Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-31
About Colonel Holiday.

10 the editors of the Richmond Dispatch:
Ia the Dispatch Of yesterday 18Th Instantly
you write as fJIIows -
How STANDS THE TALLY ?-Tbere is one
| thing to be said about the Trends Of Colonel
Holiday, and this is tina they do not under
staDd how to conduct preliminary caovass.
Haviug u questionabiy, as We Thick, started
| out with more strength than any other candi.
date now before the people, be has made as
yet but sorry demonstration of popularity
| The counties which ought to have led eff ia his
support have ns0y OF them not yet appointed
delegates to the State Convention. We mean
ccuolies 10 which 90 one will pre,end 10 dery
that be is the almost universal choice Of the
pennle.'
| lyon which remark that 10 these days the
candidate himself is oftea tee source from
which his frieods derive their Inspiration; AID
it has occurred TO the writer, VINO is 10 CO scr,
of communication With Col. Holiday, that per,
haps his views of the dignity Of the Office 10
connection With which he has been prom!oer,.
ly banned haze deferred hin from taking any
active part, BY suggestion or otherwise 10 the
preliminary canvass.
10 his address before the Alumni of the Uol
vsrsty OF Virginia, delivered year ago. Col.
| Holiday held this language -
I'VE have ceased TO regard it (tbe Govc,o,
men,j ss high and holy thiog, whose cti.
ere 70 be held 10 the fear of Cos, aud Win a
seosc of respo visibility nro2ortiooed to its g!es,
i purposes, and an honest aim to the tu filmed,
Of its vial rds. Those Offices were once he'd
as though the iucu ube1t was clothed win ::
sacred Irust-oot rs so maay are 90" tl:lcc, .9r
selfish
purposes.
Again he says
The Goccruucot. with It's sacred fuac,i9oy,
co longer is Looked upoa by man. as the en-
bodiment OF whatever is august and the 'GoIh
er of our peace aod joy, but rather ns the arsaa
for the qualification Of ambition or a7arice.
Ooce again be declares -
w beu sec the politicians Jesuit
ing the public taste aod vcyng the pubic csr
With petitions fer cfiae, whose duties great
statesmen once thong b; it 40 hooor tc dl<chsrg,
when I see these things or worse, | AN ready
to despair, and to believe that the DAYS q the
republic are numbered, and that LhaJ0d MAJ
be written upon It's walls.
"Bu. when turn from this gloomy pic'u:c,
AID think upon the macn,fceuce CT tots hrrlt
age of ours-a contlnent so varied 10 is riches
70 bouodless 10 its resources; a people Tn1s.
hero.m is the Inheritance 0! generations, G..
tlblished by endurance unsurpassed bY any II
whom history tel!swheo [ lhink how completely
their destiny is 10 their owo hands ,atd how viii.
ing they are 10 be led by the good add nae. :
l am ii led with hone and invoke hos g0n!
ard tire to come out and ,ht tnst battle waco
| know will result IL the dscun .uce If he car
ME OF q rl!e government and al elevated c.T..
llzatiou."
III, shove are certainly very just and credits
bic sentiments ard 1 Can reodly understand
how man entertaining them would greatly
Lrefcr that go exalted 8 trust IS tie GoVefco7-
ship Of Virginia should sex m and not +" t.
that he would i.tler be sparet Ill c)aneciJ"
with prelui1f : canYass, nEd wold resolve
that the people WAC 1T" ab,Td ~. ) "ise TO- :-c
purpose. shCu say. without any ilteIveE. u
of Ii whether ttey We Id have him or s2sc
other one to serve them q: their Governor.
You ste right in ~ Do;lns that C"onel Hon.
day i: vey popular il his section. where be i
bat know; indeed h. is almost j !ol Z d i, Dst.
TIA scared " inche:,er and the count c; round
| about He possesses eminent /. ii :,tloGs o. b
CT head snd hear! for purlic tras:; nor IL !: %
| his disadvantage with you- corr-sDoLd N, r-r
should it be With the people, th,ti. tle r"t.'c.
meEt OF lis home he awaits their .:i:ioa, - Va:
the wont Ct Virgilia's best solz III the
GLDEN TINE