The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-12
spIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The gaie quotes from speech alleged to have
heen delivered by Mr.. Fillmore at vicksburg, In
which he spok. of the mississippi Valley being
the centre of the Republic; not indeed the Repub-
lie with its present limits, for Canada is knocking
for ad,nittance, and Mexico would be glad to come
ia. and, without saying whether 1t would be right
or wrong we stand with open arms to receive
them. for Ia the manifest destiny OF this govern.
men, to embrace the whole North American CONT
nen,.n The WING copies this reported expression
OF sentiment, for the purpose of replying to certain
Intermediates of the Enqurer-such as What
will our Wing friends ia Virginia say to this &c.
&c. 10 It's reply The Wing says -" Whenever
the Enquirer shall be pleased to set us at ease in
reference TO the Presidents construction ofthe Ne
braska bi it will have no difficulty, so far as we
are concerned, in asscertaining what Wings think
ofMr FiImores doctrine OF manifest destiny.
The Penny Post POUNDS leading editorial upon
an address "from the Yearly Meeting Of the Reli
eous Society of Friends of Great Britain and Ire
land, held in London, in 1ai9," to sovereisns and
those in authority in the nations of Europe, and in
other parts of the world where the Christian reli-
sion is protested" praying them TO use every
means in their power to suppress the African Slave
Trade and to procure the abolition of slavery
throughout the world. This address has not only
been presented and read to most of the sovereigns
ofEurope and TO the Emperor of the Brazils but
10 the Governors OF most of the Southern and Mid
die States OF this continent The Post says it is a
weak unattractive document, processing an un-
earthly degree OF sanetiiy and of the spirit of self
righteousness; and in conclusion suggests to the
Society OF Friends to exercise their philanthropy
at home among the starving population OF Great
Britain and Ireland, before they come over here
TO intercede for our wel-sed slaves, who never
knew what it was to want meal in their lives.
The Examiner publishes facts and figures to show
that wherever State treasury has furnished the
funds for public works there has been extrava-
gance, there has been snails progress, there has
been failure of profit and sinking of capital. While
1t is remarkable fact, says the Examiner, that
while the State roads of Pennsylvania bring the
treasury constantly in debt, those roads in the
same State which have been constructed by pri-
waite means and under private auspices have all
done well. In support of its position the Exami-
quotes literally from the reported earnings oil
various railroads in the Eastern and Western
States, and calls upon the people of Virginia to be-
gin at once the work of discouraging appeals to the
public treasury for funds 10 aid of public Works
The Mail reiterates the opinion that the issue Of
the war in the East will be the substantial triumph
of the Gear. And in farther support of this opin
on expresses the conviction that the chances are
that Austria and Prussia will side with Russia and
furthermore, that it is hardly probable that France
and gland can long act harmoniously together.
The Enquirer publishes in extenso the Anglo.
Russian confidential correspondence in Turkey,
from which exposition of Russian policy it says the
reader will derive the highest conception of the
genius and energy of the Gear. Marshalled and
directed by monarch of such indomitable will and
go great capacity the resources of Russia will be
more than adequate to the defence of the Empire
against the formidable alliance which assails it,