The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-22


our &C complishea correspondent Professor
CHAp LES Don on " The Repetition OF the
Arti cle.v We read It Of course. ltisprooi
aga inst criticism. The No. IL not SO good
as some we hive seen. That roll OF honor
must be dua reading. Seven pages OF
names are &nost too much for one sitting.
". +. Casueron on the Public Debt
IRON ys,e Petersburg Eyersns Star, November IT,
100, edited by W. 4. Cameron, Esq1
IL Will be discussed, snd for ourselves we
are as ready 10 have 1t out now as any other
time. Let us go to WORT at once at the task
OF understanding each other, ana we sha''
M hsst (no matter what the rcsuli) have re-
moved one stumbling-block out OF The path
war of Conservatism. During the skiI1nish-
iur over this issue which was carried on by
the press last spring and summer the papers
ooposing resumption OF full payment in
dienantly denied any intention OF repudia-
ting. Now, is IL asking too much OF them
60 request plain declaration OF their wishes
and purposes IN the premises! VIII they
4ell Us what they mean by anti-Funders y
There is one party In favor OF assuming the
load and carrying IL; what does The other
party want TO do? Shift II, reduce II, or
drop IT. They reject our plan; IT is but
fair that they should now come forward
and propose some substitute.
The insidlous arguments with which The
State has been flooded for the past four
wears have undoubtedly affected the public
morality TO an slarmng degree, and the de-
sire for an evasion OF the common obligations
has been most strongly displayed IN those
sections I'm which land is high and times are
t.ntA tt.a IN
reason for this is to be sought in the fact
that those fertile territories ale owned by a
few large proprietors TO whom most OF the
populace bear the relation nominalIy OF
tenants, but really OF dependents. These
landed gentry holding their possessions at
a high valuation are yet unwilling to con-
tribute to the support Of government In pro-
portion TO those values. and they find little
difficulty I'm swaying the minds, or rather The
votes of their tenaUtry, to furtberance or
their evasion OF Just tax. The money for
which the creditors OF Virginia have so
long aud so vainly waited was mostly ex-
pended in costly railways through the very
sections which now resist It's repayment,
and the enhanced worth OF their property
and the Increased wealth OF the people are
due principally to these lines OF c0mmuni-
cations TO whose cost they are now unwlll-
ing 10 give legitimate share. Ibey seem
to forget that the improvements bestowed
upon them call for adequate return, ana
that men so fortunate as to occupy lands
worth from fifty TO one hundred dollars per
acre ought 10 contribute more 10 the public
treasury than those who find no sale Tor
their acres at eight and ten dollars.
But such people, looking only TO their
own immense interest, disregard entire
" all principles Of justice and right,
and seem to be willing 10 bring discredit
on the State and ruin on the commercial
and manufacturing elements OF the commu-
nifty rather than part annually with the
smallest percentage OF that harvest OF which
other peoples money was the seed. such
unfortunately is the disposition OF many OF
the opuent and influential citizens OF the
Southwest and Valley, and ii the CORE
spondent Of the Ne,rs be right. and this
disposition has been avowed by the election
OF representative delegates, we can only
hope that they will expose their full intent
as soon as may be, and furnish the balance
OF the State with some basis on which to
build their calculations for the future.
But the game is not all on one side, de- |
pend upon II Even from the Southwest
the cause of good faith has such powerful
champions as William Watts and Marshall,
while Stuart and Hanger come from the
Valley not unsupported. In Underwater
Virginia the decentralization has scarcely |
touched the body polite, and from Lynch |
burg to the Potomac there Is hardly one
senator or delegate elect whose opinions |
are not prOnOuncedly in favor OF paying |
the public debt. Petersburg is peculiarly |
fortunate 10 having three representatives OF
ability 10 advance that side of the question.
and it NAV turn out after all that the "ant- |
Funders" are felicitating themselves too
soon, and that the nearly solid vote OF East
ern Virginia, combining with the defenders
Of the public credit in other sections. Will
prove strong enough TO stay the tide which
dem1gOgism has turned loose upon the
land, and 10 preserve uDtarniShed the good
name OF the Commonwealth.
(Exrsc:s from Evening Star, 1875, William Z.
Cameron, editor.J
awe want no better reason for opposing
Mr.. Boiling than that the Radicals and their
negro followers support him."
lSeptember 4, 1851
"There is too large price charged for
indulgence in the hope OF defeating Hinton.
The price is the assistance OF negro votes
and the prestige of success TO faction which
will owe its strength to negro votes. VIII
the Independents look this fact in the face
and consider its future?"
[September 20, 1871
"Any opposition, however respectable,
can only elect its man by aid of solid ne
gro vote. If that Is given it will be in the
belief that the Conservative party will be
disorgabized and that Petersburg will lie
before the Radical hordes an easy prey next
spring. 1t is TO the offices and patronage
and shekels they are looking"
fseptember 2l, 1881
ono people ever displayed more noble
spirit OF endurance and determination than
was shown by this people Of Petersburg Un
der the long black years OF negro domina-
ton and none ever made more splendid |
exhibition Of energetic resolution than that
which they nut forth in the spring OF 1874, |
when, with serried masses and unbroken
tread they marched upon the deSpoiterS and |
hurled them from the seats Of power which
their ignorance and dishonesty had defled."
(Rather rough on sour faithful allics.") |
Iseptember 22, 1851
"For ourselves, we hold to our older slO- (
gan, 'fusion OF the whites against the solid |
enmity Of the blacks"
[septemter %. 1881
"Wbat combination can be formed so |
inimcal 10 the sentiment and interest OF the |
whole community as one engineered by |
James NJ. h. Steward, fa,hered bv Richards, |
assisted BY J0rgensen, and reinforced by a
platoon OF foreign and native adventures 7"
IOc,ober z, 1871
"Tbe Independents boast that they will |
beat Hinton. SUPPOSE they do! viii it be |
a. 70 saU NJ xstttl ~.