Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-11-20
PUBLISHED DAILY & TRI-WEEKLY BY
EDGAR SNOWDEN.

PUBLISHED DAILY & TRI-WEEKLY BY
EDGAR SNOWDEN.
SATURDAY EVENING. NOV'B. 20, 1880.
Difficult as has been the si:uatloo OF the
Southern States during tho past twenty years.
and urge.t az has been the ec,ssity fer serious
consideration, calm judgment, AID united ao-
ton. iteir praeept position is no less difncalt
and calls fer the exeros, OF 40 less statesman
ship. S,cc their defeat 10 arms ssd their
restoration to the Union, they have. ca ev!ry
OCCASION, shown their acquiescerc, 10 the results
of the war and their zeal for the Common wsl.
fare. They have asked nothing fer themselves
except the control of their local affairs, and
have borne. without complaint. moro than their
share Of the public burdens. Four times have
they supported Northern man for President,
and three ont Of those four meI, Tbo. whatever
may have been their merits, were. Certainly,
hostile to tho South 10 the hour Of her so:eGs
need the last, one who had, perhaps. great.
or share than a3y other in the defeat of her
cherished scatm, of rational independence.
VIVA! has eli this availed them? Absolutely
nothiog. Hatred OF the South burned not more
fi,r,ely in the breast of the Northern people
when the w,r had jas. ended than it seems to
do DOW, after lapse Of fifteen years. What
more can We do? d. they wish Us to crawl
hunbly upon tao earth and beg their forgive
ness for ha9iog fought against them Do they
desire u5, hypecitioay, 10 declare ourselves
penitert foT cur past acts and to confess that
We were for four years engaged 10 "a wicked
and causelass rebellion p If they do, their
wishes can never be graii ID. Tho U aion can
nev,r be restored in its spirit ualil they, as
we'll as We, learn 10 respect the motives Of those
who fought sgains. them, and to honor the
courage With was shown in what they may
consider mistaken cause. That hour seems
to bs far disa What then shall ". do?
The reosrt history Ct Europe gives Us an ex.
ample By which ", Will prais if 10 are wise.
Thirty two gears ego Austria eDdeavored TO
deprive Hungary Of her cousli,u!iona! rights !;
war ensued. cnd that gallant nation was over
come by The united folco of Austria and Rus
sa. Seventeen years of oppression followed,
at the end CT A:ich ;;.c necessities Of Austria
compelled her to strengthen herself OF home,
and Frat els Joseph, for the FRS time since the
war, summoned the Hungarian Diet. akd ofFsr.
ed, what must have appeared to m,nS, great
concessions. The Diet, however, was firm, tho
liberties con,2ded by 81. Stephen and the Prog
matte Sanction wer, their right, aud they
o,uld ac,cp! nothing less; Cusezz, csmo aud
then Sadowa. aud tho Kaiser saw that no must
have o place 10 the hearts of bis Hungarian
subjects. He granted all they asked. and to-
day the Austro Hungarian Empire is stronger,
perhaps, than any coantry in Europe, though
i hiss two nil iitries and two diets.
How shall we eprly the lesson? Were q
presidential election ut hand W, would say,
nominate as presidential candidate Southern
man if tho Northern democrats arc really un
sectional. they will support him. as w havs
done their men for sixteen ye1r5; it they will
not We shall be no wors) off than Wo cow are,
for he will get az many votes as Hancock, lees
fifteen.
-Four years, however, is long timc, and cir
cumstsnces may change. making what would be
wise now uuwise thoo. There is no Federal
election for two years. and our present effort
should BE- to secure harm )ny among ourselves
and prevent the negroes from giving the control
of our domestic affairs to unworthy men. That
means "a solid South - solid for its owa inter
ests, as tn, North is. Every effort should be
made to secure foreign trade for our ports aud
to establish manufactures Oaoo successful 10
these tw, poiuts AID or commercial iudepen-
dence will have been secured. and, with wsakh.
irflaence aud power wi!l return to u.s. Then
will the North seek our friendship, whicA she
now rjsc.s.
We are sorry to say that NO are BY no means
hopeful of the speedy restoration Of that cur.