The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-17

mr., ,,,s1, JANUARY II, SIS si'.
Mr. yoorhees's Speech.

.hSnr swn,,If, be greater and moro appro-
n,;ate anywhere else than in tie p l'i
States Senate. There vas no amount OF ex-
nioisetl sentinentaiity and class iealossics 10
il which did not so we'll accord with the &c
liberate philosophy md statcmanship Which
Il has become to q be conventional 'dea
should prevail In the debates OF the Senate.
Those evil agitators MORTON and his bloody
shirt followers have sufficiently degraded
the Senate to the passions OF party, indeed;
but we see no reason why ar. VOORHEES,
should in his impulsiye eloquence tear pas
sion in pieces with regard towhat he epI-
IDENTITY supposcs to be class hostliit'es,
which cannot cxistia free country, save to
limited extent and periods with long inter-
walls. There should be no fasoritism for
classes--none fer the boosters Mr. sooR-
HE'S represents, nor for the gold-worsiip-
ring b.ockheads of New England. The
laws should be Just, and suited to the de-
,nands and economies OF all classes, without
preference to any.
When Mr.. VOORHEES, says that the imam
cial credit OF the Government should be
maintained, aud that it should maintain all
lis contracts, he says whGt is wise and pro-
per and what everybody should agree TO-.
But when he talks eXtrayagantiy about the
troubles that will flow to the land from
qaarrels about gold, or silver, or green
backs, he trenches upon the domain OF
6enagogism. We are with him for the re-
monetization of silver. And the gold
blockheads are mad in opposing the union
OF gold and silver as basis OF the paper
circulation OF the country. But while the
introduction OF silver into the specie basis
viii really be OF great advantage to the
land, it IS needless to go to extremes By pre-
scntiug the country as ruined, the Govern
ment as subvcrted, should silver not be re-
ploneiized.
FaYoring the RECOMMENDATION OF silver rs
n wise measure OF great national bcnetcencc,
we look upon it as q measure essential 10 the
resumption OF specie-payments rs wei rs 10
the revival OF business and the restoration
confidence to the nation; and, SO believing.
we cannot think resumption so terrible and
runo,is q thing as does Nir. VOORHEES,. VIC
think resumption is not Il terrible thing.
This great natior, undcra restoration OF con-
ideGce which the RECOMMENDATION OF silver
viii do more to bring about thai any other
single cause, can resume without any seli-
Gus disturbance. Resumption ought never
to be tiyed by law. 1t is q thing that comes
naturally when the conditions suit, and
wilcG they do society slides into resumption
rs easily as does ice float away down. the
stream when detached from is place CT con-
gela:ion BY gentle thaW.
Or. VOORHEES, too easily falls into the
deyo,Iring those little children tie peo-
pie. and inveighs against laws that facili-
tate the monstrous invasion OF popular |
rights. In this free land money is too tickle |
iii its affections. too dissolVing in its adhe-
sive power, to remain long in families and |
clques. Even in twenty years time we
see the revolution that hurls from financial |
eminence distinguished families, and puts
in their places men who began life as ditch
ers, and crispins, and carpenters, and tink-
ers. 4 class so aTenablc to the tickleness
of fortune and unsustained by laws that
confer special privileges cannot succeed in
an effort to dominate the land. Those who
may be destined to- become the favorites OF
fortune in Few years, and are at this time
WarrD,g against any such supremacy OF
Wealth, will in time find that the descend
ants of those who now have possession OF
the wealth of the land will be the greatest
enemies of those. who succeed to the posi-
ton OF their fathers.
The strikes, the combinations and sedi-
tious proceedings that occur under tempo
rary popular outbreaks are great evils; but
one consolation from them is that they i'm
part a healthy fear to wealth and modify
corporate regulations to the advantage OF
labor. It needs not that statesmen and agi-
tators shall undertake to stimulate the muir
murs and mutinous dispositions OF combi-
nations. which are sure to be llllberal and
UNANIMOUSLY eXactlng. 1t is the duty OF
the statesman to avoid anything like SYM
Dathy with an element that needs no stlmli-
lus to push it into disorder and outrageous
interference with the rights and liberties oil
society. Mr.. VOORHEES, is playing with
edged tools.
We think the question Of paying the
bondholder in silver or gold is not one that
should subvert the Government. Mr.. NooR'
HE'S seems to think that the rejection OF
silver will ruin the country. The gold
blockheads would seem to think that its
admission as legal tender will have the
same effect. They are extremists. we
would that the question were the same in
Virginia. If TIE readjusters were ready to
nav in silver, while the "debt-payers"
were contending for gold, we suspect there
would be little difficulty in settling the
question between them; and we trust that
the s. p.'s will not dream OF likening the
case OF Virginia with that Of the Federal
Government and Mr.. VOORHEES, position to
their own. Let them remember that :Mr.
VOORHEES, says sit is Of highest import
stance that the financial credit of the Gov
"ernment be maintained" Let them first
adopt and stand by that sentiment before
they pretend to emulate Mr.. VOORHEES,. He
wants to pay in silver. Do they want to
pay i'll silver:
DIR. VOORHEES, is right in saying that we
have the best paper money that the country
ever before had. He wants more green
backs. RI we do not return to specie
payments 1t will be right TO increase the
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