The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-29
SPIRIT THE PRESS.

The Enquirer says that Barnurn himself
never perpetrated a greater humbug than is
the pretended liberation OF the white slaves
in England. The iaboring classes of Eng
land to-day. are in state of more abject
servitude than under the reign of William
the Conqueror. Many laws have been pas
sed 70 shorten their hours for work and repu.
late their labor, but they have been evaded.
and the tufferipgs OF the poor creatures daily
increase. An able writer in the Edinburg
Review in 1871 says:
The first attempt on the part of q person
dependant on his labor to assert his free
agency, by changing bis abode, or bu maxim D
oarSdsH for Ass services, or even by refus.
ing to work for his bare meat and drink
rendered him liable to be whipped and sent
sack to his place of birth. or last residence,
ior Three years or. according to some
statutes, tor one year, there to be at the dis.
posai OF the local authorities. The second
attempt subjected him at one time to slavery
Tor llfe to be fed on bread aud water and
refuse meat, snd caused to work by beatipg.
chainlng or otherwise and for the third, he
was to suffer death as q fslon u Such was
English liberty at its birth. In practise, it ia
far worse now. however beautiful it may
look in theory. 4 5
The Whig has a loader on two articles
which have recently appeared In the Paris
rays and London News. both volunteering
fanstical suggestions on the question of slay 6.
~ in the United States. Both papers pre-
dict an early dissolution of the Union, and
attempt by all the arts in their power to in
tluence the sectional animosity which they
know prevails to considerable extent in this
country. The United States is strong,
wealthy, and powerful nation. and stands
tion and interest. Hence they appeal to Mas
sachusetts-she being the most unreasonable
of the States to take the bull by the
hOrns, and, unless the South consents to the
abolition of slavery, 90 abolish the Union.-
The French editor speaks in terms of horror
at the savageness and shameless immortality
| of the South. He says that fourteen States
| of the South possess more than three millions
| of slaves, and make of the raising and sell
| ing of this human cattle the object of a legal
| trade. The alternative offered in fact by the
London News, is 'if the people of Massa-
chusetts don't sustain their representatives
| for voting for the late act nullifying the fu-
gitive slave law, they will show th hemselves
unworthy of the interest and sympathy ,
of the English aboiitionists."
The Penny Post enters demurrer to the
| assertion by the American Organ, that Kan.
sss can never be a slave State It saws the
people of the South-that portion at least
who belong to the American party-regard
their rights and institutions much more warm.
ly than they do the success of any party
The Post repudiates the organship of the
American Organ, which, endorsing the Phil
adeiphis platform, that is satisfactory to the
South, because open and honest in its decla-
rations, at the same time sings lullaby to
the Abolitionists on the ground that Kansas
must be free State from natural causes, Al
for no other reason. The South hopes to de-
rive substantial benefit from the Nebraska
Kansas bill the Philadelphia platform
guarantees that hope; the Organ wishes to
destroy it /!
kansas can be slave State. 1t will apply
fer admission into the Union with slavery
constitution, and if the pledges of the Amer.
ican party to the South are redeemed, il will
be admitted as slave State, and so remain
until greater epoch than the present is in.
| augurated.