The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-09-29
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s.tor Its language proves that 1t was no
W,rc;n;a Convention. It had carpet
h.c"er rs its president; carpet-eaggers Us
q, second. third, and fourth vice. presi-
dents a carpet-b Dagger as its first secretary
4 carpet. Dagger headed the Committee gu
Credentials. Indeed, the carpet oasSsse's
seemed 10 rule the Convention. IL ~ NV
necessary, however, as we have aiieau!
intima,ed, to look ut the names OF the
members of the Convention IN ordel I"
ascertain its character. Its so-calieu pi".-
form of PRINCIPLES bears Internal CYL
dence that it was constructed by men WHO
have no Virginian feelings or sympa'h'es'
and IL the orators of the Conservative
party cannot drive the advocates OF TINS
platform from every stump III the Hta'e'
they are not the men we take them 70 oe'
The Convention declared that it was IN
favor of paying every dollar Of the national
debt. and of repudialing the state deo''
It also declared that 1t was IN laVoI HUI
only of ppying the interest upon the ma
uonal debt promptly and regularly, but OF
paying off portion of the principal every
wear whilst as to the State 1t declared that
it was opposed to levyipg any "turther
tax" than is necessary to support tue state
Government. These are beautiiui speci-
mems of yirginians As natlonal men thes
are extremely honest. AS Nirginiahs, they
are coufessedly dishonest. They scorn to
cheat the national creditors. They long 10
cheat the State creditors. They are willing
TO pay any amount of national taxes-we
beg pardon, they are not willing to pay IL,
but they are perfectly willing to tax tne
people of Virginia to any extent to escape
national reputation, but entirely unWll'
ling that the same people should be taxed
fifty cents upon the hundred dollars to
escape State reputation. Here is evil
dence enough that the Convention had
no regard for the honor of Virginia.
That it had none for the interests of the
State Is proved by the fact that though this
single revenue district Of Richmond pays
as much tax to support the Federal Gov
ment as the entire Commonwealth pays to
support the State government, the Con-
yention declared its anxiety to continue the
heavy tax and to repeal the light one The
six thousand negroes who compose the Re-
puI lican party of Richmond do not pay
six thousand dollars tax per annum to sup
port their State government, whilst upon
every hundred pounds of tobacco that
these negroes put up the Federal Govern
ment places tax of thirty-two dollars !!
The negro gets perhaps less than ten dol
lars for manufacturing tobacco enough to
produce tax of fifty dollars for the sup.
port of "thc best Government the void
ever saw But what care the carpct-hag.
gers? They make the poor simple negro
declare that he is willing TO pay this bur
thensome tax TO the Federal Government,
and unwilling to pay single dollar to the
Stale that educates his children. They are
not Nirgnians. They bate EirSinia. Tney
cure not whether her honor be sulled or
not. They will lust nothing II her mate
rial Interests are sacrificed.
But the impudence OF the carpct.baggers
equals their treachery. The very funding
bill which they so bitterly dcuounce re-
ceived the vote of nearly all the Radi-
Gals in the last Legislature, and could not
have been passed without their votes
BEAST BUTLER himself could not wear
on when it denounced the laws its own
friend, had aided in passing.
Even their denunciationS Of the tax law,
however, are not mole impudent than Inc
carpet-baggers' demand that the people OF
Virginia shall put them in power US means
Of reducing the State taxes. why, WCy
cents Oh he hundred dollars would not sup
ply The carpet-basgers who rule TeXas, LOU
islapa, South Carolina, Nc, WIN pocket
money. And yet their allies In virginia
have The assurance to ask our taxpayers TO
entrust them with tue management Of the
finances of the State. They first proclaim
their own dishonesty in declaring their
anxiety to repudiate the State debt, and
then ask the taxpayers to trust them with
their money. The State debt is just as
truly the debt Of every Virginian as are his
own private debts, and no greater faint OF
d,shonor should attach to the man who re
pudiates his own debts than to the man
who votes to repudiate the State debt.
The carpet-basgers first declare that the
taxes will have to be doubled in order to pay
the interest upon the State debt. and then
rail out at the Conservatives because there
Is money enough already in the Treasury TO
pay the next instalment of interest that will
fall due upon that debt.
The carpet-baggers deuounce the whip
pipg-post. Well, we cannot censure them
for that. They know best whether it has
any terrors for them.
But, enough for one day. We may dis
cuss the subject again very soon. The Rad
ical platform is a capital electioneering doc
ument for the Conservatives.
AN OLD THEORY ExPLoDED.-Everyb body