The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-11

Ex-Governor WELLS went 70 dleAauoaAa
on Saturday to submit the original to Judge
UNDERWOOD, after which he will bring II
to this city and file it in the cause.
The postponement of the matter is
only for three weeks-Judge CHASE having
fixed the first day of the May term (the
second day of the month"; to hear the case.
We are consoled for the delay by the GER
tainty that the Chief Justice will be here.
The importance of the issue cannot be
oyerrated, involving, as it does, ques-
tons seriously affecting the relations Of
the States to the Federal Government and
the extent to which the States are control
lers OF their civil local governments.
It is possible but not probable that before
the May term the new circuit judge for
this circuit will be confirmed by the SEN
ate: but that does not interfere with the
sitting of Judge CHASE. The law establish
ing new regulations for the circuit courts
provides that the Chief Justice may sit
with the circuit judge or the district judge,
and that the circuit judge may sit with the
Chief Justice or the district judge, and
that either one of the three may preside
alone over the proceedings of the circuit
court. 1t is expected, however, that in this
cause the Chief Justice alone will hear the
arguments of counsel.
While prompt settlement Of the ques-
10 ha Jyn
have no reason for anxiety as to the result.
In the mean time arrangements Fin be
made to insure the smooth and quiet opera
ton of the different departments of the city
government, and the public order will be
preserved and the public interests guarded.
1t was compliment paid by Judge CHASE
to this people in proposing to leave them
for three weeks in.the anomalous situation
in which the public affairs of the city have
been placed by the impudent and neiarlous
resistance by force Of arms to the laws OF
the State BY the strangers who invaded the
Commonwealth with no other motive but
to fatten on the spoils of the offices from
which "rebels" were for the time exclu-
ded, and from which they would be per-
petually excluded had these strangers
triumphed at the last elections. They
were beaten but still they carry on the
war against people they with unparalleled
effrontery still call "rebels," and, like
leeches, hang Gu to the Offices in face Of
law and OF the peril of the public peace,
and to the serious injury of the property
of the city and State.
We take occasion to add, as timely ant
proper, that the pay of the police will o.
course be suspended until Judge UNDER
WOODS injunction is dissolved. Only one
act of policemen will be paid out of the
city treasury in any event, and Mayor Ell.
LYsoN's men are not afraid to take the
chances.
And now We have to say that the firm pc.
sition occupied by the Governor, the Council
the Mayor, and his legal advisers, on this
question, involving the dignity and authority
Of the whole State, has met the approva
and support Of the whole ssate. If Virgini'
is to be resisted by an individual sustained
by mottled posse of armed men, and the>
dragged into the Federal courts to show tina
she has the right to fill her own local Offices
the present is the time to test it, and thos
who represent her in this affair would hay
been recreant to the trust reposed in then
had they submitted tamely to such an out
rageous denial of her rights.