Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-03
ALEXANDRIA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3.

Deen issuing bumpers OF DOCKS relative TO the
late war, designed to attract the popular eye,
and 10 accord with the natural feelings and
sympathies Of she Southern people but which
neither in matter nor in style, in prose, or in
verse, are opponents Of the literary taste of
our people, We care not now to particularize
the productions, in book and pamphlet form,
TO which We refer; but, think it about time,
that the food ofjujepe memoirs: trashy accounts
of campaigns, and attempted histories-writ-
ten by incompetent hands, and often by i'll in
formed persous-wth no, hing 10 make them
worth reading, either as 10 style or material
which has poured ever The land for two years
past-shoud cease. There has been enough of
thas kind of literature printed Some good
books, on these subjects, are 10 come yet: -
We have high hopes Of Major SCOTS account
of Col. Mesby's campaigns, to be published
next month--but, as for the past, for the most
part, is we can say nothing that would show
a favorable opinion Of the talents, capabilities,
Yigor, or accuracy, Of the writer's about the
late war, or their title to be considered as an
nalists, or historians. The press of the State
has been, hitherto very lenient to such pro-
ducl!ons as are included in this criticism for
TO kind hearted Journalists, it is All agreeable
thing to lend helping hand 10 young authors
who are pluming their wings for holder and
higher flights, than their first essays allow
But there is limit to good nsture-and when
time IS seriously encroached upon, and money
very rselessly spent, it Eecones duy to in
form those Inflicted with the ''caceethes scri
bend. without the genius, or The learning, or
the taste, to qualify them ior The tasks they
undertake, that hereafter the public will hold
them to stricter account than that to which
shey have been hitherto bected, and that
the press will have to speak Of their works in
2 sterner voice than that which has been nSed
The FADING NORTHERN RADICALS, at first,
denounced prominent public meh, at the South,
Tor not aequiescing in or submitting to, The ro.
yuirements OF the Radical Congress tor not
being willing TO accept The position OF "politi
cal equallty" with colored fer ignoring
them and their votes. Well; these denounced
persons are not only "submitting and 'ac-
Quiescing, and "acceptiug,' bat they are
iseveral Of them addressing these cOlored men, !
explaining to them their new rights and priv I
leges, and striving to enlightcn their minds and |!
understandings for an intelligent exercise Of
the right ofsufrage- not coaxiug. or wheedhng, |
or deIuding them, but setting before them their
duty i'll their new position, and the obligations
that rest npon them for the exercise OF The
III ior f,, Rot
now, then? The Radicals turn round, and
abuse those whom they had previously de-
nouneed, for doing what little while ago they
said ought to be done and the colorrd people
are advised, not to trust them bot 10 believe
what they say-to oppose tham--to band to.
gether against them-apd to regard the very
proofs they give of submitting" acquiescing,
conforming and accepting, as 30 many proofs !
ofhypocrisy, deceit and bad Intentions an: par-
poses |! Let the South do as it will, !; is ma. !
ligned and abused
The Richmond Enquirer says 1.-The Rad |
eals claim great merit for bestowiny on the
colored people the right Of sutfraqr. But WHY |
is it that in many Of the Northern States, they
will not allow the few COLOR. d people there to
7Qte2 Look at Penusy'', ania, and New Jer.
icy, and Ohio, 2nd Others. II these men had
indeed any regard for the Southern colored
men, they would show some little regard for
the few in TIER own midst ~
1t Is supposed, by some, that the result OF
the Connecticut election will be regarded as
sufficient proof that Connecticut has not a
republican government, and that Congress
at its next session may find i. proper and e1pe-
dent 10 extend the Military bill there, and
order 'reconstructDn" under the auspices of
Brigad;er General!
In the Senate, yesterday, before going toto
Executive sessioa, Exr Kevercy johnson sue.
cessfulIy defended Mr.. P F. Thomas, Senator
elect from Maryland, from the cha, &c founded
on the report of the New York Bank of Com
meree in 1862, that he, whilst Secretary of the
Treasury, had Intentionally left unprovided
for, the payment Of interest 90 the public debt
The National 1ntelhgencer says that whilst
''the South is now under the compulsion of the
sword, the great battle Of civil liberty and
constitutions! government is to be fought at
the North" God grant that bloodless victory
may ensue to right and justice We have fears
of the result, We admit; but it is hard to re-
linquisL hope.
The Boston Commonwealth favor. the abo-
ton of the Presidency, but the AntiSlavery
Standard stops at no such halfway house; it
proposes the abolition Of the President, tue
Supreme Court, aud the Senate-''the three
remaining oligarchies The age is "prorrea
siVe."
The Washington Chronicle regards the re-
s,1lt of the Connecticut election as the intia-