The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-15
SPIRIT THE PRESS.

The Penny Post publishes the Union. or
third degree of the Know Nothing order.
which prohi bits an abolitionist from becom
ing mem Der of the party. The Post has
snoeher article on the refusal of Gov. Gar.
oiner OF Massachusetts,, to remove Judge Lo-
ring 1t asks when before was there Mas
sachusetts Governor, Know Nothing or De.
uocrat, ever found so true to the South and
the Union. The X. N. party is the onJv con-
stitutional party-the only reliance Of the
South. Let the people beware, then. how
they support the vile horde of abolitiopists
who oppose it. Let them beware how thew
seek to crush it. Smith, the X N. Mayer Of
Boston, returned Anthony Burns, the fugitive
slave, to his master, and Gov. Gardiner ap-
proves of chat act, and refused to sanction
the removal of Judge Loring These these
were the men found true to the Constitution
and the South, and they are Know Nothings.
Alluding TO the charge against Flournoy by
Wise OF unsoundness on Slavery, the Post
says the latter gentleman, by his conduct in
the canvass, has placed himself beyond the
pale that requires his political opponents to
treat him as gentleman.
The Enquirer has a leader on Northern
Intervention in the affairs of Virginia, and
says that the fertile brain of Know Nothing
ism is inexhaustible in expedients to affect
the election in this State. For this purpose
Gov. Gardiner, who voted to remove Judge
Loring from bis professorship in Harvard
College, has now declined removing him
from his judgeship. His message shows not
the least regard for the rights of the South,
and the victim is only respited until the Vir-
gnia election is over. The same solicitude
IN regard to our election is manifested in
New York, and the gamblers there furnish
money for the X. Ms here to hazard upon
its result 1t quotes from a correspondence
| in the New York Herald from Syracuse,
which states that Uilman and Barker are de.
sirous of doing something which will tell in
the Virginia election. The Know Nothing
candidate for Governor, Mr. F!ournoy in.
vited this Intervention when he promulgated ID
| the principle that Virginia would undertake 9
to correct the social evils of other States, and
against him should the Indignation of every
Virginian be directed.
The Wig leads Off with an editorial on
Governor Gardiner, from which it makes q
long quotation, and goes ON to say that Gar
diner is one of the men whom Mr.. Wise and
his followers denounced AZ lousy, Goddess,
Christless scoundrels and traitors This man
who, in the midst of fanaticism and treason,
has stood up for the laws and the Constitu-
ton is ga vile Know Nothing" 1t will not
detract from the high position in which Co
vernon Gardiner has placed himself, to an
swer that the Legislature that sent the ad-
dress is a Know Nothing Legislature. The
address constitutes their shame and disgrace,
and only places Governor Gardiner in more
elevated and noble position, as man who
| dared to resistthe pressure of public opinion,
| when that opinion sought to accomplish an
| unholy end. He may be what Mr.. Wise
would call "traitor. conspirator and scoun.
drel, but the whole South will say that if he
is, would there were more of them. The
Whig takes up the assertion OF the Enquirer
that Mr.. Wise has endured sacrifices and
performed services which enttle him to the
rank and reward of the Oldest veteran in the
wars" and asks what the old liners, Smith,
Baily, Leake, and others, think of it.