The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-09

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proper for us to call attention to General
MAuoNE's letters that have been written
since the nominating convention was held
and that have been published in the news
| paDers-because General MALONE is not
candidate for office. We cannot see the
| force of the objection. The letters having
been given to the public, everybody has a
right to criticise them-their character and
their consistency. They arc evidently in
tended to have decided effect upon the
elections, and as nobody ever suspected
General MALONE OF writing letters alien to
his own personal advantage, we trust no one
will charge us witrilliberality for supposng
they are intended exactly for his benefit.
Again, as nobody could expect the Wing
to except to anything that General MALONE
may say, nobody can lie surprised to find
the Whig assuming that what General MA
HONE may say at different times is matter
not pertinent to the canvass.
Now, the WHO selects the BRocKETT let
ter and the FRAZIER letter for example, and
suggests that they do not differ. There are
yet others-the letter to the bondholdeH
less than a year old, which shows that
General MALONE entertained entire respect
for the funding act, and the letter to JONES,
OF Salem, and we know not how many others.
But the two named by the Wing will do.
The BRoCKETT letter was sensitive and COM
planning. General MALONE deplored the
objections of the Alexandria delegates
against voting for "MAHoSE the repudia-
| tor" and proceeded to say that his MARTIN
letter meant only to obtain reduction OF
interest on the public debt. He was no re-
pudiator according to the plainest infer
ence.
And now, when we take the FRAZIER let
ter. what is itt 1t is regular "swash-
buckler" epistle. The only remedy for the
embarrassed State was "to demand and
enforce reimbursement of the public debt"
What is that if it amt Republication No
wonder Mr.. FRAZIER, himself a "forcible
adiuster," said that Governor LETcHER,
who pronounced forcibIe adjustment abs
surd, could not stand on that platform.
Nor is it more matter of wonder that Mr..
FRAZIER could " ride safely" upon it.
General MALONE phrases the line Of policy
to FRAZIER finely. He says: "Let the peo-
"sple do their part, and then let the read
clusters in the Legislature organize on the
"same line, taking care to impress thepoacer
/" of thecolumn in dealing with every agency
"lIs the judiciary meant here?] which forms
I" the power of the Government, and when
4 "the bondholders observe that business is
"meant reidjustment Is accomplished"
What do you make Of this laundering
sentence ?-the impressing "the power of
the column" and the sort Of" business !"
that would, the moment the bondholders
discovered that it was meant, fix readjust-
ment9 Cuisines {" here is not the ordi-
nary !" business" which the holders Of
bonds best understand, but it must be that
sort OF business with which "gentle-
men" OF the sea and gentlemen OF the road
know how to work, and which puts an end
to parley and adjusts the matter in dispute.
We know no other business OF an order so
summary that it settles at once the question
between creditor and debtor without
the payment OF the debt.
| Now, if this is intended to be in con-
formity with the spirit which so complained
Of the objections OF the Alexandrians that
| General MALONE was ''repudator." we
fail to see the consistency. The Alexan-
drlans, after reading the mild and 'persua-
siue epistle of the self-styled anti-repudia-
tor to FRAZIER, will be more than ever con-
WINGED OF the truth OF their first impress
sions. s =: t@-.t
Let us ask, is the FRAZIER letter upon the
platform Of the. Hon. Mir, Bocock, whose
first declaration OF principles is
ITO PRESERVES UNTARNIsHED THE TRADI-
rroNARY FAME AND HONOR OF OUR MOTHER
STATE