Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-07-29
ALEXANDRIA.

not anywhere, in the world, more tempting
collection Of materials for Political DUNCIAD
than is to be found in the composition of the
present Congress-it would be scandalum
mapnatunl-to speak of the two Houses as the
National Legisature-but We mean the
members that constitute the two Houses. The
acute reader will note the distinction with the
difference. Had we such wits as those who
wrote the Rolliad, or such a satirist as Pope,
or even such wag as Peter Pindar, what
verses they could indite upon such theme )
In homely English the fun Of the thing almost
makes the eye glisten and the mouth water
The dullness of some-the concelt OF others
the ignorance, the impudence, the presum p
ton the strutting arrogance-the mean COM
planes, the mock dignity, the miserable sub
serviency-are all there ready for the artist to
copy and preserve in immortal verse. We see
the owl like gravity of few of the legislators
and the undisguished vulgarity of many.
We hear the laundering sounds of those who
have 'vox ct preterea nihip and the stupid
harangues of the retailers Of Ideas furnished
them by the newspapers. We have learned
dsserta on law from Inen who know no
more Of law than they do of Greek elaborate
expositions Of finance from those who are not
we'll versed in the multiplication tablc-and
erudite expositions of national policy and our
foreign relations, by those who are as much states
men as they are theoogiaus. The debates as
conducted by those who aspire to be the lead
ers of the dominant party, and continued by
their followers and Satellites and as furnished
to the public, not in the prepared pages Of the
official record, but by the pens of the reporters
who write the words as they are spoken, prove
this. Sometimes whole days are 'Sset apart, -
especially for these debates--not for business, or
for arguments to support or oppose any given
measure which is to be acted on in legislative
capacity-but for talking generally then,
the food gates are opened and the torrent
TOMBSTONE weak, washy, everlasting flood!''
Again We say, 20 for Muse not to as
cend the highest heaven of Inventon---for
Imagination is not needed-but just to copy in
singing rhymes the scenes, and to condense 10
cutting lines, the speeches, of the men who
are figuring in Washington as regulators and
d;ctators Of the nation and it's provinces"
The whole course and policy of the Radical
leaders for the two last years of the late war,
and ever since the war, has been to establish
an antagonism between the black people of the
South, and the white citizens-the Radicals
processing to be the peculiar and particular
friends Of the blacks, so as to secure their votes
in unfolding and STRENGTHENING their political
power. If the white people had been Radicals,
Or could have been caioled or cocrced into the
support of the Radical party an entirely diff
erent course might have been pursued
it is perfectly manifest that no other considera-
tons but those of policy, regulate the action
of the Northern Radical leaders in reference
to the blacks. They would whistle their dupcs
down the wind, tomorrow, if they did not ex-
pect to make by them and they are now using
them as instruments and tools for their own
advantage. In the meantime, they care not
what mischief and disasters they bring about
So they swim, every body else may perish
There are apparently, favorable indications Of
considerable changes in the North and West in
public opinion, concerning the Presidential cleo
ton. It is confidently said that numbers of
Germans who have heretofore voted the Radi-
cal ticket will now support Seymour. The feel
ing Of the Israelites against Gen. Grant has
not abated Amongst Irishmen the opposition
to the Radicals increases. The names Of gen-
tlemen who have been Radicals in Illinois, In
diana, New York. and other States are given,
who will now support the Conservative nom
inces.
The remarks Of that able and intrepid de-
fender of the few rights which are LETT to VIZ
GINA, Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky, made IN the
House of Representatives on the Exclusion Dill,
in reference to Virginia, and the efforts made
by Gov. Wells and Williamson, will naturally
create much feeling in the State. We cannot
believe that all of those who have heretofore
acted with the Radical party in this State can
or will approve of the course which Mr.. Beck
80 warmly denounced.
Congress has passed resolutions OF sympa-
thy with ''the suffering people Of Crete,
The National Intelligencey says-''The men
who stand up and pirate over the wrongs of
Crete arc those who vote deliberately to sub
ject the virtue, intelligence, education, and re-
fnement of ten millions of white men, women,
and children to the brutal passions, vicious
propensites, and debased ignorance of three
millions of blacks, just emerged from slavery"
A paragraph in the New Nation reads as if
the leaders had decided to re-assemblc the
Virginia Convention. A resolution was
adopted by that body on the 9th of April for
the appointment ola committee Of five with
authority to call the body together again, and
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