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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Washington (United States) or search for Washington (United States) in all documents.
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A quiet Government.
The Washington Chronicle, remarking upon the plan of creating a commission for the government of Washington city and the District, and thus relieving her citizens of the trouble of voting and the cares of their own government, very complacently says:
"There is a growing feeling among the members of Congress in favor of such a city government as will dispense with the present municipal organization, and, at the same time, with the machinery of voting.
The plan is to create a commission, to consist of citizens eminent for integrity, energy, intelligence and experience.
We can almost imagine the future of the District of Columbia and the city of Washington with a government constituted of such citizens — men who would not administer the affairs either in a mercenary or in an extravagant spirit."
This is, indeed, a happy prospective for a very much exercised community.
The people of Washington would be delighted with it. Gladly would they get rid o
Governor Peirpoint and the land tax.
We learn that Governor Peirpoint will this morning proceed to Washington city for the purpose of making an arrangement with the Secretary of the Treasury where by the Legislature of Virginia may assume the payment of the taxes on land due to the General Government by the people of this State.
We embrace this opportunity --one not having previously offered itself — to unite with the people generally in ascribing to Governor Peirpoint a most commendable disposition to render the situation of our people as tolerable as circumstances will allow; to consult the general good, in his official acts, the public wishes in his appointments, and, in a word, to put a glove upon the mailed hand of war which now holds us in its grasp.
We can say of his administration, as General Grant says of the conduct of the people of the Southern States, that "it is much better than could reasonably have been expected."