Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-16
Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser

The Political HeWs-A Solid NOfth-
The Gloomy Present, But Bright
and Triumphant Futurc-CheeT1ns
News.
1Uorreapondence of the Alexandria Gazs!te'I
HEwLErT's, GOT. 15.-When penned tor
your readers, day or two before the recent
elections, the malignant aud i1csndiary extrsc
from Northern papers. and proclaimed that BY
suod means cold North wss made. | felt
what wrotc. knew that the public schools
of the North had enabled the masses to per-
form the mechanical exercise of reading. while
they had taught them neither to iess,n or
auslaeiz,. and chat such appeals as were ad
dressed to the low passions Of their uninlie hten'
ed and ignorant souls would run them mad With
| hatred and mslic,, aud cause them to opon 81
| tho ballot box fresh war upon tho South. !
was not mistaken. Bot We must not blame
them, for they have only voted as wo would
have voted under similsr circumstances OF 1000
rare, sud irritation.
The leaders Of these belighted masses kueW
better, however, and wero only pul ing down
tho temple of Liberty to cor s.ruc their fortunes
upon it's ruins For them VIC can have neither
love or respec. They are enemits OF the C'n,
i
soon old Copkling and Logan. aDd Grant and
| Cameron and thousand more OF the same sorl
| will 20 to their oWs, and peace and fraternity
may revive 10 the lsDd.
| But we care not what they d. or how they
Az: wo see tho handwriting on The wall, and Io
ten yes,s o sold South will force upon thfs
nrorl, on observar }, of the Constitution and
give the places which they now fill and betou
70 their democratic neig hbort. 10 the life Of Q
people teu years time ia BIZ. sptck. and The
worse these wre!cies treat US, tho mtr1 they
wills rs, the louder and bitterer their deDuu-
Citations tho s,oner for them will the reckoning
limo c)ne. Bot gloomy ss is tho present out
look-helpIess as We msy be to day to help our
selres-titter and Vituperativs ns are the cpl
tbess with which we are so utjastly assslIed
hard IS it is for q ncb!e, generous and brave
people to submit to suoh insults and d'grads
tiop, bc of good cheer. my country mep, O. gooc
time ia comiog. and God is working ont tor u
q happy aud glorious deliverarc'.
Whiio the Northern ladies are spendlni
their hours in vouptuous pleasure, ana tnetsD
rendering themselves as barren as their OWE
bleak hills, The noble matrons OF the Soult
| are deyoting themselves 10 the duties and obi
cations of wives, mothers and Christians, sne
Fearing q race more hardy than their fathers
and eanal to them in virtue, intelligence ant
| bravery, Ii Ol6 unNo pOVt DSAa ~ 49,
bred mothers in the Forks OF HanGVer n In
last six months, and most Of them boys, than
have slmo,t ever known in half decade before
and the cry is still they come" In q few year
the school population has increased from RI Il
$500, while, badly IS it WAS taken. the censu
shows an increase in the State OF nearly tnlrt
of million. -
Old South Carolina, arising like pr e nix from
her ashes sends greeting to her Southern sisters
and pointing TO her Thousands OF new porn son
exclsims, 'Ihese are my jewels" 80 OF al oul
oppressed and stricken sisters. While Texas
the once .'ono star" with an area equal TO lou
times all the New England states combined
and capable of making seven States about g.
large as Ohio now holds up her proud head anC
boasts of population unprecedented IN Its rapit
increase. In ten years more, y black repuoli
cans you shall see in Texas alone. giant Whoa
nod will make the nations tremble.
Be OF good cheer. Southern patriots and bole
10 vour Colors brave defenders OF the constllu
ton in the North; you shall soon receive com
pensaiion for all your tolls and trials and be abb
to triun oh over your unnatural trRducers ane
enemies Then will the republic ms, maddenec
by disappointment and defeat. attempt to exc
cute the III. eat of Ulysses Grant and secede from
the Union. But, joy full for Us and SAD for mem
it will be too late, for the Union mas Dsen ce
mented by blood, and these rebels snail d.
forced to submit to tho constitution and iaWs'
An unholy combination between Inc olack re
rubicans of Il i, State and few ambitious once
seekers from the democratic party threatens
with present disaster. "Let them rip" In
reckoning time will come ero long