The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-14
spIRIr OF THE PRESS.

The Times Of yesterday remarks that the
Norfolk Argus is the emily Democratic paper
in the South that has defended the appoint.
ment of WIN. J. Brown Of Indians, Enlarged 10
have intrigued with the abolitionists for cleo.
ton to the Speakership Of the House Of Rep
resentatives some years since,J as general
mail agent for several Of the Northwestern
States. Ii says that the Argus defends this
| appointment Of the President on the ground
that the standard ofpubIic and private virtue
is lower in New England, where Gen. Pierce
was raised, than il is in the South, and that
therefore, he entertains different notions from
US in regard TO the prophecy of Browns con-
| duet.
The Wing states that while Southern Dem
ocratic journals are making every effort TO de.
lend the abolition appointments of President
Pierce, the tone Of the Northern Conservative
Democratic press is strongly condemnatory OF
those appointments, and is in stronger con-
trast with The tone of their Southern cotempo.
raries.
The Mail refers to the independence, sove-
reignty and State pride SO cherished by every
Virginia heart, and points out some OF the
means Of giving substantial existence to what
is now little better than theory. The surest
guarantee, it says, for the South against any
infringement of State rights and all foreig n
dangers, is to develop their own elements Of
power, and out of those materials construct a
real independence and sovereignty. 1t ear
nestly deprecates the purchase of articles Of
Northern manufacture, and patronage of North
Elm colleges and institutions of learning by
Southern men, when we are abundantly capa
bic of producing those articles of merchan-
disc ourselves, andshave every facility here for
instruction in all the branches of learning
The free States, TO ensure their predominance,
have only to continue their exertions to &C
quire wealth and greatness, while we, still
apathetic and idle, must decl inc into mere tri-
butaries to their superior energy and enter
prise. The Nail closes its article by appeal.
ing to Virginians to awake to their duty, TO
develop their resources and dam up the cur.
rent of emigration which will otherwise reduce
the State to a bare and deserted channel,
showing only that mighty river once flowed
where no drop remains to moisten the barren
sands.
The Enquirer appropriately remarks that
the Tragical History and Lamentable End of
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, wherein is accu-
rately reported tine effect produced by a great
book Of lies, the circulation of an Infamous
SANDER, the notorious progress of the author
thereof, and other copjugal appeDdage, through
Scotland and England, the grand festival at
Stafford House, and the gathering of the toa
dies, the sudden extinction of hypocrisy and
imposture, and the instantaneous disappear
ance of the charlatan in the geodly city of
Paris-may now be written-and that the pro-
hibition of Uncle Toms Cabin by the Pope
the refusal of Queen Victoria to receive Mrs.
Stowe, or permit her to be present at court
and the Indifference Of Louis Napoleon TO her
presence-have conduced to the extinction of
her temporary triumph and the cure of the