Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-09
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL IN IL w >.
RADICAL MEETING. Pursuant to notice"
the first grand rally of the campaign" on the
Radical side, took place last night at the colored
DAD Fellows Hail. south Columbus street."
which was presided over by John Seaton, r.
p. W. Garnet, acting as secretary. There
we're but very few white persons present, but
respectable attendance OF blacks.
The first speaker introduced was Mr. Joseph
Scgar, whose discourse, which occupied up
wards Of an hour in its delivery, consisted
chiefly of what he Mr.. S. had done in days
t. throw upon the native white people of North
aud South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama and
Louisiana the onus of the vast debts of those
States, piled up under Radical legislation and
By Radical encouragement If that is a
preferable term aud an explanation of the
great advantages to follow the extension Of the
James River aud Kanawha Canal to the West,
upon which there seems to be no division Of
sentiment in the State, as far as heard from;
aad urging that the only way to secure govern.
mental aid aud get Congress to open its money
bags, for the construction of the work was to
elect Col. Hughes, upon which there seems to
be a wide difference of opinion, and DISPOSE
ton on the part Of the people of the State to
let the canal stay where 1t is rather than sell
out to the Radicals aud turn over the State
TO the tender mercles of that party, es-
pecially when the security offered that the
and the market so ''fuctuating" MIR. Segar
has as he said, always been an internal i'm
provement advocate, and far better would it
have been for him had he, 10 the hour Of her
need stuck by the "old State" of which he
boasts of being so proud, and lent the weight
of his talents in building her up, rather than,
by his course, throwing additional weight into
the balance to drag her down to the condition
Of the States now grooming under Radical op-
preston and made the prey of corrupt men,
who use the main element of Radical strength
to enhance their own selfish purposes-a fact
as we'll known to Mr. s. as to any other living
mau-tor OF them and their Vaccinations he is
fully coguizant, and himself has felt the wrongs
that they can infct However, Mr. S. is now
one of the Washington leaders Of the "Repub-
lican" party of Virginia, and as sueh is such.
Mr.. Segar was opposed, aud so expressed him
was down on"-no miscegenation. Equal
rights" were we'll enough, but there he STOP
ped.
Mr. Segar was followed by young colored
man named Robert Mitchell who, not accus-
toned 10 public speaking, had put down what
he had to say on paper, wheretrom he read
that if the Conservative party ruled four more
years, Tom Scott and Garrett, as he familiarly
called those gentlemen, would have control of
the State and ergo, he called upon Col Stuart,
and all other good men to ''jiue' the Radicals.
The poor whites, in his opinion, were too ig-
uoraut to take care of themselves and were the
of the /. +. VS..
Having spoken his piece, Mitchell sat down,
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the IT, S.. &C., was introduced, and for about
threc-quaIters Of au hour he ''thundered on
the green, urging the people to pay more at
tcntlon to the study OF politics have
heretofore always been considered the bane OF
the State. He would doubtless aspire to the
position of teacher, and then, truly, would 1t
he the bllud leading the blind" and both
would certainly fall into the ditch. The speech
was of very low order, made up of vitupera-
tive abuse of the people of Virginia, and rather
disgusting, but the man did not belle his looks.
|. e. O'Neal followed 10 a calm aud tempe
rate speech Of very few minutes, 10 which he
mercy thanked the party for the honor confer
red upon him Of a nomination for seat 10 the
House of Delegates; said the question OF his
eligibility was all settled, and that it elected
he would faithfully serve the people.
John alphabetically "vox ct praeterea
ulll CUlOTGu Cduuludlc lOi luC IlousC Va
Delegates, spoke next He has evidently heard
MIR. Sumner when that gentleman had a bad
cold, aud tried to initiate his voice--that's all.
la deep CULTURAL accents, and with appropriate
sueuuity, aud due gravity, he announced that
this was contest of races This he said. ADD
nothing more, and the orator rested from his
abors
The hour was late-approaching the time
whcu grave-yards yawn and ghosts appear, but
there was one other speaker--Jacta est alea.
Slr. Edmund Burke, youth, who, though to
fortune not unknown, having quatfed but light
y at the font OF fame, and intoxicated by the
iusdous draught, unable longer to bear the
delays of old fogy Conservatism, has rushed
uadly into the malestrom of Radical politics,
unconscious, We are sure, of its dangers and
only alIured by the ignis fatuas, 'hic patel in.
gcus campus made his debut upon the
Radical stage, and with, ITO be or not to be;
that is the question? launched his fral bark
upon the purturbed waters Of the most uncer-
ta!o sea that mariner ere yentured on. There
Vas nothing striking in the speech save the
avOwa of answering fidelity to the Radical
Party Pity It's, It's so, but the aspiring youth
that tired the Ephesian dome, out lives &c.
\ resolution endorsing }. +. Lewis, l. G..
. Neal aud John Syphax was adopted, and
The meeting adjourned.
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