The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-31
kICHM0ND, VA:
WEDNESDAY MORNING. NAV Q, ,or.
SPIRIT OFTHEpRFsS


Slave Case. Itconsiders the Fugitive Slave Law
farce and humbug if officer in the execution of
itmay be shot down by an infuriated mob, and
asks If the Union is worth preserving when one por
ton OF it tramples upon the rights of the others-
The Mail is as much devoted to the Union as any
one, but it must be Union bearing some resem-
blance to that contemplated and devised by our
forefathers. For what security have we for the
futurea Suppose the perpetrator or perpetrators
o. the late murder were discovered and their guilt
proveds VIII people, who have disregarded
one law. execute another7 The Mail considers
every man OF the mob just guilty as he who used
the weapon, and says il the whole set were gibbet
ed together, and their dry skeletons hung for all
time upon the trees of Boston Common, as a warn.
ing to all who dare to resist the execution of the
law of the land, it would be nothing more than
their just deserts. The Mail in conclusion urges
the South to bring the North 10 sense by retaliation.
AS long as we continue to be commercially depen-
dent upon the North-as long as we receive and
uphold every canting and snivelling quack doctor
and clock maker that comes among us-so long may
we expect to see many repetitons of such scenes
as took place in Boston on Friday night.
The Penny. Post devotes leader to the foreign
news There is another a1ticle, on the speech of
Mr. Mitchell. The Post admires the speech, but
thinks the distinguished orator was wrong in the
lenient view which he took of the conduct of Ho.
race Greeley in the furious war he is waging upon
the South. review of Greeley's conduc, closes
the notice.
The Enquirer considers the late riot in Boston
melancholy occurrence; for it betrays condition
and temper of public sentiment in the North which
portend still more caamitous consequences. The
hnquirers not surprised at the riot for it had pre-
Viously admonished thepeople against the delusion
that the passage of the Nebraska bill had nut an
eho TO anti-savery agitation. 1t foresaw that the
e1ect OF the enactment would be to inhame the
passions OF the abolitionists and to impel them to
Just such excesses of violence as that which we
now see Yet while it deplores this exhibition OF
lawless fanaticism, it admires the prompt and ener
getic action of the Executive in the matter.
The Enquirer also notices the Mitchell dinner
says the incidents of the evening were highly inter
esung and agreeable; does not seem to be much
pleased with Mr.. Mitchers speech as an oratorical
enort; and pronounces his style of oratory very
common-place-yery Anglo Saxon and not at all
Irish. His speech w woud have made clever lead
er in the Citizen but it was in no sense speech
1t was sharp and full point but without fervor of
feeling or pomp of diction. Mr. Mitchell is too
good an editor to speak extempore clap.traps with
theatrical effect. The Enquirer says his courtesy
and refinement of manner amply atoned for what
ever disappointment may have been occasioned by
his speech
The Examiner counsels the people to an obser.
vance of the Small Note Law-for it is absolutely
with them to decide whether the law shall be made
effective or shall remain, like its predecessor,
dead letter on the statute book The Examiner has
variety OF interesting editorials.
The Hhig comments upon the Boston riot Saws
nothing short of few hanging operations will cure
the zeal of abolition fanatics on these occasions
There are precious few of them who would run
much risk of their necks to save fugitive from ar
rest; and, after making examples of few of them.
martyrs to the cause would be found exceedingly
scarce. The following item, which we find in the
Wing, will interest large portion of our readers:
We learned, from gentleman, yesterday. that
in travelling, last Thursday, some twenty miles
Northeast of Louisa Courthouse he did not see
sufficient wheat to make fifteen hundred bushels so
great has been the destruction of the Joint worm in
that section.
A CoMMENTARY.-The following is copied from