The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-09

The WHO is entirely mistaken. we nave
no. changed our opinions about the "e,'o'' VI
,ho oo;sl,,ure Nor have we changed them
about the funding ac'.
The purport of what we saia-sVppos.ns
,ha, the Legislature would ann'll the i"hoi"s
oc,--was to call upon the anti-sundeis 70
hiring forward tier own plans. They indlS-
nantly repudiatcd Reputation. W." were 'o'
,,kipr them at their word upon trust, await
ing for their acts, which we really hops''
would make good their protestations. Ii'a'
all. We thought the joint committee Nef!
mnch too large as it is) would be Sooo
means Of bringing all hands up to the pumps
and thus do something to make the ola sup
rise in the water. She has SUNK NIUE ',o'n
the leaks sprung amidst the wild, ho"''ne
tempest on the funding act.
No: We do not change onr opinion d. ".''
We think It madness to undertake h'" -
tear to pieces the funding act, under Which
,ho ,,rsat b,,lk of the public debt has peeii
r,ndcd and out Of which rights have accrued
which will in case the act is set asioe give
,ise n endless trouble. The Legislature Is
"too late" The measure has, upon al f'''e,
,;c,I and reasonable grounds, gone pc!ohu
the reach of the present Legislature, ana II
e. in orr opinion hardly possible TO produce
orv good to the State and the taxpayers py
disturbing it.
Whether We are with the popular side on
this or not, we believe we are right :,
The Wing presents very correct w..
maxim. which the crratic Enquirer WAS his'
to modify unwisely-riz., "As goes ,ne
Dispalch, so goes the State" Inc ""9
follows our impulsiyc and devious young
nc;ehDor. and saws: "As goes the STATE 81
goes the Dispatch." We cannot co,lnieh'"ce
any s1ch rervcrsion. The Dispatch goes
unon tic highway of practical good sense
And that i the true Virginia line, ana thal
j. the way the Dispatch is generally fouhu
indicating the route the people take.
The people arc sometimes caprlciouS' We
have known too many instances to cause Us
70 be alarmed at differing from them. we
know how "pcople's men, as they call Them
selves, manufacture public opinion. we
know how by little altful demagog'ily Tie
unthinkins are often mislcd into causeicss eA'
element. We remember when LAFAYETTE
visited Virginia he was received with yer!
considerable parade for that day as the co'iii'
try's bcnefactor
The Legislature voted $4,000 to dcfr7ly the
expenses of his reception. The little sum.
which would hardly pay for moderate din
ncr to party leader nowadays, raised a per-
feet storm or, rather, the dcElago@ues ialset'
II storm about it, and many Of the members
who voted for it were turned out. Old Col
oncl BuEwELL, who died lust year in tins
c,y, was one of the victims of this war OF
dcmacogucs. The old gentleman rcmem-
lcred it with mortified pride to the day OIL his
death. Hardly year had elapsed before the
pcople were ashamed Of having turned away
their honest public servants upon such Il
miscrably mcan and niggardly complaint.
If the present Legislature, without really
diminishing the public burthcns, npturns the
funding act, which has become so rooted into
our financial system, the people will conclude
that they have been mislcd again, and that Il
great storm has been raised about nothing.
And how will they diminish the public
burthcns if they go on to redeem the public
obligations in the interest and principal rs
they become due! Tie man who discovers
how money is to be paid without Icing col
lected will cntitlc himself to the public graft
tulc and the lasting remembrance ola legion
of debtors who find it very hard to get along