Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-12
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY b
EDGAR SNOwDEN.
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER

Americans are as patriotic as any people under
the sue is'showa by the remarkable unauimity
With Which those who resided 10 the North and
South supported the cause OF their respective
Sections during the civil war. Opinions upon
the ACCESSIBILITY of war differed as much 10 the
South as 10 the North previous to the actual
commencement Of hostties but the firing Of
the first gun settled those differences at oIce,
and while producing harmony in the two re-
spective countries iato which the Union had
been divided, it made those countries two hos.
tile camps Before resort TO arms man can
condemn the faults of his country without sub
iecliog his patriotism to adverse Criticism. His
love for his country blinds him 20 more to her
errors than his affection for his friends makes
him oblivious to their defects; and as friend
ship permits reproof, 50 patriotism is colnpati-
BILE with ceusure. For these and other reasons
We have DO hesitancy 10 condemniog the action
Of this government in reference to the Cana
dian fishery award. 1t had long unsettled
dispute with Eoglaod about the Canadian fish.
cries, aud submitted the question CT damages
10 the case to the arbtrament Of three commits.
sioners. Those commissioners, after de- ibara-
ton, made an award il favor of England. Now
there was nothing else to do with that award
but to pay it. 1.-THE commissioner appointed by
this government aud the third member Of the
board 10 whose appointment it acqulesced,
were dishonest or incompetent, it nust suffer
from that dishonesty or i0competency. When
q man submits dispute to three arbitrators,
of whom he appoints ooe and acquiesces 10 the
appointment of another, their Ignorance or dis
honesty 10 no sense relieves bin of the obligation
oftheir decision; add arue Of morals hat applies
to ono man is equally applicable 10 community
of men, or to government, aud, consequently,
Mr.. Egarts reosut letter to Lard Salisbury,
reviewing the action OF the com mis- ion, specify.
iug what he deems wers its errors, complaining
of the amount Of the awsrj and winding up With
the purile assertion that the award should have
been made unanimously, was uuwise add in-
polite, and by no means adds to the writer's
reputation for craftsmanship. There are dit
farences yet remaining about the Canadian fish
cries, but they have nothing to DO with the
award. and to max, them a cause Tor dcscrlng
sod ohaffering about The payment Of that award
is creditabe to neither Mr.. Evarts nor bis
country. These differences can be settled or
fought about if necesslry, bat they ehoud not
interfere With the payment Of debt that the
judges to whom the government Submitted the
question pronounced wes fair and just.
1t is reported that as the recent elections in
the South have proved tina; the federal office
holders there are neither az Influential, nor az
laborious wavers Of the bloody shirt, as
the exigeuces Of the ntxt prc:ilential cleo
ton will r,qur,, many OF them will be re-
moved and their places Re filed by others
better calculated to Promote the SUCCESS
cfiee holders 10 The South arr able TO perform
their respective dulles, aud though with but
few exceptions they ara Objectionable to the
vast msjority Of the people with whom they
have official relations they are az acceptable to
them as their successors uoder existing circum
stances, could possibly be, aud for that reason
We hope they may be allowed to retain their
positions. From the nature Of the case no radi
cal Office holder could be very iuHu ,ntial in the
South, and while waver Of tho bloody shirt
there might help radioaism ia the North, he
would be fatal to the growth of republicanism
10 the South. There arc many southern people
enough 10 efectually breake up the solidity
prevailing there-who would oppose even old
time democracy, and who have as little use for tho
modern mopgrel that passes under its name az
they have for radioalism: but the way to Induce
them to manifest their disapproval of democrat
10 measures is not by fomentiog disturbances be.
tween the two races 10 the South, or by keeping
alive sectional animosity, aud as long as mtaDs
are used successfully to produce either of those
ends all efforts to divide the solid South will be
fruitless
From what we read 10 our radical exchanges
We are led 10 believe that great pressure is now.
has been. or will be made upon the President
to induce him to change bis southern policy"
That policy, according to our impression, is al
unknown quantity. 1t may exist and may be
de6oite, but all of it that We are aware of is the
removal of few republican Office holders and
the appointment of others, equally as objection
~hlc In THAR skand IF M Houoe hna dono ,nr.