The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-12
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SPIRIT THEP PRESS

The Examiner he's an article ON "Mr Patton and
his cliens," and staies that In his speech At the
African church he did not commit him,elf IN the
principles oi she Know Nethipgs but, on the
e'n'fary' reouked them severely for several OF
weir tenets. In conclusion, 1t says: LET Sam
saSe MI. Paitons advice. Let him throw away his
osroarous ritual picked up In the purlieus of New
fork chy-come out from his secret hiding places
cease his slang about the unftness of good
Christians. OF the Catholic. or any church, for
office, and agree to recognise merit In tho D aims
taking German, the gay Frenchmsn and the whole
souied son OF Erin. Sam will then become gen.
tiemsn. His, will then be a strong, rsspectabis.
aud potential party, able to effect good ends by re
putable means"
The WAig replies to the charge recently publish
ed In the Enquirer, that Thomas s. Flournoy had,
In pub speech, asserted that the deseneracy OF
Virginia was due to negro slavery, and that no
community would prosper with such an institution
In its midst. 1t says that Mr Flournoy has nev
er uttered such sentirnent--he has never enter
tanned such sentiment-he has ne yer at any peri.
Cd OF his ife or upon any occasion, used such Ian.
guage" 1t says the charge has no foundation In
fact, never did have, nor ever will.
In another article the Whig comments upon the
"personal abuse bestowed upon the Know Moth
logs by the Wise party" and invokes the decent
and respectable voters Virginia to remember the
vulgar vituperation of themselves by the Wise as.
prants for office. 1t also speaks of the charges that
the Know Nothing candidates entertain freesoil
sentiments. and says that the Democrats brought
the same charge against Henry Clay, Gen. Tay ior.
Gen. Harrison, snd George w. Summers. If the
lar ale .boI1 T.,
The very same charge would be brought agains:
him.
The Enquirer says that the London Times ha.
openly espoused the cause of the Know Nothinga
Ia Its issue of the 24th utmo, 1t animadverts with
unusual vehemence against the acquisition of Cubs
by this country, and rests ts hopes for the defea
of the measure upon the success OF the secret or
sanization which has hiumphed In Massachusetts
and elsewhere In the North. From an article
which 1t quotes from the Times 1t draws the con-
cusion that the leading States of the North would
acquiesce in the abolition of slavery In Cuba, be-
cause they do not wish to see new slave States
represented in the Union That's 1t exactly The
North is to retain the balance of power In order to
subdue the South. And Spain, under the dcmina
ton of England and France, is to assist the North
in accomplishing this and by placing within sight
OF Southern shores new Hayi"
1t also aludes to the secrecy of the Know No
thing order, and their inability to maintain 1t. 1t
denies THAI the organization has any claim to the
name of American, and says they are not Ameri-
Can In organization, in conduct, In sentiment not
American In heart or action; not American in
any thing that really marks nationality Their
origin is not American, and the whole history of
their growth Ia most fercely antagonistIc to the
American spirit the American chara c,er, and
American institutions.
The Penny Post speaks of the bolters from the
Democratic ranks, and publishes list of thirty
two prominent men who have Joined the Know
Nothings. 1t says
"They have acted, as every body will see and
declare at once, as manly, independent freemen,
and gentlemen and they occupy position OF
high eminence, compared to the miserable dupes
and tools who are led about as slaves by the ty
ranical will of Henry A. Wise-a man who has
abused them for all the scoundrels and mean
things that ever trod the earth