The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-16
q rsn,,a P,sopIak Of Bath.


ron the nonllcation bJ the Readtussefs o.
iir W. Fl. T.iyERcoAB, OF Bath county, y
candidate Tor tue House OF Delegates !
rns Rscorde,. ex presses its qualification, De- |
p,nsc. i,.sags, ga fruer and better man sSas
never presented, to the. people.s YER
well. we know something OF M. RIVER
coan. ana beg leave to say that, while We
can bear testimony to his good character
we caonot certify that he has joined q
,nna,ty that ia worthy of him. On the con.
trafy. he has allied himself with political
order that ,espouses ideas at war win n's
education and his disposition. The simplicity
and purity OF dear old Bath is AKIN TO non'
estv and virtue. Readiustment is allied with
folly. infde1ity, and disorder. Bath economy
il honest and earnest. Rsad1ustmens Is
trick, athimbie-rigging. and dodglng' II -
evil inclination, and prefers deceit u
fraukness, dodging to fair, open aeallht'
At this time the two sides are presented 70
tho citixeu-the debt settlement, w'th
economy and saving and homer, on one
eide and the turbulent disturbance OF Tue
nnblic peace, with the upsetting OF the
aover-ament and the hundreds OF thou-
sands OF expense and. the ultimate ruin OF
the Commonwealth, on the ether. Is 't no'
amazing that apy honest people OF h,tti
should prefer the latterE We don't pc
,,eve that thee do. BY 90 means, the fet-
,ow-citizens ST this writer. They can't Go
II. For srief moment they may oe de-
Iuded. but Jackson's river and the N'aria
sprircs mountain WIFI protest With H1e-
sistible opposition, and their resistance
must be respected.
RIvg,gcoMB we know. He mast be good
and genial, with s5acerity and honesty Ii
must be so. The Warm Springs was the
first ef watering-E!aces in Virginia. There
assembled the best of peoplethat ever were
bora on the pssnet we inhabit. refined,
Intelligent, sincere, and honest. RIVER
CcMB and his friends were there, ana
yearly saw these noble people and hearo
their fine morality and their ingenious So
cial and sentimental philosophy. How
could he or any of his associates degene'
rate into that abOmination on the lace
Of the earth called readIustncEt-the
spawn of ignorance and the pupil OF vice
| The highest Of all earthly obligations is that
to the country. And this reAdiustnS folly
makes nhdeiity to the country its first act
of faithleSsness.
! L il possible that such monstrosity shall
find in a citizen of Bath its advocate-lts
advocate that c.uses peryerse local organ
to triumph over his accession 10 the giraffe
organization which seeks the dl>honor ana
ruin OF the Commonwealth?
This cannot be. 1t may seem, but can
not be real or lasting. 1t will end III Il III
tie while, and pass away like the baseles$
fabric OF vision.
Why Bath, as we say, has been the Mecca
OF refinement and virtue; and our friend
R1yERcoMB to turn Rcadiu>ter to seek the
means Of Reputation and d!shonor for his
dear old Commonwealth! RIvERCcMB, you
are wrong. You make the greatest possible
mistake.
Alas, we know your whole county; 1t
physical rs we'll as its moral constitution
Bath is noble, but she has her impulses, anc
they are not unlike the grand feature OF hcl
animal life; her magnificent trout, which Il
so full Of life and impulse. and which SC
| often leaps from its crystal fountain half
way to meet the dcceitful bait. That is toe
often Il sample. 1t finds the delusive thing
alas its fate; not unfrcquently "hett'
/, li4,,- it-etrrGrlesi until the
stream OF life GIBBS, and, though beautiful
and graceful, it dies an ignominiOus death.
Alb, these good citizens partake somewhat
OF the nature of these mountain trout, and
sometimes too readily grasp the fatal bait.
We trust our friends RlvERCOMB and
WARWICK, ct id omne genus, may have
eraSpcd in their eager and deluded jaws the
deusiye bait time enough to eject it indlg-
nantly. Bath is the locality OF refinement
and manly social order. 1t is not the land
of lodging and discrimination for the
honor Of her mountains, for tie purity ana
integrity of her fountains and her crystal
streams, repel the advances and corruptlohs
of the party Of destructivcs ana Dodgers
and dissimulators. Integrity and sincerity
are types of Bath. When these cease 10 be
so the country must be changed ana relo-
luton and degradation must reign.
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