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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."

The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 28, 1865. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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