Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-05-30
ALEXANDRIA.
WEDNESDAY, EVENING, MAY 80, 1866.

We do not see that Mr. j. II. Botts's plans
ayioms, or propositions on the present condi-
ton Of public affairs, meet with much favor, or
even attention, either from his political friends
or his political opponents. They are all, of
course, at once repudialcd Snd rejected By the
latter, and by nine-tenths Of the people Of his
own State, irrespective OF party divisions !;
whilst the former, to whom they are addressed,
have, SO far, hardly paused in their career, to
consider tnem or turned aside even TO give
them a passing thought. They, apparently,
ignore them, altogether The very underlings
and understrappers of his party, whose political
knowledge is, compared with Mr. Botts's, that
Of the farthing luSh-light 10 The midday sun,
affect to disdain to trouble themselves with
Botts's vagaries, to US their own phrase -
The gathering of Radicals, too, held in this
place, under Mr.. Bottss advice, has utterly
failed to make the least impression, Or exert
the slightest influence, in any quarter. at home
or abroad-in or out Of the State The design
was so apparent, the materials SO destitute OF
action, and the whole result and conclusion OF
the convocaton so lane and in potent, that even
MIR B., himself, ne should think, would, by
this time, wish that he had never been concern
&C either in its call or j.s proceedings, And,
indeed, when he looked around On the gather
ing spoken Of, and saw who was there--we re.
Ter to several OF em,-whcn be had knowl-
eQgc that so far from their being all ''original
Union men" as he supposed the members Of
he meeting would be, some had been Confed
crate deserters; some had been Smucelcrs Tor
the South and themselves some had helped
me South ali they could before the war CON-
nenced, and then turned over to the winning
SIDE; some had been 9eepin constructive" and
actua! 'treason" according to ;heirown show
ing-and now to use Curran' coarse but enl-
Dhatic metaphor, applied to similar characters
r his own country ,-the reader must pardon
the smile Of the great oratcr.-coming out,
Striking and shining like rotten mackere, ;:
in the assumed garb Of uni2nisln and patriot
ism when, we say, he SAW this, his gorge
must have risen. Faugh! When he contrast,
cd these men, presuming to appear as directors
OF public affairs, and compared them with those
nth whom he formerly acted, and along with
whom he exerted his enereies when he calmly
effected on the principles he once supported
and those he now espouses; when he rccollect
&C that he was once Wing, but now affiliated
with Radicals and Utraists. he must have ex-
ocrienced a certain disgust, natural to q man Of
strong mind and intellect, when lie Is compelled,
as it we're, to be coupled with inferior spirits for
whom and their 'conco;nitants' he can have no
feelings Of respect, and whose judgments, po
ilical characters and surrouudings-manyo Of
them-hc must even dcspisc. 70 Say that he
does not have this feeling, Is tn say that he IS
insensiblc to the motives, views ard circupl-
stances which ordinarily operate upon the mind
Or that the mental powers cease to act in the
presence Of and in contract WITH Ignorance
imbcciIity, and evil passions. For ourselves,
utterly opposed as we are t. Mr. Bolts public
course and to his political views, ard to his
plans in the present condition Of the country,
we shouJ prefer to sec him in any other posi-
ton than the one he now occupies, On his own
account, for the remembrances Of the past, land
for the sake Of the good he might DO our State
and cur people.