The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-14
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

" IS
The riotons demonstrations against the Catholics
ana ioreign population in the Northern cities, re
ai the work OF the Know Nothing couspiratorA II
Liner infolerant bigofry which Il desecrating and
its their vulgar prejudice which, by insufferable
Is goading the ignorant Irish to violence
ana 9uioreak. They have infamed the passions of
secs ana OF race, they have disturbed the harmony
sssncy ,s and fierce energy with which they pursue
l1n uIaoohcai purpose, they threaten to bring Sc
r'oos trouble and peril upon the country.
ihe Enquirer thinks il singular contradiction
'nst auong people who are themselves the des-
cend ants, by single remove, from foreigners, ia
country where freedom of conscience and opinion
is tae boast OF the pstrot-strange that here, and
At thls day, should spring up and flourish secret
association which stiles the voice of charity
which proscribes the alien and denies the ordinary
rights of hospitality to the stranger and the So
journer and which wages relentless war against all
the principles of civil and religious liberty. And
among the many other inconsistencies and anoma.
Eas sf the new political sect, the Enquirer says +
IL strangest of all that Americans should close the
door against the fugitive from oppression, and
should renounce all SYMPATHY or fellowship with
the countrymen of Montgomery of De Kalb, and
OF La Fayette. The Enquirer is confident, hew.
ever that this association, which it calls hdeous
and oathsome," cannot flourish on the soil of Vr.
ginia Vireinians abhor concealment In
straightforward manner they pursue all their OBJ
jects, whether of personal, political religious
nature. In conclusion, the Enquirer says:
Here and there knave may entrap fool into
this Know-Nothing conspiracy, but all honest and
intelligent Virginians will regard it with the con-
tempt and repugnance which it's skuiking and afro
cious character Justly provokes. tits not forgotten
that Virginia was the first to recognise religious
liberty by legislative enactment, and the first to pro-
test against an alien taao.
The Whig, also, discourses upon the Know.No-
things. They prove, says the Wing, to be terri.
Bile source of annoyance to offce-holders and De-
mocratic aspirants-the first of whom appear to
dread being ousted from their snug berths, and the
other to anticipate that their fond calculations for
promotion on the ground of party favoriiism, may
be seriously interfered with by this new organza.
ton. But despite all their opposition, continues
the Whig the Know Nothngs continue to triumph.
Quietly they pursue their course, while candidates
for office, wherever they have pitched into the
new party, find themselves rather unexpectedly
retiring to the shades of private life By way of
trip up Salt River. The Wing notices that mum.
Der OF the Democratic papers are much more dis
posed to handle the Know Nothings tenderly than
at first; and without undertaking to inquire, whe.
ther or not it is owing merely to the discovery of
the fact that the know-Nothing vote counts up at
elections considerably larger than the foreign vote
intimates that it may perhaps be attributed to the
more charitable conviction that $50 far as the
Know Nothing organization tendst to counteract the
practice of demagogues in counting the foreign
vote for their own selfish purposes it very proper
ly meets with the favor of the majority of Ameri-
can citizens and cannot fail to commend itself to
the good sense of our foreign population"
The Penny Post gives synopsis of the Japan
ese treaty. and comments thereon, remarking by
the way that the Japanese have made an impression
very favorable and unexpected; although there is
one feature OF the transaction between them and
Com. Perry, that mars the beauty of the tout en-
semble and impairs the effect they have produced.
This feature their singular behaviour in insisting
that no American ladies should visit Japan. The
Japanese, however, having heard of the strong
minded women ofthe Northern States, very naiu.
rally dreaded an invasion of Antoinete Browns
and Ernestine Roses. Nothing is SO repugnant to
theway of doing things in Japan as that 1.-THE gray
mare should be the better horse" The Post there
fore begs the ladies not to consider any reflection
upon themselves, tnat the Japanese snouio from
ignorance alone have desired their exclusion.
The Bulletin has an article on the know Moth.
ing party, in which instances cited of the cleo
ton of both Wings and. Democrats by their inter-
position. 1t had been charged that they were
Wings in disguise. In face of these facts the Bull
letin asks can they be Wings in disguise or "are
they not rather non descripts in politics. who
animated by some principle which rises superior
to party fealtya"