The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-02
RICHM0ND, va
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1854.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The Examiner denies that the Land Bill which
recently passed the Senate, assimilates 70 the oi
proposed BY Mr.. Calhoun in 1871. for dispostng of
the public lands TO the States embracing them The
Examiner considers II no excuse for the Democrafs
who voted Cor this bill that they did to prevent
the adoption of the original Homestead BILL for =
believes that would have been vetoed by the Presi
dent. In regard to its opposition to the Senate
bill, the Examiner sayR:
We dare not forsake principles for the sake Of
mentor e.pedisncys sakeaor party, &. saasGsT ac;s
advisers mediate scsnl from the old canons OF the
Democratic faith, will not prepare ourselves for
defending the act by becoming pariceps criminis 10
has single plank We shall stick to the ship though
she sink. Pilot, mate and crew may be in mutiny;
pirates, cutthroals, thieves and plunderers may
have her in tow but 3s * ass.sesf y7,.-ss ~ i
DoN'r GIVE Up THE SHIP. sd4 :
The Enquirer in an article headed THE Ma.
ional Whig party, alludes to the vote in the House
OF Representatives on Friday last upon the motion
of Mr. Eliot of Massachusetts, to suspend rule in
order to enable him to introduce bill repeating
the Fugitive Slave Law, and quotes from the Wash
ington Sentinel this statement:
"Nearly if not quite, all of those who voted for
Mr. Eliots motion, are whigs-a motion in effect to
abolish the Fugitive Slave law--whe the demo.
cratic party voted en- masse against it.
Nor Is this the only contrast presented BY an
analysis of the vote. There is nearly as striking
q contrast between the Northern and Southern
Whies The former, with several lonesome ex.
ceptions, going for it, and the latter In body
against it, t5ts aiif =
The Enquirer, in its comment, remarks that the
Whig party died because it lacked correct princi
Piles and consistent men. While Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster lived its nationality was preserved
at least to plausible extent. "But when they died
the uncongenial and heterogeneous elements thai
they had collected and commanded under the laws
of natural repulsion, separated, each seeking it.
original association in the arms of Abolitionism
Native-Americanism, Socialism, Know -Nothingism
or some other dirty excresence OF selshness bigot
iry and faction" The Enquirer continues 49,
The Southern portion of that party, of course
keeps its allegiance where it always has been-a
the South; but this last effort to outrage decency
affiliated, should induce the not only to denounce
the shameless act but to publish to the world that
for the future, there is an impossible gulf between
them. sf
The Penny Post publishes a letter from the White
Sulphur Springs, wherein the writer indulges il
some "hard knocks at the expense of the "White,
and the sorry accommodations they furnish to yisi
tors. gasE} 14'ttl fa9l-s ~ = b. ss.y.=a: i.
The Hhig devotes leader to Mr.. Hunter and
his substitute and while the writer feels no sur
prise at the position taken by most Democrats, in
reference to this subject, he is astonished thai
Senator Hunter should have consented to a com
promise ofprinciples" upon this or any other sub
ject But, continues the Whig- ,,.ss.s
He, too, it seems has fallen Temptation press
ed, ambition urged-he cast oneJearnest glance up
the Presidency, thought of its honors and ts pa
tronage, and then surrendered without even mo-
mentary resistance. He has made bold bid
that prince of Nebrakaites and indomitable little
and-grabber to wailing and weeping, and horrible
gnashing of his teeth. In short, Hunter has taken
the wind out of the sails of Douglas and left tha,
interesting giant in ote Of melancholy collapse
Cruel and nsensible wretches having swallowed
all the Wings, now to turn round and devour each
other. - +ea se,}a