Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-05

son, Of New Hampshire, is opposed to uulver-
sal suffrage, and would only have it as result
of manhood education In recent lecture in
Boston, he protested against the enactment of
manhood suffrage by national legislation. 1t
would do very we'll for New Eng gland, hut not
for California with her ninety thousand China
men. He would have manhood suffrage
through manhood education. lie proceeded
tn sketch the vast evils which must iiow from
the adoption Of manhood suffrage, and SAID we
NAV we'll hesitate lest we outrun the progress
of civilization, and do that which will yet re-
turn to plague u, He showed that an educa-
tiona test was no injustice to the ignorant man
but that without it we might be sunk below
the capacity of self government. May 1t not
be we'll, said he, TO leave with the States the
power to build dykes and brcakwaters against
| the food which may overWhem us!
TEXT. q; [ believe northern civilization covers
heart and brain, and the South lacks b0th -
Wendell Philips.
| COMMENT greatest orator the country
has produced was southern man and Save
holder-Patrick Henry. So Was the president
of the Continental Congress So were the
authors of the Declaration of Independence and
the chairman of the commits tee that reported i.
! So was the leader Of the armies in the war OF
independence. So was the president OF thu
convention hat framed thaFederalC Constitution.
So were all tia great Presidents the country
has had-W ashington, jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Jackson, &C., &c. So were the most
distinguished jurlsts the country has produced;
So were the generals of " brain and heart.
So were nearly all the statesmen that have shed
lusre upon the nation.-Rach. Dispatch.
1
Hon. John NJ. Bots, of Virginia, visited the
rooms of the Committee on Reconstruction
yesterday morning, and gave different YER
sion Of the declarations attributed to him in
the Copperhcad papers He said the war OF
races had been commenced IN the South, out
that it had been commenced by the whites
alone, and that the moderation Of the coorcd
people was extraordinary and wholly without
example lie stated that two intelligent col
orcl blacksmiths were informed that II they
voted for him as IL delegate to the Convention
their places of business would be destroyed.
They did vote for him. and the very next even
ing their shops were burned to the ground
Washington Chronicle.
Mr.. Bolts takes a different view OF the mat
ter from the rest Of his party who lost their
election to the Virginia Convention. The
others are generally, sew II: upon what they
call 'lhe Ignorance, iaithlrSsncss, and inarl' l.
tule of the blacks who failed to support them.
As Mr.. b. received their support, he praises
them. as... s
| FRENClIMEN, are d, cilcdly not partial to
cmigraion The numb II who leave their
own country, always small, seem 10 be steadily
Decreasing According TO returns, the number
Of cmiplnnt', Which was 1000 in 1856, had
decreased TO G,S0D in 1862 to 5, 700 in 1868,
and to s, TOO in 1861 ln The latter year only
i 800 Persons out OF population or4O, 900, 600,
were found willing to transfer themselves To
Alr ria, Il French co!ony, separated from the
mother country only by he width Of the Med
lcrranealI In the same year ,0j7 Frclchmcr
cmsratcd 10 The United States . .....
EIGnrM HUSBAND "A friend informs us o
a fat, blooming widow, who keeps Il millinery
shop in III Third district, who hts hurico
seven hushanl.. anl is now ahont taking az
eighth one to her nr est ho ON Her FIRST
husband died in u Tor iyn land the second il
lS49 in This city; the third lived til 1852; ht
fourth died tn" following year; the fifth II
1851; the sixth in 1858; the seventh lived
until 1864 Since this time the widow has
lived cold and lonely Without particle o
envy we wish No. s that is to be- much
felicity and happiness. N 0. PIC.
A REPUBLICAN Form OF GovERNMENr. -
"A Veteran Observer" of the New Yorl,
Times, who is Il distinguished Republican o
Cincinnati says. as to the radical committee Of
Congress appointed to inquire whether Mary
land has Il republican constitution; that he call>
the previous, question. which is: Does the
committee know what republican constitution
is? ! he veteran then proceeds to show that
there were no republican constitutions when
the Federal constitution was adopted, it the
radical idea of rcpubcanIsm be the correct
one.
D. II. McPhail, paymastcr u. s. army.
recently arrived at New Dreams from Dry
TortugaS, states that Dr. Mudd has listin-
guished himself in Il professional way during
the prcqallnce OF the yellow fever at that post,
while it WAS so bad that all of the surgeons
were Frustrated with it and no medical attend
ancc could be obtained. In this emergency
Coz. McPhaiI: who is from the State of Mary
land, thought Of DR.. Mudd, and advised that he
be requested to exercise his profession Dr..
Mudd, when applied to- willingly undertook
the care of those who were i'll with the fever on
the island and up to the date of Coz. McPhai'' S
departure he had not lost one case.
Bishop McIlvainc OF Ohio, VIM. Lloyd
Garrison, and George Thompson, the noted
aboliliouist. attended, and made spccchcs,a the
united gathering of the National Freedmen i
Aid Union and the Birmingham and Midland
Aid Association in Birmingham, England on
the 18th ut We suppose Bishop McIIvainc
found that as the "Pan Anglican council was
a dull affair, he could have a more ''ively"
time by 'cons,r;ing' with Lloyd Garrison and