The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-14

formation Of eonfederacy these debts
would never have existed. The
FIRST OF THESE CASES
| is claim of Samuel g. Fauntleroy, Jr.,
| against the county of King and Queen. for
Sl0,500 lent the county February 2, 1855, to
purchase corn for INDECENT soldiers families.
| The; loan was made under an order Of the
County Court of said county directing that
sum to be borrowed for the purpose atore-
| said. Prior to the loan it appears that the
said court, at Its January term, 1860, made
| an order directing that the families of all de.
serters should be striken from the list Of
| soldiers families requiring aid.
TIE NEXT CASE
is Terry, assignee, vs. Board of Supervisors
of Pittsylvania county. Phis is a claim evi-
denced by note for S30, 1000. payable sixty
days after the 17th of February, 1865.
by the county OF Pittsylvania to the
Bank of Pittsylvania, for money loaned to
said county under an order Of the County
Court made at the May term, 1863, and pur.
ports to have been made by j. A. Lovelace,
agent for and in behalf of said county,
under the authority vested in bin by the
order aforesaid. which appears to have been
assigned to Harvey Terry, the appellant,
who claims the scaled value, $500.
The next case is Whites executrix Us.
THE COUNTY OF sURRY.
The court Is of opinion that the plaintiff
failed to appeal from the decision of the
supervisors within the time limited by law :
and that although the objection was not
made in the County Court nor in the Circuit
Court, and is made for the first time in this
court, the County Court had no jurisdiction
of the case, and all the subsequent proceed
ings were non cordm judiCc, and it is not too
late TO make the objection here. The order
of the supervisors must therefore stand, and
all the subsequent proceedings in the County
and Circuit Courts must be set aside and
anpulled.
The next cases are the Board Of Super
yisors Of
STAFFORD COUNTY
Us. Hewett's estate. This is claim OF L. ii.
Hewett against the said county on an account
for goods furnished to the families Of Con-
federate soldiers under an order made by the
County Court CT said county on the 18Th day
of May, 1861.
| am OF opinion that neither of these
claims can be rightfully and lawfully en-
forced now against the said counties. Upon
whom would the burden fall: Not upon
those who contracted the debts, or got any.
thing for lhtm, or ever promised TO pay them,
but upon the people of the several counties
charged-upon men who received nothing
for what is now demanded Of them except SO
far as it subserved the Contederacy and aideG
| in its support, in which they who made the
demand were as much interested as they were,
or ought to have been-the men Who
PERnLED THEIR LIVES,
endured the hardships and exposures Of the
| field, &C., and the camp, shed their blood
and surrendered their estates in the support
| of a cause which lay near to the hearts Of oil,
| but which was lost. 1t is not right that
| those who bore the heat and burden Of the
day for the common cause and suffered the
! loss of everything should have thrown upon
| them also the burden of these claims. The
supplies were evidently furnished or the
money loaned in the interest of the
Confederacy and if that cause had
been successful they would doubtless have
been paid. II unsuccessful they had no
good reason to expect payment, and their
| loss is no more than it would have been if
they had contracted directly with the Con-
| federate Government instead of with the
subordinate divisions. The cause ia which
all we're engaged pershed, and desolalion
and ruin were brought upon the States ana
their populations who were conSecrated TO
| its success. And it dots not seem to be
right that part of those populations who
| had aided the cause by
LENDING MONEY
or selling supplies to the counties for their
Door, &C., and the families Of the soldiers, or
| to provide salt for the people to buy, should
| hold the rest of the people bound, after bear
| ing their own losses, TO make good to them
| the losses which they bad sustained by the
| failure of the common cause. The claim
against the county OF PittSylvania stands
upon no higher ground than the others.
| The Confederate State of Virginia had taken
possession of the Smyth salt-works, and had
undertaken to furnish the counties with
supply of salt for their people at cost for
cash as early as 1S62-'G5, and the County
Court Of
PITTsYLyANIA APPOINTED AN AGENT
ear,y in that year to receive Pittsylvania':
share of the salt to be furnished By the State.
and to distribute il, according TO certain
ratio, by sale, to the people of the county, fol
cash and to this end he was authorized TO
| borrow money on behalf Of the county
L ~
refunded out of the sales OF the salt to the
people of the county. This whole scheme
both in the legislation of the Confederate
Legislature of the State and in the action OF
the County Court to supply the people with
salt was rendered necessary by The war, and
| was necessary to encourage and strengthen
the people to maintain the war for the estab-
lishment of the Confederacy. But in this
| casa IT, is strange that the money was moi
borrowed for
TIE PURPOSE AUTHORIZED
by the court until nearly two years after
| wards-it would seem not until the 19.h OF
| February, 1865, but few weeks before the
fall of the Conlederacy-an when 1t was ir
| ertren1is when the money borrowed wa:
/ really as worthless as Waste.paper, and Wher
it was toe late for the county to derive any
| benefit from the loan and it seems that the
county never got bushel Of the SAL. The
bank was doubtless glad TO exchange por
tion of the worthless paper for the note ii
question. 1t could lose nothing by the ope'
ration if it never realized anything upon
the note, and there was possible chance ye
for the Confederacy. 1t WAS nothing better
than q gambling speculation, and has nc
equity upon its face. 1t would be mani
lestly inequitable to hold the present popu'
latiou efthe county bound to pay it. A larst
proportion of them were, perhaps, not in
| terested for
| THE SUCCESS OF The CoSFEpERACY,
and those Of them who were derived nc
benefit from the loan. They never got 8
particle Of salt, and II they had they would
| have had to pay for it. And If the scheme
bod haan ga arrjad ont most SrlccesSfDllV il was