Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-11-02

shame mantle the cheeks Of the American peo-
ple: What wa. the remedy. Vote for your
nominations He animadverted with yigor up
ON rhe effect of independents in the party, and
closed with eulogy upon the State aud al ex
hortation to the Conservatives to stand with
locked shields like the Macedonian phalanx
There was Conservative majority Of fl, 900 in
the State, and if we do hot succeed it would be
because We don't use the advantages given Us
BY Providence We must secure a just victory
and the occupation of those harpies will be
gone. He closed with al expression Of his de-
light at seeing an audience so large, and drew
thercfurm auguries of success.
Judge Henry W. Thomas. Of Fairfax, can
didatc for the State Senate was then introduce
Ell. The Judge said he would address the
meeting not from personal inc!inations but is
the chosen standard bearer of the party. lie
coruplimeutcd Gov. Smith upon his course in
the past and the present, and upon the effort
he had just made, and pointed to his action as
an example uf dSintcreStcd patriotism, to be
followed by all who love their country. lie
was clad the Governor had made 4 dscrluna-
ton between Radicals and Republicans, for
there was difference between them, though
he must say, that in this contest, he had met
with but few of the latter. MIR. Willouglfby
SAID tlaL Ic was nOl III Id'Oi vi spilC VI ll|
opinions held by Mr. Daniels, but the doctrines
Of both or either of them would tend to f;lsten
upon us all the evils under which the South
ern States now suffer, for in the nature
of things Il Virginia Radical must be the same
as Radical from any of the other States raw
aged by the war; and what has been done III
those other States by Radicals would be done
here were that party to again come into power.
They tell you they will economist and lessen
taxation and improve the State, but beware OF
their soft words; they want control, and then
our present evils would be trebled and Il SINH
lar condition of affairs be established in Vir-
GINA as obtained in the rest OF the South, where
they had Increased the State S debt from sixty
to two hundred and seventy millions. The EN-
bodymcnt Of the Radical record is the present
State CONSTITUTIONS brought from MasSachu-
sets, the source of all our woes-whlch fits
Virginia as his-thc speaker coat 1.-THE Judge
is very stout would fit Chap. Ncalc, Mr.. Ncalc
is very thin and one Of his first acts in the
Legislature, when he got there, would DC to
endcavor to get rid oft. 1t was an instrument
devised for taking the State out OF the control
of those who lived in it, and one OF the CON-
missioncrs sent by General StOncman through
the State to examine into the qualification vi
officers, had told him that after the publication
of that Generals speech, in which he said that
he could not find enough people in the State
to fill the Offices who could take the ilon-clad
oath. thousands of letters had been sent to him
from the North 10y urgent applicants for the
offices With 10000 colored votes to start
with they think they can honey-tugge, by dis
cusSng side issues. enough white votes to
carry the State There are only 1000 white
Radicals in the State. and of these about one
fourth reside in this district, aud i'll this dis
trict who have they selected as their candidates
for the Legislature In Prince William man
named Round, from some where down east
he did ut know where; in Fairfax Mr. Gray,
from Michigan in Alexandria, Pearce, from
New York. and colored man named Scaton-
the worthicst of the whole crew. The Radical
platform, it appeared could be changed to suit
localities and persous-that of Mr.. Wllloughby
was in favor of general amnesty, and yet that
gentleman in 1866 had signed petition asking
the distranchisemcut Of all the leading ctlzeus
of the State at least for time; in some places
its supporters We're in favor of mixed schools.
Our platform is opposition to Radicalisul-a plat
form the issue of which is lite or death. lie
had heard Radical speak last night de-
nounce the Conservative party tor the salary OF
the Governor, and for a section of the school
law, both of which were provided in the State
Constitution Daniels said he would vote
against executing the funding bill, but Will
loughby would not gn that far-though he did
think some parts of it were unconstitutional.
tIe. the speaker did not favor all the sections
of that BILL and thought that some portions OF
it might have been made better than it stands
now But the Radical party had supported the
bill, and Popham, the leading man Of the party,
spoke in its favor and voted tor IT., and Hlr.
Daniels now supports him! Why did not Mr..
Daniels, as editor OF the organ of the party in
the State, lash his party tor their support OF
the bill ? (Mr Daniels, who was in the hail. rose
and said that he was not editor of the paper at
the time. but that Mr. ellis was While up
he would ask Judge Thomas to explain the
difference between Radical and Republican or
between him, the speaker, and Mr.. Willoughhy)
JudgcThomas rcsuming: Why then did not MIR.
ellis, as the editor of the mouth piece OF the
party, oppose the passage Of the bill? lie had
heard it said that the last was purchased
Neutrality-suspicious. the silence Of the State
Journal was purchased silence. Never until
these adventures from the North came here
was the purchase system used in the Virginia
Legislature. One man, it had been said, made
Sl5.UUU by his vote on the bill and 1t
won do to trust them, not even when they
saw they will make the old State bloom and
blossom as the rose, for they had done that ten
years ago, but their blooms were burnt chin;
mics and their blossoms devastated fields and
We don t want to witness such scenes again.
And then, too, they were great on ecououy;
but in all their proposed rctrenchmcnt there
was no general cry for a reduction of the per
diem for legislators, and if 1t we're known IN
the counties in which the Radicals have ma
jority that the candidates of the party in this
section of the State were in favor of reduction
OF the per diem, such a to do would be
kicked up as was never before heard.
The Radicals in the State numbered 1ol 600
Thousand, Of whom o. 900 were negroes. Now
SUPPOSE that he and MIR. Taylor had gone FROM
Virginia to Rensselaer, county, New York. when
the anti-reuters disturbance took place, there,
and tried to be elected to offices by affiIlating
with one partyand infaming their minds against
the other, would not the good citizens OF that
county think they we're guilty Of unparalleled
presumption? And yet who REPRESENTED the I'll
counties in the Convention that nominated the
7, III ., !; J,tos for this Senatorial District.