The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-13

want issues into the canVasS-aS ioi IN
stance the Statc-debt questlon-1eau!ust'
ment or funding. We can see no bearing
that these subjects have IN sucn contest
In fact, we would like to KNOW Wnae more
would the next representative OF this JUS
trict have TO do with the State debt OF VT.
oinia than has the Khediye OF Egypt. ANY
man elected upon such an issue, ana pllns
that issue with him into the national con-
~ress. which. OF course, would be the natrl-
raj consequence, would be set down as an
ass, as he should be.
From The Rockingham RcgtsterJ
There are energetic efforts being maze IN
this county. and perhaps in others IN Tue
district, to run the Convention IN the IN
terest OF certain persons, or else bolt. This
may be regarded by some as decent mode
Of noliticul welfare, but we are not among
those who look upon it IN that light.
This is the time when records are to be
made. and so far as we are concerned,
we shall fcarlessly place on record the
names OF those who decide to aid Radi-
calism by boiling the Conservative or
rauization upon side issues OF for personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; yet we have some doubt
as to whether there are any whose temerlty
will carry them to such an extent. Ii there
should be any one, however, who would
thus dare attempt to break up Conservative
unity and harmony, we shall surely dlscov-
er il. and we are certain the Conservative
voters of Rockingham will well understand
how to shelye all or any such aSplrantS.
Eagerly tho Radicals are watching for Z
break in the Conservative ranks. Indeed,
their leading journal declares there is no
further use for Conservative organization i'll
Virginia. Bah! The siren song, again,
IulIing to security-because OF ouH party
strength. 1t Is an attempt to beguile lis
into laying down our arms previous to win
ming q glorious VICTORIAN effort to demon
alize our hosts by plundering, and while
thus engaged, in an unguardcd mo-
ment, allow the enemy to fall upon
us and destroy us. Such scenes from
the late War are too fresh in the rccol-
lection Of our people to have the game
PLAYED over again, even in civil political
strife. Thus, substantial victories, with
otherwise splendid results, have been
turnet, into serious disasters. The Conserv-
atives OF Virginia have not, 1re think,
forgotten their narrow escape IN 1869 from
the terrible fate which, since 1865, has been
visited upon South Carolina, Louisiana, and
other southern states. external vigilance
is the price of liberty" and we have to deal
with the same inscriptions, implacable
Radical Republican enemy which has con-
fronted us in all the years since the close OF
the war. --.....
The effort to induct the State-debt ques-
zion into the congressional canvass in this
district will or will not be made, as may be
determined most eXpedent by some who
seek personal ends, caring little for the
heavy cost it may be to the Conservative
party in the future. II ain effort can be
made successfully at the district meetings
on the 9th OF July to suDserye the pur-
poses OF fragment Of the Conservative
party, then it will be brought into the con-
yention, and il the question is there ia
booed,'as it likely will be, then bolt will be
the word.
We regard with some amusement the
trcpidation depicted upon the countenances
OF some of the leaders Of the forciblc re-
adjustment element. They are brought
face to face with question the solution OF
which is fraught with everlasting political
peril. They hesitate TO fly into the face Of
a powerful political organization, not know
ing where they may fall. Their hesitation
is made more solemn because, in looking
around to see who it is that is patting their
backs and urging them to take the leap,
they find "the same old coonS," the Radical
partisnns, who have before so often tried to
turn them 10 destruction, and yet who,
when the trial came, always shrank back
within their own camp.
We repeat, if the State-debt question is 10
be brought into the congressional canvass
we shall urge that it be made distinct issue,
and let the battle be fought on that issue.
we shall be found upon the side OF honesty
and right and justice, and will do fearless
battle, holding that principles are above
men, and that we have sacred duty TO per-
form in the use OF our utmost endeavors to
hurl back the sursing tide OF demoraliza-
ton and venality which threatens to en-
gulph us all in one common ruin. We shall
help to keep the record.
From the Amherst EntcrpriscI
We have reached point which we pre-
dicted some time ago in these columns
where the crucial test is to be applied to the
Conservative party, and we are to determine
whether we will follow the 5sniS .fatuuS OF
the readjuster or the plain and beaten road
which, in our Judgment, is indicated by the
first dictates of propriety and the decisions
OF our courts; whether we will uphold our
party. it's policy and purposes, and hang to-
cether as one man to avert the evil prepared
for us; or il we will fall down and worship
this golden calf which has been erected
among us by gentleman whose ambition is
so oYerweening rs to induce him to seek his
preferment at the sacrifice Of the quiet and
peace OF society, and the good name and
reputation OF the people OF Virginia.
ssIfmeo DdndoS ct dond .ferenteS." The
Trojan horse comes from the readiuster to
the plain, honest Virginan, as a balm for
the hard times in his promises ofrelief from
taxation; and as the Trojan horse was filled
with armed men who wrought the woe OF
Troy, just as certainly are the promises OF
the readjuster filled with armed evils to Vir-
ginia; and just as certainly as they are en-
tertalned will they, in an uneuarded mo-
meut, emerge from their concealment and
work the ruin Of us all.
The question OF the State debt, in any
aspect, has nothing to do with congressional
elections, but it is part OF the plan OF the
leader OF the readjusters to inject that ques-
tion into the canvass, and keep his organi-
cation compact and well in hand in order
that his policy may serve him when he gets
ready to grind his own axe. And il the
people shall allow themselves to be bamboo
zled into elevating him and his followers to
high places, they will look on complacently
and composedly rs the United States au-
Shall quietly but efectually' wiring
from us the last dollar which our folly in
duced US to believe that we could with
hold. *
From the Petersburg Post Of yesterday
We commented yesterday briefly upon the
extraordinary and revolutionary party doc
trines announced by the Richmond State on
the subject OF bringing the State-debt ques-
tion into the congressional canvass. That
formal as much as said. what the extreme
readinsters had said some time ago, that