The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-02
FLOR The Dispatch
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For shame, .chattachu!' exclaimed The
Bae, ny for shame, sir Wad sc say sic things
before magistrate and ortng yourself tnto trou-
| BILE How dye think to msiatatp your family and
satisfy your creditors myself and 9th, rs) If ye
you under the law, the prtjudce OF a tia. ARE
connected VI ye." -.
hnP -n s1s ny vSp II Ve b. one =" them saw there
| will be new warld sumo "-Rob Roy. 49,
Preliminary, we will wager the "ffty
millions which Nozis Addunps doesn't know
I what be did with against The amount 10 be
redized ION settlement with West Vir.
| ginfl" that there isn't a man in America
can tell the meaning of 'Udipores mot eX-
tcepting Professor Orbilius Syntax, or any
other genealogical, pathological, pedagogical
dominee of corrugated verbs and nouns de-
clned, who, 49,. -. ...'.
With FIRE 10 each eye, and paper In each hand,
Raves. recftes, aud maddeu5 rJund the land
1 of and eoucernipg the savory delights Of the
soup-erfeial free lunch of knowledge. The
honest truth Is that we have clean forgotten
! what was the word we wrote. At the time
our thoughts were divided between DR..
Lindermau, United States mint-naster, and
the mysteries Of coinage. of which we had
lately been reading. and o rare Ben JON
sons play of the AIchemtst, which we have
not read for coon's age. However,
n'importe! Accidents will happen in the
best regulated family of typos; thirgs will
now and then get into pi, and as the philo-
sophical Mr.. Weller sagely remarks,
"Arter all, what's the great odds when
even the pile>men themselves don't know
the difference" What makes some
people get 40 terribly perturbed in
spirit whenever the matter OF the public
debt is mentioned in respectable newspa.
per? No harm ever YET resulted to free In
situations or society from full discussion OF
every subject of general public interest; al
belt the sgitatiou of the political waves may
eventually swamp the little cockboat Of
many riIlige Hampden's" sanguine hopes
| OF future lame. Talk about muZzDg the
| press 10 country whose Iite-breath is free
and untramnclled diSquistion into all affairs
OF Church and State He Is bold man who
would undertake to I" bell the cat" For all
its occasional wild license and excess OF
partisan bitterness and rage the press Is
the sver-faithful guardian of public
liberty and private right. It tears the
mask from hypocrisy and deceit exposes
fraud, imposture, and hollow preteuce
penetrates every disguise of secret corrup.
ton; demoishes the whited sepulchres of
vice and lniquItg, and lays bare the grinnipg
every lurking devil Of wiekedness aud crime
starts upin naked deformiiy; at its warning
voice, rs Of trumpet on the mountains, the
people are awakened to the sense of ap-
proachiDg danger; the ocean Is stirred to its
deep heart: the imprisoned winds are let
loose, and the battlements reel and rock be.
fore the mighty winds OF the hurricane.
But why should we add word to W hat
Curran has spoken land Macaulsy writ
len on this inspiring themes Our
purpose is merely to sreinforce the decision
of the Court of Appeals (whieht The press'of
Virginia, almost without exception, has re-
cognizsd as conclusive argument 90 the
pnel'e-debt question: by 4 reference 70 tbs