The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-03-31

4W6 SW6He0gS NEW WV
,fne measure of the last Congress for
retiring the large amount of currency f.'
sorth bv the Confederate Government IN inc
lat three years appears to be going most
.rcceaafully into operation. Never was a
,nsasura 40 bold, and requiring so much to
be done In the matter OF reducing ana t'Ans
muting the paper medium OF country ~
40 brief time submitted to so cheef'u''y
bv people. Indeed, never was there VII
uessed.in any country, at any age, iegai
coactneut attempting so much 10 TINS par
ticular department Of national economy ~
a lasting and grand monument to the pun'
y,a sniYit and patriotism of the Southern
,,aon,a that such measure has been submit
ted to 20 cheerfully, and that it, together
with the heavy taxation--so wisely resortea
20 % necessary part of the system 70 re
.tore the national credit and sustain the
a,my-havc been carried onwith such signal
rood faith and sense Of public duty Both
tho people and the press have rallied around
The Government and the cause with renew
ed devotion In the hearty acquicscence and
support they have given these measures. III
il only an exceptional case that complaint
h occasionally heard-sometimes,i 1t Is TO
be regretted, nom one high in position
fox instance, Mr.. Stephens, the Vice
President, who, forgetting that he is the
representative of the Southern Coniederacy,
- well - of Georgla-who, forgetting that
Il would become him as patriot, as well as
Vice. President, to exhort the people to s"S-
lain the cause of the South, and not 10 raise
a clamor against measured essential fer the
publie defence, simply because he does not
approve of all their details-who, forgetting
indeed that he is constitutionally something
more than the conduit of the dieconten;s OF
Governor Brown and Mr.. Toombs, thvows
Lis influence and the force of his argument
against the Government, and attempts to
compensate the country by Offering 1t the
benea: Of his sympathy and coincidence -
II this instance is conspicuous it is 4 graft
flying reflection that it is, among really pro-
minent men, on whom the Confederate
States have placed anything like reliance,
solta,y.
How happily may we contrast with the
carping criticisms Of our public measures
forced upon us as they are by the public
exigency-indulgsd by Mr.. Stephens, with
the warm, generous, and patriotic support
given them by Judge peterborough, OF
Virginia, in recent speech made by him iG.
Lexington! The occasion was one in honor
of Governor Letcher, who also spoke in
language consistent with his own feaity, Us
well as the attitude of Virginia. We cite
Judge B.'s views On the occasion as esp9
cially deserving attention because he IS
Judge of the Confederate District Court,
and while not a politician. and never par:i
zan, he is man alike distinguished for
sound judgment and for strong intellect
Above all, he is = pattern OF the Virginia
gentleman and patriot, loyal and true to the
South in the only true hne OF true loyalty
loyalty which never talks Of buying faSors
and recognitions from abroad by humiliating
concessions, and would die rather than Of
Ter the olive branch Of peace (Which means
Submission . to the ruthless enemy while he
Is des0lating the land and Mating the
N.., .ss,s.. We