Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-05-21
MERCHANTS & MECHANICS EXCHANGE,

MERCHANTS e MECHANICS EXCHANGE,
NORFOLK, VA, May II, 1866.
Editors Baltimore Gazette:
GenAemen-Ny attention has been called to
i article in your paper Of yesterday, holding
r1e up in no enviable light, as one of the atcn-
GERS Of ey- President Jefferson Davis. 10 our
Own community no explanation is necessary,
nv autecedents and present position are we'll
naoWn. But [ have fiends and family counec-
lions in your city who are DOUBTLESS, surprised
and mortified to see my name In the list OF Wit
aosscs before the Grand jury.
deem it duty to them and myself TO H.
form you that entered the Confederate army
as volunteer, reSiguing for that purpose
mighty respectable position In our city govern
ment, that Of Register by virtue Of which office
was exempt from military service by act OF
Legislature raised company: contributed OF
my means to its equipment and served as Cap
tain of artillery until the surrender OF General
Lees army.
was summoned before the Grand Jury as
were many other gentlemen greatly against
my inclination, and so tor from rolunteeung
my eriacnce, reluctantly 0Jeyed q pcremptory
0rler.
II Mr. Davis be guilty of treason, certainly
am to greater degree; as he, In his position,
Confectionery, whilst | u0luntecycd my services to
c cause which | considered just and holy
Your obedicnt servant,
j. HARDY HENDREN,
Secretary Merchants e. Mechanics Exchange,
Norfolk, late Captain Company B, 18th Fir-
ginia battalion Of artillery
Papers throughout the country will greatly
oblige ne by copying the above.
LOYALTY AND DIsLoYALTY. What is South
era loyalty? IF it consists in veneration
Tor the Constitution, desire for the restoration
OF the Union--the most sincere intention to
obey the laws, and the most earnest wish to
cultivate friendly relations with those OF our
Northern brethren who believe that the war is
over-if these feelings and determinations con.
jtitute loyalty, we are loyal.
Blu, if loyalty be to favor dospotism, to de-
sire the subversion Of the powers of this gov
eminent to the oppression OF one class OF It's
people; if it were to rclinquish uIm',rmurngly
every right which can make life desirable, OF to
caress the hand that would deprive Us Of our
manhood; if it be to believe that Thaddeus
Stevens is Allah, and that Becchcr, Howard,
! ulian, Underwood, Bolts, Quigley, Stanton and
Butler, arc his prophets; II It be to acquiesce
By word word or sign in the doctrine that Viz
einia and her people are to hang supplicant on
thc tender mercles OF any set OF political tricks
ters, or to give consent, even by silence, to our
proud old Mothers being shorn OF one lota OF
her territory or her rights, to join in the cry for
NJ! Davis blood, to agree to negro suffrage, to
admire Gov. Perpoint, to approve OF military
commissions, to de5pise those who arc living,
to forget those who arc dead, to ask for the i'm
peach anent of Andrew johnson, or to favor Il
ratification of the Reconstruction Committee S
report-we are not loyal and not likely to DC
come so.-N0'Is,A E1gi"ion,
m--
THE RADICAL CONvENTIoN.-Wc sec that
Aynchburg has representative in the Union
Convention at Alexandria! Is it pertinent to
inquire who sent him there? Where is his
constituency? Who does he represent? By
vhat right does he hail from Lynch burg? He
is not 4 citizen of this place, and if we waited
representation in such body as that convened
- Alexandria we should select different style
Of man. We protest against such delegations
rom Lynchburg aud shall not only scan closely
Dat held ourselves at liberty TO comment with
freedom upon the course of an individual who
pretends to represent this people In q body with
whose aims aims and purposes ne has no
sympathy. We should have no objection to a
zeal Union Convention. We are for the Union
IS it vas. We maintain the Constitution as 1t
nowis. Weare all Union men and support the
national policy Of the President. But we are
cot in sympathy with those whose Vaccinations
all tend to disunon, and who would exclude
frora all the benefits of the Union nincty-nine-
nundredth Of the people Of Virginia. -Lynch
;T;rgsnian.
A large fre occurred at Goldsborough, n G.,
last week, burning block of four brick buildings
,monp them the office of the Daily News and
r. of 4bo National Eynrass