The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-09-23
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
: ~. CIV or New YsriE.


e9 The City Of New fsIh' .e,faz...
The msrns8ssnt political professions. 'snpseee-
a. rrmhsr. and In splsndor, which have oeen
,.,.lv ,o.,.u M by the friends Of buchanan ana
- r;,,ucre IN the city Of New York, Indicate
,h.. On chat CITY at least the conservaaves
ara s,,.ns. at the Union are stun Ia majority "
-. - Great pleasure 70 reciprocAts on TINS occ.
g., ,hs Compliments Of the Free Soil press wnisn
H.. m. audaci,y to state that the journals Oh 'ns
Soush in their opposition to Free SOIL 40 no. rep
-...,, Sauthern sentiment. The Free SON jour
nal. Of New York stIll less reflect the puohc
on,n,on of that great city. When Fremontpro'
ce.sIon can be mustered In any Southern mesropo-
n. wh;ch will number q hundred men, We VIII
.ur.e that the Southern journals are rs indifferent
,n,rrors If public sentiment ~ the Free Soil pa
ners of the Empire city, the only effect OF whose
eternal .hreks for freedom Is TO call forth into the
street. of their city the largest political process.
sions Of conservative and Union men ever wit.
messed in any American town since the foundation
Of the government
We rejoice to see this evidence that New York
has no. lost its ancient character of an eminenty
national city. The foundations of that city were
laid by sensible. unimaginative. broad shoulder
ed and broad bottomed race, who did not cross the
Atlantic, and did not pretend to cross it, on the
score of political or religious persecution. From
both Of these they had suffered at home, but they
had stamina and spirit enough to whip out their
tyrants upon their own shores. Making no great
pretensions to pety or morals, but quite as devout
and upright as those who did simple, honest and
confding, they came to America to make their
fortunes and Gil not profess 10 come for any thing
else. These honest Dutchmen entertained no
scrrples on the subject of slavery, for there was
scarcely an emigrant of any means who had not
one or more African slaves 10 his house or upon
bis farm. The colony of New Amsterdam might
have finished It's career in perfect peace and quiet
bu: for neighboring colony, whose inhabitants
have never yet been able to let the business of
other people alone, and whose prying peddIinr
and pluckng propensi,ies tradition has still pre-.
served in many green hooks and valleys Of the
Hudson. sd'
The South Is too much accustomed to confoupd
the Northern communities in an indiscrimin.te
mass Of Abolitioaism. The principal enemies of
the South are old enemies. 1t is but the descen
dants of Cavaliers and Roun oh eads & Qhtipo unon
another theatre, except that their quarrel I. II;
vested of its former religious element Its a IN.
rious fact that portion of the Roundheads. af,er
omigrsting 10 Holland, where they were unable
TO live in peace with the people of that country
retired. to America for the ease of conscience
and the enjoyment of Land, and, became once
more neighbors OF the Dutch, when 'straightway
The old troubles began. The sterling Dutch cbarsc
Ter, however, OF the colony, in spite of Round.
head neighborheod, and even British appropria.
lion, rem aimed unaffected, till the influx of COM
merciai prosperity, which followed the formation
OF the American Union. Then rolled in a flood
OF Invasion more terrible than any against which
stout old Peter Stuyvesant buckled on his .rmor
ana issued his PRESENTATIONS; q torrent of deyout
and srasping Jonathans, mighty in PRAYER ard
sharp as steel traps. The Dutch, used as thew
were 10 warning against the ocean, could dig M
dikes and build no einbsnk ments, that would de-
ieud them against this overwhelming torrent Of
down-eass adventurers. The whole of New Amster
dam was in danger of being totally swamped bv
that pious and money making race which arrived
in America with conscience" written on their
Dreasspiates and title deeds of hard lands spueyv
secured in their pouches. The respectable "aable
eads' OF New Amsterdam soon began to dsap
pear; fashionable commercial palaces took the
place OF the simple SHOPS; while at the desk. If.
etsad of Ihs jolly old burghers, pipe in month
stood long aud lank Jehoiakim from the New
Jeruselam, with one eye fixed on Heaven and
the other on the counter, praising God and swnd-
ling the populAce in the most exemplary and in
genious manner.
New YORK, under the effects of this irrupton
would have become as hot and pestilent seat of
tanaaicism as aoy in New England, but that its
magnificent Ia ducements to emigration operated up.
Oh other parts Of the world well as in the Round
head Coioniss- Not q few descendants of the
Cavaliers, afSei the British appropriation. made
Is their home; the Reformed Dutch, the Roman
Catholic Irish, the Presbyterian Scotch and the
Episcopal English, reared their ecclesiastical fort.
and oulwarks in the midst of New Amsterdam
where they still stand, bulwarks and breakwaters
against which the angry tide of Roundhead Abo
liIlon frets and foams in vain 1t is these elements
Df New York society that have thus far saved II
from the uhraisms of every kind which oyerrun
New England. 1t is these that enable New York
10 exhibit these grand buchanan and Fillmore pro
ressions, filing space of nine miles, whilst the
Free Sellers dare not make public show of their
Aumoers. 1t is not the native New Workers. but
The enigrant Roundheads principally, who raise
he abolition cianor in the Empire City Greedy.
The editor OF the Tribune, is from Vermont, Raw
mond, editor OF the Times, (and Harper's Maya
Eine,) from some other New England State, and
10 with most Of the abolition editors and orators
Henry Ward Beecher, the great master spirit of
New York fanaticism, is from Boston. To that
city belongs the honor of giving to the pulpit two
such men as Theodore Parker and Henry Ward
Beecher, the former of whom denies the truth of
The Christian religion, and the latter places Rob
berry, Perjury and Murder among the Christian
graces.
= We rejoice that this great city, whose trade is
with nation, still remains paonal that this city
" hose population is drawn from the whole earth,
has not yet sunk itself under the dominion of local
or sectional prejudices that this city, which owes
Its prosperity to the Union, should be loyal to tie
source OF al! its power. At the Gro wded docks of
New York are forests of masts, above which wave
the Gags of all nations, but, to citizen of New
York, they must all pale before the flag of the Re-
public " hose constellation has guided the little
Town Of New Amsterdam to the position of tie
third commercial city in the world.
Let New York continue true to her ancient ira
ditions and character let her control and If posi-.
the imported fanatical element which
directs her Pree soil press, and her future will be
brighter than her past But the desolation Of Tyre
and Babylon W i'll be a. nothing to that which the
triumph of Disunion viii bring upon the Metropo