Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-07-12
THE SAME OLD COON.

yidual signing himself Q. O'Leary,
Secty. Council Foreign Bondhold,
ers, II MoOrgate St., London, L.
c., and dated Feby. 18th, 1885,
The "Dear Sir" 10 the case is Pro
fessOr Richard NJ. Smith, of Ran
dolph. Macon College, Ashland, Vir'
ginia.
We know We only argue our own
ignorance by saying that we can
not inform our readers who this
newly Pledged debt settler is be.
yond that the circular prints him
NJ. A. Phi. d. of his college. We
have heard of V. II. K. d., which
being interpreted means Very
Heavy Koon Dog, spelling Koon
with a K. Now our understand.
ing has been that these V. II. X.
DIS assumed 10 themselves great
Superiority in all things, even TO
the number of rings round their
tails, till the meeting of their
Lynchburg convention. There they
solemnly declared in favor Of "a
settlement on the basis of the
Riddleberger bill,7 and with this
platform they elected Lee governor
by an overwhelming majority
some 5000 more than Cameron had
carriedthe State by four years be-
fore.
This may grow TO be a very
serious question in the campaign
of this fall. Can We afford to try
on u plan under a party with the
sign manual of NJ. A. Phi. D., when
the V. II. X. DIS have accepted the
situation as it is
To answer this inquiry we must
make a reference TO the circular.
First, says Mr.. O'Leary, the cash
proceeds of a sale Of the railway
shares, railway bonds and other as
sets of the State, together with any
surplus cash balances. C!9 should
produce at least a million in cash
equal to two millions in coupons.
Second, says Mr.. OLeary, "any
voluntary subscription from pdtri-
otto citizens and institutions in
Virginia, such as you suggest, would
increase, &C."
Great American Mixer of Phil.
osOphy and Damnatlon tbs to thee
we would appeal, assuming that
we have struck upon the signif.
canoe Of those CHASTITY capitals A.
NJ. Ph. D.! Please hold fast your
Philosophy and bottle the Damna-
ton. The first cannot hurt an A.
NJ. bat Virginia has escaped polit'
ical Damnation, politically speak.
ing, and we do not want to be
Philosophical into the McCulloch
hell so skilfully prepared for us IN
1878.
We pri'thee Mr.. A. VI. Phi. d. to
read the persuasive and deceiving
plan of Hugh Nc, then represent.
ing the same British Councils, &c.
as Mr.. O'Leary, to read the circu-
lars of that period, and see if his is
not the same, with provisions added
for bonds issued since and other
coupons which have accumulated.
We prl'thee Mr.. A. NJ. Ph. D. to
look back at the address Of the
celebrated 1885," and again at the
still famous appeal from bishops 20
lsymen for voluntary contribu-
tions," and see if he does not find
the response to have been "Narry
Cent" The Lee Monument fund
was converted into McC. bonds,
and this was about the only "pa-
triOuc contribution" made at that
time or since. This kind OF patrl-
otism was very cheap on the part
of the managers, but as there are
no more funds Of the same sort this
part of the account may be closed.
We pritaee Mr.. A. NJ. Phi. D. to
look into or after the States assets,
and send his friend O'Leary an &C
count of them. They consist of
S275,0O0 of stock IN the Richmond
& Fredericksburg railroad. We
suggest that Mr.. A. NJ. Phi. d. sell
this for what be can get, build an
annex TO one of our asylums, and
let all the fellows who are suffer
ing from mental alteration super.
induced by too much study of the
debt question, 60 and crawl in.
Then we can close the assets books,
and curtail the crop of fools in com
ing years.
Each two or four years at most
finds our State flooded with such
rotten literature, accompanied, as
in this case, with documents of
General Bradley T. Johnston, and
others who have no taxes to pay in
Virginia.
Read the papers sent out 10 our
advice, and see the tricks they
would play.
THE STATE COMMITTEE.
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