The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-20
',rha Green packers.

our Meckienb burg correspo hdent aneoir- |
sves us to hope that what Is called the |
rreenback lnnaey has as yet obtained but |
lItt,a Ioo,hoId amongst the intelIig gent peo-
srIe OF that county. The delusion ss so !
captaysting, and Its advocates have so many
ciap.trap phrases and Arguments calculated
to instead the masses, that we are not sur
Snriscd 10 read In so shrewd a paper as the
New York Times The statement that no
man with his eyes open can doubt that the
issue on which tho gTeenback organization
rests isfc-day the AaRoN's rod OF American
politics, nor Its other statement that 50 far
as the northern States are concerned the
managers Of both the old parties begin to
understand that the financial question will MI
be the controlling question in the fall
campaign. we suppose there is less
danger ia be. feared from such delu-
sions in the South than i'm the North. The
Confederate sreenbacks are too fresh in the
minds OF the people who used to pay ten
dollars a pound for sugar, and FIVE hundred
dollars barrel for -four, and who were glad
to get wheat coffee, corn bread, and "liye"'
bacon SO long as that kind Of money pre-
vailed in their section OF the country. In
Virginia we have State greenbacks in album
dance coupons, receivable for taxes, and
forthe payment OF which more than three
hundred millions OF property is pledged, as
well as g the faith and credit" OF the Com
morfwealth; and yet these greenbacks (they
differ only in the size. OF the paper from
State 5greenbacks, and could as, we'll be
printed with the exact appearance OF q
creenbsck, are far below par even IN
national greenbacks. III these latter were
.tredeemable in nothing" the Virginia
rreenbacks would no doubt be the pre-
ferred paper-money.
But we have rather ithe hot weather is
sufficient excuse for anything) ran on from
our subject. The greenback party has bro
ken out in Alabama. That staid old Demo-
cratic journal, the Mobile Register. which
Is edited by yirginian, we think, has lost
its temper, and thus speaks OF the new
movement:
.Hcre In Alabama that pestilent humbug
Brick Pomeloy has by the mails been busy
establishing greenback party. His impu-
dent sophistries appear to have made such
Judgment as to have brought about sew
eral greenback meetings in counties OF North
Alabama, notably one at Birmingham, ana
to have encouraged few persons to offer
themselves rs candidates for the Legislature
upon the greenback platform. The rise
OF this party has caused Governor Houston
to publish letter which the. Register re-
Gently reproduced, depioring any such
breach in the Democratic ranks and pointing
out quite correctly that the Democratic
party offer the best and surest means OF re-
forming tue financial affairs Of the Govern
ment. To the gentlemen who have gone OH
after this strange geenback god we com.
mend the following conclusive remarks OF
the Detroit Free Press"
And then the Register reproduces an ar
t:cle from the Free Press which appeared in
the Dispatch some days ago.
Wewish merely to warn the Democrats OF
Virginia against this dangerous enemy TO
their party. Forewarned is. forearmed.
There is nothing to be gained by forsaking
The party which has saved Virginia from
the fate OF Louisiana and South Carolina.
BRICK PoMERoY and his vasabond followers
are not the men upon whom Virginians can
depend for sound doctrine or useful prac-
tices - so tS.f.