Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-20
ICOMMUSlCATED.
Colonel i1Osby.

COMMUNICATED.
Colonel HIOsby.
Though the presidential election through
which we have Just passed, and which tcrmin-
ated in the Installation of 2 party candidate 10
the executive chair Of the nstion under the
extraordinary complications then existing, was
we'll calculated 10 arouse, aud doubtless did ex-
cite, the widest apprehensious for the future
safely add welfare Of our country, yet it seems
that from all the chaos and confusion, passion
aud party warfare, and difficulties both specu
lative and practical, pertaining to the late cam
pagn, an era of true peace and prosperity is
begiuung TO dawn. AT no time since the war
has the American Uuion been stronger in the
popular heart than it is to day. The result OF
the election, and the policy Of the aduinistra
ton, sustained as it is by all good and true
men, regardless Of party affiliations, is rapidly
dimiolsbiog on the ooe hand that large number
Of persons who unfortunately have hitherto
swcrvcd in their adherence to those vital fuod-
ameutal principles which divide US from the
restrictions and crcumscrbed liberties Of the
Old world, and 90 the other hand it is bringing
| the great masses OF the people SO uDhapplly
| esranged to Z better understanding or each
other by policy Of mutual justice aud conclIl'
alton. Though patriotism may be, 10 the Ian
| guase OF Sir William Petit, the great English
statesman, 'paut Of slow growth yet the
result plainly Indicates that there Is sufficient
patriotism 10 cur country, outside OF party
lines, and which grows spontaneously 10 the
| South as well as IN the North to tOresta!l the
possibility Of interneciuo war; and which will
never rest content till peace and order reign
supreme and the old brotherhood of the people
is revived by striking down The great evils
which have so long preyed upon the body poll
tic Had the fortunes Of the two parties been
reversed and victory perched upon democratic
standards, it cannot be doubted that sectional
and partisan administration would have en-
sued, and in this the country has escaped a
great misfortune. Under the guidance OF the
President chosen instead Of pandcmonlum
OF hostile opinions, feelings and interests, like
opposite clectrlcties threatening, If brought
in contact, an explosion which would shatter
the foundations of the republic at this early
period Of his term, We behold a resplendcnt
epoch Of universal good feeling. And if there
is one man more than aoother who, next To
Rutherford B. Hayes. is entitled to the honor
Of having suggested, originated and loaugu
rated this generous and enlightened policy
which, in lis trultion, promises to be the resur
rcction and redemption Of the South, that mat
is Col. John s. Mosby. 1t has been said thai
a wise man is best satisfied when he finds that
arguments which weigh with him, wcl Oh also
with thousands around him to whom they arc
communicated If such be the case, then COL
Mcsby must feel exceedingly gratlhed to SEE
| r;rip tod in hn nj
forge and working house of his thought be-
came the rule 10 govern great administration
and az such bear down all opposition amid uni
versa applause. That Col. Mosby is the au
thor and champion of the great pacific policy
no unprecedented man will deny; that he ad
vancod ten years ago the idea upon which it i:
founded is a matter of history. and admits Of
10 contradictions; that, like all other polltlca
philosophers who have conceived aod success
fully advocated great measures OF material ben
eff. to their nation, Co.. Mosby was abuseC
aud revled by the more violent members Of
bis party, who were LOO losocero to mitigate
the fury of their principles with temper and
discretion, where no Inducements were hello
out TO them, is true; but it is also true, that
COL Mosby has lived to behold tho interesting
spectacle of those men who were most bolster
Gus ia their deuuuciations yield to the seduc
tive influence Of federal patronage and First
endure, then pity, and then embrace" thai
which they 50 detested 10 him. In different
circumstances the same talent exhibits itse
differently, and that peculiar genius which en
abled its posscssor 10 so distinguish himself il
the services he rendered to the cause tc
which be dedicated four years Of his lite ant
which was lest" through no fault OF his
prompted him II originate this great policy fol
the relief Of bis sufEeriog people. Times o
rcpcral calamity and confusion have ever beer
productive Of The greatest minds, as the purcs
orc is produced from the hottest furnace, anC
the brightest lhuoderbolt is elected from thu
darkest storm, yet it is seldom that the page!
of history are iumined by the example OF ar
illusttious soldier passing with such brilIlancy
through long and terrible war, and then, as Q
private cilizcD piucking the aurels from the
brows Of Statesmen, by fjngiog himself 10 the
vanguard CT a great political revolution which
he himself had instigaed and developed fol-
the dcverance Of his people
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