The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-07
SPIRIT OFTHE PRESS.

Inc bhts has a leader, based upon the predic.
tons OF Democratic politicians that Wings will
vote Tor Mr.. Wise. 1t cannot comprehend how
any WING, with the least particle of self.respect
can DO so 1t refers to the fact that Mr. Wise de.
serted the Whig party In the hour of its peril mer
cilessly abused Mr.. Clay; the ready apoloeist
OF the Tyler admnstra alton; advocated the eec,;op
OF James n Polk; was radical and sssocialistic" in
the Convention, and is now in full fellowsbip with
the party which has deliberately aud Intentionally
deniedto all Virginia Wings any access to the hall.
oil national legislation. 1t says farther that there
be such Whig SHANE upon such craven, ,skulk-
ing spirit" 1t could believe that Whig In the COM
ing canvass under certain circumstances may be
| neutr al and could even tolerate one who should
vote for moderate, consistent Democrat; but it
could not believe that any Virginia Wing, with
drop Of Wing blood in his veins, a spark of
Wing fire In his flint can go to the polls and de-
liberateiy vote for Henry A. Wise.
The Enquirer compares the Know Nothingism of
modern times to the Jacobinism which was insti.
tuted at an early stage OF the French Revolution;
and Gays that unless 1t be arrested, Know Nothing
Ism, like its great prototype will overthrow the
| government and subject the people to the bloody
despotism of a conspiracy of desperate and crimi
| nal men.
In its leader, the Examiner asks if the political
interests of native Virginians are In danger and
argues that foreign immigration is to New York
domestic evil, and that as Know nottingham orisi
mated among the laborerS of that city, 1t is for the
| local community to prescribe the curative, within
Constitutional limitations The total foreign popu-
aton in Virginia is only $500, and the Examiner
Ha ihsfI III ADfx nfU mic Kpnx
Nolhings. or of Virginia sutfragsns OF any party
to agitae here for the extinction of Northern dis
orders Virginia and the South have az little to do
| with Northern foreisnism as Massachusetts and
| Boston have TO do with Southern slavery. The
writer does not object to the State governments
where the migr alton occurs take the evil in hand
and apply the proper correctives but believes that
Know Hothingsm cannot eject the reform, for it
is too radical aud intOerant in its spirit aud too
sweeping in it's proposed measures. rather dark
| ly limited purposes The Examiner also replies
briefly to the Penny Post says the political editor
| of the latter paper after chsraeterizing, In silly
terms, the Know Nothing party in Virginia
flock of sheep, very appropriately comes In with
the interjection BAH from which "the public are
to infer that the bleating editor considers himself
the bell wether of the flock
The Penny Post alludes to the Dragging of DEM
ocratic politicians; says that when the cards
worst politicians always disposed to brag high;
considers Mr.. Wise the most unavailable candidate
that could have been selected and contends that the
| Examiner, the Lynchburg Republican and "ex-
| Governor" Leake swallowed him with reluctance,
while Extra Billy Smith and Major Charles YAM
cy will not in the opinion of the Post, support him
at all 1t considers these men indices of public
sentimen. and says that the nomination was not
and never will be popular.