The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-26
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FRIDAY 3. 3. vi, 1873.
The La,.wyers:

IN parS0n MASSEY rs aetSItularsa asSSsNo -
done la the matter Of eensrring proles-.
sional men for their connection with poll
ssra Ire has sooften been called 4 political
8narson. and denounced for dragging his
sler,cai robes Ia tue rnire Of the rexdi usters'
boghoies. that he searns TO have determined
10 net even II possible with the laws ers.
The Charlottesville efsrsoniap represents
him rs Saving bard things OF the lawyers at q
meeting held at Palmyra, In Ftuyanna conn
lyon Monday last. Parson Ma is an xio'is
to 20 to Congress; and inasmuch as JonN
r. HaaEIs has Jumped upon the platform o.
the q read busters in the cool,o and ts now q
leader in the party which the Parso ' had %
hopcd TO lead himself, there is nothing lett
for The aspiring cleric to do but: to abuse
HARRIS because he Is lawyer. :. we nave
no sort al sympathy with Mr. MASSEY. de
has made a bid FOR political promotion, and
his bid has been exceeded by some others.
al, OF the demagogues are doomed TO, dis-
appointment. The people will not consent to
eptrust their interest to mere scli-seekers.
There ID no man who will not resent " "
wken he finds that he has been made 1901
.uf /: and this hot resentment is In store io '''
all the wouid-be congressman VINO are so
wilfulIy, unaliciously, and cruelty decelying
the people Of Virginia in regard to the ieas-
ibiIity Of getting rid of the public aebt'
Parson MASSEY cannot avert his fate by de-
nouncins the lawyers. He has only himself
to blame that the best people in his dtstrlct
,oo, upon him rs pcstiieTous character.
AS he made his bed, so must he lie.
But what about the lawyers? Ihis: ,na.
tbev. Of all other men ought TO be the last
10 attempt to mislead the people by dema-
nopieal speeches and false statements. Ihere
Is in every community a latent pre!udice
against lawyers, which needs only Inc
breath OF the delnagogue to render II appa-
rant. reryasiYe, and destructive to their IN !.
tarests. Mr.. FuLKERsoN, Mr.. PAUL, ana
mr.. ALLEN harp upon the prejudice Wnicn
Iomaoop1es have instiled into the mlpdS OF
tha ,,eon,e OF the rural districts OF the Valley
and The southwest against the CITY OF ts'ch-
mond. This prejudice is the most un1use
that was ever blown into existence bT the
breatl, OF demagogues. There is apsoinIeiy
nd occasion for it whatever: Richmond's
interests are the interests Of the people OF
the whole, Stste. Nevertheless, this sense
less prejudice does exist, and is constantly
appealed to by the lawyers in the sections
named. But just as surelyas Parson AAs-
sly last Monday denounced the lawyers as
aclass, 50 surely will antl-lawyer dema-
goques arise in the Valley and south
west 10 commend the poisoned chalice
TO the Inns Of the men who have not
deemed st unbecoming to excite anlmosl-
ties in the breasts OF the people OF
one section against. the people OF another
section OF this good old Commonwealth
The prejudice against lawyers is stronger
in the minds Of the people of the country
generally than is the prejudice against the
CITY OF Richmond. Ii, therefore, the law
yers Join the demagcgucs in their denun-
Citations Of Richmond the demagogues Will
have to appeal to the prejudice against the
lawyers, or else have no demagogical re-
sort. And we guess that it would not re-
auire much ,glibness OF tongue and emph--
ness OF head to turn the scale OF popular
prejudice against lawyers as class. Ltt
PAUL g. Co. beware. !, ....g