Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-26
ALEXANDRIA.
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER Is.

MT. NOOeICc. WalkeT, formerly -Secretary OF
the Treasury, is preparing for publication an
elaborate letter OF, the National Finances &C.,
in which heproposes: 1is sort
l. The immediate resumption of specie pay
ment to be effected by 3 foreign loan as pro-
posed by him in December, 1854 This he be-
lieves can be- obtained at par in gold at six
per cent. - .s$1Sd y.5sS
An Immediate restoration of tho Union
and the reduction of our expenditures to a
peace basis. ,a-.1 e5,3gs ~ ~
8 The immediate abolition Of our whole
internal system of taxation, Including the In
come tax, the tax on sales, stamp tax, and
all Observation-Disclosures, except the excise Oh
wines, termented and spirituous liquors, and
tobacco. 5o2S s'E'o2 { go 'Se =
A. The national banking system is to be sus-
tanned and improved upon, repeating the mo-
nopoy clause and leaving all perfectly free to
establish banks WHO will comply with. the
laws of Congress ss II.as...:s;.
Mr. Charles SUI Summer srh has been t. curing in
New York, on.the NAT1oN-el celebrating the
idea tina, it is "Nationality,j with the States
in very Subordinate situation-and, in fact,
squut,ag at a consolidated government. Most
of the present .laaders Of thesdominant party
in Congress, s'are..1 of the same school some
originally. so-but some new: converts, and,
therefore, ue1y jealous Cone renegade worse
than ten Turks y These people have lost all
State PRIDE, all State feeling, all OF the original
principles on which our government and con
stitution were bottomed. But when Mr., Sum
ner flushed his lecture, if he had only persua-
ded his hearers to read the Constitution itself,
and its exposition in The Federa|ist, by Hamil-
ton, Madison and Jay, We would have been
satisfied. The refutation Of his own ideas
would have been complete. His arguments
would have been answered. The tiuse lled
embroidery of his own harrangue, would have
been coatfasted- with the solid reasoning OF
those who framed the institutions, and estab-
lished the Governmentof The 6 United States. "
Hamilton, himself, 10 his advocacy Of strong
national government" after the adoption Of
the Constitution, would have secuted at the
Sumner motions" In truth, they amount to
a complete revolution |; an abandonment Of the
intentions OF our .iorefathers, the substitution
of any entirely different form Of government,
in effect. if not in name, from that under which
We have hitherto lived
1t is asked, what did Congress convene for
on Monday week 81 Whist was the use of it :?
Why not wait q few days for the regular Sc
ssion to commence? It is answered." that
these adjourned-ser sessions arc to famiia-
rize the public mind with favorite plan of the
Radicals to maintain permanent session Of
Congress; and it has for it's object simply to
set up the Legislative against the Executive
department. of the Government, with the deter
mination to either absorb OF override the latter
altogether In, short, We suppose, to turn
Congress into something like French Nation
al Convention, exercising all power, and direct
ing and controlling the administration of affairs,
by means Of Committees Of its own body. Both
in certain Of the men, and in certain of the
proceedings of this Congress, history repeats
itself, and gives us a new edition of the leaders
and measures of the French Revolution in it's
worst days. ~
Judge Chase did not arrive in Richmond,
yesterday, and the trial of Mr. Davis did not
commence. Judge. C.. is expected in Rich
mond 10 day. 1t said that the .venire out Of
which the jury 10 the Davis case is to be Sc
lected, is one-third colored men. Gen Lee,
Gusts Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, Gov. Letcher, Gen
FIJI. Smith, Gen. Horace Porter OF Gen. Grants
staff, it is said, have been summoned as wit
neSSeS. 70 5assa,;a tg2
The Boston Post we'll remarks that Mr.
Schenck and his brother, Radicals have no OBJ
lection to : exrebeIs taking seats in Congress
if they will only sustain the Radical party but
if any member elect be Conservative, he must
be suspended, or expelled, upon the mere accu
sation of favoring secession.
Judge Underwood has granted, upon HE
prayer of General j. d. Imboden, mandamus
to compel General SchofeId to permit him to
vote. 1t is returnable 9Th December
If ever we should go to Boston-which GER
tainly We never expect to do-next to Bunker's
Hill, and Fanuiel Hall, we should like to visit
the Office Of the Boston Post In.thc good cd
days when the Post and the Gazette were at
the opposite polls in politics, the difference Of
opinion never lessened our pleasure at reading
the Post, full as it was of wit, sense, and
ly argument. We could not agree with it, ii. ]
many things-but it was q iavorite Just SO
now-and to. q greater. degree, when old things
have passed away, and all things have become
new when the political parties from 1880 to
1861 have had their day-when the Copserva-
tives of both the former parties have united on
the same platform-and are struggling togeth-
er to preserve what is left Of civil liberty and
constitutional principles and when We agree
with the Post in all matters Thus greeting
sends the old Wing Alexandria Gazette to the
old Democratic Boston Post -.