Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-16

desirable = Butler, in his speech at hlcnMohui
sduintsd that way. a mov ement was made " e. IN
the same direction 10 the Virginia Convention,
by a Radical, proposing to prohibit foreigners
from voting ior ten years after their arrival IN
Virginia We must be permanently African !si
izsd in order that we may be. perm1lanentty
Radicalized forathe benefit of Northern Radl-
cals!. Mr. Bolts tells the co!ored people, not
to auast; forif the foreigners come 10 they.Will
take sides with the white people, and vote With
the Conservatives It's all for the benefit OF
the Radical party = : -. :
| In referring to the Military Order concern
ing Registra ion, ID this State, issued on the
I'd inst, and published in anothercolumn, the
fLynchburg News says 1t settles question
about which doubts have been experienced by
many citizens viz whether, the registration
list would be. Re opened Or revised before the,
vote is taken on the ratification Of the coosti
tuition to; be framed by the present Convention
i'm session. This question being thus decided,
lit becomes every citizen who desires to see the
control ofthe political policy Of the State taken
from the Radicals and restored to the keeping OF
theC Conservatives, to exert himself cea,ingly to
secure suchsasresult, The plan of organization
recon mended BY the Conservative Conventions
should Re Instantly carried outin every county
city and town throughout the State, and those
who have not heretofore registered should make
up their minds to avail themselye s of the first
opportunity afforded them to ,dosso - s;6ay..,
MIR. John, M.dBotts1 has addressed q letter to
Joseph Cox, Lewis Lindsey, Fields Cook. &C.,
&c., which, IS published in the Richmond
Register, and is dated at Auburn Dec.j "a
We make the, following extract as containing
Mr.. b s. aadmceto the scolored people: lafyr,)
LET every. colored laboriug man enter into
a compact with each other through their va,1ous
organ,zations,z 1t hat no eolored man will ever do
a stroke of work for any white person who has
turned one of their race out oil their employ
ment, or recommended that tshould be done,
only because he has exercised bis suffrage to
suit himself Which, as "a general thing, [
think, has bee,, JucHciously exercised -
i He urges upon those whom he sddresseszto
tX tbs, and not to wait till foreign labor is
broughtiintotbe2 State. The.extraet above is
the piM of the letter. 'iet:2s:gisa 9yI2 ':,1.@l
In the Virginia Con vention on Monday, Mr.
f. Gibson said he was prepared to prove that
thereports of the Committee Fon Printing Of
that bodywere false, and that the. Committee.
was practising a fraud upon the people and
plunderiDg the Convention and thalState Urea |!
suryr' to the amount. Of ten cents on every
pound of:paper used BY the convention This
is a nice state Of things for beginning On
the same day, Mr. Lggett, ia ariidculer Of the
num5er of resolutions airing the opinions of
various members, offered the following: -
-'sW hereas GEN Butler is about to favor Rich
mond city with a, visit Resoloed, That the
citizens thereof are requested to- obsetVe smore
than ordinary Vigilance ID Che preservation Of
their plate and sigerware. - : Sensation and
laughter. The resolution was swallowed up
by dozen different motions offered immediate
upon its reading 80 - = :, 50 x. -
There are several cases Of contested elections
before the Virginia Convention, and somesout7
isideas well as some Of the inside Radicals are
seeking to Dust from their seats, Mr. Southnll,
of Albemarle, Mr.. Marye,of Fredericksburg,
Mr.. Mauzy, Fot Culpeper, and perhaps others
we should thinE that none Of, these gentlemen
would be, very desirons Of continuing to ocou-
by any longer places in the notorious assembly
-of which they are members. Indeed, there
tbegineto be22:indications Of a feeling in some
quarters Of, the State, against the Conservatives
the Convention ateall. te There GER
tainly is a growing feeling in favor, Of their
keeping silent as much as possible, or not min
Cling, in the debates except on extraordinary
occasions Perhaps it would be we'll to abstain
from much speaking or talking. 5 7 r O T@.i
..aWe wondersif the 'a'shoddy' 1zaristoeracyp and
money bag nobility in lew Y ork,, who lately
commenced the" Grant movement there. lin
a ring" Of their own, have been injured any
yet by recent doiogs?5 If the "pecuniaries'
are touched, they will probably drop out of the;
ring, pts What do they think Of Gen Grant
noW2,o Those ybloated millionaires,s and cadav
erous hundred. men, who undertook
to form. money, party, for the election Of
Grant, We are inclined to think hurt, their can
didate much more than they helped him. 7a9
The Memphis Avalanche advocates the pur-
chase Of the lands from the owners ID Florida,
and making that State a home for the oolored
population Of the country giving up the en-
ire5possession to them, and STIMULATING that
they shall all 60 and live there / > .ET.1 -sr
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Gen. Butler We rather suppose found, that
outside Of the Radical Convention in Rich
mond, he met with but few to whom he could
talk, The Richmond papers express the pub
lie feeling in relation to him and his visit in the