The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-19
Virginia D;screditing Herself-How 1t
Comes About.

<aOSal
Whrn we look a, the vote in the House OF
Delegates on the bill to discredit the
coupons which Firstaia had so'enin'S
hound herself to honor We End whole
volume Of reflection with regard TO the
terrible manner ia which the Central
Coveromcnt al Washington has 1m'
,,ircd our Govcrpsacn,. Ne find that the
inferior representation of the new and anfe-
rior constituency injected into the eeey pol
i,;c voted for tho bill, thus enabling one-thsfd
Of the acknowledgements to aeseat
the ,wo.thiriis who were opposed % the
hill The cicilized world outside Of Viz
GINA we;aconsider the passage OF The bill as
a dshonor Inflicted upon the State. Sosucn
hill could re passed by either house OF the
Virginia Legislature had not the Seoerai
Government, through the basest OF motives,
and in .contem pt;for all history and all c'vfli-
zatien, Gaevateda Darbarous race to equaHtS
with the white Feople-the only people on
1hi. continents, to govern State
We have always asserted that that act OF
the Fesleral Government inflicted q fata On.
jury upon the Political and secs conasson
Of This country. Here is preos- III Is OUT
one of a thousand: The inferior clement
controls the legislation Of the State III mat
ter vital to her Interests degrading her
credit. DESTROYING confidence 10 her 'teaity
anu honor, lettering capital from coming
into the -Sntc for investment and for the
prosecution of enterprises of all sor's- ano
lowering the once proud name of NiEshn's
h the low level of distrast and disrap'ect
1t should be borne in nind that the stm'
Radical lSarty unanimously Votee sar ths
ftndGg oil.
The pcssence Of a large vote orncone1 ollc1
by high Intelligence, uoTestrained oy 40 more
bic and,ccusaentious motives, perplez es a.
s.ste policy. Men iaborang under aunioE
tuSate bias that wares their Judgment te
the ,appssxal of doubtful expedieus aresen
coe,ragef to pursue the line marked out D!
passion or prejudice by the increase d cnahoe'
of the sueae esq of propositions hostile to gooo
sense nut enlightened public devotion
Thus the no. iary done 10y the presence OIL III
element or 10 capacity oct st zH able TO- sss'
ceiye the shi CHEST Of adj CONSIDERATIONS 10
legislation il lfcts an inquiry beyond tha'
which It's owl numbers could accomplish.
Let us ask Could bill like this possibly
be passed by Legislature eIectee oy voters
whose right 20 avote rested upon areeholo
i there man in Virginia who wall say That
II could3 Wi II any one sag that IN such Il
r,.a e,,cb -, il; II could ba7e been even re-
ported to the L legislature? That itcould have
incumbered tn legislative tSole@ VIC o''
lie We not.
We moan mt to reflect upon some honest
gentlemen fubo n we know to be eStinabe
and trne men, 81 no voted for the bill. They
are found in ad company, and we Still
cberisb Thorn &C IT., ,od and true men. There
are others boweu er, who We think are 'eX-
nelly where they q, lght to be, and we are not
surprised that they arc Ihere.
Ru. ue hro,os, q. .ainst the conclusion that
we know will be too widely entertained that
the n,ss,oa If ,h,s .Oupon.bill is the voice
Of Virginia. Rightly consloereo' IL aeuise
loud and deem aouin. It the Federal Govern
mcnt. which has don. its best, in spirit
$. bel.born and bolivar bound" to ruin the
fair fame of Virginia an ner sistei S'@'.s "
nlacinp over them bar, ,arous power TO hano
The South over bonud hand and foot, will
her 13S votes, to the mos. 'sofoio anu Belle oa
party that ever cursed th IS nat'on'
This is the moral of Oh, coupon-discredit
Ing bill. Virginia-Virgi n'a' the cohTos'el
of her laws aud the artiic, # Oh ner own ues
never have pas seo tniS pii- re
hose northern men who complain Of il
direct their censures at the Washington Gov
vicio,,s com binution of vii
|ainy and fanaticism which a' feouceu VIZ
.inia to the desperate cond t'ioh OF DIN Ut
osinted nv Muros her own, :hildreh gnaw'
ing away her Vtal>.