The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-19
SPIRIT OF THE Press

statement tnaf II bas abandoned all hope and all de-
oesreto nave an extra session the legislature and
expresses the belief that It speaks the sentiments
OF very large majority OF the friends of the Con-
venfion and OF the Covington and Ohio Railroad
An aIlusion is also made to proposition to aban
don the great central Improvement and IN carry
the trade along worse route-"a route in fact
not worthy to be named on the same day with it
to give to the Souih-Side the entire monopoly of
all the Western trade-to reduce to absolute desc
iation not only this city but all which have any con
necton with it, on the North side of James River.
The Post condemns the practice of eloryfying the
Virginia and Ter nessee Railroad, as one well cal.
culated TO impose upon the public, while the Cen
tra Road, it alleges, is made the subject of continu
al complaint. In this way the enemies of the great
central line, andEthe enemies of this city, are seek.
ing to create an impression of the immense value
ofthe Lynchburg and Tennessee line and the total
destitution of value ofour line.
The Enquirer says the teversh anxiety and NOR
bid suspicion with which the people OF the South
regard every movement at the North, in connection
with the institution of slavery, is the direct result
of fallacy which has been too much encouraged
by statesmen and journalists in the Northern States
ofthe Confederacy. In Illustration of its meaning
the Enquirer quotes from the language employed
by Northern journal in a recent article the
Nebraska bill:
awe have never doubted the consttutionality of
the bill. We have never cared to ask ourselves
question to the abstract merits OF the measure
Abstractionism in legislation and government does
not answer the emergencies OF our age-outside of
Virginia. The rendition of fugitive slaves was
constitutional, but only compromise, not the Con-
stitution could lend the vigor essential to its exc.
cution to fugitive law"
The Enquirer says the South could not accept
the fugitive slave law as compromise, for the OBJ
vous reason that there was no necessity for it
That is only proper when equals meet, each claim
ing what the other cannot grant, and each appeal
ing for support to the supreme law OF the land.
No such circumstances existed here, and the South
claimed only what the oath of every Northern
member of Congress forced him to grant, and what
he could not refuse without criminaliy. If the
people and the statesmen of the South wish to have
peace and end the sectional strife which has long
waged they have enly to give assurance to the
South that the compromises of the Constitution will
be held sacred and all cause for contention is at
an end Having entered into the Union upon the
Compromises of that instrument, the South will
abide the issue and cbeerfully endure whatever
hardsh ps their legitimate enforcement may bring
But no other compromise will produce this result.
The only security the South has, is found in the
Limitations and restrictions ofthe Constitution, and
when they are diaregarded, the only alternative is
to meet force with force, and lawlessness with
strong resistance.
The Mail alludes to the fact that Messrs. Cass and
Douglas have both declared their approval Of the
Homestead Bill; while Messrs. Hunter Mason,
IudU Rutlar and othePs M hava 10 utafio
of being good constitutional lawyers either of
the first named geatlemen, consider the Homes stead
Bill directly war with the constitution subversive
of good faith and justice, aud manifestly partial
and sectional in its operation, the whole benefit
of it will enure to the North and West-the South
getting only barren privilege, which will never
be of any service to her. But the great point of in
quiry is, what is the Presidents position on the
billt Will he sign it, or veto it Will he consent
to this virtual robbery of the Southern States for
the purpose of aggrandsing the paupers and criui-
mails of not only the North and West, but of all Eu-
rope also The Mail knows of but one newspaper
in Virginia 0he Warrenton Flag and of but one
politician (Mr. McMullen,) who has expressed an
approval of the measure; while enineteentwentieths
of the people of the South are opposed to it. The
Mail confesses, however, that that there is much
reason to believe that the President will approve
the bill.
The Hhig alludes to an interesting article in the
Southern Quarterly Review, giving a graphic
sketch ofthe moral and social condition of the ne
grces inhabiting the Gold Coast, and the neighbor.
ing countries, compiled from the accounts of the
earliest Portuguese discoverers and comparing them
with the recent report of Mr.. Beecham of the Lon
dop MiaoiOp The ps,rlt ia IN slo !,
after the lapse of four centuries in spite of all
the missionary efforts, zealously and sacri6cinely
put forth, and their intercourse throughout, this
whole period with civilized men, the people of Afri
still occupy the position of the most savage dis
gusting, and degraded race known to history. The
Wing publishes the conclusion of the sketch giving
just idea of the character of the African at the pre-
sent day in his own home-a picture which, the
Wing says, would seem to be enough to cause
even Parker himself to quit shedding tears over the
condition Of the slave population of the South-a
population which the peculiar institution" has res
cued from q barbarism more horrid than death,
more relentless than the grave. The Wing, how
ever has patience with the fools, hypocrites, and
madmen of the North. They know not what they
are doing. They know not for what they are asking
when they desire the emancipation of Southern
slaves. They seem not to understand, what is clear
to all the world beside, that they madly invoke
curse, instead of blessing, upon the head of the
negro, in pleading for his freedom
lNsr1scT!-We have heard much about the in
stinct of animals but the Montgomery, Ala, Ad.
vertiser relates case that caps the climax On
Sunday the 11th met, horse evidently suffering
under some of the ills that (horse) flesh is heir to,
walked into drug store in Montgomery and look
ed about at the array of medicines with melan-
choly eye and gesture that seem to say he stood
in imminent need of dose of something to relieve
his pain. Alas his mute appeal was not under.
stood. He was hustled out, and Immediately lay
down in the street and expired
The Marion, S. c., Star says that on the 6sh in
slant, Mr.. Absolom Turbeville, In attempting to
manage young horse which he held by the bri-
die, was violently thrown on the ground on his
head. The fall produced a conclusion of the