Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-29
COMMUNICATED.
People vs.. Politicians.

feel u genuine satisfaction in being able to
assert that the forbearing people have at last
become sensible of their danger; have raised
the standard of revolt against politicians, eau
cuses, ct id omue genus, and will bury the
'irreconcieables, this fall, Sc deep, that the
hand Of the future resurrectionist can hardly
hope to reach them. Pardon ME for briefly al.
ludng to the Convention, the rem, rkdble Con-
ventlon, held in Warrenton, Fauquier county,
where the members, with stolid Indifference to
the popular will, did not, for single moment,
hesitate to cast overheard such men as James
V. Brooke aud Z.ph Turnor, men of known
ability, of experience, of broad National views.
Indeed the action of this Convention was so
strange, so unaccouptable, that doubt exists in
the minds of many to this day. whether they
did not really forget their object of meeting
and proceed to select delegates capable aud
suitable to represent us In some State fair, or
some other social gathering, instead Of being
engaged in the solemn and responsible position
of naming men to represent Fauquier and Rap
pahannock 10 the councils of the State. BY the
| by, Gov. Smith is the last mau 10 this world
who ought TO complain of the position of Col.
John 5. Mosby. | Was the supporter of Gov.
Smith for Dumber of years, and know Col.
| Musby in being an independent candidate for
Congress is only following bright example
set by Gov. Smith himself. Gov. Smith rep
resented this Congressional District for many
years in Congress, and always ran in opposition
to and in defiance Of Conventions. Men who
are in favor of Conventions, generally, have
little merit of their own to stand upon, and
| mis Ia al ub,,r, c,,F1p "a
sustain them before the people, Now this is
on his own record and 90 his own merit, a
achievements and OF civic triumphs Of which
any man in Chrstendom might we'll be proud
Now it is patent fact, notorious fact, that
everybody who wants anything done gets
Col. Mosby to 60 to Washington to get it done
for them. 1t seems to me that as Col. Mosby
does the work be should, at least be entitled to
some of the houors and emoluments pertaining
to representative of the people 10 the Con
gress OF the United States. | will not again
refer to the many mistakes 10 judgment coul-
mltted before the War by these same 'lriccon-
cilcables, such as proclaimiug cotton king.
&C., &c; that England would have to intervene
in our favor to keep her pauper population
down, maddened and driven to desperation by
starvation if the manufactures could not get
our cotton. England moral sentiment against
slavery and her desire to see the cotton inter
ests of America destroyed, was Il believed then
and believe now just VIVA. prevented Inter
veutlon' Oh the part OF the English govern
ment. The English government has always kept
in view the main chance, and as our cotton fails
to reach the markets Of the world her East
India possessions, producing cotton, must be
increased 10 value to her. These war men Of
to-day, Gov. Smith, Gen. Hutton and others,
assert, are the same men who hurled the
South into secession, who carried our people
off 10 search of their rights in the territories,
and lost all they had in the States, and they
are now seeking, by keeping up discord and
strife with the National government, to perpetu
ate the consequences Of their Cwn folloy
SENEX.