Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-06-28
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Correspondence Of the Alexandria Ha ;eiit /
RAppAlIANNoCk COUNTY, VA, June 70.
The prospects in this country and Madison are
cheering. Every true man Will vote Tor walk
or tol Governor and Mckenzie for Compress. -.
Occasionally we meet an individual who still
holds on TO the resolutions OF @S-Wh0 cllnes
10 some dreamy abstraction, but strange to
say srrh impracicatlc veterans were never In
the Confederate army Ga the contrary, every
true Confederate soldier is found advocating
the election ui Lewis Mckenzie over " hat
tescy.
ia. day there wa large mretiu" st Ans
yj,Ir, in this county. Major Il. Turner and
Mc..rs. ilackey and Carter addressed the pro-
Die. Whiti'cs-y WAS irrscnt, but would not
consent to discussion 81 The iS-nr3 before the
rouqtr,. It,, therefore, called oil In FLOWERS,
consisting OF sumc twenty or thirty blacks,
(mcn, women and rl!.lrcn) to cabin, and
there haransuel them.
Mr. Mch cnZic need MT lear Tie result IN
this region Ali is we'll The people OF the
9Th district will Iecnlr, on the 9Th o July, that
= true Nirsiaian shall be thrir representative
IN tungIt.. H.
ANDREW JOHNSON EOS THE STUMP. =
Years ago when Andrew johnson and G. a.
Henry, were Opposing, candidates for Governor
of Tennr: see the latter, in speech, used against
the former, his johnson j vote against the bIll
making al appropriation to send supplies 10 the
Starving pcoplcnl ireland duriDg one OF the years
of famine ia That oppressed country. There were
many rshli,n IN the audience. aud their SYM
pathies were naturally with Johnson, rs the
representative of the Democratic party. But
Henry gorious eloquencr, - he pictured the
starving mothers, sisters, aud innocent babes
at the breast ~ lh"n native land, and hurled
ahathcmas at .IohnsIu ldg the heartleSSnesS OF
the vote he had given III congress, refusing to
send crumb Of bread, even TO induce the I'M
mortal spirit to remain IN ITS tenement OF clay,
LETT Andy Tor the moment without an Irish
friend in the audience.
Finally, it came Andy's time to speak. lie
did SO, and ut once took up the question OF
Irish relief lie acknowledged that he had
acted az CHARGED and toldly declared that he
would give the same vote then il he was in
Congress and the question WAS before that body
He did not believe that Congress had the Con-
stitu,iona right to appropriate the public
money in charities. lie was q strict Construc
zionist; and could find no authority TO make any
such disposition OF public funds. These funds
were collected for specific purpoSe-thc pay.
and he would have been untrue to his official
oath il he had voted to make any other dispo.
siticn Of them Therefore, he could not, con-
scentiously, vote for the appropriation lnqucs'
ton, and he was not mean enough to dodge.
But the chncher was yet to come. After
exhaus:ing his defence OF that vote, he delianty
proclaimed, in substance:
YES, fellow citizens, lid vote as charged.
would do it again. simply discharged an
unpleasant duty in 50 doing. But it was q
duty. lad no more right to put my hands
in the public treasury and take out money for
this purpose than had to put it into your
pockets and take it out for like purpose. Yet
1 synpathized deeply with that iamished pe0-
pie. Ny heart blcd for them. And as proof
OF mv.sympathy, although you know me to be
poor man, l. here state that Andy Johnson
put h hands into his own pockets and contrl-
butcd, out OF his own money, five hundred
lollar. Low mach did you give Mr.. Henry,
with Your two plaDtarions and hundreds of
negroes Not Il cent :"
This completely turned the table on Henry, |
and at once not only restored Johnson 10 hls |
original position in the affections Of the irlair |
but increased il ten fold.
The Richmond Dispatch says that the bail
required OF Mr. Trundc of lonloun county, to
answer the charge" OF "di9charging" three |
colorcd men from his employment, Us before |