The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-03
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Ihe Hafg has a leader on the "New York He
ta'd aud the Know Nothings." 1t says that it Is
io'e ior any Southern man to believe or expect
taata party can exist In the North, without being
tinctured with abotionism. Both of the old ear
dss were bitterly opposed to slavery, and Il Is ri
diculous to suppose that a new party could rise
from their rules without entertaining the same
hostility. But 1t believes that the new party-the
Know Noihinss-is sounder upon the question than
the other two, because it Is eminently conserva-
tive. The Enquirer having quoted from the
New York Herald TO show that the Know Noth,ngs
in Massachusetts elected abolition Senators, the
Whie quotes the following passage from the
same paper:
"But if the Know Nothngs of Massachusetts and
New England are pursuing sectional and de-
structive conrse, We have strong confidence that
the Know Nothiags OF New York. New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and several ether States north of
Mason and Dxon's line will act very differently,
Will follow high minded and strictly constitution
al policy on ell national questions, and will cut
themselves adfL from eli disorga1izing and see
tiops tsctions p"
The Whig copies en- article from the Petersburg
Inteligencer, which asserts that in that place. 1t
understands that anti.Americans intend discon-
t'nuing their custom to American merchants. The
TIE Enquirer comments upon american prin-
cipes," which ore talked loudly of by the members
OF the Know Nothing party; while in fact, they
are clearly anti.American in their intolerent pro-
scripton ofour own adopted citizens. By 4gners
and their immediate descendants our revolutionary
struggle was sustained, and the Republic formed.
The Republic liberal, tolerating all religious
views, and the oppressed of all nations were invi
ted to settle among US. They did So and ha%ng
ahsolved themselves from all obligation to any for
eign power, have.sworn allegiance to the G. S.
From them cur manufacturers learned much, and
even DOW in some departments of art, French and
Germans employed to do what we have no,
yet learned. They have settled upon and paopled
unoccupied territories, made market for pro-
duce, demand for manufacture. and increased
trade. Tney have come amongst US in good faith,
and TO Amercanize them we must naturalize them
and avoid population In our midst with distincl
interests and feeling that they have interest 10
government. The Know Nothngs are at work to
defeat this object of the Democratic party and are
thus striking at the root of Americaniam.
The Penny Post speaks of the appeal ofthe Rich.
moud Democratic Junto TO the Wings. Scarcely
1t says, is a speech made By these men-men who's
lips have always reeked with foul abuse of the
Wing party, and which have ia irly writhed with
the bitterness of their mali gnity, and who's !.
tongues were scorched with their words of hot de
nunciation and burning reproach against that party
that the same lips are not writhed in the sweet
est smiles-and the same tongue, Ia honeyed &C.
cents, not eloquent In praise Of that "noble old
party" that 'brave old party of principle" "a lit
tie wrong perhaps, yet if so honestly wrong" Hen
ry Clay too who in life denounced In terms too
foul to be applied to the veriest william of earth and
whom calumny and detraction followed TO his
very grave-is now spoken of by the murderers of
his reputation the embodiment of all that Is no
BILE, and pure, and patriotic in man.