The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-09

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ton OF these n1axims belongs to your rep
resentatiYes, but it IL necessary that public
opinion should cooperate to facilitate to
them the performance OF their duty. 1t Is
essential that you should practically bear in
mind that towards the payment OF debts
there must be revenue. that to have revenue
there must be taxes; that no taxes are de-
vised which are not more or Iess inconye-
nient and unpleasant" - "It will
be worthy OF free day, great nation, to
give to mankindthe magnanimous and too
novel example OF people always guided
by an exalted justice and benevolence."
= "Can it. be that providence has not
connected the permanent felicity OF a nation
with its virtue 2" 81 hold the
maxim no less applicable to public than
to private affairs that honesty is the best
policy" t@r f.r
There was another old.fashioned gentle
man to whose opinions Democrats, when
not in secret caucus, are sometimes disposed
to pay some regard-one Thomas Jeter-
son-twice President Of the United States.
In his first inaugural so much OF an honor
shrieker was be that be laid down as among
the essential principles OF Government
"the supremacy Of the civic over the militia
ry authority, economy in public expenses,
that labor may be lightly burdened; the
honest payment Of our debts and sacred pre-
servation Of the public faith"
..They should be the creed OF our polltlcal
faith, the text OF civic Instructions" HOW
different this last expression sounds from
the doctrine of free schools supported by
forcible readjusters, "the tombstone by
which to try the services Of those we trust"
Mark the difference between this sentence
and the second resolution OF the Colorado
caucus.)
In his second inaugural this same idea
seems to be in his mind, for he says: Z" We
are firmly convinced, and we act on that
conviction, that with nations as with lndl-
viduals our interests, soundly calculated,
will ever be found inseparable from our
moral duties, and history bears witness to
the fact that just nation is trusted on It's
word when recourse is had to ornaments
and wars to bride otbers.''
James Madison. in his inaugural, says:
4" II should be the aim OF the Government
to observe economy in public expenditures,
TO liberate public resources by an hOn0rd-
BILE discharge of the public debit" Amt
that a curious, old-fashoned way OF doing
things?
Alexander Hamilton. President Washing
toms Secretary Of the Treasury, in report
made to the House OF Representatives, JAN
uary 8, 1890, says: =" While the observance
OF that good faith which is the basis OF
public credit is recommended by the strong
est inducements OF political cNpediency, 1t
is enforced by considerations OF still greater
authority. There are arguments for 1t
which rest on the immutablc principles OF
moral obligations. And IN proportion as
the mind is disposed to contemplate,
Of
innate connection between public vir-
tue and public happiness will be its re-
pucnancy to violation OF those princi-
ples." "a wise nation will never permit
those who relieve the wants OF their coln-
try, or who rely most on its faith, its firm
ness, and its resources, when either OF them
is disturbed, to suffer by the event." Henry
4. Wise, when appointed 4 Minister OF the
United States Government to Brazil III
February, 1914, at the time When rcpudia-
ton was lifting its head in several States,
also at time when the United States Gov
eminent could not borrow five millions OF
money in all Europe, when money-strin-
nency greater than the present was over the
whole land. issued an address to the people
OF the district lie represented in Congress,
in which he said If l had an archangePS
trump, the blast OF which could startle all
the living OF the world would snatch it ut
this moment, and sound it in the ears OF all
the people of the debtor States, and OF the
States which have Il solitary poor, I'M
washed and uncombed' child untaught at
free school, Iar yourselves! For what?
"1. To PAY your public-School debt.
80. To educate your children, every child
of them, at common primary free schools al
State charge.
"Disbelieve any set of men who come be-
fore you with false promises OF freedom
from taxation. Listen truly to those SIM
ccre friends who will honestly tell you that
he taxed. and who will counsel freely and
fully with you beforehand as to the mode
and subjects OF taxation. In Il word, learn
TO lore taration rs the only means OF accom-
plishing such objects rs those OF paying the
public debt and OF educating your children,
rich and poor" Judge Staples, now living,
and honored by all, even by the forcible re-
adiusters, in his celebrated opinion In An
toni Us. Wright. said: upon this question
Of public faith will say this, that for four
wears Virginia bore upon her bosom
the burden OF conflict a5 great rs
any recorded in history. She came out
OF the struggle PROSTATE and bleeding,
without 4 currency. without any organized
system OF labor, with vast numbers OF her
citizens reduced to hopeless insolvency and
ruin. For wears after was she kept in sub
lection to military power, and yet her std
tutcs exhibit the gratifying spectacle OF an
honest cndcavor on the part OF her repre-
sentatlves, while still under the shadow OF
these great disasters, to make some proVl-
sion for the payment OF her creditors.
believe it will still be done, and payments
be made from time to time until the Eist
farthln@ is paid"
Again, in March last, in the case OF Clarke
rs, Commonwealth (anothcr coupon caScl,
Judge Staples said: 81 concur with judge
Christian, when he said in the homestead
case, THE nviolability OF contracts. publ:
and pri vatc, is the foundation OF all social
progress, and the cornerstone OF all forms
OF society wherever enlightened iurispru-
dencc prevails. Good faith is essential in
States rs well as individuals; neither can be
Just or permanently prosperous without it,
Upon that subject my own voice, feeble as
it is, cannot have an uncertain sound"
Justice Strong, OF the Supreme Court OF
the United States, in Il case decided in Dc
tober last-Murray and jenkins Us. City Of
Charleston-said: "The inriolability OF
contracts and the duty Of performing them
as made are foundations Of all well-ordercd
society, and to prevent the removal or dis
turbancc OF these foundations was one OF
the great objects for which the Constitution
was made"
Fellow-ctizenS, have ali these sayings no
weight with YOU! Do the addresses issued
by aspiring politicians in 4 heated canvass
outweigh that OF Washington as he rctires
from office with no ambition but TO see his
country happy and prosperous: Do the
speeches or congressional aspirants hang
iny for official hOnors and emOIuments carry