The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-20
Why the Malcontenss CIamor
From the Petersburg Index.
kocKBRIDGE ALUM SPRINGS, J
August IS, 1870. {

The handful of malcontents receive from
all quarters the rebllkeS of the press and
the people. In what their discomfort
exists it is easy to see. The triumph of the
Conservative party over the ignorance and
dcpraVity which had ruled us and threat
ened again to rule US !; the possession of
our right to direct our own affairs the
election of a Conservative Legislature :;
and finally, our setting on foot a move
ment which has reaped success in Virginia
and furnished a precedent and 4 guide for
our sister States Of the South precedent
and guide which have led North Carolina
to glorious success against Holden which
Il few months will see Georgia follow to the
confusion Of Bullock {; which Texas pre-
parcs to profit by; and which Alabama
welcomes; and which finally has struck
such wholesome terror into the Radical
party as to make them if not decent and
respectable in their party action, ut least to
counterfeit decent and respectable defer
cnce TO law and to public opinion of the
South. All this i'll the view Of the malcon-
tents must 60 for nothing because they are
not the leaders of it because they do not
rule, but must obey the movement; because
they cannot command, but must serve in
the ranks or be disregarded.
| 1t is for this reason, as all men know, that
| this ncessant howl of Democracy, Demo-
cracy, is raised.
1t is for this reason that they shrek out
danger ahead at every movement of the
people who form the Conservative party.
1t is for this reason that they belittlc the
results gained for lis and for the country
by the Conservative party--resuts so solid
and valuable as have been rarely gained
by any organization in our political his
tory.
1t is for this reason that they claim the
credit Of the sole possession of the will and
the means to build bulwark against Radi-
calsm. It is for this reason that they
ignore the fact that the Conservative party
wark, but has conducted to victory an
offensive campaign against that Radicalism
on the strong position it held in Virginia
and its entrenched camps, its fortress and
stronghold of North Carolina.
II political forecast proves anything, If
numbers prove anything, If success prove
anything, then the great Conservative party
of Virginia and the southern States is right,
and this handful Of discontinued partisans
is wrong. ....-.
The matter is thus decided by the people,
as is attested by their unanimity and by the
consent of the Journals ofthe State with the
exception of two or three.
There was nothing more fully demon
strated on Monday last than the fact that
the power and influence of the old politi-
clans is OH the wane, if not entirely broken.
The Time when the people blindly followed
the lead of few men is gone, and we hail
it as sign of q more healthy state Of affairs
in which the will of the people, and not the
leaders, will be consulted. Time was when
the power of party was as memorable and
grinding as that which holds in subsection
the once proud people OF Poland. But, as
we have said before, the people have
thrown off the yoke, taken the management
of affairs in their own hands, and have de-
termned to reward honesty, capacity, ana
merit instead of blind devotion TO the De-
hests of Culpeper Observer.
DEATH OF Hon. BALLARD SMITH.-On
SATURDAY. the 18th instant, at his residence
Gear this place, the Hon. Ballard Smith de-
parted this life. Had he lived until the
18th instant he would have been eighty
eight years of age. He came to this town
about the commencement of the present
century as a lawyer, and continued the
practice of his profession until about the
year 1916, when he retired from the bar on
account of his health. He represented this
district six years-from 1915 to 1S21-ln the
Congress of the United States; he also re-
presented this county several years IN the
General Assembly of the State.-Leacasourg
Journal.
GENERAL MALONE LEAVES FOR CUMDER-
LAND GAP.-General Malone, President OF
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
Company, accompanied by Governor
Walker, Captain Cameron, Captain Osborne,
Major Fink, Major Goodwin, and Colonel
Huger, left yesterday on special train on
the Virginia and Tennessee railroad Gov
ernor Walker and Captain Cameron pro-
posing to stop at the Montgomery White
Sulphur Springs, and General Malone, with
his party, designing to go to Cumberland
Gap with the view of inspecting in person
the ground Of the proposed Virginia ana
Kentucky railroad, and oil forwarding that
enterprise by such means as appear most
judcious and proper, after an examination
of the means and ends.-Lynchbur9 Repuo-
hcaa, 18th.
CURrA1LINs.-The Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad contractors will soon have seYeral
hundred Chinese on that work. Nv 9 Wouid
like to see them on the Valley road. This
town could supply their commissary Win
CANNES for months, and 1t would be q dog-
gone good business all around Le1aastons
Gazette. i sss. $40 e
TuH WEATHER AND CR0Ps.--We hage nan
o succession or az fine seasons as has ever
been known in this section, II has ai''