The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-19
s P RIT OF THE PRESS.

The Enquirer, of Saturday, says that the PEOPLE
oi Virginia are not 80 engrossed as partzans in
the present canvass, that they do not observe as
Southern men the drift of recent events in the
North. The anti-savery sentiment there has at
tanned power and manifests an insoence of am
bflon to which the sectional struggles of the past
afford no parallel. The election of Seward Will
son, Durkee Harlan, and Turnbul, to the Senate
OF the United States betokens that in the next Con-
gress the South will be in minority too feeble to
| warrant any hope of successful resistance The
| recent messages of State executives at the North
have treated the South with open and undisguised
contempt. The fugitive slave law has been for.
| mally nulfed by the Supreme Court of Wiscon-
sin, and a slave delivered from the custody of the
Federal authorities And to close the recital. the
Legislature of New York has invited a runaway
negro to preach treason in the halls of Its capitol
These things show that the North has now the
power we'll as the VI i'll to execute the vengeance
of abolitionism on the South. The Enquirer sub
mits If it be not essential In this crisis, that Vr
ginia should oppose fearless and immovable front
to the enemy! Whether the destinies of Virginia
and of the South are to be entrusted to Henry A.
Wise or to the unknown nominee of Know Mo-
thingism. Mr.. Wise, itsays, would betray neither
the interests nor the honor of the South to the
cowardly spirit and temporising policy of the
times. He is, 1t concludes, the man for the crisis
The Penny Post heads Its leader Persecution or
the Catholics 1t says Is the cry raised
by the Enquirer at this very time when in the New
York Legislature the astounding development Is
made that the Catholic Bishops have contrived
tirey to overthrow fundamental law of the land,
and to introduce tenure of properly in this country
dependant entirely upon the Pope. The Post al
ludes also to the offices of the country, which it
says swarming with Catholics; to the constant
immigration of those who are bent to obey the will
of foreign potentate let that will be what may
| to the confinement of young lady of Norfolk in a
convent and her escape; to the authorised murder
OF sc, 600 Protestants the of st. Bartholo-
NEW to the inquisition to the imprisonment of
the Madiai family; and to other recorded events
does the Post REFER to prove that persecution is
part of the creed of the Romish Church. In con-
clusion i. introduces the oath prescribed 10 every
Jesuit en- joining that order. "Read It," says the
Post 'and then talk about the persecution of the
| Roman Catholics, if shame will allow you"
The Whig has long editorial headed Know
Notbingism in ancient Rome" Il alludes to an
oration delivered some two or three years ago by
Gen. Caleb Gushing, on the destiny of the United
States, in which he styled our Republic the "Mo.
dern Rome," and held up the example of the an
cient mistress of the world as model worthy of
our imitation. The Wing protested against this
dogma at the time; and is again reminded of it by
witnessing the great struggle against foreign influ
| ence now going on in this country-a struggle
which il says finds Its exact prototype in that which
| 80 long distracted the Roman State and shook the
edifce of the Republic to it's foundations The
Wing then alludes to the history of ancient Rome
| as subj ect which must ever be studied with pro
found interest by every intelligent politician OF the
country The question of naturalization was for
| long time the subject of furious excitement and
commotion among the stormy democracy of the
Eternal City, and was only put to rest by bloody
and destructive civil war. The writer then gives
the origin, progress and termination of the conro-
| versy, and thus applies It;
| 1t is high time, indeed that the matter were
taken into serious consideration. II Is true that we
are not like the Romans. pent up in the walls of
single city, and that we have wider field than they
had for the dispersion of the evil elements of 60
ciety But there are limits even to our territorial
/ possessions, whether present or prospective and
when we bear In mind that Europe is annually
disgoreng upon our Atlantic shore three hundred
Hrp sand OF her paupers and convicts, and that
| Asia with her countless millions of barbarians be
ginning to pour the tribute OF heahen emigr alton
on our Pacific coast we may well pause and ask
how all this is to end.
"GAMmA," the Paris correspondent of the New
Orleans Picayune, writes under date OF January
II, that Judge Mason's health is improving as
rapidly as his best friends could desire.'