Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-24
rn,,or from Loudoun County.

rCorrs.pondence of the Alexandria Gazette
LErspURG, May 22-These two weeks past
have heen very quiet ones in the items OF news
in onr county beyond what orr Tapel5 have
given you.
The sounds of the hammer and the saw
have been heard in unwonted frequency III cur
midst. and it really seems "a Il the Oh 'o"h
had walked up.
4 Great many buildings have been put up IN
tho county since the war closed; So many ~ 10
;nince a usually considerate gentleman to say
in nv hearing, few days since, that almost
rs many buildings had been put up IN Lou
DOM since the war as there were houses Ill TIC
county at its close -,
Some of them are good large houses, but
many of them are Tor farm laborers ana WIZ VII
Owe them that home feeling which bcgeta SELF
reinect, and their improvement. All"uiS'
COMMUNICATED.
r., the Editor Of Me Alecmdri, Gd'h::,
Great disappointment Is felt at the llll"re
of the President TO order separate vote Oh
the county organization clause, ana III ''""e-
ouenco thereof great many votes Will t' east
against the constitution, which would DINER
wise have been cast Tor it or been silent. Il Is
argued
Its better to bear the ills we have
Than lily to others that we Know not ct
but humbly submit that there is no standing
still, but all is in progress.
II NAV bn and seems to be from bad IL worse :;
and, think, when we have what seems to Dc
a stopping place offered us, we ought 10 avail
ourselves Of the opportunity 10 stop, :aee
breath and recover ourselves Tor return iiHh'
when opportunity offers.
This county organization may be bad anu
NAV not be, and its msercs, be they what they
may, can certainly be aileviated by good leg
| islaturc, and everything oucht TO he mad" Ia
| tend to that end
For the Constitution lpalnst the two clause
separately submitted, seems 10 me to he a
| standpoint from which We can take an obsor-
walton, rest awhile and do as We'll Il W 77p in
the future.
| Negro domination may prevail "A Ia" '5in
| ties for while but even under our present
organization that same class could elect all th'
| officer from sheriff to ovarseer al the poor
and they can only 10 it under the new order
of things.
| In all disputed counties little letting down
| from the stiffness that has heretofore ruled
will carry the Legislature, and with that on
| our side what, under extreme Radical rule
/ MOulu De lUlUItl Wphit '' . Nv AZ"
burden.
Let this matter be approached without pas
sion or prejudice but III the light OF rca- on
and cool Judgment, and thr result will ID
beneficial LIT us have peace, ii W. can get
it with absolute Independence. let us take II By
eapitulaton and not under Al asSant. where
| the victor may do a. he plea 20.
Mr. Lincoln offered terms; Mf. DAVIS would
| not tol n them thr war Wcui on, mulilltl,lef
were killed and woundcl and We had TO take
| worse terms.
History repeat n,cIi. Congress seemingly,
AMI they now say in good i.lh, offered thG
fourteenth amendment, it was rel teted, and
the war Of politicians weni OF until the poIl,ra
| Appomattox is now reached, and having lost
our entrcnchcd position, we NUT yield on Che
terms of the victor 90 overwhelming odd.
This, it strikes me, is The whole matter in
| few words AilHCiS.
LoUDoUN COUNTY, May 90.