Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-24
sexen,b congressional District


CrLpEpER COUNTY. We had large and in
huential meeting OF the Conservative voters
Dr. H. S. Lewis opposed with iorce the back
ing down policy. Maj. John w. Bell express.
ing concurrence with Dr. lewis, yet asked
| for committee Mai James q. Field made
| a speech indicating an nnwlIlmgnea7 TO be
committed, for the present, to the views OF Dr.
Lewis. Some confusion and discord seemed
imminent, when Mr. James Barbour, in some
briei remarks, urged the meeting TO united
| action on those elections, where all Conscrva
| tives could act together. lie concurrcd in DR..
| Lewis dcnunciation OF the backing down policy,
| and declared his purpose TO support only Con-
| SENTATIVE candidates A large committee was
| appointed, which selected MIR. Barbour as its
| Chairman, and reported DR.. Lewis resolutions.
They were unanimously adopted. The com,
mittcc and the meeting unanimously refused
to accept the preferred definitions of Maj. ID:
| A. Grimsley as candidate Tor the Senate, and
of Mr.. John Il. Strother as candidate tor the
| House OF Delegates In case, however, that
| the other counties in the Senatorial District
| desire a new nominating Convention, the
| Chairman was instructed to appoint Delegates
-CNpcper OJSc'ver.
The Conservative party Of the county OF Gull
pepper assembled at their courthouse last Mon
| day, and after nominating candidates for the
| Legislature, adopted resolutions calling Con,
vention to meet in Alexandria on the 18th oil
| June to nominate a candidate Tor Congress
| from the 1;h district, and appointing delegates
thereto. We understand that the people com
posing that meeting we're quite indignant at
| the course pursued by the party in Alexandra.
and expressed the desire to have Mr.. Shackel-
ford re nominated - Var. Inter.
n.r,,-,rD No ORC rocun .tp1 IN
announce that public meeting OF the Conser-
vative party Of Fauquier county will be held IN
the court house in Warrcnton, on Monday, the
9th inst, to nominate county candidates Tor
the Virginia House OF Delegates. Dele
gates 10 Senatorial and Congressional nominal
ing conventions will also be then chosen, and
| the days for holding the two conventions agreed
upon Var. hder.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNif 1.-The COnserva-
| tive party of Prince William county are re-
questcd to meet at the courthouse at June
court next, for the purpose of making noml-
nation Of a candidate to represent the county.
THE PaoposED CoNsTTUTIoN.-Th follow
ing is on extract of letter from distinguish
ed citizen and iurist, whose opinions always
command attention and respect
~ 81 am more than ever satisfied that we
fbhould vote down the Constitution IL il an
| abomination our people should not accept.
| Its origin and it's character merit the stamp OF
our condemnation.
Chief Justice Chase has decided the Griffin
case, (on The ground taken by j. Randolph
Tucker in his letter TO Judge Woodward) and
| believe the judiciary must decide, that be
the reconstruction laws constitutional or not,
QVo1d other States, they are unconstitutional
| and void a. to Virginia for they destroy
Government which they concede to be valid,
and are cstorncd to deny and reconstruct upon
| a ruin they have made.
If We adopt the Constitution We estop our
selves to assail it hereafter. If We reject j.,
We are free to demand the Alexandria Consti
tuition and the PIerpoint Government as that
tablished in lSCj by the Federal Government
itself. Providence has made this course the
more clear by Gen. Grant leaving the clause
providing for county organization in the
constitution, which he himself pointed out as
ntolerablc; and so it will be ntolerable. 60
that policy and principle unite in appealing to
our people to vote NO on every point
The REPORTED MURDERS N GEoRdIA.--
A dispatch from Augusta, Ga, says that
Third District, publishes i caro- in reference TO
his letter published in the Washington Chroni-
Gle and New York Tribune, detailing the muir
der OF Mr.. Stone one of the expelled members
Of the Legislature, and of the negro man who
wa with Mr. Adkins when he was killed.
Belcher says that he was msintormed, and,
he believes, wil'uy imposed upon by certain
persons as he now learns on good authority
that Stone and the other person mentioned are
living. lie also states that the letter was 4
private one to Senator Charles Summer, and
regrets its publication.
Special dispatches from Atlanta TO Radical
papers in the North announce the murder OF
these two men by the ku-kpy Khan. There |
is no foundation for the report, and the state |
ments we're made to serve the ends OF certain |
parties in this State who are fearful Of being
deprived oftheir Offices under the State gov
eminent"
The June statement OF the public debt will