Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-01
Tnc Eighth Congressional District

10 Inc GlltOf o. the dte.cuhQl2t Gd-tIc
1t Is as hard TO uuicavn pleasing or bene!lclaI
errors as it is for Mahometan to believe ln
the Christian religion. a correspondent 10 tho
Gazelte from Fails Church, in advocating Gen.
tlunton's re election, says TO ask man to
vote according to his conscience is supclhuous;
| to ask him 10 vote against his conscience is az
Insult This. like every other rule, has It's
| exception. The remark 10 question suggests
the icquiry as to what is conscience; how il is
iormcd, and how it acts with different people.
Writers 90 mental philosophy differ in opinion
| as to what conscience is, and how it Is dcduced
| Some consider it Oh original faculty Ct our oWn
nature, while others beliavei it to be distct fac
ulty or principle. We think it quite clear,
| however, that coCscenco like passion or cpin
| ion. is dormant characteristic tf humanity,
and not reasoning faculty or principle, and is
tho product CT circumstances, aud is good or
bad, according to the facts and motives which
excite it, That conscience is not reasoning
faculty is proved ty the lact that it often en-
tirely disregsrls facts, reason, and the binding
claims Of humanity alike Il conscience Gtre
entirely governed by facts reason, and the sac
red obligations OF justice AID humanity it would
always be blessing, but it he's ever been and
ever will be one Of The greatest cuTSes that has
ever tilicted humanity when formed lrom crro-
nc0us notors Of liehr and wrong. which su1l
| centg accounts for SO many persons supporting
Cen lInntOn for Congress. Conscience can
oul7 be good and bene fetal to ourselves and SD
cey when formed o. a9caItaned facts, rta50D,
and the divine law, which commands us not TO
do evil even that good may grow out OF it. 40
act OF wrong committed by mistaken conscl-
cnce Is not Justified in the eyes Ct the Creator,
because wrong conscience caonot justify crime.
Neither can mistaken or lRnlraDt c0nscleuca
he pleaded as justification for Hrong. Ia the
ordinary affairs Of life Prorilerc, has given us
sufficient natural capacity to discover right
from wrong, aud to do what is just, and II We
fail to do 50 va stand condemned bt5re the
Dtity and man. 4 consciluci that is formed
from motives Of ambition, undue partlsllty
curidity, or tiuatcisnl, leads to crime and mis-
cry. A conscience formed by love Of right,
and by asccrtained facts and reason, is ever
pleasing TO the Creator, aad its reward is an
eternal Inheritance Of glory with the father
Such conscience will never vote to send Gen.
Hunton to Congress. Who can doubt that our
present misfortunes arc tic terrible consequences
Of coDscieucas formed by ambition, ignorance,
cupidity, aud i,naticsm, Heaven preserve us
from conscience thus formed. 10 which original
ed tho awful totmcnts Of the Spanish nquisl'
ton. CONSCIENCE.
! To the clioy Of the AlccaAdriu Gazette:
LEEsBURG, Va, April 80, l87S.--l have
putposcy RETAINED from saying anything about
onr Congressional District until, after dilgent
ruuiry among our people, became tairiy
competent to speak. There have been always
pleasant personal relations between Gen. Hun
ton and myself, but be has uUt, fer more than
twenty FIVE years. Put Inc under special personal
obligations to him, and therefore can speak
without that gush oil personal sduiation, which
sometimes uGconsoiOusy ptCcacds from those
who have secured favor.
Gen. lIunton has fairly won maine and a
position which may we'll make him feel proud,
and his constituents have uothing to complain
Of Ills district merely touches tide water, ami
demands no special improvements by the geo,
era government; it binds 90 a navipabc RIVER
for perhaps twenty five miles, and runs to the
Blue Ridge it has DO little creeks running
into the river and Improvements are moi needed,
except possibly for Occtuuap, and that binds
his aud Douglas district, and has always been
fairly nayigable for sloops TO the falls at Occo
guam. The principal local matter that he could
be ibilncnlia! in is post roads, and So lar a.
Loudoun il concerned our mail facilities could
not be BETTER considering the sparsely settled
country ne have And no doubt this is tic
case with every other county 10 his district. |
know that Gen IIunton hos been prompt to
place any application for additional mail ia.
cilites before the Postmaster General His
cndeav1r 10 The Electoral Commission was to
apply tho tests to fraud it suited the ma orlly
to plan! themselves on principle OF States
rights, which they had over and over again re-
pudacd aud as will always beat 7, they pre-
vailed. Ard here, let NE gay, the Electoral
Commission was better than war, and it seemed
10 be the on Y alternative | then heartily Gp-
proved it! ! now canuot see that it Was any
thing bu! right. Gen. llunton voted for the
bill renonrtzing silver, and low the blttcresL
opponent ct that bill wants 10 make small silver,
even loWu TO ten cen! pieces, legal tender to
the extent CT fiItg or one hundred dollars. Let
thia be done and then we will have the political
milIcnium, the Iaborer and The capitalist lYing
down together in peace, Gen. lluotou is
known to l,ouloun more fully aud more favor
ably than any man that has been named III con-
nccion with the position Of Congressman. aud
for the special reasons | have given, and be
cause they have entire confidence 10 the honesty
Of the map, they prefer him, by long odds, to
any one else.
Were Huntnn out OF the way cur people
would prefer Lee or Thomas; some the former
for his manlness and perhaps somewhat for his
name others the latter because he has in
times past faithfully Represented them in the
Legislature, and because he is 10 personal sym.
pathy With a great many OF them, but they do
not wantlIIuuton out CT the way.
10 the Virginia Patron Of the l9th Of April,
John K. Carter. after giving expression to his
views on the public debt Of NirlDis, which he
thinks is $50, coo. 900, and which he would
| compromise at 90 cents On the dollar, or to
S. 1000, 900, concludes: "IIot ali true Virgniaas
know the man who thcy support this fall for
Congress to be true and sound upon the issue
Of the re adjustment Of the State debt, Tor
their opponents have declared that they will
elect to the next Congress none but last dollar
men. TITS means what? A forcibe readjust
mcut Of the State debt Of dcDt CONTRACTED
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