The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-12-12
THE TDISPATCH.
NoTIuE TO ADvERTIsERs.

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Notice T0 ADVERTISERS.
Aavprt,s4menss for the DupArca must be hand
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p~As the next day. The heavy pressure OF saver
t,,~Usnss upcn the columns Of our paper VIII not
sdmit Of their reception after the hour nAned.
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sswus OF the Times.
We made some commena, yesterday, upon the
bappy ou,ens for the future which tho New York
Jo,r.., a. Commerce sensible and conservative
rspsr. draws from the assembling OF Congress. We
n,r,a not unite with the Journal in finding signs
cfpernanent fair weather 10 the meeting together
ofthree hundred thoroughbred politicians. 6hen
We look for blue sky 10 the political horizon, we
turn to the people, not their Representatives and
though clouds aud vapors may sometimes drifs
over the heavens, they are generally transitory'
and the stars come ont again. bright aud cheering
We ask thu readers attention to the "signs OF the
times which are already beginning to manifest
themselves Ia Washington. Congress Is the last
place the country will look to for hope ana conn
deuce. When the mariner selects ree' OF focAs
for his harbor, the good ship Republic VIII lei go
its anchor among the Congressional breakers. ii
this free country s despoiied OF its liberties,
tvill be the work OF the politicians. II the Union
shall be dissolved, and with Il the last hopes Of
Republication throughout the world, IL will be
the achievement of the demagogues who are al
ready becoming numerous as the combined lice,
frogs aud locusts of the Egyptian plaques If q
premature old age shall fall upon this precocious
people, and grey hairs trembling limbs, and prema-
ture decay seize upon the frame which has up 10
manhood with such astonishing and preternatural
growth, we can have no difficulty in discerning the
agent Of this melancholy failure aud disappoint-
nrnt OF the expectations of mankind. The Amer
lean Constitution is the most perfect framework
OF human government that the wisdom of mortal
man ever designed. and will live long after the
Onion is dissolved, even more pure and lovely in
the memories Of men, than at any moment of its
existence. But the eminent and philosophie
Bledsee has remarked, there is one element which
that Constitution does not embrace In its eacula.
tions-the weakness and corruption of human ma
ture The idics of this we'll every other land,
are based upon the assumption OF human depravi-
ty; and hence courts, jsiIs and scaffolds. The
Constitution the intelligence and virtue of
the people without which it is folly to expect the
preservation of a Republic. Which takes the true
view of mankind That the'people are patriotic.
that public virtue has still citadel in the popular
hearts, no man can deny; but is the sentry at the
gate Is the Intelligence Of the People clear sighted
and vglant enough for such post! Do not pub
lie crimes abound, and equal If not outstrip the
amazing march of social corruption, Have not
fraud, intrigue, doubledesling become the regular
tools in trade Of politicians not oaths of allie
glance to the laws and the Constitution Disregard
ed and despised Is not actual Treason, scarcely
covered by the fg leaves of external patriotism,
skuikng abroad every where, not alone among be.
sotted Mormons, but in the Streets the newsps-
pers, and the very puipits Of our largest cities -!
Let our countrymen look upon the character and
conduct of the public men of this county. .Vt
with the eye Of pariisans-for political parties are
like steamboat men running a race, who only
think Of beating each other, not Of the safety I
the boat and never dream of danger till the boiler
bursts and sends them sky-high into the air. Let
the people, AS independent patriots. watch the pub
lie men of the United States, their tnaives their
acts the elects of their upon the true in
terests Of the country, and they will new wis
dom in the injunction of the wise n,an-"Put not
your trust in princes" new reasons for trusting
only in themselves.
II is not the subject of slavery that imperis the
Union and perpetuity Of the Republic. Twenty
three millions of white men cannst be found on
the face of the globe inconceivably imbecie and
b-sot,ed as to sacrifice their highest political and
civil interests upon the shrine of three millions
of Africans Least OF all, the people of the North
sbrewd, money-getting, money saving, would give
Up the profits they make from Southern staples
for the sale of abstract question which in way
concerns practically a singlecitizen of the free
States, except to put money in his purse. But sla
very ri jrds convenient hobby for politicians &c
ride into power and they not how they ride, mol
what the results of the race upon other people, OF
npon the whole people, SO that they can obtain
Office The great peril to this country is The
same which ruined all former experiments ct self
government, the selfish ambition and corruption o
public men. 1t ia well to have faith and hope IL
the future-it is we'll "never to despair Of tbt
Republic "-Lut let tho people watch their ser
wants. if they intend to preserve much longer even
the name of masters. Let the people Of the South
in particular, whose property, peace and very ex
istence are made the pawns with which politica
Adventures play the game for power, ask whether
the time 10 not rapidly approaching when self
preservation will d.mand from them very united
aud energetic .r..ns.ration in behalf, not alone
of civil and political privileges but of security in
those rights which are the objects of all govern
n;tAt aud more important than any of its forms