The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-08
81 R1T OF THE PRESS

Inc E1om'ner, In its leader, takes M tbs wasb
'ng.on UAion on the subject of party discipline,
anu administers to 1t apretty severe lashnp Tbe
Union urges rigid discipline in the marty and 4.
.ounces treason to regular democratic org,niz,.
tion as little less heinous than treason ~ n. 49,
ilshed principles ofthe party The Examiner s,v,
'is is al very wise and orthodox but of course the
severe discipline recommended must be applied to
all ranks of the party, high and low. If the sol.
diers who fight the battles of democracy are to be
subjected to this exemplary discipline masters and
upper crust of the party "the fat dogs that live on
butchers meat and delicacies-the iyeried gentry
that walt In the ''great houses" and lounge under
the long Grecian coonades at Washington, must
undergo the discipline also. The integrity of party
organization, continues the Examiner, can ouly be
maintained by fidelity to principle; and party di.
eipline must only be exerted upon recusants from
principle.
In another article, the Examiner pays high tri
butte to the memory of the late Thomas Ritchie, sr
The Whig devotes leader to the sectional diffe-
renee between the Northern and Southern WhiSs.
We quote the concluding paragraph:
1t il useless to talk of union and harmony BE-
tween the Northern and Southern Wings when
the conditions such that Southern Wings cannot
subscribe to them-and there can be none so long
as Northern Wings insist upon their brethren Of
the South taking an anti. slavery position. They
mistake Southern interest in any calculations that
there are many il any Southern Wings South of
Mason and Dixons line ready to go with them in
imposing restriction upon the introduction of sla-
very In the territory OF the United States Iftherc
are any such we know not who they are The
sooner Northern Wings learn those facts the better
tor them and US. 1t will serve to enable US to un
derstena each other much better hereafter and TO
act accordingly.
The Enquirer, in article headed ''1he De-
mocratc Party not obsolete states as a political
truth that the South finds in the sscendancy of the
Democratic party, the strongest bulwark of its
rights and the Union the hest guaranty of It's stab
ty In every crisis of difficulty and peril, the pro-
vidential ascendancy of the Democratic party has
rescued the Constitution from perversion the Union
from inevitable overthrow, and American freedom
from hopeless extinction In proof of its position
the Enquirer traces the political history of the
try from 1900 up to the time when, in 1880, Ma
tionalBank menaced the country with the domina
ton OF a vast money corporation, Democratic Pre-
sident nterposed and interposed with success, for
the defence of the constitution and the protection of
the interests of republican liberty So also, It con
tnues, in that controversy which has arrayed sec
ton against section in fierce antagonisIn, and which
still, RACES with portentous fury, the patriotic
vice of the Democratic party has been signal and
decisive. In every crisis of antisiavery agita
tion the best buwark of the Union and the sures.
safeguard OF Southern rights has been found 10 the
organization of the Democratic party. The Enqui
rer would regard the dissolution of that party as
national calamity which no true friend of the South
can contemplate without alarm and an earnest
prayer that the deplorable event may be averted
The Penny Post has a leader upon Miss strick
lands book, "The Queens of Scotland" The re
marks of the Post are confined chiefly to Mary
Queen of Scots, the story of whose misiortunes is
regarded MS one of the attractive pages in the
history of modern Europe