Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-04
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We don't know when we were more amused,
than when we read, in the Richmond State
Journal, an extract from the Alexandra Tia
xette, under flaming head, in capitals and
lines displayed as follows :-"Startling Dis
c,osures-The Walker ticket Conservative
The nominees have given promises and pledges
They are to be held to them-Bargain and
Sale, and Coalition owned up" The extract
is as follows
1--WE are the more reconciled to what has
taken place, in that the nominees on the war
ker ticket, and their friends, avow Conserva,
tive feelings and views az regard to Sereral
important matters. and their opposition to the
most obnoxious principles advocated by the
promises and pledges. If they are elected, it
will be by the Conservative vote of the State
not disoyal vote, but vote given BY men
DESTROYS to settle existing difficulties, and to
SEQ peace and harmony restored. And they
should act accordingly"
Now, is the Richmond State Journal really
anxious TO know how all this is, ''irrespective"
of the ierocious heading it has affixed to the
paragraph? Well then, We referred to the
public nomination made at Petersburg Of the
Walker ticket, 10 opposition to the Wells
ticket; to the public and published decara-
ton Of the friends of the Walker ticket, that
they were in favor of erasing from the Under
wood Constitution some of its most obnoxious
provisions; to the public and published speech
Of Mr.. Walker when he accepted the nomina
ton to the public and avowed declarations of
those who nominated Mr.. Walker, and as the
ground Of their course, that the nomination
was made to defeat, if possible, the rule and
sway in Virginia Of those who advocated some
of the worst principles and measures which
the party who support Gov. Wells, seek to
perretuate and make dominant. These are
the promises and pledges these are the
startling disclosures '-this is the bargain
and SALE is the coalition all pub
licly avowsd by the friends of Mr. Walker
when his nomination was made-procaimed
by them every day since-reiterated in every
newspaper in the State from the first down TO
this day-and constantly urged as the reason
why Conservatives, as an alternative, should
prefer Mr.. Walker to Gov Wells What
STARTLING DISCLOSURE - 1t is simply q
statement of the Walker platform" on which
bis friends will make the contest with Gov.
Wells and has political friends!
The New York Tribune, speaking Of the
colOred population in this country, says; 1.-The
relative black strength must steadily decrease
because not reinforced by immigration. 1t has
been fourth, it is now less that an eight, the
next census will reduce it below tenth, and
the child is already born who will see it below a
twentieth" We are not believer, as a gen.
ersl rule, either in the arguments or cslcua-
tons of the Tribune butt is correct in it's con-
olusion that the colored population must de-
crease hereafter actually and relatively. 1t will
however, be large element in the South Tor
some time 10 come.
Some of the prominent Radical journals ut
the North continue to censure In the strongest
terms, the appointments to office, made by
the President, or authorized by him. This, us
general rule, would be to US, prinaa tacie evil
deoce that the appointments were mol so bad
rs represented. But, unfortunately. for the
administration, these Radical papers bring
such proofs OF the utter unftness of many Of
the appointees Tor the stations they are to ill,
that there is no getting over them.
The National fnteligencer thinks the con-
dition of the Radical party is that of ''incura-
Die disease inevitably approaching disiategra-
lion" 1t certainly has plethora Of Offices,
contracts. and spos--but whether that will
bring about ''disintegration, remains to be
seen. A party can live long time upon rich
government diet, though there may be pains
in the limbs and much bad blood in the system. |
Capt. Fl. Chester Parsons, one Of the direc.
tors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, |
states that the report now going the rounds OF
the papers, to the effect that propositions TO
sell the Covington and Ohio railroad to the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company have
been obtained, is without a shadow Of iounda- |
ton.
The Washington Chronicle says: 1T is
stated that the President has notified Consul
Brink, in reply to the dispatches from Minister
Roseersns, that the Government, was not anx-
ious for the acquisition Of territory where it
would involve expenditure of money"
Mr. Forney, in his last Occasional letter,
from Wilmington, n C., speaks in the highest
terms OF the carpet bagrers in the South, +"
aud ealogises the value of the ballot in the
hands of the colored man.
A company has been organized, with the
capital subscribed, to construct a telegraph
line from st. Louis, through Texas, to the Pa
ci6c coast Some of the parties were recently
in Washington to perfect the arrangements.
IL seems that the report recently published
in the newspapers that DR.. Livingstone, the
.oIoh-aAal Erinan trnunllar had been heard