Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-14
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Ar, nos Senator Boutwell,, Senator Mvrton
,,d that elias: of republicans generally making
:. hIundci in 50 pcIsiStcntiy aud c0usplcnnu>y
,;hcg pubic Alteration 20 the lamentable con
ijli,n If society IL some OF the Southern
States? These gcutlencu have been allowed
:, fix the policy on which reconstruction has
;,..n carried out IL those States. whatever
has i:ecn done down th;ro by republicans has
irrn done not only with thelr consent bu; hy
,acir initiative Inc policy Is theirs; the ma
no!ilta allies and irlcndS, whom they have
supported; at their iusance The President has
nsed :he federal ;orccS to c0uutcnancc ard
maintain both the policy AID the men. And
now, after they have had their way ontlr2ly for
nrarly eight years ;hry burst ont mt" com
pIauts that matters arc verse ihah ever ao"n
here. Is not this bundeF OF the first class
/, it not al open oon!ession that th'lr p1rcj
was a mistaken orc hat their lrl1n'> NH ~
thy have so vigorously SUPPORTED III cn!T}lEE
il cut we're not fit men; thar, IN short. ;hr}
who DOW complain nave GXpcrilneutcu III sHc
w:ong direction!
= p..lcut for seven long years shnud at the
end publicly say that the poor fellow was worse
;han when he first carnc under his trca. nselL
,ha, ht had not ben fitted in the ;casL by thc
medicine, and that his case seemed 10 th"
Doctor on the whole less hopeful than
wh,n nc began to administer his buuscS
Probably the faculty would unite ii cal.
.up him quack and mis- patient victim
ni wrong trt atulcnt. But In any case ihC
in.,urs confession would not rebound to
h, credit Sensible men would advise the
SEX aau to ny another physician; to see IT II
,lta,rn. trcatmcn would not at least alleviate
III misery Aud ii, across the street, there
should he louud halt dozen men who had hce;
Il! -! the same disease, ant wAu had meaSurably
recovered under diametrcally opposite mcth
az and medicine, only very little common scLSe
would lead the sick mans friends to dismiss the
qn:ck and engage more successful! doctor.
ousiticr these SICK brethren OF ours. Louisiana,
according to DrS. Mortoo, Kellogg aud Pack
a, is III very bad way Indeed; Mississippi,
according to Drs. Boutwell, and Anes, is nigh
unto death, aud they car think ot nothng 10
help bur more and bigger doses all the time Of
th. medicine they have been forcing down the
,!,roats of these patients for seven loug years
Eu over In the adjoining street We iud Arkan-
ras, once jus, as dangerously i'll as Mississippi;
Luz under DIR. Garland aud q different cyst en-,
ii treatment that patient has entirely recovered.
On the ether side arc AIabama and Georgia,
both OF these nave changed doctors aud both
are nearly we'll There is an occasional twlnsc
=, the old pain. but they are on the high road
to recovery.
All | but they have not been cured by DR..
Euulwclrs celebrated pills, and DIR. Mortou's
t;.;4med sticking plasters, and Gen. Grant
@ciutiop Of lead. That is the real cause OF ali
hv ou;cry These doctors seem to care less
about making The man we'll than they do that
he shall remain under their treatment. And
wi"n tho y ,or fellow persists in getting worse,
no matter how much of their medicine they
ram down his throat, then they get upaud scoid
hm. He is wretch, scouudrci, because nc
rupla!ns and is unhappy. Aud as to the te!
nws over the way, Dr. Boutwell, and DR.. Nor
ui hint gloomiIy that they are only pr";cnd-
nc to he well; that it is ali painful fraud; they
a'c at we'll at all, but sick and will present
Is die.
In" object of political policy is to make the
people who arc its subjects prosperous and con-
t"n.ei. such policy IS not :lko the moral LAW
or the Ton acknowledgements and 10
- endured whether it makes men happy or not.
4 political policy is IN expedient 1t Is one way
l. rrsrh result, and the condition OF adopting
"oJ trying it is that if it does not succeed 1t
ts:I be changed. Governor Ames and his par
y snd methods have ruled Mississippi for soy
"rn tedious years, and tho State and both races
wing in il are loss happy and loss prosperous
.r-'i.y than before. Evidently Amcs and his
p-trcy arc failures, and it would be wise try
s"9ie other way. But here comes Mr.. Boutwoli
And aemsnds that Amrs -is competent to deal
with ilississppi that his policy only more OF
lis The only adequate remedy Coy. Cham
ho;is;n in like manner has be n trying TO sat
thingS right in South Carolina. We do not
..'uh. h: means well; but What is tn" result
Attor long and fsir trial, ''contoul I'd the State,
says Sonstcr Norton ut is no better thar be.
lore. We must give them another twst c
Chamberlain" Kellogg and Packard and ihelr
n2hl" compcers havc been working al Loulslsl.n
s'nvc 1868, aud because thoy have not mado tho
Fa'i." contented IN! prosperous therefore they
h>'sl on being still longer retained By federal
iHlrrp"stton IS he: rulers Is it not all groat
i"v and absu"dity2 In fact. al this ou;cry
~"uli b. y lsughsb!c farce if it were not very
grave l..gndy.-- I. HcrnM