Of all the Southern States Virginia appears least disposed to
submit either to re-union or emancipation. A majority in her new Legislature are Secessionists, and the judge of the Civil Court, Alexandria, has recently refused to receive the testimony of a coloured witness, and without hearing him ordered the pro- perty of the coloured defendant to be seized. The Commissioner of Freedmen ordered the case to be transferred to his own tribunal, and on the judge refusing to obey placed a military guard over the sufferer's property. It is more than probable that the judge will be supported by the Legislature, and that the President will in the end be compelled to modify his policy, and either control the States for a time by military force, or subject the elections to restric- tions more effective than an oath which is being rapidly taken by the whole population. Considerable difficulty, too, is experienced in controlling the paroled soldiery, who both in Virginia and Tennessee seal causes of quarrel with men in Federal uniform. President Johnson has announced his determination to support Governor Pierpoint, the Federal Governor of Virginia, who is, apparently from his Unionist ideas, exceedingly unpopular in the State.
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