The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-01
1ithmund 1ispatth.
THURSDAY....... OCTOBER !, 1868
Governor peirpoint and Virginia.

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The well-to-do-in- the-Aesh and good-hu'
mored Governor PEIRPoINT has at las'
popped up from the food under which ne
had beens sunk SO many athomsby the carpet
baecers under the direction Of the "gentie.
man from Michigan" Having remained
quiet SO long, We supposed he would perseVers
in his reticence until the Presidential cam,
paipn was over. But the Wheeling hao'ea !,
paper brings speech from him denver. :.
in that city on Saturday. We openea . ~
expecting to find hacking OF ahe ~
tleman from Michigan and the We. s~sd
r;ncn Of richmond, upon whom ne n as ;,
"the deep damnation OF ms e .d has he
Va wsr. disappointed. Not worn n@' ~ ~
W. - censure or depreciation Oh 'he
10 soy ;,iinnst;ce-indeed, the fragrant assaS-
gross ~ which his official head was
.assn off and he was shown to the door 0.
va. IS oIa mansion of the grand governors OF
V:.a;n;a which he had occupied. tie sup
,,;.o ike an innocent lamb to on ou'rase
-h;,h axc;ted the commiseration OF us ALI
ond seals his lips toward clique by whose
hands he fell, and which he here pfo,
nonnced the most corrupt body OF men 'n''
had ever been known in this country. 49,,
Strange to say, however, while ean.D.
ING this gentle and submissive splrl. 10,
wards the authors of the greatest ou'iae'
~ hos over suffered he turns upon 'ne
neople of Virginia with the bitteres' ieei,
inrs and empties upon this suffering anu
nrostrste State all the walls of his wrath
This was cruel, and most inconsistent IN "
gentleman who can show SO much foroeaF-
ance towards persons who wronged MIN
more than all others put together.
Governor PE1Rpo1NT directs all his powers
Of depreciation and ridicule at Virginia
Her society, her customs, and even her
present poverty, he does not spare. Ills
malice even dulls that common-sense Oh
which he has good deal, and deprives him
of the capacity to distinguish the causes
which, while they were not favorable 10
commerce and manufactures, secured 1or
Virgins fame and solid prosperity,
nolitical and agricultural, which placed
her first amongst the States. Look at her
exports and ut her great men !! She may
not have been great in the I" truck line"
but she was great in greater matters.
Governor PEIRPoIST dwells with great
sarnestness upon Encouragement of public
works. In this respect he tells some truths,
but he distorts even these.
But why does Governor PEIRPo1ST take
delight, in this Presidential campaign, per-
tinent to which he was expected to make
speech, in painting Virginia as the poorest
and most ill-directed and most forlorn of
States? What have her ideas and systems
to do with the national question of the Pre-
sidency9 It looks very much as though
Governor PE1RPoINT had not the courage to
attack the great power which took OFT his
head in Richmond, and essayed to avenge
himself by attacking things which could
not strike back, Like the mastiff kicked
out of the kitchen, Selling duck IN the
yard to revenge his spite
This is what we had not expected OF
PEIRpoINT. We had thought him "good-
hearted" fellow, and regret that we are
disappointed. We might compare him to
the ass kicking the dead lion. But that
would be malapropos, since Virginia IS
not dead. No, She lives She was great
under the old dispcnsation. She will be
greater under the new. She is just entering
the new-just passing under the auspices
of the new heaven and the new earth,
and she will be found fully equal to her
new life, in which, while she will triumph
in all the industrial and commercial pur-
suits adapted to her changed condition, she
will preserve her public fame by the Wis
dom of her sons in counsel and their hero
ism in the future fields of the republic.
The ridicule of Governor PEIRPoINT may
excite momentary passion in the breast of
an excitable Virginian but what is it to
the fame, the honor, of Virginia? The
least considerable of things.