The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-01
Spirit of the Press.

| oou"ay W dttacu themselves TO the Deiiio
cratic party, offering among other arguments
that the Wing party is ungrateful, and point.
ing to their alledged ingratitude to CLAY ana
WEBSTER, for example The Times denies
that the Wings ever exhibited ingratituds'
1t says, however, that even were the charge
true the Democratic party are the last men
that ought to make it; for they oVersiausheu
all their great men in IA, and nominated mr.
Polk for Presidency, and again IN 81 all the
Headline and distinguished Democrats were
set aside and Gen PIERCE nominated. The
Times suggests that the remark of the Union
that ..merit always secures its reward at the
Democratic party will hardly receive the
assent of Messrs. Buchanan, Cass. and
others.
The IFhig finds an extract in one of its ex-
changes. which is ereditedto the Washington
Usion, which declares that "the President
saws he never meant to countenance the as
sertion that he should recommend the as
by Congress- though he has not committed
| himself against aiding the States or compa
| ny chartered by the States interested which
may undertake the enterprise, by grants of
lands or money" The Wing then proceeds
to argue that if this be indeed declaration
of the Washington Union, it exhibits very
extraordinary case of backing out Three
members of the cabinet in public and in
presence of the President, had declared them
selves in favor of the construction of the
| Pacific Railroad by the Federal Government
as road necessary for military purposes and
the defence of the country. 1t is not to be
| credited, argues the Wing, that these gentle
| men thus committed themselves without any
| understanding with the cabinet Such an act
would, it seems to the Wing be objectionable
| in the opinion of the warmest supporters of
| the administration.
The Wing continuing its article on this ex-
| tract from the Union, contends that if q part
| of the explanation of the Presidents position
be taken, the other must go along with it; and
he thus appears as the friend of land distribu
| ton among the States to aid Internal I'm
provements. The Wing is curious to see
what the Virginia Democrats will have to say
on this point. If they approve the Presi-
dents position, why they must accept Vir-
| ginia's share of the public domain, and thus
help to construct the public works begun by
| her, and relieve the people from a large share
of the taxation, they must impose upon them
The Enquirer has a strong article against
| American Intervention in foreign affairs. 1t
charges upon the Northern States 'preva-
| lent disposition to plunge this country into
| all the entanglements, difficulties and perls
of European politics" fortunately for
public mind" it says, 'the South is but
slightly infected by the poison of fanaticism.''
| The South it says is conservative. The peo-
| pie of the South know how near akin the ia
naticism of Young America" is to the fana-
| ticism of abolition. They, it concludes,
| "strive to keep the Government within the
| sphere of its legitimate action and to pre-
serve inviolate the safeguards of state SOW
ereignty. Upon the wise counsel and conser
| vative action of their statesmen depends in
great measure the peace and prospective
welfare of the country"
| The Mail alludes the immunity of the black
| slaves from the effects of epidemics, which
| are destructive to whites in the South, and to
| Incorporate and dissolute free colored people
| It infers therefrom that Providence never in
tended that the white man should be the per-
former of drudgery, exposed to the sun at the
South and that the negro YVES designed for
that service. And it also infers that the man
Her IN which the free blacks diminish in num-
bers and degenerate in the tropical regions.
! shows that slavery is the best condition for
| them.
The Mail has good moral on the value of
integrity in business.
"lHE AouSTAIS Cove Journal and Spirit
uai Hsrbinger,' is the strange title of a still
! stranger paper, that has just reached u.s.
We know not what to say of it, for it ''passeth
all understanding 1t is to US perfect hier-
oglyph, without Specification, though doubt
less "clear as mud to the initiated We
have pored over Rants ''Kritic," dipped in
| to John Howe Coleridge, and Swedenborg,
and half put our eyes out over Hesiod and
other dabblers in Theogony; but they are
perfectly transparent when compared with
the contents of the Spiritual Harbino -