The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-29
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
FRIDAY MORNING. sEPTEMBER %. 1854.

THE DAILY DISPATCH.
FRIDAY MORNING. sEPTEMBER %. 1854.
THE ADJOURNED SARATOGA CONVENTION.
Political Corrupfioa.-The n. Y. Herald
thus sums up the proceedings of the adjourn
cd Saratoga Convention:
During the preliminary stages Of Ito progress the
Convsntion was engaged In discussing the propre.
" of mot recommending Q State ticket, nut a.
was very evident that the whig wing Were ais.u
ciined 70 throw away single chance N tne COUNTY,
contest the democratic faction urged q compto-
mise of candidates But all to no purpose Inc
teetotalars then raised the point az to the sound
pess of RAYMOND, the whig candidate Tor Lieuien'
ant Governor, on the prohbitory liquor quesuon
This was met BY a statemen. that Raymond had
written letter fully establishing his orthodoxy on
that point Yet another objection was urged, that
the whie candidate had not accepted the platform
of the Saratoga convention. This was answered
BY reading letters from each and all OF me nomi
nees unreservedly endorsing the resolutions.
That was . damper on the free democrats, and
many of them withdrew. The entire whig ticket
was then nominated with great cordially. A Sc
ries Of resolutions the boldest and most unequivo
cal that have yet emanated from any convention
outside Of the Garrison and Wendell Phillips
camp. were reported. They utterly repuo,Ge tne
Baltimore platforms of both the wing ana oemo-
cratic parties. cali for the unconditional Iepeaa o.
the fugitive slave law, and the acts upon wnicn =
based and propose a convention OF delegates iroM
the Free States, to be held at Syracuse on tne 4a
Of July, 1885, to nominate candidates for president
and Vice President The revolution Is begun
who shall stop 1t nowY
The aboveis not less interesting as exhibit
ing the progress of anti slavery sentiment
than as a striking illustration of the utter
want of principle among the political aspi
rants of New York. For the sake OF ofhce
they will give up or profess any principle In
the world. Raymond, who has hitherto op-
posed the Maine Law is now thoroughly sat-
isfied that it is the best law in the world. MY
ron Clark, the Wing candidate for Governor
who was for,nely opposed to the know-Notn-
ings, when he found that he would need their
support, has, according to correspondent Oh
the New York Herald, applied for admission
to Know Nothing Lodge, in Canandagua'
the place of his residence, and being refused
sent to Albany, to Thurlow Weed, to come
and organize lodgein Canandagua to which
he could be admitted. 1t is in the rank corrup-
ton of political aspirants that the great peril
to free institutions is to be found. They would
sell themselves, at any time, for a mess OF pot
tage, and men who are capable OF barter
log away their own principles and con-
sciences for place or pelf would never hest
tate to betray their country.
WHITE SLAvEs.-The accounts which fire.
quently appear in the Northern and English
papers, of oppression and cruelty towards
poor children, by those in whose service they
are engaged, are among the most heart-rend-
ing pictures of human misery. 1t seems a
hard and sorrowful lot, that childhood, the
age which nature designed for play and en-
ioyment, should be devoted to hard work, but,
when to this is added cruel or even unkind
treatment by the employer, it presents pic
ture of woe which must melt every human
heart. The case is still more pitiable when
those children, so prematurely forced to toll,
80 constantly chided, so cruelty beaten, so
grudged their small daily allowance of food,
80 miserably clothed; are orphans-withoutf IA
Their, mother, or any earthly friend to take
their part, or even to sympathize with them.
To see one of these poor, forlorn little beings
trembling and covering under the ferocious
look, furious words and heavy blows of their
white masters or mastresses, gives the spec
tator an idea of the real slavery which exists
in this world, which pierces his heart to the
core Ye tyrants over little children, if you
have hearts, think how you would like your
own children to be thus treated? If you
have consciences, how can you remember,
without . shudder that God is just?
ApoLIrroNIsm IN ARr.-To the Editor of the ". y
Tyibune-SIR Seeing some remarks In your pa.
per of the 18th inst. upon Crawford's AnttSlavery
statues for the Virginia Monument take the lib
erty of asking you to publish a few extracts from
letter recently from an American at Munich, upon
the same subject-she having seen the beautiful
statues of which your correspondent writes. She
says;
meet with something to make us blush for our coun
try. If Americans would keep their slaves, and
hold their tongues about FRERDoM, 1t would be less
Notifying. But they are always blindly holding
up to the world some reminder of the ridiculous
contradiction going on there, by Dragging OF their
freedom"
She then describes the statues, and their Anti.
Slavery mottoef, and adds:
"Here, on Q roll in the extended hand of Patrick
Henry, you read In large letters, the word Liberty
Now, is not this oddf What can the Germans
think to this and the week before read in their
newspaper an account of New Infamy in the Uni
ted States Are we not fools thus to publish to the
world our disgraces was glad to see that the date
1776 was to be seen on the rolled banner of Patrick
Henry, who 10 represented saying from his great
speech, Give me liberty give me DEATH so that
II may be seen that valued liberty once, though
not now. All praise is due to the statues statues
meyely-for they are really grand-but think our
American artists ought to be quizzed and blamed
lor such faseness to their genius.
A FRIEND OF NORTH AND SOUTH.
What balderdash Was there no slavery
in Patrick Henry's day? Was not Patrick
Henry himself stakeholder? But for his
eloquence and Washington's valor, another
slaveholder,) what woald the North now be
but British provinces Nevertheless, the
above as tribute to Crawford's genius is of
value. They must be splendid statues which
extort such praise from such quarter.
CosPEcTloNERs' FRENcH.-Asensible New
York paper is down upon the ridiculous fash
ion OF doing up bills of fare at Hotels, Sin
what the English suppose to be French, but
OF which it can only be said that it is not
English" 1t says that "the other day at a