The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-14
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me F,naacsai Matters,

NM ! II, b,ie schools are Sc tn,,eh q settiea
+, ,i,e, states that It y g
!, iisc.,ss chem. Thes aress entirely popular
that the so.sslled islsnes e ,.s.s
make them q lending article - shess i,os1.af
al faith. They are the aenaaso cues !. PITS pts
ss,sarsa When there they are az I'M
sssaalable as was WAR 'rrSsTA g s LETT I1
handed fiddler, 2 who got TO ths Legislature
~ heing the champion amongst ftddieIs,
since none could contend against him WIN
sthe cleft haad.0 Who sof all the. repre-
pe,tassyes ia che Legislature g Y that did
not promise men, women. ana chhafen.
Back and acsite, that he would defend, enc
puh,lc schools 10 the last extremity ana dse
rather than yield to their enemies
IS And when those who seek To- reaa1ust
matters ycntured forth with their public
school arYnor on, they knew they Would tfl-
umph. Others might have known as wei.
We threw ont the hint that it was not clear sai,
that there would be any difficulty about the "a,
$constitutionality OF q law setting aside a
fund for the all-important and constitution
aiis.sancsitied public schools. And now,
after an exploiting Of views in the Legisla-
tire, and some show OF conflict about The
matters OF setting apart such a fund, The up
shot has been that nobody casts vote t taa,,
could, blythe most strained construction,
be tortured into opposition to the scho t'e
fund. Everybody Ia in their favor. a 10
everybody who has sons has them either
learning or teaching in the schools.
The army is all on one. side, and the
almost unanimous opinion is that the fund
shall be set apart for teaching the dear CHI II
dren OF all hues, that they may be able 10
hew their way through the world.
What next. The readiustcrs are dis
posed to set apart other revenues for spe-
clfic purposes, and these are pregnant with
difficulty, as we have said. Questions VIII
be generated like moths from decomp losing
BODY that will fit aboutthe Court OF APP.
Deais, and possibly the Federal Supreme
Court, and occupy the skill at legal fence o.
the lawyers. In that case some embarfass'
ment. NAV arise from the relations OF The
law-oficer OF the Government towards
questions to be adjudicated. Ali this pro- c
yided the State Executive shall not prevent
the matters Of probable litigation from as
suming the form OF law.
These possible entanglements may give a
great deal OF trouble, and there could be
nothing more unnecessary and more the = re-
suit OF otstinacy aud unworthy motives.
1T is lamentable that this great State may be
longer perplexed, her public credit and hel
private credit impaired, and herspeace and
business disturbed and Injured. without
reason and without apology. Let the wor-
shippers OF the public schools be gratliie9d
with their sequestered fund. The Legls-
latrlre can rs easily provide for the ptsollc
necessities as LET; it alone. Is there not
enough of public devotion, enough q OF pa
triotism, Ia the Legislature to induce
the public representatives to sacrifice
their personal aspirations and discords upon
the altar OF their State, the nobiest member
OF the republic? The State taxes, with pro-
per retrenchment, viii lift up the old Com
monwealth from the PROSTATE conditioned
doubt aud appreb tension which.the political
canvass has placed her in. .s..,