The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-21
Open letter from MRS. Grundy.
RICHMOND, VA, I7th MATCH, 1915
TO Abram Grundy, Buncombe &. H., a.:
Nv Dear Nephew
!" How dolh the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower /"


As you live twenty-three miles from a
railroad "a great misfortune) and yet Wouid
like to hear all the news, ana such as the
Dispatch don't give you, nave concluded
to tell YOU some OF the gossip which comes
aoatinc- down from the Hobbies OF the AS
sembly.
"Iheu do say" that negotiations (belng
Of diplomatic character they must be done
in secret are in progress between h1gh
contracting parties for reaoJuStmeat OF
marty lines, or rather for reputation OF
former political notions, and for ne1 FUND
inc or consolidation OF parts OF the Conser-
vative $50 caled) and Radical parties. Iheg
also edo say" that this covenantan agree
ment is to take effect from the passage there
of. and that in al future elections Gncludng
Judges OF circuit courts and judges OF one
horse county courts y nominees must be pro-
nounced, and "full high advanced" on the
public debt question [ tell you only the
street rumors, being not in the ring, where
the confidential fluid passes. Just take the
rumor for what it is or is not worth.
But "they do say" moreover, that there
are difficulties in the way; that certain
grand sachems, or head centres (Hughes,
y. Allan, Pophanl, 2. Carter, ana otEers),
are-Vould you believe it-all pronounced
and other lesser burning and SHINING lights
in the Virginia Republican church, are in
full sympathy with the readitsters. But
still another " on dit" runneth as follows:
That outside the State of Virginia the Ma
tional Republican party $50 calleD and the
Democratic party, in Federal affairs, are all
committed against reputation, reidlust-
ment. de-, etc.; that il the State debt (as
pnrty ouestiouj demands the intervention
OF rcadiusters $50 called!D then the ma
tionaI debt must undergo similar treatment
from the faculties OF law and medicine!
And so, in the. Virginia congressional
canvass, where the debt-line mot the color
l;ne) is to be distinctly visible and sharply
defined and drawn, there is still another
difficulty, which am now, my dear ne
phew, about to tell you as great secret.
To the end OF bringing the Republican
party fairly and Squarely on the de0t-pdynJ
platform IN application Is to be maze 10
President Hayes and central-machlnc run
ners at Washington to issue peremptory
rule against POSTMASTER and EDITOR losT
to show cause, ii any he can, why he may
not be removed from office lawful fer his
alleged hcrctical notions about the Virginia
public debt! And then, oh then, what will
become OF W. w. Foster, Esq, very
worthy gentleman who signed the ordi-
OF secession in 1861, and others? SO
the purpose announced in the organ OF our
rci6iusting legislaorS-that the debt qucs-
ton must enter into the congressional cam
vass-will mix up and compicatc things
generally. And so we go! Poor Sun
combe-deludcd, humbuggcd Buncombe!
In this connection let me tell you another
matter they say Will soon be wei! known.
Y. Allan (late senator from Prince Edward,
and, next to Judge Hughes, the very first
Republican in the State in SmdrtneSS and,
indeed, real ability is a candidate for Con-
gress IN the Petersburg district, now rep
resented q by DR.. Jorgensen. ALLAH is,
out-and-out, debt-paying man. 1t is I'M
dcrstood that there is but one Englishman
| in Virginia land nonc in Eng!and) in favor
Of Reputation. US competitor for the
nomination is understood to DC General
Starke, OF Brunswick. l cannot recall his
record this winter on the debt question;
but he, too, is supposed not to lie read
ulster. Bliss (Senator) and Evans blouse
of Delegates) from Prince Edward, Allan's
county, were elected on the most out-Spoken
and decided debt-paying platforms ever
written in Virginia; and J.. Is reported rs
puncturing them with particularly sharp
stick.
But good night, my dear nephew. More
anon. MIS-. GRGNnI.
p. S. Is it fact that the Petersburg Con-
seryatives are in muSs, and intend to de-
pose certain field officers?
P. S. S. Tel! your Uncle John he must be
more guarded in speaking OF the Legis!a-
turc. To be sure, he was compelled, by the
machinery OF State courts, TO sell his $1,000
conso for $500, to pay security debt, but
he must not denounce the readiusters. Some
of them ale "hish-mindcd'' and as pure
men as exist. A stone, and not name,
flung at, killed Goliath; and so, ''repudia..
tors - " Shylocks, "" bloatcd bondholderS,"
are all but names and weapons OF forci5ly-
feeble demasogueS. In the coming contest
lit ,oiW surely con1eD let argument, anu
logic, and facts, and principle, and not de-
nnnciation prevail,