Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-10-15
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY By
EDGAR SNOWDEN.
GAZETTE BUILDING, NO. 10 PRINCE STREET.
TUESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER Is. 1878.
Because so ne of the citzsns of Williamsburg,

SHals, who is accused 81 rOUDely, aOu WIZ, Wy
ioceudiaty laogasge, has been instigasog the
negroes there 10 iawie5soes: aud locuog their
hostility to tie people auoos whom they live,
to leave that country, the President: Is asked ey
some of the radical PRESS 70 repudiate his peace
policy, as BIO has tina. with regard 10 civil ser
vice reform, and to re ensc: the dlsgracetu
scenes that cbarscteriz. ID f-deial Interference
with losal affairs duliag General Grants ad
ADMINISTRATION, and the whole South threatened
With q reimposilion of the hayo1et rule. Ibis
thing of Southern ousrages," as we said yester-
dsy, has ceased to be as potential as it has
bcen 10 the past, and Mr.. S~aiIs, if he de-
csive the President with his list of selt'made
grievances, will not be so successful with the
people of the country. The cil!z,ns OF Will
liamsburg did to Mr.. Swails what the people
of the whole country censured the authorities
Of Washington for not doing With Mr.. Cohen,
whose attempts to array the negroes OF that
city against the white people thereof were 10.
fnitely less dangerous than those Of Mr.. Swails
to stir up enemity between the tSo races in
Williamsburg, because those OF the former
were arranged openly 10 public meeting, and 10
city where any violence could DO suppressed
at once, while those OF the latter were plarncd
and conoocted in secret concaves. from which
democrats were excluded, and in sparsely settled
county, 10 which the revolving ACTS Of Nat.
Turner'S risiog and those that marked the re-
cent insurrectiou 10 Santa Cruz could have been
10 enacted before the Insurgents could b,
suppressed. Mr.. Swais is 40 enemy to the
public peace, and the people Of Williamsburg
did what any Other people would b. justified 10
doing when they warned him TO carry his in'
ceudiarism elsewhere ; and the President will
discover, when 100 late, that lie has made an-
other egregious failure if, ia his efforts to win
back the radical support he shall Disgrace his
Office as President Grant did by Interfering
with tho local authorities Of the Southern
States. When Governor Hampton shall inform
him that the CIV: officers OF South Carolina arc
unable to preserve the peace and liberty OF the
citizens of that State it will DO limo enou!h tor
him to prefer the use Of federal authority, but
to threaten such interference at the mere re-
quest of one described as high handed robbcr
and iDcendary, is an insult not ouly to South
Carolina, but to the whole Union Of which she
forms part, for if he threaten oue State,
what is TO prevent him from threatening an
other, and if federal authority b, used IN South
Curoiaa bccaus, 40 legendary has been warned
TO leave that S!atr, how .i.urh more IS lts use
demanded in lodlaua where five negroes have
just been lyncbed? If such characters as MIR.
SwaiIs were not treated 30 kindly at the White
House, exaggerated or imaginary southern
cutragcs" would be less frequent, and as MIR.
Hayes has been 10 Office loug enough for any
sensible man 10 discover the true character OF
tho men who oonooct and uarratc these tales
regularly upon the approach OF elections, the
credeuce be gives thcm does not rt fl ct much
credit upon his understanding.
If VirginaDs desire their State to rcgein the
proud position she once he'd amoug her sister
States they will cot ouly have to improve their
congressional delegation. but send sn entirely
different class OF men to their General Assem-
bly, than the vast majority CT tho present mem.
bers Of that body belooglc. Tho laws relating
to the collection OF money 10 operation 10 this
State. and which, year after year. arc allowed
to remain Oh the statute books. do more, not
only to keep capital out of the State, but to
drive tho little now remaining here away, than
oil other causes tending to produce those ctftcts
combiued. TO show that there il ye, some
money Lett, wo have ooIy to state tho TACT that
some of The bankers here hav, still fulfilled
orders for the governments four per cent.
bonds, and yet mon With real estat,, who wish
to use money 10 way that will give employment
TO COW Idle labor, cannot borrow a tenth Of
what their properly would sell for to morrow,
simply because Of the laws TO which VIC refer.
But few men will lend their money 10 State
where all tho laws arc for the benefit Of the
debtor and iuimcal to the lender; where, whom
q mortgage IL foreclOscd and the properly is
sold. the courts Interfere unlcss it, shall bring
its assessed value, and hinder and delay 10 every
conceivable manner the creditor from collecting
what il duo him but tho few who arc willing
TO put out their money under existing crcum-
stances demand enough for it 10 ensure them
against contingent losses. and 80. even with oil
tho laws in his favor. tho borrower, so for from
being benefited by them, ia mado to bear their
heaviest bruut, for though those with money,
as We hsvs just stated, are investing it 10
bonds that pay only four per cont. those whose
whims, interests or necessities put thom in tho
borrower class, have to pay from seven to ton
per cent. and that. too, on security which, ovon
with all tho laws delays, is as good as gold.
Mr.. Mclean, Of Ohio. says ''that tho demo-
cratic vote and greenback vote should be added
together 10 estimating Ohio's verdict, and, if so.
added, it will be found that tho opposition to
he republican party in Ohio is upward Of 3d..
100 votes" Just so, aud yet with all that large
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