Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-08-20
DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY BY
EDGAR SNOwDBN.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 20. 1879.

WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 20, 1879.
Radical papers say that it will not do to tell
people from tho North and from Europe of the
attractions and advantages Of the South, but
that 10 Induce immigration 10 that section
this Information must be coupled With the ss
surarcc that labor will be protected and honor.
Go; the poor man defended 10 his rights as we'll
as the rict; the stranger made welcome and Sc
cure ia all bis privileges whether he BIO white
or black. The only reason why suca an as
surahce could possibly be necessary would be
the probability that it might tend to correct the
false impression produced by the gratuitOus
aud malicious ISLANDERS upon the South iterated
b. these same papers. for people at all familiar
with the true state OF affairs at the South know
that ali the conditions Of the recommended 'as
sutaGce" do exist there. That they do not exist
10 the North IS apparen: to every one who
Knows anything about that section. If there
had been any dOub:s 90 the subject, the develop.
ment5 rtcan!ly brought out by the Wallace
committee respecting the mapucr 10 which
elections are conducted in Massachusetts are
sufficient 20 remove them from the minds Of al
reasonable men. II there i5 any portion Of this
couo'rv 10 which Individual personal liberty. 10
lis widest sense, may be said to exist, and to
which hooest aud Industrious immigrants, 20
matter how poor they may be. are
welcomed, 1t is the South. snd the state
mcnts to the contrary that arc continually
appearing in the radical newspapers. and that
are published solely for tho purpose Of
hiodering anl cppcsiog immigration to
this section, only sdd another to the
mapy evidences they havo already afford
I'd OF their absorbing desire 10 irure the
South and rctari its prosperity. That their
etfor:s have been partially successful is untor
tunatey osly too true. We trust, however,
that whtn their readers shall realiz, the fact
that whatever initiates against the welfare of
the South must necessarily react it juriousy
upon that Of the North they will resort to etfec
Two means to make change come DER the
dreams OF the radical ouroals to which ne refer.
time past existing here is by no means confined
to This city, but prevails throughout. tho coun-
try, and is equally as apparent 10 hundred
other southern cities as it is 10 Alexandria.
LODGED there arc only few cities 10 the entire
South 10 which, comparatively speaking bus
ness Is pot lust as dull as it is here, and 10
which capla! is not jus: SIS scarce aud labor
Just as idle hut We doubt if thcro be ono 10
the whole section 10 which those of ts OVID
citizens who are the loulest 10 their com plants
OF the prosratiOn Of business and asserted want
OF eDterprlz, among its own people tako less
ralcs to revive business and exhibit less energy
and c1terpI2, than the few of that class who
reside here. The compliments, as Il &C uera
rule, arc tho idicts end laqgards, who make no
effort 10 attrac. business but wait for it to come
to them. and groWl becaus, it doesn't come,
but goes to those who diligently ssckit. This
IL the Gu 1cst season 10 the year, and most
business llcn are oantent if, durog it, they
make both ends meet, but the really active and
energetic among them avail themselves of tho
opportunity it affords to resort TO all the known
rules cognzad a5 legitimate, Of exteudiog and
laCreaslog their trade, aud DO nos rely soely
upon sign ever their store doors as a sufficient
means either to retain or create business. The
iact that some Ct Tie eonplaioants referred to
are 10 bu5locss Is hardly Known TO anybody but
their own immediate neighbors.