The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-05-30
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sol these enemies OF good government and
OF the people, would like TO slip into place
and power upon a question purely local,
and whose advocacy would less damage
their standing after they get TO Washington,
the Ybig not only makes open war upon
I, the persons who hold the bonds OF Virginia,
and the State courts which declare they have
a fright 10 Interest on those bonds, but de.
nounces the persons who hold the bonds oil
the United States and the Federal courts
which declare that these bonds are PAYABLE
Z il, gold and silver. Infts issue OF Yesterday
the Wig makes the flowing reference to
the Dispatch:
The funders' organ says the "qGeStso'
IS dlrsadV settled" the State is turned over
to Aliunde Joe u Co.. and its fate sealed.
The people, with or without rconvention,
cannot help themselves. Aliunde Joe q
Go, are omnipotent.
Well, that Is the very question to be de-
termined. We believe, as we hope, that the
people are still sovereign, and possessed OF
certain ina,ienable and indefeasible rights,
beyond the reach Of Aliunde Joseph and
his associates.
Let the people speak for themselves.
The Wing could as Justly be termed the
renudiasors' organ as the Daspatch the
flinders, organ. But that is not important.
Isetus see what The Wing means.
Tie above is in reply to oursstatement
Of some questions Of fact. We stated that
Constitutional Convention would have no
more power to relieve Virginia OF her debt
~, ell ft hnss that Il
vention is rs powerless in the presence OF
the Constitution OF the United States as
legislature is in the presence OF State Con-
stitution. And we also stated that the
question which the readlusters desired to
raise by securing a new Court OF Appeals
had already been decided by the Supreme
Court OF the United States. and contrary to
the way in which the readiusters desired to
have that question settled. In reply to these
plain facts the Whig gives its readers the
paragraphs quoted above.
"The people are still sovereign, and pos
sessed OF certain inalenable and indeieasible
rights Beyond the reach OF ALIUNDE JOE
and his associates! The tribunal thus de-
scribed is the Supreme Court of the United
States. Is it, indeed, true that the "SoYe-
reign people" are above their own highest
court? sanarchy to come? II the courts
OF Virginia, including its Court OF Appeals,
presided over by the incorruptible Mon
CURE, and the courts Of the United States,
Including the Supreme Court, presided over
by the equally incorruptib,e WAITE, are in
deed tribunals established and maintained
TO uphold ..bloated bondholders," "the
money power" "gold rings and other
hateful tyrannies, then the sooner we abol-
ish all our courts the better. TO establish
other courts for the ayowed purpose
or depriying bondholders or any other kind
of property holders of their property would
surely be no better than .upholding the pre-
sent courts. We cannot stop at halfway
house. Revolutions never go backward"
If we establish courts to render one KIND
OF property worthless, the lesson taught
will be that all other kinds OF property can
by the same process be rendered equally
worthless. The title to lots and lands ana
farms and houses is in the hands OF the
same Judges who pronounce upon the title
to interest and bonds.
The Whig's leading article is in the same
vein. 1t is intended and calculated to de-
stroy the confidence OF the people in the
Supreme Court OF the United States.
The IVhig. too, declares that the bonds
owing by the United States are payable IN
greenbacks. And in order to make these
greenbacks cheap, it would have them hun
dred times as abundant as Virginia coupons.
It would like see say three thousand
millions of them printed by the Gov
eminent and made q legal tender for
all debts public and private. OF course
prices would soon be as hush as
when in Confederate times barrel OF
-four cost five hundred dollars, and the
: money would be as yalueless. That IS, II
the Government were to give it away. Ii
it should not give it away, we cannot I'M
aeine how the impecunious would get 1t
any more easily than they can get new
money, unless the new money is to be made
so abundant as to cause everybody to get
rid OF it as soon as possible. But, however
this may be, the Wing accepts the issue on
behalf of the readiusters, and is ready and
willing to lay down a platform containing
the following planks:
/. War upon the present Constitution OF
Virginia.
3. War upon the present courts OF Vir.
ginia.
s. War upon the courts of the United
States. r
4. In favor Of re0rganizing the courts Of
Virginia and the Supreme Court OF the
United States.
S. In favor Of a forcible readiustment Of
the debt of,Virginia.
6. In favor OF a forcible REIMBURSEMENT 0,
the debt OF the United States-1hat is, the
having it Oft in greenbacks.
Let the readjusters nominate their candi-
dates for Congress upon the above platform,
and the debt-payers take the opposite side.
Let us have fair and square fight. and
compel every public man in Virginia to
show his coiors.
The Tobacco Tax.
Senator WITHERs very justly objected to