Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-06-27
RALEIGH T. DANIELS, LETTER.

RALE1GH L. DANlELS LETTER
MIR: Daniel replies to communication made
to him by number OF gentlemen Of Caroline
county. We have only the space to give the
following abstract of it, from the Lynchburg
News
ssae deprecates that sullen Indifference OF
reckless dspair which prompts. US to 40
nothing, and surrender all our political rights
to the tender mercies OF the Radical party,
and endure with what patience we may the ut
most extremity of their hate. But, whilst
thus counseng us against the dangers to be
incurred by pursuing SO suicidal course, he
lmpl0fes us ut the same time not to court fur
ther humiliation and aggression by abject and
uncomplaining submission to every bche3t OF
the Radical party 1t is wise to submit to the
inevitable, and folly to resist the enactments of
Congress in face of the overwhelming force
which is arayed against us. Ne are therefore
advised to yield to their demands just as we
would to those enforced with q pistol at our
head. We then compromise no one. The
State is not thereby dishonored and We act
only as individuals. When but the other
day, says Mr.. D., a military satrap here at
Richmond set aside acts of the Legislature,
fantastic tricks of authority, we had to submit,
but who thought the State was thereby COM
promised? As individual men, we yielded to
overwhelming force, but We did not make haste
to lay the State at his feet, nor run forward
with alacrity to take the gives and letters at
his hand. =
Mr.. Daniel advises every one who can to
register, not to swell the ranks Of Radicalisnl,
but to secure to Conservatives controlling
voice in the Convention called to frame a new
Constitution, and accept the Constitutional
amendment. Whether the present law be a
fnality or not, it is our best course to accept
and perform the acts required in good faith;
but says Mr.. Daniel we will never go cropping
in The dark beyond that limit for some yet
unknown extreme Of seltabasenent, which |
may crafty foul and irresponsible tyranny.
We should legislate for the good CT the State,
not for the success Of a political faction. We
should endeavor to place all the rights OF per
son and property, and all political rights Ike
wise, on the safest basis we can find, but
should disdain to embody In the form OF law,
for our own government, any OF the ag1arian
iniuuity which testers around us, poisoning the
air We breathe; and which, it embraced, be,
sides its unspeakable humiliation, would entail
evils compared with which the continued rule
of the sword, in tolera oy mercltu hands,
would be a positive good.
With regard to conG>oation Mr.. u. thinks
there is little danger of the consummation OF
any such act. Self-preservution will array
against it all the property men OF the N orth,
who already scent anarchy IN The breeze, ana
with the proverbial instinct OF sensitive capl-
talists, seek to suppress aud discourage the
suggestion.
We will close our notice Of this letter OF Mr..
Denie with the following extract:
"Why, we know something Of ''reconstruc-
r. l. yxJha
profgate minority in possession OF the gov
ernment perpetuates its power by driving out,
with the aid of lest-oaths, dlstranchlsements
and punitive laws, all the worth and ntell-
gence of the population. Look at Tennessee,
whose rufian Governor keeps twenty thousand
troops in the field, how long, depends on the
conduct of the people These States have
representatives in Congress- What goGoSdi, does
it do them? Does it make life and liberty
safe. or property secure? Does it protect a
single right of the citizen against the most gall
ing expressions? These, then arc the threat
ened evils, to Which prefer tolelably mercl-
full military rule-the principle OF conhscatlon
by taxation embodied in the organic aw-the
power of taxation-the power Of political dis,
tranchisement- all the general powers OF
nifty, from which will be excluded the real pco-
pie, with whatever Of virtue, worth and lntel-
gence remains in the land. l am not so IN
love with the company to be met with in Con
gress, and to say the truth with the sort OF
members we should be obliged to send there,
as to think that representation in that body,
under these conditions, would be worth the
price We should pay for it.
Tue Sun. AT MIDNIGHT. Mr. Campbell
went far enough North in Norway to see the
sun at midnight 1t was in sixty-ninc degrees
north latitude The party stood on clitt,
200 feet above the Arctic sea. The deScrlp-
tion says 1.-THE ocean stretched away IN
silent yastness at our feet; the sound Of its
waves scarcely reached our airy lookout; away
in the north the huge old sun swung low along
the horizon, like the slow beat Of the pendC-
linn in tho tall clock in our grandfather par
lor corner. We all stood sileut, looking at our
watches. =
when both hands came together at y,
midnight. the full round orb hung triumphant
ly above the wave--a bridge OF gold running
due north spanned the waters between US and
him. There :he ,shone in silent majesty which
knew no setting. We involuntarlly took on
our hats; no word was said. Combine, 1t you
can, the most brilliant sunset and sunrise you
ever saw, and its beauties will pale before the
gorgeous coloring which now lit up ocean,
heaven and mountain. In half an hour the
sun had swung up perceptibly on its beat, the
oolors changed TO those of morning, a fresh
breeze rippled over the ford, one songster after
another piped up in the grove behind us-we
had slid into another day.