Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-06-21
E.ctterfrOm Rappahnnnock.

correspondence Of tho Alexandra Gazette,
WooDvILLE. RApp. Co., VA, Juuc 10
The poIilc!l kattlc is beginning to boil in Kappa
hlnoGcR. Tho Chic.g nominations do cot
give us much foo Ter thought aS We GRO very
s.nc' q Republicans up hero. They arc almost
as hard to tinl al harvest hand. The general
impression seems to b, that tho ticket, Garfield
and Arthur, Is about as weak as sUy they could
get u1. II the democrats do not improve aud
succeed b3 tho experienced Which their own
III s:ak'S kaee taught them. they CERTAINLY
SHOULD by the grant error that their opponents
have Eaic IL scltciug such MIN az Garfield
ana hr:hur TO head their ticket. If Tilden
Guild beat Hayes it il but natural to suppose
lha. any sooi, I'd democrat tal beat Gar
field. Hayes was candidate against whom
nottl6g could be !aiG-a truly negative m,n-
llldrr. while very strong man was not totslly
tcVo!d OF some crtokedGeEs. and did lack back.
bone; new We have two men, just as crooked as
poililclan1 ever get to be, rlecsd before us.
aud II NO wait victory it IS 10 he hoped that
our eRdets will bo pure men. Tho dis:eDsior S
czl5titg In tho democratic party of N.w York
can better DC healed by the nomination of a
IL.
Bayard can carry New York next November
easier han Seymour becluss Of tho split 10
that State. Garfield. when compared with
BaJard. gtCws rather din. Against tho char
cct}r Ct the former rests tho Cradit Nlobclier
transaction, aud his hatrod towards tho South:
against tho latter nothing can be said. He
stsrdi sars pure, sans reproach.
The reaCjusters met at Washington les.
Ni0DuaV. After lIstebInp IN rothor r,,t,
effort If Mr.. Meade, Mayer of Culpsper, the
meetIcg proceeded to business A resolution
IVES introduced by Judge Strother to tho effect
that the delegates seltced to represent Kappa
hanDtcS IN tic rea0jusels convention on the
TN OF July 10 R,cbmond do nothing to bind
the party to vote Tor either tho Chicago or
Clncnnoti nominees, but to leave the dem acrats
to vote is they please and tho Republicans to
DO the same. The said resolution was heartil9
endorsed and carried, whereupoo Mr.. A. NJ.
WITS, chairman. rot his back up and vao,.ed
the chair. MIR. Bruce. of Sperryvillo, was call.
ca to preside, ADD, upon taking tho chair, made
as)uud, s?Isltl, speech, in which no said that
nc meant to support the deme cratic nominee,
ard hopcd that every resdiustor 10 tho State
would follow silt. w. w. Mclfstt, esq.,, q
rtd-hot lunder was proposed as vioo president
ol the meeting, but decli1ed in neat, pointed
spctch, which was loudly applauded. A read-
jlstcr remarked afterwards that MofTc.t had
stolen tho whole convention
Our farmers arc now busy harvesting, and
owing to the scarcity Of hands. they nro not
progressing as fast as they would ike. CClored
people. as class, &C; with less discretion thsn
any ether class Of people on earth. They may
be dolog well. uud somo one comes along aud
tells them OF great chance Somewhere elso
where money is az thick as blackbcrries, and
the poor daludsd fools leave good homo and
start nut to Grd good place TO starvo to death
10. Just COW every oolared man who can 90
packs Oft Tor tho Valley Rlrond; leaves good
homo among friends and works for IS c,nts a
day At tho end of tho month he gets nothiog,
na huotrs Dc have done. and sill he docs not
seem 10 mind it. They have lc.s care, less
scoso and lrsl money than any people 10 tho
would. and still they 1.-Two well. Wa clu not
tXp;ci anything else, for Whilo thoy were slaves
their masters supported them. and to mako
them Tree tic Yankees had to fight for them,
Absolutely too Icy to tishs for their own free
Com. RAPPAHANNoCK