Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-14

The Radical leaders in Congress are foolish
" imagining that by their course OF action lney
are Strengthening the Legislative power which
is in their hands, and which they hope .y yet t,
| control. They are, none Of them, statesmen
enough to see that they are defeating their own
purposes, and that by gradually placing e1ecu.
tive authority, almost without stint, IN the
grasp of Gen. Grant, they are fashioning a
! MASTER tor theaselyes4asaw we'll as afor=others.
They are on the high road. to military des-
potism over the whole country, themselves ~
Guided. One OF these days they will wake up
to sense of the condition! The National Con
vention in France went,on precisely in the same
way. They had at first government carried all q
on by legislative DEGREES; then by legislative
committees; then by Headers such az Dam
ton and Robespierre as they saw the
power departing from them, they frantlcally
grasped after it again, but their feble hands
could not long retain the reins-and it all end
] ed in the supremacy of Military Chieftaln.
Aud the people tired, sick, aud Disguised with
the changes, aud trials and sufferings, and evils
of a legislative government exercised by dem
agogues, gladly sought peace, and quiet, and
refuge under the strong rule of one man; and
exchanged a Republic for an Empire, and an
Assembly of Legislators, for an Emperor, with
the powers of Dictator land liberty in France
lay PROSTATE under the heel Of Napoleon. We
have no Napoleon-but we may have much
weaker man, in every respect, for master
The public will obtain no idea Of the real
speeches delivered by the colored delegates in
the Virginia Reconstruction Convention, from
the ''oficial stenographic reports paidtor BY
order of that body. Lindsey, and Bayne, and
company, are translated into what at least re-
sembles the English language, and their non
sense transformed into something which will at
least pass as common place Radical harrangulng.
| We hope the Richmond papers will, occasion
ally, continue to furnish specimens OF the gen.
uins article "unadulterated by the rules of
grammar, or common sense-just as it is served
up and partaken of in the Convention itself.
In series of letters addressed by Henry G.
Carey, of Philadelphia, to Senator Wilson, OF
| Massachusetts, upon the industrial, financial
and political condition Of the country, Mr. Ca.
rey devotes one letter to the superiority OF the
South as an agricultural country, to the North
and even the West. He expresses the opinion
that ''the day is at hand when emigration to
the South and Southwest must take the place
now occupied by emigration to the West. and
when power is to pass from the poor soil of
the Northeast to those richer ones which now
offer themselves in such abundance 10 the CEN
tire, the South and the Southwest.
| Alexander II. Stephens, says dispatch to
the New York Herald, in conversation with .
friend who saw him recently in Philadelphia,
sook very respondent view of affairs In the
South. He pronounced the future before that
| section of the country fraught with gloom and
disaster, and can see nothing in the policy Of
reconstruction but the operation of a fearful
scheme, whose ultimate result will be the de-
struction of either the black or the white race.
The Committee on the subject of National
Parks and new Presidents House have deter
mined on the selection Of 1900 acres in the
northwest portion Washington, behind Colum-
bian College. Thist tract embraces Rock Greek
and the most beautiful scenery around Wash
ingtop. 1t is expected that the lands nearest
the city will cost about $4,000 per acre, and
that on the boundary of the District can be
bought for $500 per acre.
Gen Meade has removed Gov. Jenkins Of
Georgia, aud also the State Treasurer, from Of
| fee, and appointed Gen. Thomas II. Ruger,
colonel 23d infantry, to be Governor, and capt.
Charles F. Rockwell ofthe ordnance corps Of
tho U. S. army, to be Treasurer. The charge
| against the deposed officers, is that they de-
clined to obey the instructions of, and failed to
cooperate with the "Maj. Gen. Commanding. "
1t is thought by some that the Legislature
| Of New Jersey will take similar action to that
of Ohio, in reference to resembling the rati6ca-
ton of the 18th amendment to the Federal
| Constitution This is not, as by some is sup
posed, the amendment abolishing slavery, but
| the one declaring who arc citizens of the United
States, and fixing representation upon the
basis of the voting population, &c.
| The Allocution of the Pope addressed to the
Consistory, at Rome, on the Goth ult., was a
very firm and decided protest against the de-
signs and purposes of the Italian Government
against the temporal power Of the Pope, and
showed no signs of yielding whatever. He
spoke in high terms of the recent conduct of
the Papal army-and thanked the Emperor OF
France tol the assistance rendered.
Gov Geary has sent some twenty four vetoes
to the Pennsylvania Legislature. There is no
doubt that in some cases. if not all, they were
deserved. Some of the bills thus repudiated