The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-06
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Thur spAY -. JANUARY 6, 1876.
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Tie Senate yesterday passed the bill ap-
propr:as!Dg ten thousand dollars to be used
FIR the benefit Of the people Of Virginia
taa: is, to aid them Ia making ereditable
displ4y--at the Philadelphia Centennial Gel.
etration.
The bill now goes TO the House, and W.T.
we trust. be fayorably acSed upon there. TO
any one who may object that this money is
to be spent in Philadelphia, we would say tt
vii, be al, investment which will return to the
Safe benefits worth ten times ten thousand
tlo,,srs. The material interests of the Safe
Will not only not be benefited By refusal to
aonropriase this sum to the purpose indicated,
bat they would suffer great damage. Let US
consider the subject.
The exhibition at philadelphia will be
o,.a for six months. 1t will be visited by
millions OF people residing ia this country
aaa by many thousands from Europe. AS
whist to know the alphabet Is no credit to
any man, not to know it Is disgrace, so,
wills. Virginia may not increase her store
o. renown by participating in this exhibit
ton, she win greatly injure her fame by not
doiog 50. What will be the first inference
Of foreigner? Why, that Virginia is suik-
irs ia her tents and brooding over her de-
fea, in The late war. No foreign immigrant
having any money will desire to cast bis lot
in such State. Virginia is one Of the ORR
piaal thirteen. What sort Of reason would
excuse her absence from the thanksgiving
table of she Centennial year 1876: Would
any northern capitalist invest any money IN
q State that would show such spirit!
Bu: we can't pay the interest on our public
deb. and VIC have no money 10 spare, says an
obiector. We shall never be able to pay
that interest if we play the part Of the dog
in The roanger-lying idle and letting our
resources remain undevelored rather than
cSk on northern or European brethren 10
aid us in making money out of them. Zen
thousand dollars judlciously expended IN
Philadelphia will put hundreds OF thousands
into car treasury.
But you don't like the Yankees! Read
" hal Governor KEaPgR says in bis annual
message. He has therein mentioned every
objection which the most captious reoel
ouah. TO make, and has nevertheless come to
the conclusion that it is both the duty ana
The interest Of Virginia to be we'll represents
ed a, Philadelphia. This conclusion is the
one 10 which every rejecting man must come
in The end. The glamour of the occasion is
lot yet upon us. But in June next the
"tyamp, tramp, tramp Of thousands on
their way to Philadelphia will arouse out
rcsp!e. The wonders OF every State will
hy accounted in the newspapers. "Ihe
weather" will give place to "tbe Centen-
rial as the universal topic of conversation.
Men, women, and children will talk of it.
The injection will spread frofH the cities to
the country. One hundred thousand Virgil.
mans will flock TO Philadelphia. And woe
10 the legislator who, instead Of forecasting
tbs future and preparing a scene TO-
Viginians of which they might be proud,
shall! vote to have her place vacant, aud shall
provide for her sons and daughters visiting
Philadelphia nothing but modification and
regret. The people are not yet aroused, but
they viii be, and they will then feel only
indignation or contempt for those Legislators
who could not see an inch ahead of their
ros2s.
Give Virginia ten thousand dollars 70
speed at her Centennial