The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-06
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Let US Reason Together.
The fall season, always beautiful and at-
tractiye, has Just set 10. The green leaves
OF our shady groves and beautiful wood
lands have begun to Jade and drop their rich
colors from their mother stems. 1t Is indeed
a lovely season, the. sweetest OF the year.
when the farmers and planters have all
gathered in the most Of their crops, and are
making anxious preparations for planting
new ones, as the right time approaches J;
wher, all OF our numerous throng OF pea
sure and heath-seekers to the mountains
and the seashore are rapidly returning 10
their homes and marts OF business aud la
Dor: when our commission merchants nave
inst made out their monthly bills OF profit
able sales and forwarded them TO
their country customers, ana Wheh
our, dry-goo6s and grocery merchants
arc beginning to travel northward TO lay IN
their large and costly fall and winter sup
lies OF goods TO crowd their stores, adorn-
their shelves and counters, and make. glad
their customers. We repeat, this is beau
tiful and lovely season OF the year, that
always adds something fresh to all ll'lns
and animate nature. But we make speclai
allusion to it to-day simply to ask one plac"
tical question ADD make one practical appli-
cation of the answer which the question Is
hound to elicit from the lips OF every nom
est or dishonest man in the State, to Which
ever side of tue debt question he may lean
or TO whatever race he may belong.
The question is this, and il IS plaln'
practical one-one that concerns the deep-
est interests of every man, woman, anu
child in the State: Suppose when our mef-
chants and tradesmen go to Baitltnore'
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, ana DINER
oreat marts of trade to purchase their new
supplies, they were to tell their friends ana
merchants there that they had been aeie-
pstes to the Moza. t-Hall Convention OF
last February, that they endorse JUS
rotten platform and principles, ana
are followers OF MAHoNE's wolf gang
in the pending campagn-suppoSe
our merchants were to even let it leak
out that they are asitators OF the State-debt
question; that they are not willing to pay
two-thirds of the principal OF that debt OF
one half of the interest thereon, and thus
virtually are rcpudiationists, and opposed
to fairly settling the honest debts OF their
own Statc-suppose, we say, such answers
rs these were to be given BY our merchants
to their friends and creditors at the North,
from whon they make their purchases,
and whose right and duty it is always
to inquire and know the credit and stand
ing OF their customers, is there mer-
chant in Richmond, or in any city or coun-
ty OF the State, whose abundant assets are
not known to be unquestionabte, who could
command any respectable credit for fall
purchases? Would not every merchant OF
such corrupt morals, and followers OF such
4 clan of shysters as are now seeking the
utter ruin and dishonor Of our old State,
be at once tabooed at the counter OF every
respectable merchant who has heretofore
extended liberal credit to our people and
sustained them in business?
There can be but one answer to these
questions, and those in favor Of the honest,
merchants of Virginia, who
nave no utilization or sympathy with the
public plunderers that are seeking to get
possession Of the government OF the State
% rob our creditors Of their dues; and it is
based on the fundamental and unerring
principle in human conduct and observa-
ton that men who will repudiate the debt
Or sulIy the credit and fair fame OF their
own State will not hesitate to cheat and
plumber their own creditors and best friends
when adversely OF convenience makes 1t
profitable to them to do so. State
repudation taints the credit OF every man
in it. By no means do we intend by these
plain facts to say that there are no honest For
chile Resdiusters enlisted under the banner
Of the Mozarters. There are some, no doubt,
who have been deluded by the falsehoods
and cunning of the adversary; but they are
few and far between, and as the canvass
progresses, and they become more enlight-
ened by the correct information and unan-
swerable arguments presented them by the
press and our debaters, they will desert the
MALONE standard and fall into line with the
great Conservative party that is determined
to preserve unsullied the fair name aud
credit OF our Commonwealth and people.
Without State honor and credit there can
be no individual honor or credit.