Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-30

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meeting otthe Second w ard Radical Club was
held last night, at the school ROOM corner Of
Pitt and Princess streets, Levi Potter, colored,
in the chair, and G. ]. Burton, white, secretary.
The meeting opened with prayer by Benz Blair,
colored. After disposing ofthe ordinary bus
mess of the meeting the following preamble
and resolutions were offered by G. W. Dewitt,
through P. A. Breen, and adopted:
| WHEREAS. the principles Of the Republican
party, as we understand them, are based upon
the doctrine of justice to al}and equality before
the law, showing partiality to none, whether
| white or black and ,,it5e 1a. l,.g.,.,,
/ Whereas, our sole object is to- establish that
| doctrine as the growing principle OF the people
of this State, in order thereby to promote the
| prosperity and happiness Of al the people, and
the welfare Of our Commonwealth and g..
| Whereas, in order to obtain that end, we
should use the utmost caution in the selection
of candidates, choosing none but reia ble,truth-
| full and honorable men, and escheWlng all dem
agogues and disorganizers as unworthy OF con, con,
| fdence, as well as unreliable and unit to I'LL
| places of trust; and,
i Whereas, the farce enacted last fall at Lyce.
UNI Hall, and in the nominating convention,
| where some half dozen would-be great men
|. (God save the mark( undertook, by a mean
| system of trickery com bined with an enor-
| nous amount Oh DraSS anu eutolLefy, w CueIb
| the mass Of the party out of thor choice of q
candidate, is too wildly impressed on our minds
| to be easily or soon forgotten and,
| Whereas, the same disorganzlng faction
who, after beng defeated in their effort to force
minority candidate on the party last fall, and
| the regular nominee of the party, who was, un-
| doubtedly, the choice Of nneteuths Of the Re-
| publicans, by advocating and supporting q
stump candidate, are again engaged in their
INSCRIPTIONS work of disorganization and :,
/ Whereas, we are informed by the published
| proceedings of the Third and Fourth ward Re-
| publican Clubs, that mono but members Of
| those clubs will be permitted to participate in
| the discussion of the issues of the day, unless
| by unanimous consent of the members, clearly
showing either that they are wise in their own
| conceit beyond measure or else they fear to
| have the unvarnished truth too plainly spoken
| among them therefore,
Resolued, That we have no desire to be fac
| tious dictatorial, neither will we submit to
INSCRIPTIONS tyranny and injustice, desiring
only the faithful carrying out Of the principles
| of the party, and peace and harmony to effect
that object.
q That it is self evident that the same spirit
of rule or ruin is again rampant, as eVinced by
the action Of the minority III their so.called
county convention held on Saturday evening
last, said minority having withdrawn from the
regular convention the day before, when they in
order to get up the requisite number of votes
complacently substituted men after their own
| hearts to fill the places of those delegates who
did not attend their bogus convention because
| they were opposed to them and their nefarious
schemes to divide the party, aud had also full
| filed their duty at the regular convention the
day before
that minority that if they consider the success
of the principles Of the party of more value to
the masses OF the people than the loaves and
fishes to the hungry few who are longing after
the flesh pots of Egypt, claiming at the same
time they desire no Office, (dear disinterested
souls!) not to force upon US by fraud, trickery
and low cunning, as candidates men. who, last
| fall, displayed their brazen ehrontery and con-
| temptib.e littleness, by endeavorlng 10 deprive
US OF the chief benefit of the elective franchise,
| the right of q clear and decided majority OF the
! party to select their candidates. 49,.
| 4. That we pledge ourselves to give ready
and cheerful support to the nominees of the
party when those nominations evidently reflect
the wishes of 8 majority of the Republicans of
| the election district, and ling the nomi-
nations made by the regular county convention
on Friday last, as fairly made, and just re-
Election Of the public will, we, therefore, prom
| Use these candidates q jealous and earnest sup
port. s
5. That we of the Second Ward, desiring to
be enlightened and seeking for information, not
considering ourselves wise beyond our day and
generation, to that end desire free and friend
| ly interchange of opinions, and hereby extend
ponents from our sister wards to meet with US
in council, and we promise them they will al
ways find the latch string changing out"
The following preamble and resolution was
then read and unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, the so-called Republican paper,
| The State Journal, published in this city, has
persistenly misrepresented the acts of the Re-
publican party otthis county, and having sided
| with the seceders from the County Convention,
held in this city, on Friday, April "a. 1865 for
| the purpose of selecting delegates, &c, and
supports the nominees of bogus delegates and
| boilers from the regular Convention, in opposi-
| ton to the regular nominees of the party !;
therefore,
| Resolred, That the State Journal is no longer
worthy Of the confidence or support of any true
| Republican, and We call upon all Republicans
to utterly ignore it as an organ Of the Republi-
can party OF this county. -
The meeting was then addressed by W. L..
Penn, 7. A. Breen, E. D. Sullivan and John
Brooks, white, and BY = King, - John
son and -Yull ,colorcd, after which it adjourn
ed to reassemblc next Wednesday night
FIFTH DISTRICT RADICALs.-A large meet,
| ing of the Radicals OF the Fifth or country
| Magisterial District Of this county, was held
last night at Arlington, W. A. Rowe, colored
in the Chair, and Austin Syphax, colored, Sec.
rotary The action Of the late County Conven
ton, and that of the Boilers Convention, as
discussed by John Hawxhurst and John Biz
rell, white, and by W. A. Rowe and Austin
Syphax, coored, in support of that Of the for
mer, and by Lysander Hill, J. M. Thatcher
and I. G. O'Neal, white, in support Of the
latter Without arriving at any definite con.
clusion respecting the ratification of the pro.
ceedings of either convention, the meeting adj
|iourned until next Friday night. Appearances
however indicated that the Hawxhurstites were