The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-04
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embodied under the general term %
ssreadi,stars., I, all ayowing desire 70
settle tie question Of the Stats ds Of
and, IL possible. 70 lessen the pur-
shens Of the people. Soon, however wei
tt.ey divided of Into 4 4 busters s. and
q forcibie adsusters. One party declared
that under no circumstances would theY
sustain measure that compelled the public
creditor ID acauiesce in 8 settlement that
deprived him OF any part oil ms CLAIMS i1gl s'
The other party did not conceai their pur.
noss 10 coerce the bond older to any nfea "a
sure they themselves approved.
ss we all know how the determination OF
g forcibles !, has been encouraged and uni.
mated by many means not open TO public
observation, and with what pertinacity the
yayorise measures Ia the line .ot coercion
have been carried forward. A result was
the BARBOUR bill, which the Governor
vetoed.
This, OF course, stopped the policy OF the
.sforcible ], settlement. And what shall pc
done about it? Manifestly, no good to any
BODY can come Of a conflict between "forci-
ble readiusters', and tsoptional readiust-
ers., And yet, to stand still or throw the
question into the arena o. popular agitation
would be disastrous to public and private
credit and destructive to the best interests
OF the State. Every consideration should e
impel The members Of the, Legislature to
make an honest and sincere exertion to set
tie the debt question on honorable grounds,
and thus permit the private pursuits OF the
people to recover their activity aud thrift
and the Commonwealth herself to regain
her energy and commence her upward
march to prosperity and honor.
The veto OF the BARBOUR bill by the Gov
ernor arrested the course Of that measure
towards the Court Of Appeals, where u
would have been suspended byissues raised
with regard to it that would have IN
yolyed delay. during which the publlc
injury would have increased. Suppose it
could pass that court, could we hope that
that would be the end Of delays? Certainly
not. There would be appeals to the United
States Supreme Court, and all the time
occupied in the pleadiugs and decisions
growing out or the measure would have
only increased disaster for Virginia and
the anxiety Of her people,.
Governor HOLIDAY said what was true
when he declared that the BARBOUR bill
abounded with law-cases. Itopened for the
State long course Of litigation expensive
and Injurious to every interest. public and
private, and it is vastly better that the Legis-
.lature should be brougbtat once to consider
whether such consequence may not be
avoided by q proper adjustment that steers
clear of legal issues. 1t is thousand times
better than to renew an agitation that has
hurt every interest and disturbed every
heart in the State.
We can gain nothing in the world by ex-
ASPIRATION. There is no earthly occasion
for it. The departments Of the govern
ment have not the slightest cause for dis.
turbance in their relations with one an
other. The Legislature has done what it
thought right. So has the Executive.
Neither can censure the other. Neither has
done so. The complaints that have been
made by gentlemen have been made in.
the exercise Of their right. But the
censures uttered by some have been
suggested by excitement. Governor
HOLIDAY stands upon unimpe aehable
ground. His duty according to, his COM
prehension, was clear and imperative.
An indication of the unfairness of the
criticism OF the veto message is found in
the interpretation that has been by some put
upon what the Governor said in comparing
the obligation to pay the public debt with
that to set apart money for the school fund.
Governor HOLIDAYS second veto showed
that in no respect did he intend to assail the,
system Of education. Indeed, there is no
good ground to raise issues between the
legislative aud executive departments, and
there's no difficulty in the way Of their con-
curing in some measure to dispose Of the
question which is;no the causeo OF the gem
eral anxiety OF all Yirginians. %',,9 81 h
/: this question is not disposed OF in a
manner TO maintain the credit and honor of
the State, we shall have to deplore such dis
asters as have never before fallen upon q
State in the Union. .
The circumstances of Virginia at this
time are such as to deprive her of all pro-
lection ina pecuniary and business sense.
from the direct effects Of general discredit,
public and private. The physical conse-
quences viii be equalled fully by the moral,
and Virginia will know a distress not sur
passed by her war xperience, and will be
covered with mDrti fcation which the war
itself could not produce. Ss4
1t is time that efforts from which practi-
cal results cannot fowfsbould cease--time
that there should be no further I" tempting
Of the inevitable" Government and peo-
pie should unite in a frank, sincere, and
practical effort to put the business OF the,
State upon solid foundations, and to place
her before the world shielded from the cen.
sures and the scandals which are sure to be |
invoked BY public delinquency.
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New York Trade.
The Chamber OF Commerce and the lead
ing merchants In New York are again agi-
,ating themselves about the trade OF New
York, and the cry has gone forth that IT is
again In peril. Exactly And so the lead
NO hTsinnSay, ~ all lao arn tr,ar5odi