The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-13
SPAIN.

said, in the statement which we published
yesterday, to have come upon the efficient
employment Of the Home Squadron to retail
ate for future outrages upon American YES
sells, win be heartily approved by patriotic
country It is the defenceless condition OF
our commercial marine which has provoked
outrage, and the only way to avoid future
acts of the same sort, and ultimate war, is to
Jet the aggressors see that our government
is prepared to chastise their insolence upon
the spot. 1eH
We have no sympathy with fliibustering,
and no desire for war; but really, if natl on
expectsto command respect among nations
or to secure its rights and interests from ag-
gression, it must not permit patience and
meekness to be mistaken for pusillaninity.
There are States as well as individuals, whose
valor increases in proportion to the forbear-
ance of their antagonists. The officers OF
Spanish vessels should be compelled to per-
init our peaceful merchant vessels to pursue
their voyages on the high seas without inter-
ruption. In our view, the course pursued Dy
President Pierce is more likely to avert a
war, than to bring on one.
SECTIONAL AND PARTY LEGISLATION."
That able, temperate and Independent pa
per, the New York journal of Commerce.
has some very just and strong reflections
on this subject. 1t refers particularly and
emphatically to the plots and Vaccinations
of VIM. FL. Seward and his friends in the N.
Y. Legislature. who, without any regard to
the best interests of the State of New York,
or even the peace and good order of its So
ciety, are shaping the legislation of that
State, with the sole view of the political ele-
walton of W. n. Seward
The Journal says it regards the advance.
ment of w. 81. Seward to farther power, as
the greatest misfortune Which could befall
the people of the United States. 1t points
out to the people of .New York the evils
which must result to item from disunion. 1t
declares that the city of New York, if strip
ped Of the great shi cid of apowerful nation
al government, would be the sport of inter-
nal anarchy and. violence. 1t pronounces
Seward the first. among the sectionalists who
Tally war aga INST the peace of the Union for
purposes Connected with their own advan-
tage, and justly says that they aret the great
est enemies that exist, of Northern as well az
Southern prosperity.
journal, for SO long period since the adop-
ton of the Constitution, would have been
wholly impossible without the peculiar shape
which it then received. "The anarchical ell
emeuts which exist in the North, the fruit in
part of cheap and widely difused suffrage,
are ever kept in check by the conservative
elements which exist in Southern States
The South have such materials for disturb
ance among them, that her best minds are
keenly engaged in considering, at all times,
how Government shall be exerted to prevent
domestic violence. This condition of things
represses all desire for experiment and fo
change and hence the conservatism and tn,
sohdity which prevail throughout that re
sion. The best miads of the North, feelin,
secure in the condition of the Government
separate themselves habitually from all con
Germ with it, and surrender this high duty t.
inferior men. The changes in our Legislation
are due to this cause. A new code of laws
an elective judiciary, anti Rentism, sumptu
airy regulations provided by the Legislature
corruption in high places, and an unusual
prominence given to low men,-these are
the fruits ofour condition. We should run into
greater excess, and to complete anarchy, but
for the conservative influence of the grand
and firm confederacy which the Constitution
constructed
1t is to be hoped that these just reflections
of the Journal, paper which represents 70
large portion of the wealth, character and
conservatism of New York, will not be with.
out their due influence. Disuaion must brine
the greatest evils to both sections, and Il
becomes patriots every where to rouse them
selves, shake off their apathy, and lend all
their energies to the preservation of the Re-
public.
SLAVERY IN CUBA.
The Paris correspondent of the National
Intelligencer has communicated to that ma.