Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-19

Wild GuaCamald III DIS letter ne narpS uuuCH
on the pacific principles of the republican
party, and says the carrying out of such
policy on this continent would favorably
affect the nations beyond the sea, and thus
powerfully contribute at no distant day to
the universal acceptance of the philan-
thropic and Christian principle of arbitra-
tion."
After all his laundering diplomacy, max
ing us enemies all through the South Amer
lean republics, he says "we should make
every effort 10 gain their friendship"
The following is the paragraph on the
Southern States:
81 recognize, not without regret, the nc
cessity for speaking of two sections of our
common country. But the regret diminishes
when see that the elements which sepa-
rated them are fast disappearing. Preju-
dices have yielded and are yielding, while
growing cordiaity warns the Southern and
the Northern heart alike. Can any one
doubt that between the sections confidence
aud esteem are to-day more marked than
at any period in the sixty years preceding
the election of President Lincoln? This Is
the result in part of time and in part of re-
publican principles applied under the favor
able conditions of uniformity. 1t would be
d great calamity to change these influences
under which Southern commonwealth are
learning to vindicate civil rights, and adapt
| ing themselves to the conditions Of political
tranquility and industrial progress. lfthere
be occasional and violent outbreaks in the
South against this peaceful progress, the
public opinion of the country regards them
US exceptional aud hopefully trusts that
| each will prove the last. The South needs
capital and occupation, not controy ersy.
hc orr IF 10 nrf hn en-
need the full protection of the revenue laws
which the republican party offers. Some of
| the Southern States have already entered
upon career of industrial development
| and prosperity. These, at least, should not
| lend their electoral votes to destroy their
own future. An effort to unite the
Southern States upon issues that grow out
OF the memories of the war will summon
| the Northern States to combine in the asser-
| ton of that nationality which was their in
| spiration in the civil struggle. And thus
great energies which should be united in
common industrial development will be
wasted in hurtful strife. The democratic
party shows itself foe to Southern pros.
perity by always invoking and urging
Southern political consultations. Such
policy quenches the rising instinct Of patri-
otism in the heart Of the Southern youth; it
revives and stimulates prejudice; it substi
lutes the spirit OF barbarc vengeance for the
love of peace, progress and harmony"
MIR. Blaines picture of the present civil
service is in keeping with some of his pre-
| viously expressed ideas. He says:
'"The general character of the civil SER
| vice Of the United States has been honora-
BILE: In one supreme test-the collection
and disbursement Of revenue-the record OF
I doll hoe hoo in
/ tun. With the almost fabulous sums which
were received and paid during the late war,
/ scrupulous integrity was the prevailing rule
! Indeed, throughout that trying period it
[ can be said in the honor of the American
T name that unfaithfulness and dishonesty
among civil officers were as rare as miscon-
+ duct and coWard ice on the field of battle.'
| The above may be a good comparison.
The iunumerable instances Of peculation
| and misconduct among federal officers dur
| ing and since the war are kept green in the
memories of the people. In respect 10 cow
ardice on the field, the comparison may also
| be correct, when we recall to mind Farragut
| in the foretop of the Hartford, Butler in his
| coat of mail in New Orleans and an entire
| army corps stampeding on the peninsula, TO
say nothing Of the countless numbers cash
Tered for cowardice.
/ He further states that Earnest efforts
| have been made to separate the great mass
of ministerial officers from partisan inhu-
| euce and personal control"
In alludipg to the above, he throws his
bait 10 ex Union soldiers by remarking that
| there should be a rigid observance of the
| law which gives in all cases of equal COM
potency the preference to the soldiers who
risked their lives in defence Of the Union
The following assertion of his almost total
| obliviousness (?) to the thievery which has
been carried on in Governmental affairs
together with his own Little Rock Railroad
affair, is remarkable:
Il entered Congress in 1868, and in a
somewhat prolonged service | never found
it expedient to request or recommend the
removal of civil officer except in four in
Stances"
MY observation" he says, ''in the De-
partment of State confirmed The conclusions
of my legislative experience, and impressed
me with the conviction that the rule of i'm
partial appointment might with advantage
he carried beyond any existing provision OF
the civil, service law. 1t should be applied
to appointments in the consular service"
The Mormon question is treated in the
usual republican platform manner-con
demned-but, of course, will be tolerated
all the same.
The currency question is disposed of as
follows:
"Tbe one special requisite for the completion Of
our monetary system is the fixing of the relative
values of silver and gold. The large use of silver
rs the money of account among Asiatic nations,
taken in connection with the increasing commerce
of the world, gives the weightiest reasons for an
international agreement in the premises. Our
government should not cease to urge this measure
until a common standard OF value shall be
reached and established--a standard that shall
enable the United States to the silver from its
mines rs an auxiliary to gold in settling the bal
ances of commercial exchange.
In speaking of public lands Mr.. Blaine thinks
our laws should look to the judcions encourage
ment of actual settlers the public domain,
which should henceforth be held as a sacred trust
for the benefit of those seeking homes and depre.
Gates the custom Of large corporations buying up
thousands of acres for the purpose of centralzing
the agricultural wealth of the nation
He admits that our foreign carrying trade
anguishes and says it was very seriously Grip