. At last the truth was knowu. The
tears Of that April morning had 10 sunshine TO
the hearts from which the weeping sprung
There was scarcely room for political regret. Or
for realization or the effect OF our disaster upon
the general situation, in the minds which were
embittered and made wretchel with the SCI
dier's agonlzlng sense OF defeat.
The General looked along tho shattered lines
of his remnant corps, and wept III thinking Tor
what his best and brave>t had fallen.
r Tho 70 laanoG ,1,on his ci,n and
incurred the death OF the jus: pridc which lie
had won from danger at the cannon S mouths
on a hundred fields. But it was over. q"
Twelve months have passed since then since.
with the powder stains yet upon our iacc*,, We
gave pledge to GENEROUS conqueror to abide
ty the issue honestly: ana VIC feel 4 gi0W Ct
honest emulation this anniversary day. i'll say
ing and knowing that if pledges have cen
broken, ours have been kept. If peace has
not returned it is not our fault AS faithfully
as we followed the fortunes OF that i'll starred
flag have we stood by the oaths then registered
and in the great. contest now in progress, It is
the Rebels-the SURRENDERED at AppomattoX
Courthouse are found toa man upon the
platform whose foundation and superstru@ture
are the Constitution and the Unipn.- RrtcJS-
burg lndeU.
POLITICAL There is man in New Ycgi;
who has sold for twenty years an infal'jbc
remedy against badness, all the while hairless
as billiard ball; but even his aulscity is 10;
as magnificent as Grecly's calling secessicniss
rebels and scounlrcls, when he himself admitted
distinctly and fully the right of secession. The
difference between Jeff Davis ana Greedy upoH
the secession point was this Davis believed in
secession, and through risk Of life and fortune
attempted to carry out his faith Grccly be-
lieved in it, but, when he found it did not pay,
he changed his und and got paid fer abusing
it. XII
The abolitionistS, in fact, warc all secession
lists they wanted the strong to secede from The
weak in which case to deny the right Of seces-
sion would have been as ''di>loy4I' in New
FORK as to affirm it has been when the veal,
seeded from the strong.
They were, and arc ALL just what families
must be-insensihe to honesty, good tai:h
when those qualities interfere with the i:ui;i II
Of their desires ';Ihe nla1mcn who have
made men mad by their contagi0n, never &c
into lunatic asylum in this world; they gene
rally get into office, and after proper aosorp-
ton of public drippings sutsi1c Into coamon-
place citizens.
The Republican rarty vas based upon false
hood-falseh0od Of History. fa!&chood Of fact:
ialsehood of law, falScho)d in every form and
shape: and it ha, been magniicently Success
full 1t has destroyed about igc thousand mil
lions of property, extnguisbed at lea t y mi!
lion of lives, and almost wiped out State rights:
which were once dear, and justly Gear, t.
Americans. The pcnny-woith Of bread to tAi5
intolerable quantity Of sack: is the emancipa-
ton Of so many Of the negroes as have not
died, and the doom 0! the Indian = IL, ,a:,:
race-N Y World