The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-12-13
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v,..,ai1 ELrcrloks.--Th polltics Of Vir-
.,.,. are Il present attracting great attention
al over the Union. The New York Herald
$3.50 much Of its editorial space 70 the
s.h;ect In quoting from II, We must not %
.ndsrstood As endorsing its views, but simply
:. .,.s;rinv to show how the election Y 70.
asrd.d nv ! newspaper which has soune re-
putasion for political sagacify, ana Reneeaiiy
knows (which way the wind blows" Il must
3. horne in mind that the Herald i opposed
10 n. Administration; and the proper allow
.ncss must be made for lis political preju-
diees.
In the Herald Of Dec. 9. there Is more than
4 column on THE Know Nothings; New
York and Virginia Seward and the Admin
istrations Mutiny in the New Camp; Danger
Ahead" II says there are symptoms Of dis
sension in the Know Nothing camp in New
York, arising from the rules Of discipline is
sued by the Grand State Council. which it
says are clearly too rigid and desposic, and
must be abandoned. I. exhorts the Know
Nothinxs Of New York to greater harmony
and unity. Il encourages them to push on
in their efforts to defeat the reelection OF
Seward, Of which, it understands, they are
quite sanguine.
The next battle against the Administration
IN the Herald's opinion, is to be fought
sgainst Wise. whom it calls the Administra'
ton candidate for Governor of Virginia
aLet Seward be re elected says the Herald,
.and the Cabinet party in Virginia may still
keep up, to some purpose. the false ACCUSE
ton that the Know Nothings are in the league
of the Seward anti-slavery coalition. Seward
has made an elaborate speech against the
new party. Wise has written an elaborate
letter to the same effect. The issue with both
is direct and positive. The election OF Wise
in Virginia will be the defeat Of the know
Notbines in the South, and the triumph OF the
Administration. But, let Wise be defeated,
let Virginia be carried, and the citadel OF the
Southern Administration Democracy VIII be
taken. The Administration will thus be stric-
ken down in the South, as completely as IN
the North in the late elections. Virginia Is
to the South what New York is to the North
the controlling State. And New York ana
Virginia depend upon Seward and Wise.
In its issue of Dec 9, the Herald returns
to the subject ander the head of "The Con-
test in Virginia-The Wise Party-Policy Of
the Opposition" 1t declares that the for
tunes of the administration, wholly over
thrown in the North, depend in the South
upon the election of Wise; that the future an
ticipated success of the Know Nothings inthe
Southern States will very largely depend
upon his defeat. The policy of the opposi-
ton, says the Herald, lis fusion of Wings
Know Nothings. hard shells, States rights de-
mocrats, and all other men opposed to the
Cabinet spoilsmen, and the Richmond demo-
cratic junta, upon some common, popular and
able candidate for Govern0r-some such man
a. William c. Rives, for example, Mr.. Wise,
upon the score of talents and abilities as a
politician, is one of the most popular men in
Virginia. 1t will require an able, talented
and popular man to compete with him; but
with such candidate as Mr. Rives the uni
ted opposition forces may not only overcome
the administration democracy and their can
didates, but they may do something more ::
they may put themselves in position which
viii give to Virginia the candidate Of the new
American party for President or Vice Presi-
dent in 1856, and corresponding influence
in the next administration. But everything
viii depend upon popular anti Cabinet cam
didate for Governor, and a perfect union
upon liberal platform, of the opposition ele'
ments to the Pierce administration and the
Richmond junta. The Virginia election in
this view will be of the highest importance
in its results, in reference to the drift of the
whole South in the Presidential campaign
The reader now has before him Virginis
political news by way of New York. What
does he think of it? This election bids fail
to surpass in interest the operations of the
armies in the East. Who will take the De
mocratic Sebastopol, now occupied by Gov
johnson When will the allied powers make
their appearance? Will they refuse to ope
|. rate in the cold winter months, and wait til
the spring has brought forth the buds an,
blossoms, before they make their appearance
Or, will there be no such alliance after ALL a
is predicted by the Herald9 Mons rcrrons.
BARSUM's AUroBIoGRAPHY.-We MAY
have occasion hereafter to say something
more of this book. It shows most clearly
avery lax state of morality in Barnum and in
the associates Of his early life in money mat
tsrs. Hespeaks complacently of acts of ras-
cality and deception, which no honest man
could contemplate without horror We are
lost in amazement at the blunted moral sense
and perverted conscience of the man who,
after recounting, without blush, acts of
rogusry and falsehood. for which he ought
to have been indicted and imprisoned, sane
tim0niously informs us that he .alwavs at.
tended church regularly, and was merer soiith.
( eHt Bible IN my pocket, whiek I took fire.
9seat occasion TO read"
We have never seen more striking illus-
tration of modern Pharasaism than the life
Of this man affords In its neglect Of the prac-
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