The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-08

lions Is arraigned at the worlds bar or pub
| lie opinion, and 50 surely as that physica
1eath will folioT 10 the Individual the sen
fence OF the court of Justice, will mora
death ayertake that, people; which this tri.
bunal Condemns. The power which directs
| the. Working, or this engine has decreed thai
the nFbt shalt be done and the wrong-doef
shall s15er for his wrong. - =
Mr.., Webster has told us in one. OF his
speeches bow, seventy years after his death,
the benes Of poor 'Johs WyckIife were dug
up, and burnt FOR his he;esy, an q their ashes
scattered, upon a river OF WafWickshire.
Some prophet OF bis day said: ~ IN
|, . The Avon to the Severn reus., i. 49,.
Il :" And Wyc1irfEe's chest shall spread abroad,
t-a. Wide as the Wa.ers be.7 nor .tr'
Gentlemen, we must pay this debt in
good and current money, or we must pay
it through the thousands of indirect ways
by which the God Of Justice epforces OBJ
seryance OF and obedience TO his laws. We
must pay it in the higher rates that we must
pay for all money that we borrow in the
refusal OF capital to come into our limits;
in the emigration OF our young men from
our borders; in the refusal OF immigrants
to come to us, and in the depreciation which
all these things bring upon our property.
We cannot escape 1t, and, We must do our
duty. .,., - ,s -. ........ ..:... ... w..
The only argument that have ever beard
against our obligation to pay this debt is the
plea that we cannot pay 1t without imposing
plea wholly ignores the consideration that
VIC have rrowed this money, that weIowe
it, and that By every principle which divides
right from wrong we are under the most
solemn and binding obligation to pay it.
Afirmatively stated it amounts to this:
That any man may rightfully refuse to do
that which 1t Is onerous upon him TO do, al
though every consideration of right and
morals declares it TO be his duty to
do it. For myself, utterly reject aud re-
puGiate any such principle as rule OF con-
duct in life. I insist that endeavor to base
my conduct in life upon. exactly the re.
verse OF this. IL insist upon it as a
rule Of right that every man is bound
to do that which his daty requires of him,
I care not how onerous may be the burden
that it will impose; upon him. And it is
because that has always been the principle
by which our people have regulated their
conduct that the word Virginian has ever
heretofore been synonymous with the words
honor, faith, duty. 1t was by adherence
to that principle that the generations OF
Virginians who have preceded US have
pushed our fame for fair dealing and truth
into the farthest parts Of the earth. 1t was
devotion TO that principle which made the
men that were capable OF following Pickett
through blood and carnage to the top OF
Cemetery Hill-men who witbstood the
shock OF battle as Napoleon's Old Guard
never witbstood it, and whose deeds will
live forever in the ballads OF their native
land. Men and women of Virginia., shall
we, who have the heritage that is ours
shall We, whose her0ism and courage have
challenged the admiration OF the entire
world, shall we now prove ourselves un-
worthy Of our ancestry and make ourselves
liable to the taEnt that our pretended hero
Ism, was but false clamor raised by our
selves Shall men who have stood in the
presence OF death rs we have met it blanche
now before the trifling pecuniary burden
which this debt would impose upon us?
cannot help esclaiming, in the burning
Language of, Brutus TO Cassius 3d., ,..
What. shall one OF us,
That struck the foremost man Of alithis world,
. But for supporting robbers shall we now ...a
Contaminate our fingers with base brioes?
Il And sell tn mighty space of our large nopers
For so much trash as may be graspeo tnuS
I'd ralher bt n dog, and bay the moon, &c..
Than such Roman. ''
..' -: w. W. HENRY; ..l
.,Mr. W. w. Henry, candidate for the Sem
ate, said he was elected two years ago by the
city to- the House OF, Delegates. How he
had performed his duties as q representa-
tive. Of the capital Of the State was well
known to those who watched the proceed
ings OF the body. He could give no better
pledge Of faithfulness to the Interests OF his
constituents than was contained in his re-
cord in the last Assembly. The great ques-
,tion before that body. was q settlement OF
the public debt SO as, to require no addi-
tlonal burden on the people. This required
cutting down OF expenses and a reduction
OF the rate Of interest. He was graltied
to know that the active part he took in ac-
complishipg the great result reached had
met. not only the approval Of, his
constituents, but Of the State, at
large. He had shown bis care for
the public schools in his Efforts to per-
feet the system, and the aid he had given re
perfecting and passing the Henkel bill,
which keeps nearly all the school-money III
the counties and cities and prevents its Use
for other purposes by the. Auditor. The
debt settlement will require no increase OF
taxes, and will give us enough to support
the government and the full quota OF the
public schools. This IL the calculation OF
the Auditor OF Public Accounts and Oh Dr
Rutfner, the Superintendent OF Schools, ant
he considers the Dill as the salvation OF INT
schools. The Opposition to this Settlemen
comes from Ger leral Malone and his party
organized at lIozart Hall. OF course u
could not SUPP BORT him FOR any office.
He believed, the State should not under
take TO enfor ca religion by law, but the eX
Fperience Of the race had demonstrated ina
one day In seven should be kept as DAY
rest. 1tv ias proper, therefore, Tor tue stat
to requir ali its citizens to abstain iroI
unnecesf ;ary labor on that day, and TO ef
force q ood order-and this in city an
countr y alike. Why should Henrico ma
living near Goochand have strlcter SUI
day J. xw,oyer him than one living 10 or net
the { ity., He could see no good reason ie
cha nging the present law. The State nn
for :. a breach OF the Sunday law eo'
tc the public schools. The city M
2 :oes into the city treasury, and ID
is all the difference. The Citizens a
soclation wanted one law for the Sta
at large and another for the cities, al
while not putting forth ticket formal
: were arranging to elect, il possible, tho
; Of their views. His opponents must not
: permitted to keep silent on this qucstio
q nor to avoid direct answer. II they a
. for the change asked for by those opposil
> > the present Sunday law, they must say S
!. He Lad shaped his course upon the idea th
the prosperity OF the city depended on Il
prosperity Of the working classes, and b:
. attempted in every way to advance thel
He had refused to support the bill to bui
: a railroad UP the canal till Richmond W
? protected in her water power and b
docks, and it was made certain that Il
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