National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-01
VIRGINIA POLITICS.
Northern Immigration Assured If the
Liberal Party TrIumpIis.

Special Correspondence of THE REPUBLICAN,.
GUNsToN, FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va, May 81
The weather is extremely dry here and crops are
suffering. The wheat and rye will be seriously
damaged unless rain falls soon. Grass IS made
and will be good crop. Haying is begun and the
air is laden with its sweet odors. Strawberries
and the early cherries are ripe and the green peas
and roast lamb are in their prime. The sweet
breathed kline come nightly with their generous
udders well rounded. The doves are cooling gently
over fat squads, and the spring chickens come up
to the doorstep ready for the gIidiron. The song
birds are in the trees morning and evening cele-
brating for US the mathis and vespeIs that sinful
Indifference neglects. Only the voracious crow
and the cat-bird mar
THE HARMONY OF NATURE
and disturb our morning sleep by felOnious raids
upon the early cherries, meanly snatching from
the mouths of our children the largest and most
luscious while they sleep unsuSpecting. Nor
should we forget the blue Potomac, where diSport
the shad. the perch, and the sea-bass, and tie
mighty sturgeon, awaiting the pound or the float
net. These, coming fresh from the water to grace
the table of the humblest, excite our gratitude, as
they satisfy the appetite of the richest or poorest
Heats of the day assuaged by breezes all cool anu
delicious, what glorious sleep for each weary son
and daughter of Adam here in the country!
SUN ID Olh LAW ll-O-Nli4--Nl-
Orchards, forests, grain lands, and meadows e-id
around all the vast eXpanses of water. Why should
we not be happy? Come and see in the vast ruin
that extends from this Eden of beauty south to the
very capital of the State what fifty years of Bour
bon rule have done for our State. The very land
where we write was once part of q farm of 10000
acres,
OWNED 4 HUNDRED YEARS AGO
by George Mason, one of the greatest of Virgina's
great sons. There was the model farm of the con-
tinent. Twelve years ago found it a wilderness
again. Six miles of lis shore is now settled by
Northern men of means and enterprise, and is be-
ing restored 10 its pristine fertility and beauty.
Bourbonisn is doing what it can to keep out and
drive out such men; to keep up social ostracism
the spirit of caste, mean and malignant nativsm ;
to shut out of all places of honor and trust ali
who are not III, accord with its own hidebound
theories OF politics. religion, and social life. Ma
tural1y, this neighborhocd
is ANTI-BOURBOS.
Nine tenths of its people and all its intelligent
Northern settlers are Rcadjusters. For the first
time in ten Years we have q white and cOlored
public school. People begin to come in and talk
of buying as never before. Only the complete
triumph of the Liberal party is needed to give an
impetus to Northern immigration such as we
have not seen since the war. The BOurbons are
taking great comfort in saying out loud what they
don't believe st all-that Malone and his party are
dead. They cite the local elections in Fairfax
County rs evidence OF a great reaction. Well, two
years ago last spring the elections went The same
way; but in November following old Fairfax got
up and laid the Bourbon ticket out so completely
that its candidates hardly knew they were run
ming. E Hunton, Lee the silver tongued, Harry
Peyton. were all here.
FRED DOUGLASS WROTE \ LETTER
warming thn nN1OVad 10 +l,a
ReadjusterS. The Hayes administration exerted
al its influence, money was poured out like water
oy the bond ring; yet in old Fairfax. Il Repub-
ican county eight out often of that party voted the
Liberal ticket. 1t Will do SO again, and I.oudoun
and Alexandria will follow the wise example. In
these counties
THE FUSION Is GENERAL,
and growing more complete. But our people are
not such fools as to waste their ammunition in the
petty local contests. They will choose their time
to deliver battle and it will be in such manner as
to strike the Bourbon camp with terror this fall.
Fairfax will present candidate for lieutenant
governor to the convention Of June 7-COlonel
James c. Lewis, Of Ben Venue. He is one of the
most able men in the State, brave and honorable
soldier of the Union army.
He CAME HERE NINE YEARS AGO,
purchased fine tract of land, and has made it
one of the model farms of the State. lie has ex-
pended largely of his means to build up this part
of the State, and is the type of Northern men
who should be recognized here. Such a nominal
ton would relieve the ticket of any suspicion of
nativisin, and would commend it to the confidence
of Republicans, of whom Colonel Lewis is q Stall
wart specimen. Nothing is needed but a fair
ticket to unite cordially all the Liberal elements
here. ED.