Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-12-13

NATIONAL LABOR CONEENTI0N.-Ih tOl.
lowing extract from the proceedings of the
National CoOred l4abOc Convention, recently in
session in Washington, will give an idea.
Bi,ht p Campbell, OF New Jerey, said ho was
a preacher, and had been for thlrty-one years.
He had lust learned for the first time that
preachers were ruled out from among laboring
ycrs, Bishop" was sorry to hear also that
lawyers were ruled out. A voico-"Say some
thing about doctors was sorry to hear
that all who were called professional men were
rulcI out We cannot afford to be ruled out.
We must stick to tho laborers; they are the
hone and Sinew OF the country. There are
some negroes that want to hide and not sup
port the Republican party. Ii were not
Christian would hate such negroes.
What would become OF US it the Republican
party should stop? a voice, "ltcannot stop.
But suppose it should? 1t might take another
direction Revolutions DO sometimes, 1t the
Republican party did right Tennessee would
not be where she is, nor Kentucky. 4 voice,
What about Virginia." What about Vir-
giua? Those i'll begOtten devils will pull the
wool over your eys, Applause and laughter,
and voice, What about New Jerscy?"
New Jersey haSn't got into the Union vet.
A voice, "W hat about Maryland and Ken
tucky p feel moro hopeful about them
now, as our Moses is not in the White House
and did not get into the Senate.
Talk about the carpet baggcrs, they have
the right In tho South, for their fellow soldiers
lie on every battle field. The conquered be
longs to the cOnquerors. The motto OF the re
bells is, Overcome, but not subdued. War
was a necessary evil. The hoartOf the Amcrl-
can people was always right and for liberty,
but the invention of the cotton gin rivetcd the
chains Of slavery and it could not be abolished
without touching mems pockets, and that is
where men arc most sensitive.
The audience then sang two verses OF John
Browns body is marching on.
GAN WOMEN KEEP SECRETS Tho as
sumcd inability OF women to keep q secret to
themselves, has always been fruitful theme
of ridiculc and reproach among the satirlsts.-
The heroine of one of Ben Jonson's comedies
is Silent Woman" who eventually proves
tn be n man. A writer In the "NtN Century,
"A Magazine published in Charleston. South
Carolina, takes different view Of the subject,
and charges that men are much more prone
than their fair and frazier companions, TO in
dulge in garrulity. The Century" says;
"Men soy women cantt keep q secret. 1t is
lust the reverse women can, men can't. Wo-
that would kill any man. Woman never tells;
man always does. Woman suffers and dies 4;
man babs and lives. Man cannot keep sc
cret. woman cannot make it known. What is
snort to man il death to woman. Adam was
sneak. Eve would have kept the apple secret.
BE yo faithful Who ever heard woman talk
about her love tiascos2 Everybody has heard
man gossip. Man delights in telling OF his
illicit congucsts, woman would cut her tongue
out first. Men arc coarse in their club-room
talk; women refined in their parlOr convcrsa-
ton Who ever heard Of a woman telling OF
her lovers? Who has not listened to the dis
sipation of the mcn2 Men boast; women
don't. Women never tattlc out OF school; men
arc always blabbing. So down with another
old adage. Woman can keep secret, and her
ability to do so is proved by the conduct of q
st. Johns (NewfOundland) girl, who did not
tell her lover she was worth four million in her
own right, until after the marriage.