Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-01
/, 1886.
The Lien Remedy.
The Charlottesville Chronicle speaks


: The Charlottesville Chronicle speaks
Of The DULANEY case - follows:
"But that tax bill should be record
Cd In every county in the State where
Mr.. Dulapey owns real estate to stand
forever, II not paid. a. an incumbrsnoe
On his property. When Mr.. Dulaney
undertook to sell he would find out,
perhaps, that be had not played such .
winning game after all"
On the same point the Portsmouth
Enferprise speaks as follows:
"If, under the decision Of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
the taxes are paid and there is no debt
due, Il is not within the power OF the
LEGISLATURE to legislsts . debt into ex.
istepcs, but conditional receipt might
be given for the coupons, which would
be Of no effect in the event that the
Supreme Court of the United States
should, at any future time, render .
decree reversing its decree Of last win
VI III tuc OouPoh SSs0S'
The lien which We have proposed to
put upon the land Of every man who
forces the State to accept coupons for
taxes is not to be q thing Of . day.
It IL not to be an ephemeral lien. 1t
il, on the contrary, to be lien that
will hold good until removed according
to the modes prescribed by the laws Of
Virginia.
We think it is safe to say that within
The next four years the Supreme Court
Of the United States will have under
gone such change ss will induce that
tribunal to make the opinion Of Chief
Justice WAITE and his three dissenting
associates in the Virginia cases the law
Of the land. That is to say, we hold
il to be as certain as any future event
can be that the Supreme Court Of the
United States will, IS soon IS it ceases
to BE- Q war canker and becomes peace
establishment, decide that the eleventh
article Of amendments to the Federal
Constitution is not "mere jingle of
words, }" but . solemn part ofour organic
law, and one which is to be treated
% the latest expression Of the will OF
the people on the subject which it
touches. That amendment forbids .
State to be sued. AS soon as this
article Of the Federal Constitution shall
have been thus rendered effective, Vir-
einia will be freed, and her legislation
against coupon.speculators and coupon
taxpayers will also be rendered effect
i've. All these liens will be revived
and made to produce fruit in the shape
Of mopey-money due the State for
taxes never paid except in worthless
coupons.
Our friend Of the Portsmouth Enter
prise, who is . member of the Legis-
lature, will thus see that whatever Mr..
DULASEY or any other person might
profess to think of these liens upon hi;
real estate, the fact that the Common.
wealth regarded them IS liens and
intended that they should at some
time or other be satisfied would
throw . cloud over titles to such
real estste, and induce would
be purchasers to require thst the
cloud should be lifted before they
would pay down their money. The
coupon spectators and their lawyers
will Of course try to create the impress
sion that what the Supreme Court o
the United States has said heretofore il
viii say hereafter. We reply, "Rs
member the lesal-tender cases." II
these cases the decision Of the Suprem'
Court Of the United States WAS reverse,
~ soon o. two new justices were places
upon the bench. A like result vii
follow a. soon as two more new jus
tees are put upon that bench. Tha
like result will be the reversal Of th
decisions in the Virginia coupon cases