The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-16
RICHMOND, VA.
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 1s. 1854.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

Inc enquirer has an article on the public lands !;
every measure, it says, yet suggested for their
disribution with reference to indefinite schemes
o phianthrophy, is equally at war with ihe spirit
oil the Constitution and the welfare of the country.
1t recommends the speeches of Mr. Letcher and
Judge Bsyly on the Minnesota bill. In another
article the Enquirer introduces Judge Bronson's
remarks on the Nebraska question (an extract
from which we gave day or two since, and says
he appears in character far more consistent and
appropriate than the fantastic part he undertook to
play in his rencounter with the Administration
The Enquirer has also editorial recommending
another subscription to the stock of the Central
Railroad, by the city.
The Penny Post notices. at con, iderable length
and in terms of condemnation, the destruction of
the block of marble sent by the Pope for the monu.
ment of Washington noticing in conclusion the
humiiatng attitude in which this outrage will place
Mr.. Cass, our minister at Rome, when he has to go
before the head of the Roman Government and
apologize for this brutal rejection of courtesey
called forth by simple admiration Of his country
greatest son The Post also strongly recommends
the proposed city subscription to the Central
Railroad
| naticism and Northern Colleges, called forth by
the stand taken among mon of the North on the
Nebraska question, and which evinces more clear
ly than anything in cur day the utter unsoundness
of Northern sentiment and the utter unreliability
OF Northern men of all parties creeds and profes-
slons in reference to the institutions OF the South
Clergymen and College professors even, have left
their appropriate spheres and now figure as the
busiest OF agitators and the rankest of fanatics-
The Vhtg has no disposition at present to inquire
what all this will come to fpersisted in but says one
thing Is certain: the South must preserve an un
broken front and maintain her Constitutional rights
at Whatever hazard. We have temporized and
yielded, and compromised long enough. There is
point beyond which "forbearance ceases to be a
virtue That point we have now reached And
we almost begin to believe (says the Whig) that
even dissolution of the Unon-deplorable as
such an event would be-would be far less evil
tnan single further concession to the grasping and
unhallowed spirit of the North. The Whig then
proceeds to give extracts from abolition speeches
made recently by certain professors of Yale Col.
lege, and winds up with the hope that the South will
no longer submit to the degradation of pratroni
zing Northern Colleges
The Mail deyotes leader to Southern patronage
OF Northern institutions, and introduces the as.
founding fact that of the 27O graduates at the late
commencement of Jefferson Medical college in
Philadelphia, there were 40 from Virginia and llO
from other Southern States. The Mail uses this
as text for salutary lecture to Southern people
to patronize their own institutions Let the South
assume an independent attitude, it says. Let the
South resolve to do for itself what has weakened its
resources in paying others to do. Let it make use
OF its natural advantages, and become truly indie
pendent OF the North, relying on it for nothing
We would soon see change of public sentiment
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