The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-20
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

The Enquirer puts in another plea for Southern
Literature. 1t says" Our suggestion that the
Southern people should withdraw their patronage
from Northern journals and periodicals. has pro
voked vast deal of comment and criticism No
thing that has emanated from the South for long
time has given somuch offence the conductors of
ireesoii and abolition newspapers They have been
touched In tender place, and give forth unmistak
able signs OF anger All this ontinues the Enquir
er, we expected. These men have waxed fat and
strong upon the profits of slave labor, and are still
living upon the bounty of South ern men. The pros
pect OF starvation is by means pleasant, and in
the present aspect of affairs they could anticipate
nothing less than that the suggestions of the En-.
quirer would be generally obeyed. Hence their
alarm and imbecile rage. Southern men owe it to
themselves to turn away from Mort hern publishers
and support home literature The Enquirer pro
ceeds to forty its position the subject with plain
but unsnswerabe arguments.
The Mail says" After seven months hard fght'
ing over Nebraska and the spoils Congress has at
last got to Mr. Guthrie and the Tariff and are Just
getting ready to devise plan by which Mr. Guth.
ries pile may be stopped from accumulatng too
fast" The plan as it appears, is 30 to reduce the
duties as to bring the revenues of the government
down to forty five millions per annum. Suppose,
says the Mail, the revenue is reduced down TO the
necessary expenditures-whati is to become of Santa
Anna the next time he gets " hard up!" What is to
become OF Cuba the Pacific railroad the Navy and
the Guano islands Must we 20 into the money
market again, and practically admit that public
debt is public blessing Would it not be better
to keep little rsinyday money on hand in the
event of anything turning upt"
The Penny Post has an article upon mad dogs,
and audes to the fact that two dogs, supposed to
be rabid lately paid the forfeit of their lives in Pc
tersburg. twill not do says the Post for dog to
be eccentric. Hi sngularity is be attribu-
ted to the wrong cause. He is presumed TO be
guilty until he can prove that he Is innocent IL
the numerous of assault and battery for which
he has been arraigned, he has never been allowed
the benefit Of trial by jury. Alfred's great nven-
ton had as well never have existed for him No
body ever heard of dog being tried by his peers.
So far as he is concerned, every man that owns a
sun is Judge himself and jury, and ALL" and he
tries and decides the cause. The Post suggests
that since hydrophobia has become so common in
Petersburg it would be well, for the safety of our
city, for masters to become cautious in keep
ing up their dogs
The Wig, under the heading of profession us.
Practice" audes TO the multitude of pledges"
made by the Democracy during the canvass, but
which remain to tho present 'unredeemed and IN
thought of" says:
ECONOMY, retrenchment and reform is then the
mottoand the battlefront with which they shrewd.
ly fire up the enthusiasm of their followers, and
animate them to the charge, and on to victory. Bnt
let the victory be won, and how soon the tune is
changed. Instead of reform we hear only of