The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-10
RICHMOND, VA:
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1854. s.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

SfIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Penny Post devotes eader to the foreign
newsb by the Atlantic While 1t feels that degree of
satisfaction, at the announcement that war Ia Ger.
tam, which always ensues upon relief from sus-
pense, the Post. as lover of peace does not re-
joice on the eve Qf a bloody strife whose end no
man can foresee. The Emperor Nicholas must
bear upon his single shoulders the awful load of
responsibility, thrown upon one who rejects sue.
cessive propositions for an amicable arrangement,
and doggedy persists in an irrational and sinful
purpose. The glory that lies in his path cannot
atone for his cupable want of all the nober quail
ties of man After expressing the wish that he who
has sown the wind may reap the whirLwind, and
that that whirl wind may be one of utter disgrace
and ruin, the Post concludes as follows
There ia maxim in Shakespeare, of which the
Russian Bear may not possibly have heard, and
whose truth he has surely not understood. 1t is
the maxim of all brave and discreet men, and its
pursuit is the clearest evidence of right heart and
collected head. "Beware of entrance into quar-
REL" would have said to this self-important and
arrogant monster; and though he might not have
needed the advice, we sincerely hope that the
school of adversity-that venomous toad who still
doth wear jewel in bis head-may bring him to
his selses and leave lesson never to be forgotten,
against trampling down his neighbours rights
The Mai! has an article on the Gardiner claim
No one, says the Mail, attaches any blame to the
commissioners who made the award. They as well
as the public generally were deceived by faise tes-
timony. But the truth has come to light at last
the whole affair has been siited and found to be
unsubstantal-and the truth of the old maxim,
honesty is the best policy, has been again vindi-
Gated. There are many other persons supposed
TO have been interested in this Gardiner claim be-
sides the doctor and his brother, and the Mail
hopes that all the circumstances will be brought to
light In another article the Mail handles Horace
Greedy with severity
The Whig alludes to a suggestion copied from the
". Y Tribune for arresting the progress of the
Nebraska bill in the House, by violence if necessa-
ry. This is an expedient from which the Whig ex-
poets little danger but says it has far for
midable, because secret, foe-the treachery of the
Observation-Disclosures which instrumentality it
will fail if it fails at ALL Upon this position the
Hhig proceeds; dealing blows at the administra-
ton and the free-soilers and concluding with fa-
vorabe allusion to the Little Giant In another ar
tcle the Whig says that the authorities gave notice
on Tuesday that no more State stock would be sold
at the Capitol. The inducement to this step is
said to be that the Legislature having made very
small appropriations, enough funds are already in
hand, to meet current obligations. The Yhig,
however, does not understand that Selden, With
ers & Co. have stopped selling and thinks that,
taking the statement ofthe Board of Public Works,
it would have been more advantageous to the State
to continue the sale at home and stop it elsewhere
The Enquirer has leader on the Nebraska bill
1t says:
Such is our conception of the value and impor.
tance OF the principle sought to be established by
the Nebraska bill, that we would consent to the
sacrifice OF any mere matter of detail in order to
secure its passage. Beyond this, we must refuse
to go and especially do we protest against the ab-
surdity and inconsistency of purchasing the recoe-
milton of one principle by the surrender of another
OF equal magnitude and consequence.
The Enquirer then proceeds to state that the sim
gle aim of the Nebraska bill is to establish the prin
ciple of Federal non-interuentiOn regard to SID
rery How then this bill consistently assert the
power of the Federal government to annul a law
which, prevailing the territory at the period of
its acquisition, sanctions and establishes slavery
Yet this is precisely what provision of the Eill
Enquirer objects, and likewise to another feature,
namely the doctrine squatter sovereignty as pro-
pounded by Mr. Cass but thinks it is not too late to
repair the damage wrought by indiscreet amend.
ment, and to restore the original symmetry and
force of the bill.