The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-28


By these ilncef.a antics, whils The taxeswere5
always tmposcd upon him. The orator
drew q ponfrast between the reducing tax
payer and the therer,, whom he repre-,
septeh as happy end unconce rned, ~ bile the
tsax.pnyer WINS oppressed with his burthens
and knew not what would become Oh the
revenues he contributed. BE made bis case.
bad enough, aud represented bis fate as
closely linked with that OF the tobacco raiser
who had entrusted bis produce to the com.
mission merchant, or the man who employ
cd lawyer to collect claim. Both were
put always In peril. but especially he who
was In the hands Of the lawyer. BE was
not at all favorable to the limb Of the
law" 81. .s. .sls
Indeed, Parson MASSEY seemed to take q
general sweep at the main points OF civilfza-
ton. The debt-settlement bill he assailed
at all points. He declared that 1t would
average upon the debt nearly FIVE per cent;
that the people could not pay It, and that
1t would bankrupt the State, &c.; which,
indeed, was the very point to which his dis
tructive policy, Unsuccessful, would ineV1ta-
bly lead. His broad declarations about
the wrong OF taxing men whose prospects
were altogether uncertain assailed the
whole system by which civilization is main
tained ADD government is supported. he
proposed onIyto reapeal the debt law and
unsettle The judiciary and the general order,
and showed not how that can give aid anu
relief to society. I. c. FOWLER shows that
IL Is positively impossible for the assaiiants
Of the debt bill to give us anything tnat
can better the people. II they repeal tne
bill prescribing three per cent. ior zen
years they only throw the people pack upon
the old funding bill, and require them TO
pay six per cent. upontbe whole dept. but
Parson MASSEY by eXagerat!on and delnslVe
statements sought to induce the people 10
hope for some advantage by repeating tue
debt bill and trusting to chances for other
legislation in the future. Tuat other legis-
lation must inevitably lead to reputation
aye, to general misery and unhappiness in
the destruction of both public aud private
credit and the turning over tho government
to men OF Dcompetency-menu uncontrolled
by conscientious rules and public deYo-
tion-rflen, indeed, who resttheir hopes for
political advancement upon policies and
revolutions rujnous to the Commonwealth
and destructive Of social peace. While I'M
der the bill OF last winter there is almost
certainty that the debt Of Virginia will be
rapidly settled, while the demands upon the
Treasury will be brought within the reve-
nue. of the Common wealth, the people will
be at peace and the domestic economy OF
the State in tue most orderly and hopeful
condition.
And why disturb all this happiness !?
Ask yourselves, OBJ. people Of Virginia.
Before he got through the Parson took
turn at Major. DANIEL, who, he said, had
confessed to him that West Virginia should
nav her third of the debt. The Parson as
sumed that this argument was based upon
the fact that the State had been partitioned
by the Federal Government, but that would
only make it the duty OF the Federal Gov
ernment to pay that third. This tue Major
| denied. The Parson furthermore assumed
that the Federal Government, having set
free our negroes, should for that reason pay
the State debt. But Mai or DANIEL couldn't
SEE this, either, for which the Parson COM
plained of his alleged inconsistency. Parson
MASSEY did not explain W bat should be done
in the failure Of the Federal Government to
nav all this. What will he do about that !!
We'll. nothing. Not one OF his destructive CO.
laborers, from MALONE down, has ever
given the slightest light on that point. They
arc only acknowledgements down. They
propose to build up nothing-nothlng.
| They would surround us al! with ruin and
despair. and increase our despair to utter
horelessness by taking possession OF the
Government; for in their hands we could
hone for nothing misunderstanding TO hit
up the Commonwealth in the eyes and tile
| respect Of other lands nothing for the pub
| lie good.
HARMON liner, that man OF integrity and
true patriotism, who represents highland
and Bath counties in the Virginia House or
Delegates, said few words in comment
upon the position as well as the speech OF
Parson MASSEY, whom he represented as
trailing the standard of CHRIST in the dust
by sustaining the cause Of personal patti
sanry, fomcnting passions, and exciting dis
lurbances at time when the law about the
public debt was operating successfully and
peacefully. Mr.. HINER sharpened the point
of his censure on this subject in manner
which told upon the audience. He then
read very we'll the letter of Mr.. l. c. Fow-
LER, of the Bristol Ne1cS-that letter so
unanswerable, which you have already pub
Ii>hed. Here Mr.. HINER was so disturbed
by a cough that was caused by chest COM
nIaint that he was compelled TO desst.
| do not think that the divine demagogue
made much Of an impression here. Still he
is man so very adroit, and who has so
much experience as an eXhorter and agi-
tator, that it would be a fault, and above
that blunder inexcusablc, for our orators
to leave him free to travel without chal-
lenge over the State, whose integrity and
loyalty he so much misunderstood and
whose welfare his schemes would so terri
bly, iniure. ~.
The Parson goes from here to preach an
other delusive political sermon at Monterey,
and to deliver funeral discourse in High
land, the present week. He mixes up his
multiformities, which runs him in danger
of mixing up bis metaphors, also his divine
with his partisan aspirations.
will add few lines as to the admirable
season Colonel EUBANK Is now so successfully
conducting. The company is yerging upon
200, and is remarkable for its refinement
aud its high responsibility. You have Just
had the names Of many now upon the regis
ter, with a fine prospect Of numerous addi-
tions. The WRITER.
p July24tth-12 at night.-It rains-a
gentle and refreshing rain, that is gratefully
absorbed by the thirsty earth. We are re-
joiced. and hope all the State is enjoying
this glorious and merciful dispensation.
This is the opposition line to Pasn MASSEY.
Bath-The Conservatives.
WARM SPRINGS, July %, 1870.
The county Of Bath, the next day after
tho crusade OF the divine reSdjuSter, calmly