Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-06-07
Cox yyise.s Programme.

After denounciog in the seVcrest manner
the Conservatives of the State. and also saying
some hard things about the Radicals, Gov.
| Wise, in his recent letter, gives the following
as his programme
There are many independent, true, fearless,
rosnonsible and honorable men, who are pat
riots without fear and without rcproach, who
will not be champions of either one bird or the
orher of YOUR feathers of either principal
partv or its endorscr in the wrong but VINO
are tired and sick OF you both, and Will try TO
| take raking fire at you both lhey wish 1or
peace and prosperlty-a double peacc-not only
to ccatrize the wounds between Northern ana
Southern people and States, but between labor
and skill and capital and races OF men IN our
midst
rayed against the black man, or the black man
arainst the white man, is to be the watch
word and the reply" in the coming political
camnairn in Virginia, Vrgiuia's honor and
eycry interest of Virginia will demand peace
makers in Virginia, true enough, brave enough,
with good sense and good feeling enough, and
indepcndcnt enough to interp0se between both
black aud white sans culottes TO silence their
raven notes as silent as death. They will re-
ouire both Conservatives and Republicans,
| without going to elther-to come to their pro-
graumc of peace and Of principle.
They will demand that no war shall be made
bv politica parties Of the white upon the color
ed race that all men shall be placed on the
same footing before the laws, and they will
struggle for the restoration Of all political rights
and rcparation of all wrongs Incurred and
caused by the late civil war.
Without delaying and disputiog with West
Virginia about her liability for portion Of the
anto-beum public debt Oft old body polite
of Virginia, they will insist that East Virginia,
as we'll as West is a new State, and they Will
endeavor to relieve both of the oppressive
turthen of the debt of the old State OF Virginia
bv uniting both new States aud all the credl-
tors Of the old State, to petition and prevail 90
the Congress of the United States to pay, fully
pay, all her debts ; to insist that by dIsmem-
bering the old State and destroying her body
polite and being 10 law, for the national use OF
saving the Uuion. the United States assumed
her liabilities. And that the two new States OF
East aud West Virginia are entitled to all the
advances and expenditures for them, usually
made to and for all other new States such, for
example. as the new States Of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and Michigan, the territory Of which
old Virginia coded, without money and without
price, to she United States, under section ILL.,,
article ". of the constitution Of the United
States, and under the various deeds Of cecson
aud land ordinances of the United States.
That during the pending OF petitions Tor pay
ment by Congress of the principal OF the old
State debt, due provision shall be made to pay
the interest thereon, accrulug and accrued, by
resorling to extraordinary measures which
NAV be 10 the power of the State such as that
of assuming the sovereign right Of insurance OF
life and property; thus enabling the State trca-
sury in tune to meet the interest, aud, 10 case
of judicial decision to that effect, to pay the
principal of the old State debt, and at the same
time to diminish the taxes of the people, by
bringing into the public Golfers from three to
five millions worth of premiums per annum,
which are now paid to private insurance COM
panes, aud most Of which Is taken out OF the
State by foreign insurance companies.
| That they will unite 10 urging upon Congress
| to take the James river and kanawha canal at
cost; and to complete the construction thereof,
on the largest and most permanent scale, from
the tide-waters of the James to the Ohio river;
on the ground Of its being an improvement as
national as any ever made or to be made on the
continent.
They will demand that the monopoies Of
railroad companies, and the corruptious of rail
road rings, shall be prevented under cttectuaI
penalties aud by free competition.
They will demand that the rate OF interest
on mony loaned, or due, shall not exceed six
per cent per annum excessive usury; and that
the lately expressed will of the people US to
usury shall be obeyed.
They will endeavor to have the public schools
of instruction better regulated, aud to make
them worthy of the cost of liberal support.
They will struggle to make assessments Of
property uniform and ad valorem; and to have
the State revenue more regularly collected and
paid into the Treasury; and to insure that more
economy shall be observedin the public expen-
ditures.
They will combine to elect the best men to
Office, without respect to parties or their eau
cuses, to carry these principles into effect.
And, if the President Of the United States will
aid in promoting these measures, they will
without regard to the past, give to his admin
istratiou for the future just and generous sup
port.
LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY.-A letter
from Horace Greeley not before published,
makes its appearance in the New York Trl-
bune as follows:
NEW YORK, April q. 1865.
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