The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-01

is quite consistent with intelligence, comfort
and social elevation ard happiness
Thus much by way Of preface, ana TO re-
ciprocate the Tribune's comphneihs' "oit
anon.
From the New York Tribune.
Tur ytRcIsT. ELEcTIos.-The election OF the
e. ate government takes face to-day In Virginia. II
IL an imp ortant occasion ALI the enterprise and &C
tivity OF that old Commonwealth are at once dis
played and exhausted In her election conflicts :
There is not more busy and industrious people In
the world than virginisns. But they are work.
at the trade of politics only They only shine 10 The
manufacture of partisan paragraphs, political ma
bat their speeches never cease to now. The pollti
cal mill always srinds its full grist, though every
other mill in abe State may stop. Every branch oil
productive Industry may nguish, but the trade Of
office setting is brisk and its professors as nimoie
as they we're in the memorable era of '98
Poor VirgiGia Her rivera run to the eea az hey
did two centuries ago. but skiilfu or induttrou'
hand gathers up their waters and turns them TO the
uses OF man. They flow on ss OF old, their banks
only marked by deserted towns, exhausted fertility
aud decayed agriculture. Slavery has fed from IN
soil like warns OF locustsi leaving only de'o!ation 10
its train. All the low belt OF country that faces
the ocesn lethargY and staguation reign Some OF
the venerable towns q century or TWO old, are quite
depopulated, while others barely hold thslr own
8loth and torpidity and brown decay cover tne ano
scspe The State has been cursed with AttlcAn sia-
very.
The universal decline of every brauch of industry
throughout the State, except neelo-DIeeolbs-
Ignorance and deterioration Of the inhabitants the
lengour the want of thrift, the slack ana down-at
the heel and out-at-the elbows condition OF the en-
tire community. have been the atsrding theme o.
Mr.. Wise's addresses all through the esnvass Jas'
terminated. Yet strangely enoI gh though naturally
enough he wilfuy bin DIS hi, eyes to the real cause
of the disease he so boldly probes Like all VINO
support him and all who oppose him, he hugs the
pest of slavery to his bOEom with fatal tenacty-
The thing which has weighed ike al Incubus on
Virginia these fifty years and more, Loading mel
down and leaving her in the rear OF all the iree
States of the Union-.he thing whose Unsuitable re-
suits found in the condition which Mr.. WISE &C
much dep.eres, and which he has pictured with 81
much for and vivacity, is the thing which all par
ties and all men political men in the State vie wtf
each other In sustaining and in spreading over ecu
tries yet unaffected with the same curve We see II
the action Of political men and parties ct this elec
ton in Virginia to what extent pre- udIce, Ignorance
and fanaticism may control q great Common wealth
Throughout the CANVASS the chief rivalry exhibited
has been to which side would do tha most to up
hold and perpetuate the of Virginia's downfall
and to maintain Virginie's unthrft. Whatever othe
questions may have excited discussion or occGsonei
division, have been entirely u6ordiueted TO the pa
ramouut and over Jealous sbors of both parties Il
cherish the cause of African slavery.