Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-09-09
ssNaw Vir~iuia -

To credit the statements Of the Washington
Chronicle would be to assume that the men
who constitute the Conservative party ID this
State are opposed to progress OF every kind;
to education and internal improvements to
commerce and manufactures are still nursing
rebellion in their hearts, and eagerly watching
for an opportunity TO rend the Union. 1t
says:
"rhe most unrelenting warfare is made by
the press and on the stump against any at
tempt to develop the resources of the State,
any spirit of progress The men who are lead
ing the Conservative canvass seem to have 10
view but one object, the preservation of Old
Virginia. with her fossil ideas, her decrepit
spirit of improvement, her illiberasm, her ha-
tired, her love for the rebellion, 10 fact every
thing that the State should forget and aban-
DON"
What libel on Old Virginia that cement
ed the Union" according to Bancroft, Mas
sachusetts historian, and endowed it more
richly than any other State could, or would do,
and that, in 1861, put forth such earnest
efforts, through the Peace Congress which she
naugurated, to preserve the unlon-ettorts
that would have been successful had they been
met, on the part of the Republican party,
then dominating in the North and IN Congress, in
the spirit that animated the Mother of States.
And what libel We may add.on New Virginia.
are these declarations, aud others found 10 the
same article, when it is known that under Con
servative rule, hundreds of miles of railway have
been completed, mines have been opened, i'm
migrants invited, thousands of public schools,
for free education, have been established, aud
the whole State is instinct with life and re-
newed energy upon every subject connected
49,; Lo nd do,-,lonp,ort of Stoto |
Aud all this time, the lynx-eyed repre-
sentatives of Federal authority have not
been able to lay their mailed hands upon
single Kuklux, or detect any sembance of
purpose to deprive any man, by State au-
thority, of his political rights Yet all this goes
for nothing, So long as Virginia refuses to
be reduced to the lamentable condition of
those Southern States where the Radical rule
has succeeded in destroying all prosperity,
bringing blight and mildeW upon once pros
porous communities. Let the Chronicle com
pare Virginia, under Conservative rule, with
South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, aud be shamed into silence
Lynchbwg Trginian.
DELAY OF THE NORTHERN MAILS. The
York Herald gives the following as the solution
Of the mystery for some time surrounding the
daily detention of the mails on the through
northern route:
The continued irregularity Of the New York
mail for Washington is becoming intolerable.
Inquiry at the Post Office Department shows
that the deteptonis entirely north of Baltimore,
and that the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in
stead Of being at fault, is the only company
barring unavoidable detentions by accident
that has promptly fulfilled its part of the con-
tract 1t is stated by the Post Office officials
that frequently the mail has been brought from
Baltimore to this city By special engine, when
delivered behind time to the Baltimore and Ohio
company, and is never on their road over sixty
minutes,
1T is also said, 10 defense of the postal ar
rangcments, that these delays were very seldom
known until the Pennsylvania Central railroad,
which controls and owns the route from Phila-
delphia to New York, and the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad from Baltimore to Washing
ton, ten days ago begun its action against the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company"