Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-18
ALEXANDRIA.

whiting Gen. Grant, very ''outspoken letter,
On his eom 2, ian extract from which we pub
l.shed in yesterdays Gazette now turns his
attention to Secretary Boutwell,, and furnishes
that official parsonage, or public functionary,
with some pungent criticisms soronomous
remarks and cathartic obser7ations-on his
political proceedings Judge d. seems to have
Weakened up fully, and TO have very vivid ideas
Of the situation Of affairs. lie charges Mr..
Boutwell, with ''prostituting the power OF his
Office for purposes of oppression. with quit
ting the line Of his duty by interfering in tho
elections in the Southern States-with pre-
sumption and arrogance in pronouncing upon
the political orthodoxy Of other people, &c, &c.
Finally, hear Judge Dents very emphatic
words, as to the probable consequences OF MIR.
BoutwelPs course tie thus addresses the
Secretary;
Your official intervention for Wells, gave
thirty thousand majority to Walker \ our
letter 10 Stokes gave Senter Tennessee by an
overwhelming vote Of seventy thousand. (our
marvellous political Sagacity now active in Mis-
sissippi and Texas will repeat your calamity
and defeat. Superadd TO these results OF your
unapproachablc folly the imposition on these
States Of your iron clad oath and the alienation
Is complete, landing them all in the outstretch
cd arms Of democracy. But the consequence
OF your folly does not stop here-Ohio and
Pennsylvania and others will follow. Decide
their political stands in October, and the
North will echo back the condemnation OF the
South, and peal in your ears this fact, that
there is still left enough OF the iucorruptible
virtue of the republic to rebuke you for wan
Ton repression Of that most sacred rieht-the
Elective franchise. But, sir, this will not deter
you from your mad course; you will still per
list until every prop that supports our party is
stricken away, and the whole grand Superstruc,
tire tumbles about our ears IN hopeless ruin.
We profess not to have been much edited
ur instructed by the account of = recent inter
view with Mr. Walker, the Governor elect OF
this State, aS given by gentleman from Bal
tmore- but We have iorbOrnc comment, be-
cause there are some things in his reported
conversation which We approve-aud because
We have no disposition to be hypercritical, oil
ready to find fault. Indeed, we desire, on the
contrary, very earnestly to give him the tairest
field possible, aud ~ IouI1I him uur humble
support IN the discharge of his duties-Should
he be allowed TO assume the office to which he
was elected by 4 large majority OF our people,
But there is ono thing, which in common JUS
tee, We cannot omit 10 mention. He is made,
IA the report Of the interview, to speak OF
those whom he calls the "old politicians" as
having opposed his election-and to say that
he had succeeded in cutting the mass OF the
people loose from these politicians, &c. Now,
IN oar opinion, Mr.. Walker owes his election
10 the movements and strenuous exertions of
these very people Of whom he is thus, in the
report, made to speak, Ii they had not gone
heartily and zealously into the cause and urged
his election, he would been-nowhere. 1t
seems TO be rather hard, that he should be
represented as not only ignoring their efforts,
Gut appearing to consider them practically as
his opponents. What does he think Of A. ii.
ii. Stuart Of }. +. Baldwin Of Douglas, of
Traverse PANEL, and hundreds Of others -
"haf does he say to the repeated calls from
..,s warmest friends, upon Gov VIM Smith
10 take the stump 10 his favor, aud to the
speeches OF that gentleman Does he forget
that ell over the State IN every county, the
men who were formerly prominent in politics,
aud thought they had retired forever from the
arena, generously came forward and exerted
all their abilities in his behalf? Some of them
srdcutly enlisted in the movement which
brought him out as candidate all Of them
when be was q candidate, did all they could,
hOnorablv, 10 secure his success.
The fact is, tor it Is Just as well to speak Of
past affairs as history will record them, and we
are as competent 20 tell of political matters in
cur State as ilr. Walker himself lsl the
masses were not inclined, at h,yt, to vote for
the successful ticket, at ALL They rather
turned from it, and it wa not until they were
reasoned with, urged, exhorted, iulrested and
persuaded by Tie cay poiititidas to whom Mr..
Walker refers, that the tide changed and the
popular current set 10 the direction which
led to ultimate victory, as tan as the Couserva-
tive inclined people of Virginia were concerned,
&c the election of the anti-Radical ticket.
Let Just be done, though the heavens fall 3D.
In his letter to Mr.. Secretary Boutwell,,
Judge Dent says:
by some strange, deXterous management
aud occult political strategy, you have SO work
"a upon the confidence OF tie President as to
cause him to flourish the club with which You
Intend to break his he'd, by inducing him to
,o.n you in denuncio, ION of the conser vative re-
lubhcans party created by his magnanimity
trlumDilSr, IN
ment." C
The p'..Olc will thus see, that IN some cases,
famiiT alliance does not prevent the telling of
pH.ln truths about connexions by marriage.
On some accounts it may well be SAID that
1T is very tine thing to he brother il. law
TO very distinguished three tailed bsshaw A"
The Radical papers are at their old tricks,
representing every breach of the peace that oc-
ours in Virginia, as the result of the late rebel
triumph" as they affect to call the election OF
MIR Walker. II q black man Is shot while