The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-02

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TUESDAY q, ]. ]. U;LY q, 1878.
The New Programme Of the Forcible
Readjusters.
The movement in Mecklenburg Is nearly
equalied by another in Abingdon, where
there has been much In the way Of mystic
rious caucusing. eliminating In resolutions
denouncing national banks, and calling for
ga sufficient volume OF greeaback currency
to meet the wants OF the people" The
points from which the greenback and anti
nationaEbank platform Is proclaimed iridi"
cate pretty well its source. It will be re-
membered that mysterious convention was
held here in May, whose doings were kept
secret. The hoteEregisters showed who
were present amongst the repudiating agi-
tators, and it was known that they were In Sc
cret conciave. The acknowledgement OF fill.
busters from the Southwest was present, and
the smaller officers from the Valley, the Pied
mont, aud the Tidewater, were also here, all
under the feld-marshal Of ell forcible reid
iusters. That they did something all knew;
but vi hat, nobody seemed to know. We are
now getting some knowledge Of it. The
plan, judging from what is now manifest,
was to crowd cut the Conservative party.
and, under profession OF desire to re-
form the Democratic party, to organize q
body OF forcibIe readjusters, who would
make nominations for Congress, &C., and
carry the State independent OF the Conser-
vative party.
The strongest indication OF this purpose
is in the Abingdon movement, where Full
KERsoS, the great organizer, who is more
trusted by the Generalissimo than any other
man, rules and dictates everything that is
done. Nothing is respected by the party OF
ruin that he does not dictate or approve.
The resolutions OF Abingdon profess to be
the work OF the Democratic party" They
advocate greenbacks and denounce ma
tional banks, and they denounce every aspi-
rant who denies the State control over her
own revenues" Everybody knows what
this means), and "who panders to money
rings and is q believer in judicial infalli-
bility." and everybody just as well will I'M
derStand this. ....
The Meckienburg people, whose crazy
resolves have been published by US. only
used some stronger language. Their dis
position was altogether sympathetic with
those OF the FULKEEsoN phalanx in Abins-
don.
From the two we deduce this platform !:
Greenbacks "in sufficient volume TO meet
the wants OF the people" whether two or
three feet deep on the face OF the earth IS
not stated, but certainly in quantity to sat-
isiy everybo dy); the winding up OF nation
al banks; forcible reimbursement; utter
disregard OF the decisions OF the Supreme
Court OF Virginia, and the reformation OF
the Democratic party upon this platform.
This is the clear proclamation. OF the Ma
HoNE-F ULKER BARBOUR party, and we all
know exactly what is the work before US.
We are required to defeat or submit to
party which has no appreciation OF the
truth that il we obtain an amount Of green
the payment Of the peoples debts or their
taxes, the people themselves will have TO
pay back the grcenbacks with interest; to
defeat or submit to Il party which declares
that Virginia is not obliged to pay her debts,
but that she can pay part or refuse to pay
any part Of them, and there is no power on
earth to make her pay any more; to defeat
or submit to party which declares that
the Supreme Court of Virginia is not en-
titled to the respect Of the people or OF Vir-
ginia herself, aud that the decisions OF that
supreme tribunal are OF no effect.
This is the platform framed by the secret
concave OF agitators who assembled in this
city recently. s.,....
Will the people fail to be appalled, at
the brazenness OF the proposition? Will
the Conservative-Demo party Of Vir-
ginia consent to incorporate with the IA
nous principles that have been known as
Democratic from the foundation of the par
ty such wild and destructive ideas as are
put forth in the MISUNDERSTANDING
resolutions?
We cannot believe that the people OF Vir-
ginia are ready to surrender their State
Government, and declare themselves unfit
for self-goyernment. We cannot believe
that the Democratic party is ready to give
up its time-honored theories OF finance and
political order, and to accept principles that
are precisely opposite to them and that
must bring ruin and anarchy upon the land.
What would Old Hickory have said to a
proposition such as thisf He would have
sworn "by the Eternal" and determined
upon such action rs would have driven the
authors Of such schemes TO their hiding
places not again to appear.
These people, in their zeal for Office, have
gone too far. They have deluded thought
less and simple people and have led them to
avow principles and purposes that are hos
tile to order and to government, and, in
deed, tantamount to public declaration
that the people themselves are incapable OF
self-goyernmeDt That is exactly what it is.
The talk about taxation is wild the talk
about greenbacks is foolish! II money is of
value it can only be obtained by giving value
in hand or security for it. In either case,
if the people get the benefit OF it they must
sooner or later pay for it. And yet these
lunatics speak as though these poor people
could get it aoithout paying for ii. 1t is the