Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-11-21
A Card.
A Card.
ARLINGTON, VA, November Is, 1874.


Iames BrrJour esq:
SIX: When the papers published your extra
ordinary speech delivered at Cuipcper Court
House. after the late lection, and my attention
WAS called to your charge against me Ms corrupt
ly and unlawiully conspiring to pr Jcure your
defeat ~ candidate for Congress, made haste
IN preparing statement in my nvlndicat'"n,
in which my entire innocence of this sweeping
allegation WAS pointedly set forth. l dessted
in view of the fact that your age and public i'm
portAnce demanded another course. Twice have
| addressed you; ten days have l awaited Il
statement from you as to the correctness OF Thu;
report. l had tondly hoped that referring you
| to gentlemen of standing, varaclty and high re-
| spectabi.ity, and who were your ardent support.
ers and who knew the motives by which was
actusted from the beginning. you would be in.
duced over your own signature, to withdraw
this urjustihable charge. Now am to treat
your remarks rs correctly reported, and rs you
| have been misinformed, no doubt. by parties
| untriendly to me, let Us reason and see II you
are not without even pun OF wind upon which
to re your foundation. The Culpeper Conven-
| ton adjourned under resolution leaving the
| Republicans of our district free to act for the
interest Of the party" Our county committee
acted in good faith, and refused to place your
| name on their tickets rs it was known that you
were not in atiiiat'on with the Republican party.
l. with other citizens obeyed their bchests, and
voted accordingly. No one, to my knowledge,
sought to spring third Candidate in order thai
| General Hunton might nave al easy triumph
over you but left you to fight tout with your own
ammunition. This WAS in keeping with the no.
tice served at Culpeper that Alexandria county
would have nothing TO do with the new move
ment. Now, sir, let me state that from first to
last, neither here nor in Alexandria, have l ever
utter, d words of disparagement to any gentle
man but differed politically, which is my right
so 10 do as citizen Of Virginia. If You will ex-
anime the official vote Of this county you will
find 1t recorded strictly i'll harmony with the
above Statements But am charged with ne p
iag General Hunton, by controlling five or
six hundred votes for whom We're they cast?
and why Republicans should be censured for e.
fusing to assist you in defeating the :egular NOM
ince of your party, is what msLifes many hon
est voters. Sir, do yoa not know that 1t IS be-
licved by some that your darling theories touch
ing pu Jllc affairs vitality dangerou; TO al
parties and to the Republic as we'll, AMI that in
this particular General hunton has the sdvan-
tagc? That you should see I'll to give me part
ing blast becausr | SAW lit to exercise right pos
sessed By every cl lzen Is strange indeed. In
the presence OF God declare my entire lnno-
ccnCc of the charge laid against me, and conf
IDENTIFY look forward to the day, ii God spares
your life when from your own lips or pen you
will regret To be recorded to the credit OF
II citizen incapable of doing you injury. Blu,
you are going mission OF peace and concl-
iaticn have alr,ady embarked in that cau-e.
so we will g. shoulder TO shoulder IN that gro'
cause, and 90 ali We can to make Virginia pr -
porous ana glorious; and may Almighty ,,nd
il ume our path way and bless our efforts the
compliment which you would impose mon ma
in being able 10 grappe with the pow rftl com
binhtiur formed TO secure your elect on Is NOR.
than | bear; and indeed, thu n,aynitud, Of
the offence alleged is lost in thn honor uninten.
lionally imposed. !, it is said mike and un-
make Congressman l camp u bear this and,
in fac. the credit does not '.long to me-. but |
am willing to try my hnc5 He must be "spt
to teach rs Paul wcu!J saw, but I would have
him teach those thi:.gs mich the immortal sons
OF Virginia have .eiI 4 # our instruction rs es-
sea TO the pfeSerF s.tion of our free institutions
ana the only way, of Republican safety.
"ouId maze MN cherish those rays of genius
when ans oLatn t.s.s hurled with irresistible pow
er III every natT maj movement from the revo-
! ios'oH do"h 70 the present.; and would have
nun dismiss from his mind any speculative phil
| oSphy IN po tics and throw himself on the AZ
Gent paths bc..en by the footsteps OF the hath
! ers; "o aid have him guard the right, III all,
ana ke"J steadily in view he constitution and
the gr" i Declaration. If these brief hints can
III aIay way show my fitness for this new and I'M
| tre'i postion-I WAS about to say | shaIl serve
! but sir, l mast think about that hope, sir,
J .h'<.t you may yet see Ill to dispense the shadow
/ " it'll which you would COY er my name, and which
| can, under no circumstances, make you rlch,
but which, If true, woIld make me poor indeed"
Very respectfully.
[ouS Il CYpHAy