The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-26
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

Tho Penny Post has an editorial unon rhs,Io.
Nayior, one OF the men who acted a noble mari I,
eS.s oTn'equen. upon The opposition to Native
. member OF Congress, but 10 July 1874. at The
time oil the Queen street massacre did not occunv
ina! position. When the troops under GepersI
Saas aiisoer were brought on the ground, Colonel
Nsyior threw bimself before a cannon In which
the artileryman was about apply inc the match
snd said that ho would perish with his country,
men The order to fire was recalled For this Act
Hsylor was thrown In prison and guarded by two
solved to shoot him down II an sttempt was n,ade
TO rescue him. The next morning. however he
wss rescued by body of Americans headed bv
tne we'll known Andy McLsne That day, for the
slightest provoca;iop, the crowd were fred on bv
the military and q large number killed and wound
ed FOR weeks the courts and the press were busv
the former In trying the delinquent Americans the
latter In blackening their characters Every en-.
CINE OF persecution was put In operation against
them. To have been q Native American soon he.
came term OF reproach. Every man turned his
osck upon the man laboring under such a charge
upon no man did the general odium into which The
party had fallen operate 80 fearuy az II did unon
Charles Naylor, who had not previously even be
iouged to 1t, and who, from the most humane mo-
tives. had interered at the risk OF his own life 10
save those OF his innocent fellow citizens. Only
one newspspar ip the city 0he Sun, could he In
duced to publish bis explanatory card Politicians
and aspirants tipped him the cold shoulder-men
whom he had Obliged, dropped off from him-so-
ciety tabooed h!m-in spite of his acknowledged
talents, his practice left him-and he lived "a man
forbid until the Mexican war gave him oppor-
tunity of distinguishing himself highly that ha-
tired became ashamed of Itself, and skunk away to
hide its head 10 the dark
The Enquirer publishes the reply of the Wash.
ipgton Organ TO i,s structures, on the proposition
offered by the editor of that paper la the American
Convention at Philadelphia The editor of the
Organ characterizes the disturbance of the Mis-.
souri, Compromise-as question of policy not of
right-as the most reckless act oflegisaton record
eu in American history and Its repeal ss blupdsr
the policy of which was sustained by but few -
in tbs American Convention, many gentlemen from
the South maintained that Kansas could not become
a slave State, and the Organs editor did not hear
Q single delegate express a wish for 1t to become
So He says that bis proposition which assented
that the American party ought not to either Insist
upon, urge or require, the admission of any Ter
ritory into the union as a slave state which lies
north of the compromise line; and that. on the
other hand said party will interpose objections
to the admission of any Territory into the Union
slave State, which lies south of said compro,
mise line: thus virtually restoring, without leeisa-
ton, the original compact made between the North
and South In 1S20, was not voted on at all in the
Convention. The EEqulrer says that the answer
OF the Organ means nothing more or less than II Is
willing to surrender ground of the most vital inn.
portance TO the South.
The Whig has leader on the New York Know
Nothings, and the attempt of the Democratic or
anti American presses to impose upon their read.
ers the belief that they aboliiionsts 1t
says IRON its own pc! sonal knowledge that
the New York delegates to the Philadelphia
convention were animated by sincere and honest
purpose To put at rest, at once and forever,
all agi alton upon the vexed question of slavery
To this end, they were willing to agree TO, and
even zsslously urged theadoption of the srong.
est resolutions on the suband most d. cded
ject, their wish being to draw the line between
the higher lswism' of Seward and The paiu teach.
inas OF the constitution as broad and distinct as
possible. There no hesitation, no fsltering no
timidy maDiies.ed by them at any time during
the sitting of the convention. Their hatred and
contempt Of Seward and his political doctrines
knew nodisguise aud no concealment; but were
freely and uureservedly expressed at all times and