Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-04-02
State Of the Finances.


and verging reputation. But lot us before going
further a misapprehenson of our cotempora-
ry. IL mistakes in supposing we intended to make
party issue of any Of those questions which were dis
cussed during the last session. and which contem-
plated relief from our present embarrassments. The
measures of relief were one thing. which under the
circumstances might well excite the greatest diver
sity of opinion. But the the crii-there>
the rub Who responsible for that; Who have
borne authority absolute in the State for year.
who have boosted of it, and who have claimed
credit for every good thing that has turned up,-
The sum and substance of our wisdom, temporal AMI
eternal, is limited to the Lords on thc
Mount, and we there find it recorded, in terms too
plan TO bc mistaken
" good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither
can n corrupt tree bring forth good fruit
4" Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is
hewn down and cast into the fire
Wherefore BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL
KNOW THEM - Matthew, Is 10 and 30.
There is the test Of human actions laid down 10y
the highest authority known to men. Let the de-
mocracv of Virginia be subjected to this test, and
how will they stand: BY their .rruits &c shci
k.o,c them. What are their fruits: The present
.leplorable condition of the Conmonw ealth-the re-
Eeery tree that Jrjagcth net forth good fruit 1.-THE
exact representation Of the Democracy a. herH
dozen md cast into tn, ire. The question is pree
nant and pressing Are not the people of Virginia
every day committing fresh by forbesring To
hew down and cast into the fire this corrupt tree
that brings forth evil fruit
But LAYING aside divine ordess too rigorous for
the frailties of humanity suppose the Wing party
4 4 ,i..1,+ tbo IL
ton which the Democracy have. Suppose they had
been in absolute and unlimited command of every
department of the State-that, in the exercise Of
their power, they had sadded the commonwealth
with 80 millions OF debt; that their Board of Pub
lie Works had used 100000 of State bonds with
out any value to the state-and permitted, un-
rebuked and unchecked, to use much more that
they had spent Legislative session of three months
in abusing and depreciating State institutions, in
which the State as well citizens, had large in
terest-by which alone the State had been saved
from actual reputation, and without whose ad
pudiation is still imminent if not inevitable that
they had doubled the taxes without being satisfied,
and had Governor who preaching that the
"ta1es are not as great as they oUght 10 6e;"-that
they had committed all the foes and absurdties-
were guilty Of all the sins of omission and commits
mocracy, what Judgment would not have been passed
upon them-what fate would not have been their ]:
We ask the Democracy themselves. it they ina
CINE punishment which would not have been u.er5-
ted by the incompetent and faithleSs Wings.
Now, We have faith that matters will be
improved by the continued ascendancy OF this psr-
". On the contrary every indication goes TO sho,e
thai they have III Oh the broad road to ruin. aud
II. s,t .,
CREASED speed That the Stale j. not now in col,-
dtion of complete bankruptcy is owing partly Ut We
may say III TO the opposition made by this paper.
three years ago. to bill approPriating from To 70
millions and partly and mainly TO the dsprec.atioa
Of State sscarities IF State bonds had been at or
above par, We should have been sgsmped hopeless
ly This continued inability of the spols party to
raise money State credit constitutes now the on
ly hope and salvation of the people. Before they
get the funds by quadrupling the taxes trust
the real tax-payers-the farmers, mechanics snd
merchants-wil put their heads and hands together,
and work out a common deliyerance
Of course, with these views, have not sympa
thized and DO not sympathize with the lamentations
Of the Democracy deprecated State stocks. -
We regard that depreciation a God-send. 1t Saveo
US in the past and pray it may prove in tn,
hands Of the people. and under the providence O
God, the instrument of our salvation in the future
The New York Herald says OF Gov Wses Inn
DUN bill This last effort beats all" Luckily, oi
unluckily, the Herald did not hear the Governor
reply TO Mr. Everett's great Grafton ON Washington
TIgt, up to this writing. His Excelency's last. wa
inSmparably the beat OF all that has gone before
and unless lac be Of infinite resources, mu,
continue unmatched and unmatchable in matter
and manner, it was indescribable but the sperta
tors will long remember with a shudder, tho luriou
aud threatening manner with which he rushed upor
Mr.. H., aud, thrusting his finger almost under hi
nose, demanded, somewhat in this wise Why, sir
did you not tell them that Washington had a mo
thery Why sir, did you not tell them that he new
er had professor, that his mother-a Virginia mo
ther-was his teacher SC &c
The Herald may appreciate the super-excclen
and unapproachabe tase Of this sort Of oratory by
remembering that Mr. l. had been professor. an,
that his mother not yirginian then lie
the fuHdUm bill sliJe.
The last steamer brings report that Psriaraen
will probably be dissolved in case Of Peace. durin,
the Spring This will he a very sdroit rnovemen
ON the part Of Lord Palmerston-and is probab
the only device he could pitch upon to prolong bi
ministerial existence Peace is always dangerous &
the tulitirai marie rov.r ri 81. Al. - 80.