The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-03

Let us honor both and all, recogpizBr
That In every shape and form their might.
source, fully persuaded and fiymly believ
ing that all these fountains, waves, and cur
rents are but the pt'sations OF that Great.
est Heart which throbs in mercy through.
out the universe.
One other thought let me impress upon
you, and am done. Avoid the isolation
OF mind to which yeur profession too fire.
quently tends. BE watchful, as all good
citizens should be, to see tbatthe State SUI.
fers no harm. II speak mainly to sYir.
g!nians l would say, Stand by your yir.
GINA; and 10 each and all would say,
Stand by your State. The mother caIIs, and
that should drown all other cries. / hon.
estly believe that the strongest proof OF
Virginia's strength Is the fact that for forty
years there has been steady drain and emf
grafton OF a large percentage OF her Young.
est and thereby most valuable men, She
can not stand this much longer: and thus Il
| Is that wherever my voice could reach or
the young men-be they lawyers, doctors.
farmers, mechanics, or laborers-Stand by
the mother. She needs the assistance now
more than ever Of
HER rRUE.HEARrED SONS.
To the more faint-hearted there afe,dire-
ful pertents In the horizon:
"There Is listening fear in mems regards,
As If calamity had but begun
AS II the yanward clouds Of fvil days
Itah spent heir malice, ana the sullcu rear.
With all its stored thunders. Is lab'ringup."
| Behind tue superficial topics which may
not be dwelt upon bere-behind debt aues-
tions and capitation taxes which we recog-
nize as but The poor and shrivelled masks
we see the bideous features and sardonic
grin OF that agrarianism whose progress Is
anarchy, and whose end is despotism. We
see the first chapter Of the same old, old
story. The same deceptions are beginniDg
which. under one guise or another, have al
ways deceived. Cheats and deceivers lit
has been well observed) never repent. The
fraudulent have no resource but in fraud.
| They have no other goods in their maga-
zines. The wearing out OF an old delusion
only puts them on the invention OF new
delusion. Unfortunately, too, the credu-
iity OF dupes is as inexhau.;lbe as the iu-
yentive power Of knayes, and these dupes
are never given possession, but are always
kept in hope. Those who have broken
loose from, II they ever knew,
TRUE PRrNCIPLhs
OF natural authority and legitimate subordi-
nation, become the natural prey o! impos-
tors. All history teaches us that though
revolutions begin with the tyranny OF the
people, they generally, il not invariably,
conclude with that OF single man. Nothing
becomes sooner intoxicated with power
than an usurping populace, and by this term
mean people trenching on those sacred
restrictions (as OF the judiciary and those
wholesome constraints which The accumu-
lated wisdom OF ages has thrown around
the central jewels OF constitutional liberty.
Thus it j., as Swift says, that an usurping
populace is invariably its own dupe-a mere
underworker and purchaser in trust for
some single tyIant, whose State power and
wealth they advance TO their own ruin with
as blind an instinct as those worms that die
in the act OF weaving magnificent garments
for beings OF nature superior 10 their
own. When the balances OF power in q
State baye been duly fixed and established
there is no more unwise and dangerous
course than 10 tamper with them, and there
is no surer sign OF
A PEOPLE OR STATE SICK UNTO DEATH
than the successful effort 10 break down
all barriers, remove all obstacles to infringe
ment, destroy every safeguard 10 liberty.
and thus open up every avenue to license"
That there are dangers OF this kind lurking
around our horizon every man Of tolerable
vision must see. The approach Is stealthy,
but unless checked in time, the end is in
evitabie. Beware of such beginning.
Ifsrhe little riff within the luie
That by anu by viii make the music mute,
And ever widening, slowly ruin all.
The lille rift wIiha the smallest lu'e.
The little pitied speck in garnered fruit,
That rotting inward, slowly ruins all.
I make no apology for uttering these
warnings. Whatever Il say again) the su'
per6cial topic, this is the thought Of all re-
flecting men-the sub-consciousnes OF dan
ger impending-tha we ought not, il we
could, TO ignore.
We have great and glorious State TO
preserve. mighty stake to contend for.
Whilst there is yet time all good men
should combine, lest by neglect the Deces-
sity may arrive to conspire. have conf
dence, full confidence, in the sober second
thought OF Virginian people, and appealto
' ou, young gentlemen 10 you, gray-head-
ed men; TO you, gracious matroDs; 10 you,
my young, fair countrywOmen. to aid US in
the effort to fix the State on those bases OF
morals and politics which are our old and
immemorial, and j hope will be our eternal,
possession"
vALEDICToRY.
At the conclusion OF Mr. Barbour's ora
tiOn DR.. Cnarles Ii. ChalkIey, OF Richmond,
delivered the valedictory address, alter
which the exercises closed. DIR. Chalkley's
yaledctory was fine production, and was
brimful OF good advice 10 his old class
mates.
The Medical College Of Virginia can
compare favOrably with any other OF this
country. It's faculty Is composed OF emf
nent physicians, aud is an honor TO the
State.
The lectures of the spring and summer
session for 1880 begin on Tuesday the 10TH
OF March.
They will embrace systematic course OF
instruction in Anatomy, Physiology, Chem
istry, Materia Medica, Practice of Medicine,
Surgery, Obstetrics, and Gyuecology, be-
sides clinical courses IN the several depart
ments OF practical medicine and surgery,
mostly directed by The adjunct faculty, and
special courses on important subjects by the
Faculty OF the College, with greater de-
gree OF elaboration than Is ordinarily allow
ed.
BlIEFs.-Tbe Board OF Supervisors OF
Henrico county will meet next Saturday
at the county courthouse.
Austin Mitchell (coloredD was arrested at
the Second police district, charged with
stealing a bedsead from John Winston.
The highest price paid for tobacco on
" Change" yesterday was S76.
Henrico cbancery cases are being tried in
the Circuit Court.
Two conyicls sent TO the penite ntiary
from Richmond will be released this month.
One was released Monday.
Richmond Uniform Encampment, No. /,