The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-03
SPIRIT oFTHErREss.

The ErSminer dsvoses an editorial TO the Gar
| man Platform which has been reproduced ii sone
OF our city papers within wssk psst. The Ex-
aminer treats the matter q one which has died
out-as scheme conceived In the madness and
folly of few agitators-as programme and creed
so superlatively preposserous and intensely stupid.
that Il was deemed. by general consent, uaworihy
OF serious attention or Of grave maledictlon.--
When man In the South Continues the writer,
denounces slavery and calls ont for abolition and
such man with Us ID very rara aris in terris-
we look upon him az felon and traitor: but when
he goes on to demand the abolition of the Sabbath
oil public prayer, of the Presidency OF Senates of
Judicial caths with a wild rigmarole of kindred
absurdities, our resentment sbates at once and we
can feel no other sentiment but compassion for the
ignorant crazy loon. The Examiner does not
think the Liberties of Virginia are ia much danger
from the German Radical Reform Club of 1851
AS the community has yet experienced no sad dis
aster from its madcsp machinations, /. is fair to
presume that it has gone the way of all fissh and
folly, and died for the want of breath. The writer
suggess that If the association were eill alive II
would De far more apt to become the fast ally of
the Know Nothings than of conservative virginia
democracy, however 1t might vote for awhile
Ihe Wing continues its work of bringing up the
records OF the past to show the political history Of
MIR. Wise. On this occasion it copies from the En-
quirer OF Sept 25sh 1s4o the sayings of Mr. Ritch.
lie In condemnation of the political career and doc
trines OF Henry A. Wise The Whig thinks that
1t the idea that Mr. Wise would ever have been
chosen as the standard beater of Virginia Demo
cracy had been suggested to Mr.. Richie, he would
have secuted il with an air of Indignation and a
look OF lordly contempt In conclusion, the wri.
Ter appeals to the Democrats of Virginia to know
II they "ili vote for man whom Mr.. Richie SO
ireeiy denounced. VIII they follow the lead Of
tue Enquirer OF 1910 or Of the Enquirer of 1861
Ihe PeaAy Post, in editorial headed i" The
He" YORK Senator" pronounces Myron H. Clarke,
present Governor OF New York, the Vilest and most
uuprinclpled demasoeue that ever disgraced
hish otilce. tcharges him with having produced
the split in the Know Nothing party, and with
certain political manoeu vres to secure the election
OF Seward to the Sonata.
We lind in the Enquirer letter from Mr. Jo.
seph Hierholzer, upon the subject of the German
organization which the Wbig brought out few
days ago. He says:
Having had the honor for seyeraI yesra mas, of
being the President Of the German Democratic
Association Of the City OF Richmond, have i, INV
power to deny, as do utterly, that any such doc
trines as those promulgated in the Whig were ever
entertained, voted for, approved put FORTH pub
licly or privately, or were ever presented to or
offered at any meeting OF the Association which
does exist sioce its organization. Some years ago,
some six or eight seceders from the regular asso
citation, proclaimed the doctrines published in the
Whig. bu. they were Immediately denounced and
disavowed by the organ of the association, and the
disavowal was published in the Enquirer at the
time The man from whom the obnoxious plat
form emanated removed to Cincinnati and Ia now
dead, and believe none of those who professed to
be his followers are now In the limits of the State
OF Virginia.
The writer denies, emphatically, that the German
Democratic Association are abpitionists in dis
guise; but are, on the other hand, proud of their
adopted State, they glory in her prosperity cherish
her institutions have sworn to support her consti
tution are amenabe to her laws, glory In the rights
conferred upon them by that constitution and those
laws, and intend good citizens, to do that which
shall A0r r1y,At Lar, lTr