The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-07
SPIRIT OFTHE PRESS.

Inc E1dmfHes publishes a letter from its editor
mr. Hughes, dated New York, February 4, in,rs,,
ducing the proceedings of the anti slavery meeting
IN bos'on last Friday night including the remarks
! OF General Henry Wilson which were published
IN The Dispatch yesterday. 1t appears that Gov.
/ Gardner also addressed this meeting. The cor
| respondent OF the Examiner says:
Such Is the conclusivs and damning proof OF
| the iact that Northern Know Nothingism Is but
| another name for aboli,ionism. The avowals OF
| wilson are no moro unmstakable than the appro.
| wing presence ot Gardner aud his aid at proceed
ines which he declined to endorse by frank and
| manly speech
These proceedings will fall like bombshell in
virginia, and will blow the Know Nothing order to
ATOMS In every slave State. There will be great
Scampering from the flock of the faithful; and the
| Some-outers will have great reason to rejoice in
| .ne iuture, that their membership secret, and
tnat none will know their completely with the un-
| ciean thlns but their partners In the same
The writer aao says that very great in;cres. Ia
| ieit In New York and throughout the North in re
| gard to the election. The impression prevails
| there that Mr.. Wise will be defeated by a large
| vote But Mr.. Hughes expresses the conviction
that "Mr. Wise could be elected to day. if the
vote were taken, and will gain fifteen thousand.
| votes in the ensuing four months"
The Whig alludes to the fraud" practised upon
| nations and publishes letter from Mr. Henry NJ.
| Price, of Nicholas Secretary of the d Democratic
meeting In that county that appointed delegates to
the State Convention complaining of the manner
! In which the nominations were made, and saying
that fraud has been perpetrated to which they
will not submit. The Wing thinks that the De-
| mocracy of Virginia have been rode long enou sh
by the central clique, and that it is time for them to
throw off their degrading shackles, and think AMI
act as becomes freemen and patriots
In another article, commenting upon comI,nu-
nication from German CITIZEN" in Mondays
Enquirer, the Wing says:
Wehave earthly confidence either in Nor
thern yankees or German foreigners, who arc born
and bred abolition incendiaries, despite, for poli-
cys sake when they settle amongst us, their kypo.
critical winnings about the South, slavery owning
negroes, and the like. We regard all such as
traitors in disguise, and contemptible wretohes,
deserving, not the friendly regard of gentlemen
aud patriots but the halter of the hangmsn We
know not who German citizen is, and care less,
but he has at all events, opinion OF him aud his
| allies.
The Penny Post, in it's leader, speculates upon
the Senatorial election in New York: thinks 1t pos
sible Seward might be elected through the machi-
nations of Gov. Clark but th inks his success can
only be short-Iived. The great fountain of the
popular deep Ut says 1s broken up, In New York
as elsewhere, and the deluge will come, in spite of
| all the efforts of Seward and Clark, to arrest its
! progress. In conclusion the Post says that if
| Seward should be defeated, the victory would be
| the most glorious that has been achieved in any
civil contest since the defeat of the elder Adams
| The Enquirer introduces with some pointed
editorial remarks, the proceedings OF the abolition
meeting in Boston on Friday night last embracing
the remarks of Gen. Henry Wilson. The Dem.
ocrats seem to be making the most of this.