Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-12-09
Radical Whining and Radical BIusfe

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Radical Whining and Radical Buster
10 tho editor Of the Alexandria Gazette:
SIR: The republican party throughout the
United States is, at this time, industriously On,
gagged 10 playing two games, with about euual
hands--the game Of whining and the game OF
buster Ii they succeed at either the Ameri-
can PEOPLE will strangely belle their his.
tory their history on this coutineut, and
their history in those renowned islands 10 tho
Moth Of Europe from which they mainly
spring islands whose soil is conseorated by the
blood of patriots and Of martyrs.
Let US look first at their game oi whining.
With casped hands and Pharisacal JUNCTION,
With broad phylacteries and on the corners OF
the streets they entreat the democratic party
not TO .llerie1ntze the nation. Are they SO blind
as not TO see that II it were the democratic party
that was MeXcanizing the nation we would be
III each others throsts now ; aye, and at some
icg4n times besides during the past ten years.
are they 81 dishonest rs not 70 acknowledge
that it is the democratic party, and the demo
cratic party alone, which, by its unexampled
iorbearance. and it's sublime faith in, aud ap-
peal to, the Constitution aud the laws is. just
ut this crisis, preventing the nation from bong
NlexcauiZed? Ia their heart j core ,io they not
feel tha. MeH are the Mexcans Let them
understand, once for all. that viii le the demo
cratic party will never play this ignoble role,
they are still an English speaking people OF
that race who have more than once found it
necessary to defend their liberties With barred
breasts and uplitted arms. Not differing cir
cumstances, not the broad ocean which rolls
between, certainly not our history on this con
tuent, can deprive US OF our share IN the glo
rlous heritage Of which the poet sang
''ln our halls is hung
Arlnory Of the invincible knights Of old;
We must be free, or die. who speake the tongue
That Shakspere spake.
And now for radical blustcr. Gen. Grant,
after having, 10 time Of profound peace, in
defiance Of the Constitution and the laws, pour
ed his battalions into the hapless States OF
South Carolina. Florida and Louisiana 10 or
der to encourage their shameless rulers, and to
overawc good citizens and drive them from the
polls, is now, his Infamous work we'll done at
The South, rushing his soldiers into the Fede-
raj Capital, with brutal insensibility to the
most sacred Instincts OF the American people.
And with what object? With none under the
sun but to intimdate the Representatives OF
the people, in the halls OF their Capitol, 10 the
audacity he is bent on enactlng at Washington
the part just played in the ''prostrate States.
With his skeleton ba.talons he proposes to
trighten the descendants OF the stern Puritan
stock represented by tina, assembiymau IRON
Connecticut Who when 1t was proposed to ad
eurn the Legislature on the darkest day ever
known 10 New England. when the light 0! the
sun vas blotted lrohl the heavens and the day
of Judgment was supposed to be at hand, NOV.
"a and carried resolution that the lamps
should be lighted aud the regular business
should &c on, saying that it the last day was
really upon them the Legislature or Connectl-
cut could oot better be employed than m the
execution Of It's duty. Against such material
as this, and against tho rough and ready West
ern men, accustomed to rise up and he down
with danger, he is now ostenta!iousIy dr'llieg
hi. handful of troops. Great .]ove Have the
sveneine gods. beut upon his rua made the
man mad? Does he aot zee that this IS
question to be settled by The tdW Of The tnnd,
and not By the rude hand Of en- !: coarse SOL
der as hcl Does he not know that three.
fourths oil the American people are not now at
his back, but n his iront2 At last has bis
guardian angel lett him TO his tatc2 /
Yes, it is question to Ge settled by law aud
not by force as he will speedily iind out by the
seton of Congress- whose Intimidation nc has
now the bsrdlhood 60 plot. lha tonstitution
has laid down wnai that process oi Law shall
be, 30 Ie vii! net, s7itn supethaeus pen, take
time 10 designate it, Suffice it TO say, that
arst the loiot session. than, II necessary, the
House of Representatives will cut the knot
The blood aud tears Of the people, following
an appeal to arms, will, thank Hoaveo, DOT be
necessary TO the conservation OF our ioefties~-
though, were they needed. let no man dauet,
thou vouI1 he treeiT given.
As to General Grant, let him rejoice that he
will be spared the issue he has sought TO t'rce
npoo the country. Let Ein proceed 90 his
contemplated tour over Europe, where he Will
pass before the eyes Of uionarcas who have no
sympathy with republican pretender to hign-
sr preroga!ives than their own-where ne vii
prss before the cycs IL blue bioodcd nobility,
who have uothipg IN COMMON With hlnl-Where
lie will pass before the eyes of the people VINO
will shrick from him as from The Public Fac
NV. Before he returns to his native land let
him ponder sadly oven wasted opportunities,
which property embraced. might have sent his
uame down The tides oi time iuseparabiy inter
twincd with that of Washington oiut =sv!ours
of their country. Before it IS TOO late, IT yet
it be possible, let him do works meet Tor re-
uentauce or he will be to!lswed to his tomb by
the lust sxccralions Of his countrymen. or he
will die "as the fool dies"-unwept, unhonor'
,I and nnsnny. HAMpDEN