Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-11
Alexandria as a Pest Hole.
From the n. Z. Mail and Express

A year ago the contemplate city of Alex
andris, Va, with II ,OOO traitors out of pos
sibie population of II 500. had not single
July, but hoisted plenty of the dishonor-
ing rebel rag, which ought to be buried pei
manently in Lse's tomb. Then some pE-
trioto colored American citizens demanded
that "OId Glory" should hy that day, ard
raised such row that The authorities had
to send to the national capital and get one
and hoist It,.
Good for the negro
This Fourth of Jaly one of the chivalry
policemen shot two negroes. One OF them
was buried on Sunday; end one Is not ex
pected to live.
a hrave negro announced to the crowd Of
hs fellows who were drawn together by this
incident, that men of his and their color haG
rights i1 Virginia which white men
were bound to respect. He may have ad-
ded something bitter, as was most natural.
At any rate, he was arrested and fined.
The telegraph is unnecessarily silent as to
his name. He is brave man, for he knew
that he faced arrest and fue when be at
serted his own and his fellow citiZsns' rights.
Let the telegraph now give the world his
name. He deserves fame.
What burning disgrace it is to Anne: lea
that within cannon shot of Washington q
tyrsnicsl, seve-holdipg, negro batting oil
garchy should still curse the government Of
the city in which Washington used to al
tend church, and where the brave, beautiful
and young New Yorker, Col. Ellsworth,
was shot down in cold blood by an assassin
at the Jackson House In 1861.
II the bold negro orator who was fued
for his indignation at seeing his fellows shot
down will send word to the Mail and En-
press what was the amount of the fine he
paid, this newspaper will gladly remit him
the sun.
1t is time that the cbValry should feel
some Of the ills of the condition in which
they are plugging society By their defiant
breaking Of their parole aud notification Of
the Fifteenth Amendment to the ConsliiE-
ton, and disregard of all the promises by
means of which they secured amnesty and
restoration 10 civil rights.
If the fight has got to begin again, Il
would be desirable to have it begin at Alex
audris, and Immediately.
The negroes of this country, by the D.
claration of Independence, which is greater
end broader than the Constitution, are
equal to the whites ; and, by the Constitu
lion. ere entitled TO their share in all pol!t-
cal Offices, and to the free and full exercise
CT the elective franchise, and are to be COM
menied for asserting and maintaining their
rights. peaceably If they can, by fJrce If
they must.
And If it must be by force, the quicker
the forca is exercised the better.
All America has noticed that since the
Mail and Express. in reply to an invitation
from the Charleston News and Courier, ex
pressed it's views en- the scheme to coicrizA
all the negroes 10 one State, and advised
that it would afford them nu UGH batter OF
portunity than they uo1 have 10 perfect
their military organic ,iion for securing thsr
rights 10 oil the States, the scheme hes been
suddenly abandoned by unanimous cousent
throughout The whole southeast, neither
public men n5r newspapers advocating ii
any longer
The people who do not hesitate to cheer
to madness everything rebelious and
traitorous, ard are accustomed to murdel-
ing single negroes al the rate Of one thou
sand a year for the Last twenty five years,
shake oil ever and beat hastv retrea.
when 8 military organization flying the
Stars and Stripes is spoken OF.
1t Is therefore desirable often to apeak Ct
military organization flying the Stars and
Stripes.
And the next best thing to speaking OF it
often is to put 1t into actual fact, if that is
the only way in which our felow-citizsrs
cen secure the just and equal political priv
leges and protection which are guaranteed
by the Declaration of Independence and the
American Constitution.
This performance al Alexandra, end the
performances of the chivaIry through their
chosen Mayor OF Key West, and the many
political assassinations throughout the Old
rebel and still trsitorous States, deserve the
condemnation of the national governments!
and If gallant Ben. Harrison needs one mil
lion men to express that condemnation, he
can have them in thirty days. Let him
sound his bugle.
Since the above was clipped from The New
York Mail and Express the following note,
containing siriar clipping, wns received
from Col. Robert Andrewe, ex-SuperintenC-
ent of the Virginia Midland railroad (aI
pointed by the northern parties interested
in that roadl republican in politics aud q
brave and gallant officer In the federal Ormy
during the whole of the war between the
States:
NEW YORK, July 10, 1879.
To The editor of The Alexandria Gazette:
Dear SIR Enclosed find very scaodslous ar
ticlc, published in the Mail and E1l of July
6.h VIII ca is ar uncalled-for attack upon your
quiet and wel-governed city. During my resi-
dencc there Of over four years L never saw or
heard of any thing to detract in any way FROM its
for good order and fair and just treat
ment of its citizens, we'll known for their iotcll
genc, and courtesy
do know, however, that tho negro element
there and in Washington has always been Of n
restless and disturbing character. Yours truly,
ROBT. ANDREWS
DIED