Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-12
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MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER II.
The Result Of the Elections.

The Result Of the Elections.
MIR. Tamage lecured last night at the Brook.
lyn Tabernacle on the political affairs of the day.
The mirthful event Of the week, said he, and
| the joke of the present national administration
| is the appointment by President Hayes of Col.
| IugerSoIl as Minister to Germany, the birth
place of modern infdeIity. Colonel Ingersoll
has been filling the land with blatant infdelity,
and oD the stage of our own Academy OF Music
took the liberty Of giving the opinion that Goi
was great ghost and has been delivering his
lecture entitled, 'An Honest God the NobleSt
Work of Man." President Hayes is Metho
dist, and Of course accepts IN their heartiest
meaning all the truths Of Christianity, and now
he sends Mr. Ingsrsoll to Germany, the nest OF
modern scepticism-a nomination so ut to De
made that it has kept me smiling all the week.
country can stand it and Germany will tecl no
shock.
Another event of the week. said the preacher.
is the election. am delighted with the result. 1t
was necessary that New York should eec! tho
foremost gambler in the U. S. to the Office
of State Senator before the people could realize
the iufernal depth into which modern politics
could sink. We have reached the turning point.
The election of John MorrIssey to the office OF
State Senator seemed to be necessity in order
that the people might realize what We have
come to, and to make it more conspicuous he
has been elected, not by his old time partisaps,
but by republicans. Hamilton Fish, General
Grants Secretary of State, voted for him; Peter
Cooper the friend of education and the founder
of a great institute, voted for him; tho brown
stone fronts voted for him, the Fifth avenue
euuipages voted for him, Murray Hill votes for
him-if some of you had lived there you would
have voted for him. Laughter. Meanwhile
gambling is made respectable. Three cheers
for the plug ugies and the dead beats and tho
roughs of the Sixth ward From this election
the tide turns; our cities will shake themselves
from the horrid incubus We will have IN al!
our cities no candidate party, an orgauz.d
and drilled association Of men. who will scrupu'
lousy abstain from all nominations, but who
will pledge itself to vote for that one Of tho
candidates who has the most upright charac.
ter. When such party as that Is formed
the two political parties will not dare to nomI-
nate renegades Decent men will hold the bal
ance of power 10 all our cities. You cannot cS.
cape the fact that you are to day SUBJECT OF
the worst oaler in the United States. Ills
diamonds, big as hens eggs, can't make him re
spectacle while he goes on destroying young
men and breaking up more homes every day
than he can count on histca fingers. For some
wise reason the Lord has allowed this rctribu'
ton to fall, think, to disgust, alarm and arouse
good people of the whole country. Our sister
CITY and the State can afford the disgrace II the
reaction be so mighty as to put 40 end to John
Morrisseyism forever. 1t is in this light oi
the subjcc! that l consent cheerlu'ly to the
election.
In our own city oil Brooklyn 10 the election
take it as glad omen that the tickets OF both
parties were split and scratched as never bclere,
and men were voted for according as the people
estim msted their moral character, and 20 some
ran ahead Of their tick kct, others behind.
think the people wanted to know who were the
best men, and hence all this splitting aud
scratching oftickets. The prospectis is that by the
time of our next election the question OF mo.
rality will be first and the question OF partisan.
SHIP sccoad. | take wider view and look at
the elections throughout the country last Tues
day. | take them to men just thls-No more
war between the North and the South.
(Applause.) In consideration OF what has
transpired the people have voted for na
tional peace. Ia what a miserable predlca
ment are the politicians who wanted to keep up
the old grudge. They want to be President
they never can. A man who thirteen years al
ter the close Of our national strife is still indulg-
ing the war spirit will never reach the Ircsl'
dental chair. On his head will rest tho curse
of God and the nation. Applause. Tie
time is coming when ell the ballot boxes and
all the political Offices are to be brought up un-
der Christian Influences. A religion that won't
tell man how 10 vote as we'll as how to pray
is no religion at all. How shall cur politics be
purified? ? Will professional politicians do it?
No. vii! political orators do it? For tho
| most part, no. stopped on my way up the
| street during the last canvass at the democratic
| headquarters and heard there that all tho re-
pubicans we're thieves. At the republican
headquarters | heard that all the democrats
| were viIlsios. So made up my mind that
neither of the political parties of the day is able
10 report 10 respect to the other party. Whence,
then the healing, purifying and clevating in-
fuences? From the Word of God and tho
Spirit of God and from 20 other source. l call
on men who believe in the Bible and the com.
ing ofthe judgment, when We must give an &C.
! count of our votes, to join 10 crusade against
[ the netarious elements now abroad.-Ne0 Ior%
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