The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-06
Nh. Underwood Injunction.


=. will be seen that Mr.. CHAHooS has
h.en formally notified that q motion Will
tomorrow DO made before Chief Justice
CHASE, in chambers, in Washington, to dis
solve the injunction recently granted by
UNDERWOOD in the case of CHAHooS Us.
ELLYsoN and others.
This is we'll. II will settle the question:
All the people of Virginia wall reaa,'y az
on;esce in tho decision of Judge CHASE.
IA is not only a man Of great ability ou'
a profound iu,ist, and one who discharges
his high Office conscientiously. His dec'-
.,on eli will bow to. 1t is calam''y.ih
these DAYS of sensitivencss and pcrriex''!'
whom 20 much of calmness and WISDOM Is
REQUIRED to bring the country out OK tue
labyrinth of trouble and pre]udice lh.o
which it was led by the war and the STRIFE
which preceded it, that the Federal judi
c;srv should not consist entirely OF men
whose acts are governed by the same high
motives that are displayed in the decisions
of Judge CHASE.
We are eratifed that the case is to get
into bis hands. II the law of Judge UN-
psswoop is to be the law of the land-lt
State authority is to be whitfield down to 80
low an ebb that it may not prevail in the
filling Of petty Offices under State Conssltu-
tions and laws-if, in short, States are no
thing and the Federal Government assumes
control of all their municipal affairs, 1t is
right that it should be so settled by the
highest authority, and SO established hy
the Government as that there maybe raised
no more questions such as that which has
ysxed this community for some days past
The opinion of Judge UNDERWOOD ls
mockery-a piece of stupid partisan clap
trap burlesque upon judicial opinions.
I. would be Disgrace to any report OIL
eases, any record of judicial opinions. II
ia 30 silly % to fall beneath the grade OF
q curiosity. 1t is devoid of any feature
which can save it from utter annihilation'
So it con have no earthly effect upon the
questions it pretends to decide. Nobody
respects it in the slightest degree; and
the nation will feel relief when 1t
learns that the solemn issues which he
presumed to NEEDLE with are to be, par
TALLY at least, reviewed by one who is wor-
thy of considering them, and whose eplnlon
will be respected.
In the interim, before the Chief Justice
disposes of the matter, there will be no q g.
turbance. Things will progress quietly
Measures have been taken with this view
which will be developed in due time. 1t If
proper to say just here that not step mas
been taken under the auspices OF Judge
UNDERWOOD, from the incipiency OF TINS
case to the present time, that can be pro-
nounced proper by any good lawyer. All
the processes against ELLlsoN have been
the merest laundering. He has never in
tended to resist the authority of the United
States, and when that authority Is pre-
seuted in proper manner this will be seen.
The resistance of CHAHooN to State
authority and its consequences will turn 10
the advantage of the State and the Con
scrvative party. 1t will give renewed
assurance of the maintenance, at least TOT
O cycle to come, of the federatiye system Oh
States and General Government. The lat
ter is stronger than ever; but there are
clearly defined spheres of authority TO tne
States which need not be interrupted 1or any
purpose of Capitalization, and which can
not be further impaired without the oe
struction Of the States and the estaolish
ment of an empire with supreme ruler
The nation is not ready for this; ana uh'l
It is, such instruments as UNDERWOOD n'uS
be brought to defeat and contempt. aye
and when the empire comes it will have TO-
much dignity to allow such snails to MI Tn
high places of State, and besmear then
with their disgusting traeery.