Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-14
wEDNESDAY......APRIL Ia, 1886
prady's Resolution.


Why should Mr.. BRADY have intro
duccd into the House Of Representa-
tiyss. ss he did day before yesterday,
bis uncalled-for resolution authorizing
The appointment of . commission to re-
port the extent of the equitable liability
of the United States to Virginia's credi-
tors on account Of the action Of our
State authorities in multiplying the deci-
sious Of the Supreme Court OF the
United States as to her debt? When
did the Virginia authorities "nul-
lily" any decision Of that court?
How could they "nullify" any such
dscisiong Surely Mr.. BRADY, Of
Petersburg, General MAHoNE's town
and General MAHoNE's congressman
will not seriously contend that the Su-
preme Court Of the United States ever
decided that II was the duty Of the peo-
pie Of Virginia to pay their taxes in
coupons? II motif the decisions on
debt questions 60 no further than to
say that any man who can do SO has
the right to pay his taxes in coupons
surely Governor LEE was not engaged
in multiplying" those decisions, nor
any one of them, when he issued his
proclamation calling upon the people of
Virginia to pay their taxes in money.
Does Mr.. BRADY know that there
are more than three hundred thousand
voters in Virginia who could not pay
their taxes in coupons even ifthey were
disposed to do so, and the State were
willing? Does Mr.. BRADY know that
in his own district there are more than
thirty thousand men over the age of
twenty-one not one thousand of whom
could, il invited to do so by the State,
Day their taxes in coupons? Does he
propose to make the thirty thousand
poor ones support the State govern
ment, keep up the public schools, pun
ish all the criminals, sustain the asylums,
and protect everybody's property, in
order that the one thousand rich men
may enjoy the luxury Of paying their
taxes in coupons bought at less than
fifty cents on the dollar? What do
the people Of the Petersburg district
think of their representative? Will
they return to Congress q man
who thus traduces the present
Governor of Virginia, and by implica-
ton charges Ex-Governor CAMERON
with having nullified" the decisions
Of the Supreme Court Of the United
States ?-who thus holds up to scorn
and Teprobation the State he is not too
proud nor too conscientious to repre-
sent? II the Republicans of the Pc
tersburg district shall not next fall give
Mr.. BRADY permission to remain at
home, and not be mortified by repre-
sentipg such q State as Virginia at
Washington, then they are not the men
we take them to be.
But Mr.. BRADY overreached him
self. lie "gave himself away" to
use an expressive phrase. He admits
that it was against the State of Vir-
ginia that the Supreme Court gave its
decisions, and not against GREENHow,
nor any other person. If those deci-
sions were rendered against the State,
then they were rendered in violation Of
the eleventh amendment.
The Same court decided the cele-
brated DRIED SCoTr case. Did the
rendering Of that decision stop the aglta-
ton Of the slavery question, or protect
the STAKEHOLDER in his rights: On the
contrary, the dissenting opinion in
that case has become the organic law Of
the land. The negroes are oil free.
The Shareholders lost thousands Of mil
lions of dollars IS consequence of an
( emancipation proclamation issued by
Mr.. LINCOLN in violation Of his oath
of ofics--so many millions that
the twenty or thirty millions
now owed or claimed to be owed by
virsinia constitute but an Insignificant
sum In comparison. Yet Mr.. BRADY
proposes to pay the British bondhold'
srs, but not one dollar does he ask fol
| for his constituents, who of themselve,
lost more money by the qualification
Of the Federal Constitution by Mr.
LINCOLN than ell virginia's creditors
can possibly lose by Governor LEES
alleged qualification " of the deci.
sions Of the Supreme Court.