The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-23
rraslev on Stevens.

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GREELEY handles old HAD "i'hou'
c,oves--ostensibly because THAD is o green
hack man, but really, it may be inferred
hv the upcharitab1e, because THAp not long
o;,ce called him &c scarecrow." After
quoting what the old villain said in the
House of Representatives last week upon
the subject of paying off the national bonds
with greenbacks, GREELEY adds:
off he should succeed in his present
effort, no swindler that the world has
"known ever perpetrated fraud so g'gan-
I" tic as that he meditates."
GREELEY then overhauls his files, ana
quotes from them the following ne decia-
ration made by STEVENS some years ago IN
commencing to the House of Representa-
tives the legal-tender act. THAp said
GA dollar in miser's safe, unprodnc-
atiye, is q sore disturbance. Where could
they invest it )? In United States loans
" at sir per cent.-reedeemable IN GOLD IN
"twenty years-the best and most valua-
"ble permanent investment that could be
desired" ...- r..
Having thus proved old THAD to be an
interruptions swindler and falsifer of the
truth, GREELEY then tells him to 60 over to
the Democrats. We quote his words:
awe might quote more to the same
=" effect but need we 7 Here are Mr..
L" STEvENs's own words, showing unmis-
"takably that he understood the contract
&c just as We did and do. He reported and
"urged that the greenbacks should be
L" made fundable in the fve-twenties; and
these fve-twenties, he asserted, were re-
deemable in gold in twenty years. That
/" is all that need be said. We quote STE
I" VEINS to prove STEVENS fit ally for the
PENDLEToNs, ROSES, and BLAIRs, whom
d" he threatens to join, unless the Republican
party can be made the accomplice of the
gigantic crime he meditates. That, we
can assure him, will never be. If he
wishes to swindle efficiently, let him join
the party to which swindling is natu-
d" ral-that which will crafty by repudia-
" ton its partisan malignity as well as its
innate rascality. Mr.. Ross courteously
opens the doors of the Democratic church
for his reception. He says he will enter
" if the Republicans will not help him to
defraud the national creditors. That, we
I" tell him, they will never do. Let him,
therefore,
"'stay not on the order of his going
but go ut once.'h
If GREELEY turns out of his party all of
the men who agree with STEVENS on this
question GRANT will not carry single
State. While the Tribune is daily denoun-
cling the Democrats as repudiators because
of the ground taken in their platform upon
this question the Radical papers out West
raise cry exactly the reverse. They an
nounce the result of the deliberations of
the New York Convention under the head
ing, "The Bondholders Victorious" and
endeavor to make their readers believe that
the Radicals are your only genuine and un-
adulterated regulators.
We shall watch the progress Of the war
between STEVENS and GREELEY with much
interest. 1t will be delightful to see the
Great Commoner lash the "white-coat-
ed philosopher "-the unblushing and bold
villain excoriate the hypocrite for GREE
LEY knows as well as STEVENS that both
parties are faYoring reputation.
We feel no particular solicitude upon the
Reputation question. We long ago pre-
dicted-what anybody else might have pre-
dicted just as easily-that the debt would
be repudiated in the end. Men do not vote
taxes upon themselves which they can vote
off. We doubt whether there is State
north of the Potomac which would not re-
pudiate its State debt if the question were
submit tilted to it's people at the ballot-box.
And as to the national debt, the southern
negroes and disloyal rebels will foolishly
aid the northern people to repudiate 1t
whenever the alternative of payment or re-
nudiaticn is submitted to the voters.