The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-12-29
SPIRIT OF THE Ess.I

We do this very cheerfuiiy a. an srt Of courtesy
but by no means. 10 Difference 20 the Common ADD
has the right to claim its publication the publi-
cation of anything else Ia the columns OF this
paper. We had thought that thar idea had long
| ago been exploded, and was now universally con-
erty, free TO any body who might wish to use 4,
/ Tor this purpose, that, or the other.
/ The Wig farther rays that it Is very true, as
alleged, that all the pspers In Richmond, - well
40 nearly all in Virginia and the South felt their
duty not 10 take sides with Mr. Bolts on the Nebras
ka question; and % far the Wing Is concerned, il
has never printed one line Mr. Bolts ever wrote on
the question. and that for many reasons, which
were entirely satisfacsory to the editors not
him. Butit now makes ample amends by printing
great many lines for him. It has never sssaiIed
him, but this letter contains what the edfoss
,nsider very uajust and gratultous assault uTou
| the Richmond Whig, In the following sentence: -
"fhere is now but one psper Ia Kichmon2 pre-
fessing to be Whig, and that il understood, to be
under the control of those most hostile to my IN.
ferests and its columns have been long since closed
against me and my friends for all such purposes"
The Whig il unconscious of any hostility to Mr.
BIS Interests" not knowing in what they specially
consist; but If he means that they are compTe.
hended In his opposition to the Nebraska BILL then
itis likely, as the file of the Whis win show that it
10 "hoste to them. The Whig complains that Mr..
Bolts has misrepresentedit in the language quoted
from that paper. The language employed was
simply designed to show up the motives of those
Northern Democrats who sustained the Nebraska
bill, and not by any means to indicate it's op
position to itnot at all 1t has said, what 1t thought
that they considered it, In the language OF Mr.
Pierce, q proposition In favor of freedom And
1t still thinks, with all due Difference to Mr. Botts
superior critical acumen," that it can believe 80
still, and even say so; without being charged or
suspected of opposition to the Nebraska bill.
The Penny Post says that the opinion of the
press both at home and abroad, seems to be very
much divided with regard to the effect of the Aus
| trian alliance. Its own opinion is
That while 1t will, fits terms be adhered to by
Austria. unquestonably add to the physca strength
of the Cars enemies, 1t will in corresponding
degree, detract from their moral strength. There
has always been lingering hope, that the present
| war would result, In some way or other in the
reconstruction OF Poland Thathope if not entire.
| ly extinguished, is indefinitely postponed by the
| conditions OF the treaty, which guarantee to Aus
tria. the territory she now holds, part of which
Is Calcia, fragment of the kingdom of Poland.
| The Enquirer has a calm and good natured
political editorial intended suppose, to act like
| oil upon troubled waters We have not sufficient
space to follow the article from its commencement.
| and therefore quote only the concluding para.
| graph:
| Forourselves, we endeavor to pursue straight.
1 forward course. We have been endeavoring to
sustain the Democratic party by sustaining its
nominees. We speak well of them and laud them
| because we believe well OF them, and think them
worthy of praise. We wish all of our friends Eve
| speak of course of party friends) to stand up to
the rack. Wehave appealed to them heretofore to
give up minor differences, and rally to the good
cause, as they heve hitherto done when assailed by
| determined foes. 1T they will do 1t now. as we
doubt not they will. we fear not the result. wo
| have invoked them, and do again, not to unite
themselves to any other political party, and if they
have, to return to their old associations. We do
| not ask the Whig party or the Know Nothing party
to fuse with us, because their principles and ours
are utterly antagonistic, but we invoke those who
| have stood by US through good and through evil
report not to join them, but to stand by us now -
We hope and believe the old ship will weather the
storm now impending, and that her new pilot,
when he treads her deck with authority to manage
the helm. guided by the compass by which Jeffer.
son and Madison steered, viii make her ride the
| pillows like thing of lite
| IMPORTANT FROM SAN DomrNGo-The treaty of
friendship, commerce and navigation recently con.
c,uded by w. L. Cazneau, ESQ.,. on the part Of the
United States, with the Republic of Dominica, has
| terribly excited the English and French Consuls
there, and it is said they have made strong ver-
bal protest against It, 1t is farther stated that the
British Consul has addressed the Dominican gov.
ernment insolent note, in which hestates that the
said government cannot negotiate such treaty
| without the consent of England and France. Two
Dominican journals had also been suppressed, at
the instance ofthe French Consul, for expressing
sentiments favorable to the United States. The
American Commissioner has made protest aeains,
the action of the French and English Consuls,
which will be found below. We see IL stated that
there are now four French vessels of war in the
port of St. Domingo, and an English feet is shortly
expected there, with the view, it is supposed, Of
preventing the final ratification of the treaty.
ST. DomINGo, Nov. IT, 1854 The undersigned,
Commissioner Plenipotentary of the United States
of Americs near this government having good rea.
son to know that the agents of France and England
have, by various means, aided BY menacing dis.
play of armed force before this capital, overawed
and controlled the free action of the Dominican Re
public in lis relations with the United States her
by protests, in the name of his country against th
breach OF honorable faith towards his government,
and against this unwarrantable encroachment on
the sovereign rights of an independent American
Power.
Every enlightened government In amity with the
States 10 perfectly informed of their determined
i purpose, az nation, to oppose whatever measure
may be intended to subject the Independent nation
ality of an American people to the arbitrary win o
foreign power, make its action, and even exis.
tence dependent on the dicta of foreign policy,
and none OF those nations have taken exceptions
to this immutable principle of American System.
Tho United States made difference in the appl
cation of this rule between the strong and the weak
of their sister republics, and they have just rehi
to expect the powerful and magnanimous nations oil
Europe will follow their example.
These facts being SO well understood, must call
your particular attention, sir, the inconsderate
violation of the relations Of amty and commerce
now subsisting between respective countries ID
the trust that YOU the responsible
Of your government ct this capital, will the ne
cessary precautions to guard those relations from
father disturbance.
III this due care should be omitted, the government
and people Of the United States may conceive they
have iust cause to distrust the sincerity and goof
faith Of any government whose asents in these We
ters are there permitted TO interfere in affairs and
negotiations belonging entirely and exclusively 4
the interests of the United States and the Domini
can republic; and am confident that you, ir, would
regret equally with myself the consequences which
might result from this unauthorized intermeddlinl
with the sanetty and freedom Of intef-Amsrican re
lationa Yoprs, respectfully,
WM. Il. CAzNEAU.
SINGULAR CAsE.-A singular case y undergcinl
inyestigation In New York. Two men, narnet
Myers and Williams, have made statsments eacl