The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-26
SPIRIT OF THE PRrss

senate with extraordinary uranimfty. Th.r. 80
features In the bill which Il does not approve h,,.
says the editor, recent experience has rei.x.,
something OF our exclusive and rigid adherence
TO theory, and has taught US to accept q compro.
mise of principle If necessary to escape absolute
and Overwhelming defeat. 1t is equally unjust and
absurd to pass sentence on any measure of public
policy 10 reference only to its own abstract excel
ience or deficiency. This 10 emphatically true Of
Mr. Hunters substitute for the Homestead Bill
mat measure neither pretends to theoretical per.
iect'on nor contemplates an original and absolute
dement, Its avowedly an expedient, by which a
measure OF great and unmixed evil is defeated
ana superseded by meaaure which asserts no
peimcious principle, and which atones for neceesa.
~ imperfection by indusputable and essential ad.
santages" The Enquirer continues its remarks
saying, among ether things, that Mr.. Hunter has
without any sacrifice of principle or consistency
a1'ached the Democracy of the Northwest TO the
interests OF the South by the strongest obligation
OF gratitude. They will accept this measure. 40
dear to their feelings and important to their nte.
rests, as concession from the magnanimisy of the
South, which never forgets favor nor fails To
serve friend. The House of Representatives
concludes the Enquirer) will doubtless pass the
Dill without difficulty or delay.
The Whig gives history of the passage of Mr..
Hunters Homestead Bill in the Senate and al,nde,
10 the approval of it by Democratic po,;tic;ans
anu papers. 10 show how far it relieves the
CONSCIENTIOUS scrupes of the Democratic party
against voting away the public lands, the Whg SAYS
itplaces nominal price upon the public lands thus
thrown open to settlers, and that price amounts to
the enormous sum of from twelve and A half to
twenty-five cents per acre. This is to obviate all
the difficulty the Democratic creed encounters in
giving away the public domain The Whig farther
remarks that the poor emigrantp will be very
much indebted to the patro ms of Senator Hunters
bill for their generosity, but Continues the Whjg,
those who look to the public lands, honestly, as
source of revenue for the Government, and whose
political faith is really opposed to giving those lands
away for nothing, or to that which s equivalent to
doing SO, we apprehend, will be somewhat at loss
to know how to swallow, with good grace, the
Hunter substitute. ~
The Examiner also has an article upon the Home.
stead Bill. 1t does not fancy Senator Hunters
substitute any better than the original bill nor so
well. sees no difference in principle between an
absolute donation of the public lands and pretend
ed sale for nominal price, not worth. or. capabIe
ofdefraying the expenses of collection and on
credit which amounts to payment at the Day of
Judgment, and three days grace The present bill
only does by ndirecton what the original bill pro-
posed to do by direction; and because the one was
straight forward and downright, the Examiner
would have preferred it to the Homestead proyi-
sisns the other. Admit that the question was a
perplexing one, and that Western Democrats would
not stand firm, that was no reason whv the South
should back out. The Examiner saws in conclu.
sion-
To the eyes Of some people, four.pence.ha
penny looks as big as dollar but the Southerr
people cannot be made to believe the platform of
twenty-five cents per acre platform of principle
that any great party can rally to and stand on It
is but the shadow, the ghost, of princple-and if
the Bill passes both Houses we NAV as we'll give
up the ghost and bid farewell to the public
lands
The Penny Post has leader setting forth the inn
portaIce of the Convention to be held at the White
Sulphur Springs next month. 1t mpresses upon
the delegates the necessity of addressing themselves
to the work in view with all diligence. Thev had
however, much better stay at home than to make
this convention an excuse for trip to the noun
tains TO indulge in the gaeties of fashionable wa.
tering place.
NATHANIEL HENRY.-A writer in the Floyd In
tallgencer, alluding TO the death of a son of
Patrick Henry, about which several statements
have already gone the rounds OF the papers, saws
he was in very destitute circumstances having
neither property nor money. His children pro-
missed to pay his expenses, incurred for board,
clothing and medical attendance, and did pay
small portion; but as their circumstances in life
are not very prosperous. they have not been able
to fulfil their promise. No one bames them; but,
says the writer, there are other relatives of his
revelling in wealth, who never paid him any at
tention ministered to his necessities during his
long sickness We quote from the article under
consideration:
However mortifying this may be to his rich bro
theirs, the truth must come out. Mr. Howell feeling
unwilling to pay so large an amount, did apply to
the overseers OF the poor to pay It they referred
ease was dropsy, and it has been correctly stated
that he died the first week of September 1851 i'm
medately after the operation OF tapping. /, as
Minister of the Gospel attended to his burial SER
vicee and saw his remains deposited in their last
resting place.
We should not notice this matter, but for the
fact that contradictory statements have heretofore
been published relative to Mr.. Henry's death.
From PosT Au PRrNcE.-The New York Express
has letter from Port au Prince, dated July
from which we quote
The country is very quiet very unhealthy, ard,
as regards commercial affairs, very inactive The
Haytiens towards the Domincans manifest the
most profound feelings of friendship and regard,
and to cherish and cultivate relations OF smity
their only object. The Dominicans know that they
have nothing to fear from the Emperor Soloque 90
long as France keeps feet In those waters, and
the Emperor Napoleon has given orders TO the
Admiral In command of his West Indian squadron,
to blockade all the Haytien ports on the first rup-
ture insult offered to the industrious and uDof
Tending Dominicans. France has rod In pickle
for the HAytiens, and the latter know Il well.
A DEFAuLrxl.--The defalcaton of q collector
on the Northern frontier, of which We made men
tion few days since, was At Oswego. The name
Of the defaulter 10 Jacob Richardson. He was ap
pointed by Gen. Tsylor, and remained in ofics
until the close Of Mr.. Fillmore's administration
Some of the papers say he has given leg bail; bu
the Buffalo Commercial. speaking Of the case
says:
ave understand that he b prepared Tor III
scrutiny. and expresses the greatest confidence Il
his ability 10 present legal vouchers for every caU
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