The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-03-05


aLoox ON THE orHra srDx."--This Is The cd.
vice Of gentleman with tro sides. who stands - snc
door of house ON Main street, to give the sdfnoni
tion to all passers.by. The advice IL good. There
are at least two sides to eli persons and to ell ques
tions and il would be well If the world, generally,
could be made more sensible of the Important fact
There are too many who can see but one side oil
any thing. The advice of that great judge OF nu'
man nature Shakespeare, to look upon tnis pc'ufe'
and then upon that, Is to them wholly unheeded.-
They can easily discover small mote In heign-
bor's eye while their views are too much one-sded
to discover milestone in their own eye. Iney
win cant about this and about that imperfecuon or
regularity u others yet fail to "look on the other
side" to sec their own portrait and their own defo'
mites.
All questions, moral and hysical, like the wooden
man of whom speak, have generally two SIDES
and while viewing the one side, the sage advice TO
"look on the other side" should be more generally
observed II we were to look upon one side alone
of a question there would be mails transported
to and from the ten thousand postofflces In the
United States, Giving labor to fifty thousand post
masters and clerks) on the Sabbath day. There
would be no mails brought into our city on that
day, instead of FOUR the recent increase has made
it, If we were to look one side only OF the bi
| BILE. there would be but one creed and but one
| Church, and we would be willing to cruelty all VINO
differed IN opinion from ourselves. Ii we were 10
Loo on one side of the question, we should nave an
awful tax bill. "The poor cattle, sheep and hogs
would have nearly all the taxes to pay. ihey
would in truth be the 'sbeasts of burden" On the
| other side. the mechanic and the artzan would be
| the bea.ts of burden to feed and support all the
6. cattle. hogs and sheep in the land. And so on,
nd iafaitum. Unfortunately, men will differ" Is
the common phrase of the day. Fortunately, say
we, that men do differ. 1t would be very strange
and very oppressive world constituted as human
nature is at present, if it were otherwise. We
echo therefore, the significant advice OF the hero OF
our paragraph, "iook on the other side y
| NEWSPAPERS Centuries have passed since Gut
| tenberg rubbed lamp.back on his wooden types,
| and exhibited to the jealous gaze of shrewd Monks
the power of the press clearing away the mists Of
coming years. and revealing the mysteries Of
knowledge, illuminated by his art.
| Faust, (Faustus) the coadjutor OF Gutenberg
| :, often COMPOUNDED with DR.. Faustus, the NEGRO
mancer, was asilversmith of Mentz. They worked
at Mentz, and, as the foundation Of their great de
sign first multiplied the copies of the Bible, and thus
| unfoded the pages of sublime wisdom before the
| people. Withdraw the strained eyes from the dis
tant Gutenberg and look upon the potent influence
| of types in this advanced age. The dragons OF
| Ignorance and Superstition, who kept the tount Of
Truth, are slain, and now its pure waters meander
through the world, where all may drink Books are
| ca1ik of no
locked in costly libraries sacred to the gaze OF
| privileged few.
But the nobiest offspring of the immortal gluten
berg is the intrepid newspaper-that history OF the
mr. sent 1t places by its small price in the hands OF all
an amount of information, varied in character and
vast in extent The of the Antipodal ma
tons, which, before types were invented, were
scarcely thought of are known to every one.
Does the grasp of tyranny provoke astruggle with
its power from the oppressed the tale is told to the
| sympathy of the world The words of the states
man. the preacher the lecturer, multip lied, and
convey ed through the land by the newspaper.
| Take up the little sheet. For the merest piece o.
| money known to the currency, is given the history
| of the world for day. There, in the thick col
unns will be found a recital of the good and ill o.
the globe 1t tells the needy where to procure the
object of their want from the lost darling OF their
| love to the smallest necessary of life. The un
suspecting are told of danger, and warned against
wiles and attack the guilty are brought from con-
cealmept and branded before the whole world the
| good are cheered and praised, and the banner q
Truth upheld and delivered. The merciless despot
has trembled before the apparition of an angered
press, as Damoclcs at the hair suspended sword.
Widespread and powerful as is its influence, it,
of consequence, must be for good, for the censor
| ship of the worlds upon it.