Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-31
LOCAL NEWS.

| miles to address what he supposed was to be a
large gathering, at Stafford Court House, but
when he got there he found only fifteen men IN
! the whole village; but he was not discouraged
and would travel five hundred miles TO address
three people, if by SO doing he could in
| fuence them to register and vote Tor w alker
and the expurgated Constitution. The Con-
| stitution he said was framed by aliens anu ne
groes. but barring the test oath, dlsiranchislng
| and county organization clauses, contained many
/ commendabe features, and would result ih
much good to the State-among It's advantages
1 ho;ng The certain advancement of the arts and
sciences. The two Objectionable clauses, now
ever. upon which separate vote was 10 DC
taken, il not rejected would teyond question OF
doubt turn the State over TO the tendeE hefcieS
| of the carpet baggers and negroes, ana tne
| nroud old Commonwealth would bur meet the
| t,te NJ other reyolted nations, over whose dcs-
| tioies foreigners were placed to preside, and
| that was entire oblteration and Adjustment.
! He also said that tho people ol the North
| could boast OF superior popular education, and
Wpr,. rn.ses,cd of mere general l"!ornnlion
| than hose OF the South Tie Wa very a-y|re
| in his denunciations ul tue cdrpct-tasgerS,
whom he designated carton HroHs, ana men
toned rs "a example OF the grip th5y now
had upon the State, that in the county OF Mad
ison there was but one magistrate who was
native \ rgiuian, and that lie happened to lie
IN Oregon during the war. He SAID that the
sheriff OF Fauduier, carpet baggcr, collected
$50, 900 IA taxes and licenses, and handled
twice that sum "a trust money, anu that his
sureties altogether paid hut TigC'V three cents
per annum as taxes INTO the State treasury,
and that with such irresponsible security 1t Wa
impossible that there should not be dctacaton.
| He stated too, that carpet Dagger had COM
menced operations iu Albemarc county by APP
plyinv for an Injunction to prevent the trustees
| OF the estate of the late Mr. Miller, Of Lynch
| burg, from executing the provisions OF that
gentleman $ will in order that hey might get
their clutches on the money. It the end OF
Republicani9m, he said, wa [. benefit carpet
baRgers, then he was no longer u member OF
that party, for to carpet baggcT3 he attributed
every species of villalry, and drsaaIu! would be
the condition of affairs II Wells aud his crew
got possession Of the State. He said that Gov.
Wells had been hauled over the Goals by bis
party IN Richmond, tor wrtl3ra letter in which
he had favored the submission Of the torstltn-
ton With separate votes on the two obnoxious
clauses, Lut that hia answer to them was !
wrote that letter TO catch white vote. l.j idC
manage the canvass my own way All you
nave 10 10 Is 10 iuSliutt tlS iIpNll ~ iFt' ~
vote against the eypurgatlon, and such IA
structlons have been given them. lie dad not
think the white mon meH OF the state would
vote to surrender the Jury Loz to negroes and
carpet baggers. The negrueg. be sand, we've
nightly drilled into the beiici til at the lie IN Of
the white people was to reduce them to slavery
again, but such was not the intention OF the
people OF the State aud he WAS sorry that no
negroes were present that he might tell them
that the only true friends they bad were
the white property holders OF the State and
the very lew property owners who came from
the North they got nothing from the carpet
baggers, who had nothing to gave them that
they were surely laying up wrath Tor d>y to
come, aud that day would come as soon a. al
fairs became settled, and ii they kae% their
own interest they would let Messrs. Wel's
Bond and Chandler paddle their own canoes,
Tor carpet baggers he considered - nIIicrrr5 by
trade He had heard Whlttlescy plead by the
hour before the Reconstruction C0mnittee, o,ll
of his scrap book, that the Constitution should
be submitted without the dotung OF al IL or the
crossing OF a t, and telling that committee that
| no Union man life or property was sare, while
l such Judges as the gentlemen who have lately
been deposed, and who graced the positions
thew filed, were on the bench, aud 1t vas Under
the pressure of such lying statements, and SIM
assertions by Wells and others, and he was
sorry 10 say by the previous evidence OF Nj.
l Lewis Mckenzie, that that committee had acted
| as they had done He said that all the white
| Union men in the State but ten per ct, would
| vote for Gilbert {. Walkcrof whom he
l spoke in the most complimentary terms, and
l who he said had no utilization with the carton
| crew, Of which Ii. Z. Wells is the chef-tor
/ Governor, and under whose administration the
l Objectionable county organization clause would
/ be imperative, tor unless the negroes aud car
I pet-baggers had two-thlr6s majority 10 the
l Legislature to override his vetOeS, he would be
master Of the position. lie earnestly advised
| all to register, and sal! that II the apathy ap-
parent on the several occasions on which he
| had addressed the citizens OF Alexandria con
tinued, it would but invite the reign OF carpet.
bapgers. When man comes before conlu'
nitv for an office in the gift OF that community,
said he, his public record becomes subject
for public comment, and here he read long cX-
| tracts from the published report OF the Recon
1 struction Committee, giving the testimony oi
MIR. Lewis Mckenzie before that committee,
and said that it was that testimony which had
helped to bring about the present depOrablc
condition Of affairs In Virginia and in the South,
| and asked was it to be wondered ut that the
| minds OF the members of Congress were poison
l ed by such statements, or that the people CT
many of the counties OF this district desired
and clamored for Convention to nominate
| some G.her man than he no who had made
| them, and who only three weeks ago, as could
be proved by MIR. Rufins letter, was opposed
| to allowing separate vote to be taken uIon
the county organization clause, to represent
them 10 the National Legislature. lie said
Mr.. Mckenzie was too much engaged aud did
not have time to go to Congress, los he already
| runs railroad and bank, auh runs them both
| WE'LL though valuable aids to Congressional
candidate-aud the County Court--but h(
didn't 90 that well, for he bungles there ant
| large commercial business, and the LIST Pros
byterial Church, and, SAID he, II lie wresie'
well with the devil there he wont:haYe time t
fight with those he would meet were he IL
Congress. He then stated the qualification
of a good Congressman, and SAID that th'
member from this district would havt
to possess them, for that the removal OF pohh
cal restrictions, aud the organization OF boar
10 audit the damages sustained ii the distnc
| BY the war would be matters considered at th'
next session Mr. Mckenzie did not posses
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