Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-30
COMMUNICATED.
A DOUBLE FACE.

Sixteen years ago, in the Academy of
Music, Brooklyn city, James G. Blaine used
the following language expressing his opin-
ion of Horatio Seymour, who was then the
democratic candidate for President against
Gen. Grant:
"If we needed any excuse for an addi-
| tional word on our side, it may be found
and furnished in the extraordinary spec
tacle presented at this moment before the
| American people, when the candidate OF
the democratic party, in wild despair at the
result of the State elections, is travelling
| through the country on express trains at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, with dis
heveled hair and wild companions, engaged
| in the hopeless task OF reviving the impair
ed constitution of the democratic party.
And no sooner had he started on this most
extraordinary journey than you found dem
ocratic papers in tones of impudent defiance
daring the republicans to send Gen. Grant
on wild mission of the same character.
| No, thank you, gentlemen; one Presidential
candidate making fool of himself at the
rate of thirty miles an hour is quite enough ;
and General Grant, In the garb OF plain
citizen, quietly awaits the verdict Of the
nation in his modest home at Galena."
We ask, where is Mr.. Blaine to day. al
| this Identical hourp What is he doing
We will answer by quoting his own Ian.
guage Of sixteen years ago, and say: The
republican candidate, in wild despair At the
result of the State elections lin Ohio and
| West Virginia) is travelling through the
country on express trains at the rate OF
| thirty miles an hour, with disheveed hair,
| this applies more aptly to John Logan,
republican candidate for Vice President
| and wild companions with plenty Of soap J
engaged in the hopeless task of reviving
the impaired constitution of the republican
party
Mr.. Cleveland remains at his Office in
| Albany, believing, as Blame did in 1868,
lone Presidential candidate making fool
of himself at the rate Of thirty miles an
hour is quite enough"
In Mr.. Blaine's letter accepting the nomi-
nation as the republican candidate, written
couple or three months ago. he said /:
'Prejudices have yielded, aud are yielding,
while growing cordiality warns the
Southern and Northern heart alike. Can
any one doubt that between The sections
| confidence and esteem are TO day more
marked than at any period in the sixty years
preceding the election of Lincoln? All
The occasional violent outbreaks against
this progress, public opinion of the country
regards as exceptional" That letter was
| written before the election in Ohio came
| off and it was written as bait for votes
| in the South. Since Ohio voted and the
democracy of the country are encouraged
by the noble fight made in that State by
the friends of Cleveland and Hendricks,
Mr. Blaine has delivered his famous Fort
Wayne speech in Indiana. And strange as
it may seem, there are men in the South,
yes, here in Virginia, who. will vote for the
man who speaks SO disparagingly Of our
people. How can any Virginian cast his
ballot for Blaine and Logan in the light of
this last effort of vindictive and black
hearted man from State whose shores are
not so hard and bleak as the spirit that
prompted his language? The South re-
spects to-day the men who wore the blue
and fought us honestly, but for the man
who remained at home, made money by
furnishing rifles to shoot down our men,
and who, in the darkest hour, never raised
his voice in behalf of fallen foe the man
who did that has the face to ask Virginians
to vote for him to-day and every native
horn Virgnian who does cast vote for
James @. Blaine on the 4th of November
should, like Judas, Ego out and hang him
SELF" AEGIs.
ANANDALE, Fairfax CO., Va, Oct. %.