The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-20
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Saturdays Mail Gays there Il another objection
to the Homestead Bill, besides its injustice to the
Eastern and Southern States It provides that no
one shall avail himself of the benefit of it's proyi
sions unless he be twenty-one years old and the
head of family. The Mail argues that the first
clause bears rather hard upon Young America. If
he exhibits all the other evidences of manhood. to
witt two-story shirt collar tight pants. stub-toe
ooots the capacity to smoke long nine, and to
raise light moustache why should we sickle
about agei Then, again, the sscond condition is
harder STILL Why are not the bachelors as much
entitled to the public lands any one elsea Is this
prohibition intended coercive measure to force
them into matrimony-or is it designed as check
to the unalloyed happiness which attends upon the
bachelor condition. The Mail holds up strongly
tor the rights of single individuals and suggests to
Congress the propriety of giving them all farm,
ct cetera, which might induce them to change their
social condition
The Enquirer, in a brief editorial on the Black
warrior affair, says, "the tone of the Presidents
message, It's effect on Congress- and the temper of
the pubic mind as indicated by the press foresha.
40" rupture OF our relations with Spain, unless
mat lnsoient government should abate something of
its PRIDE and enmity towards this country" The
Enquirer also remarks that abolition orators and
Journals, whose policy is dictated by dread of the
acquisition of Cuba striving palliate the enor
hiity OF the outrage, and prevent rupture with
SPAN; but for its own part, trusts Congress will
submit the matter to the discretion of the Execu-
tiVe' The Enquirer publishes also letter from
Judge Bronson. showing that he was misrepresent.
Gu on the Nebraska question by the N. Y. Evening
fos that paper having resorted to the trick of pub
ishing what he said in 1913, against enactue the
Wilmot proviso and against establishing slavery in
iree territory by the legislation of Congress, as
though it were an opinion against the Nebraska
Bill.
The Penny Post refers to the message of the Pre-.
ent relative to the Black Warrior saws that the
course pursued is probably the best, although mo.
mentary impulse might have suggested still more
active measures; and thinks the anomaly presented
in the delegation, by the Court of Spain to pro-
Vinciai Government three thousand miles off, of
certain powers which can belong only to an abso-
iute prince, and the Withholding of others which
belong to the first from the very nature of
ment ITSELF would have fully justified resort to the
most stringent means of enforcing our rights The
Post defends its position by illustrations drawn
from history. We also observe another editorial,
expressing high approval of the embargo laid upon
the tongues of lawyers, by the judges of the Court
of Appeals.
The Whig gives an extract from Senator Doug
las closing speech the Nebraska bill in reply to
an objection very confidently relied upon by the
North, and urged by some in the Southland that
Is that the bill violates treaty stpuatons with
the Indians. The Wing says Senator Douglas com
pietey annhates all objections to the bill growing
out OF our treaty stmuatons with the Indian tribes
showing that there is but one tribe of Indians
within the limits of Kansas and Nebraska with whom
sur government has any treaty obligations And
that Is the Ottawa tribe, numbering about two hun.
dred, and owning only about thirty-fo thousand
acres OF land-while the country included in these
territories is said to embrace an area of five hun
dred thousand square miles