The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-07
.no,,er Appeal for Com promise.
WALTON NINE, LOUISA COUNTY,


EUltOTS DtSpUtCNs h"'N
prevented until now the correction OF an
error which / find in your own and other
Journals with reference to my position rela-
tive to the State debt, nor do now deem II
necessary or pertinent to enter into dis
cussjon OF the matter or elaborate state
ment of my opinions with regard to 1t. but
merely to correct the misrepresentation
w bich seem TO exist.
amnot Readjuster OF either the Funder
or other school, aud am not because | be-
lieye the measures advocated by each are
plain violations OF the established rules OF
law and recognized principles OF right ;
nor am | in sympathy with either further
than as each opposes the policy OF the other,
and as good and true men, allied to each re-
spectiyely, have been the recipients OF in
discriminate denunciation, at once uDwise
and unjust, resulting in antagonisms which
have brought about the present unhappy
condition OF our political affairs. The fate
OF partisan leaders and fortunes OF specu-
lators in State securities may be involved IN
the result OF the State elections. do not
believe that either the honor or the safety
OF the State depends upon the triumph OF
either Of the cOntendng factions, nor do
believe that the legislation proposed by
either should be, or ever Will be, the basis
OF final settlement OF this yeXed question.
I believe that the paramount issue or TO-
tay is the success OF the Democracy III this
presidential election. The Republican par
ty-their purpose OF ignoring the C6nstltu.
ton avowed-for twenty years have welded
the powers OF government solely with re-
gard to the perpetuation OF their own usur-
nations. until so utterly are abrogated its
most sacred principles that there are many,
whose patriotism we cannot question, ready
10 seek an asylum in tue foundation OF an
empire, while we behold the representatives
of this idea, its active instigators, with de-
termined purpose banded together in the
Chicago Convention, and when fOied upon
the threshold of their nefarious designs, re-
firing i'm consolidated ranks to bide
their time. To what end these things
are tending to-day we cannot tell,
but we do know no usurper but re-
ceiyed the sceptre by the voice OF
too confiding people, and in all Rome, the
birthplace of free institutions, there was
but one arm to interpose between the con-
0ueror and the crown. We should pause,
reflect, ard act. Upon the restoration OF
the Constitution hang the hopes OF the
American people, aud we have been taught
by lessons we ean never forget that It's re-
sto,ation can never be accomplished under
Rep ublican rule. Shall we abandon these
hoprs without another honest, earnest effort
for hs rescue? And IL not, what time to
come more suspicious than the present. 40
we await the advent OF leader? When
and v hence will come another Hancock?
Tried i'm the crucible of the darkest days OF
our M toms existence, he illustrates in his
own individuality all that is good and great OF
n nd
nm in tn light OF his own record the great
opostle for the redemption of that CODsti-
tuition an d defender Of the liberties it Sc
cures. The "bour and the man have
Gomez: nd now, that the great Democra-
cv through ,out the land, from wave TO wave,
rise nm wit b an enthusiasm which already
assures the yictory-now, that patriotic Re-
pubicans, 4 orgetting party affiliations, come
with MS TO Oh D honor to our second Wash
inpton and "a id us 10 save the country, shall
Virginia. boh ling the fate OF the field in
her hand, wit b petty peevsbness that
should be sn anked out OF spoiled child,
sulk i'm co rner whilst the conflict is
fought?
Virginia's vo te belongs to Hancock by
right of at least thirty thousand majority.
A divided Den ,Ocracy means it shall be
given to Garfieh d, and this in all human
probability mean continuation OF the pre-
sent dynasty in DO .wer for four years longer.
What then? vii our locks grow out in
that time or. be haven closer about our
ears? Where shall tie responsibility rest
Have you, genleme n OF the press, seriously
reflected! You are the 0racles OF the peO-
Die, who speak to hem every day. You
think for them, and he 81 think" and 81
saw OF the corner az I'd CROSSROADS pOliti'
clan are but the sent, ,nces OF your last i'm
print. | believe that the determination OF
this election rests 10 20 ur hands, and when.
il so il must be, the vote OF Virginia counted
for Garfield defeats Hal 1cock, bitter will be
your reflections as you ! ealize That under
ism nor reSdiustment c an bring back or
cancel the lost opportya nifty. Yet il you
continue TO the end as now, laboring to cut
deeper and broaden the CT asm dividing the
Democracy, you will accom- 'plish your pur-
pose and Inevitably epguIf he party.
To Justify opposition now under the cry
of "no compromise 10 fus ION OF the Two
parties, with existing facts pc lntlng Win
finger Of light TO the inevital bic before us,
IL becomes imperatively neces sary TO snow
that such compromise involves tue surren-
der OF some great principle OF ''snt' or au-
hesiOn to some purpose OF wire 'ng' OF e'se
euQangcrS some Cuusc VI pdtul ''N"n' W.
portauce TO the matter In hand, while the
facts remain that fusion does no, involve
compromise nor the surrender Of 4 me 0pin-
ion upon the questions which df vide the
debt parties, but Is an alliance for med TO
resist great evil and accomplish great
good In q contest upon the issues OF which
Conservatives and Readiusters have BIZ U one
opinion and but one common Interest IL
contemplates no action, present or pros. pee.
tive, upon State-debt questions, inu
leaves both parties and indlvidu aus
composing them wholly unfettered, M 'r
does II by remotest implication requh e
of either the abandonment OF their own o.
maintenance OF the policy OF the other.
Nor can II enhance or diminish the relative
strength OF the contestants for the State
elections, although Il Is evident that this
idea initiates against coxIition more power-
fully than all else, except the exaspeSaied
State OF party feelings daily kli,dliag with
fresh fires. The Conservatives, claiming 10
be the Democracy by heirship and assoefa-
ton, apply the Democratic lash to Reid
iuster bscks, already prepared for 1t by the
scourge In the last elections, hoping to hold
their accessions thus acquired for The com.
INK State elections. The Readiusters. fear.
Ing tbe consequences OF this association
~ unequal terms, claiming TO be the DemS.
cracy by right OF majority, and eIated by
their recent successes, retaliate the blows
With sedoubIed energy and be the right or