The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-08

The End Is ftef0.
The day dawns upon US. As"morh on .,,
bars her golden gates" the bsllo'-Dox win
h. laid before us, and VIC shall be called
mon 70 perform the highest duty Of a eiii'
vsn az n free republic, who votes as pa
friot. and a. n the Constitution and laws
Of his country were spresd open near The
hox. and h,s ballot were deposited with the
ewes Of the fathers Of the republic resting
anon him. Surely Il cannot be said OF the
vote Of the msn who is actuated by any
sorlid or unworthy motive that his ballot
"gxecuscs frceman's win
AeIlghinIng docs the will Of God"
To-day you are to decide by your votes
whether Virginia shall in all future time
have the reputation which has attached 70
Mississippi for forty years, and when eau
never be expected to be substituted by
rood name and fame. The stain has been
mt upon Mississippi, and all the waters Oh
Lesbe cannot wash it Oh. II Virginia votes
to-day TO rspudiate thirteen millions OF DOL
lar. 81 her lust debt, she win forever after
he known As dishonest, repudSting state.
IL VIII not matter what she does hereafter,
her people will have written themselves
down as regulators. True, we Go
not believe that she could ever thus
rid herself OF her debt; yet she would
have decided 10 repudiate II she could,
and her failure would be due, not to her
honesty. but to the courts OF the United
States. Even IL, like Minnesota, she could
succeed in repudiating her debt for twenty
years, nevertheless at the end OF that Pc
riod il would still he knockinga at hero door,
a Minncsota's debt is now knocking at
hers. This singular and instructive spec
tacle is presented before your eyes, We
voters OF Overwhelmingly, that on thisYery
day the Minncsots Legislature is sitting IN
extra session convened by her Governor Tor
the purpose Of providing for the settlement
of a debt which she Sttemptedto repudiste
on. and out twenty years ago. II, there
fore, you vote to-day to rcpudiate thirteen
millions Of dollars Of your own bonds, you
must do so in the expectation Of seeing the
Virginia Legislature convened in special
session twenty years hence to provide Tor
paying the debt which you will thus have
tried in vain TO repudiate. VIII you sell
your reputation for naughti VIII you dis
credit your mother State, and then find in
the end that you have lost not only your
good name but your money!
To-day You are to decide whether Vir-
ginia shall on shall not be bound a willing
captive. and marched behind the triumphal
chariot Of MALONE, CoNKLlSG, CAMERON,
CHANDLER, GRANT & Co. You know well
that four millions OF Democrats outside OF
Virginia are calling upon you TO stand by
the National Democratic party.
To-day you will decide whether the next
United States Senate shall have majority
Of members ready and willing to do justice
10 all sections OF the Union, or a majority
ready to harass, annoy, Cypress, oyer-tax,
and grind into poverty and humiliation the
people OF your own sunny South.
To-day you will decide whether the next
House Of Representatives is to be Demo
cratic or Republican. Not only will Full
KERsoS and PAUL vote in the next House
a. you shall to-day direct, but every south
ern State viii next year send other such
southern men to Congress il you allow
them to 90 to Washington and proclaim
that this honored old Commonwealth has
fallen into the slough of Reputation and
Republcanism.
To-day, in a word, you sre to decide
whether you will at the same time convert
Virginia into a rcpudlator Of her just obli-
cations and perpetuator Of the rule of the
worst party that ever disgraced the United
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