The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-02


varying penalty OF success in the envy, spite
and misrepresentation which are constantly
rained upon her head, but which she dashes off
with no more effort than the lion shakes the
dew drops from his name, or the Great Eastern
seatters the opposing waters from her bow in
empty froth and foam. Whatever may be the
peculiar defects Of New York character In
political point Of view, that city is the most
American city in the United states. Ihere Is
neither seotionalism of feeling, nor provin-
ciafism Of utteTance among the natiNe popu-
ia,ion OF New York. We have heard it often
remarked that il is impossible in conversation
with AN educated New Yorker to decide what
mart of the country he is from. If IL is posi-
Bile TO decide that fact by his sen ailments of ma
tIonaiitv, il is because New York is the mos,
national OF cities, not even excepting the seat
of federal government. OF course, these re-
marks do not apply to the immigrants from
New England States to New York, who re-
quire long residence there before they be-
come nationalized either in sentiment or
speech.
The weak points of New York are unfor-
tunately prominent and conspicuous, anu Of
fer a ready handle TO those whose in ferior en-
terprise and want of success afford them no
upper ten thousand" are as ridiculous as her
lower ten thousand are coarse and brutal and
she has more than her fair proportion of crime
and rutlianism, simply because she is the great
commercial city of this continent, the reser-
voir in which not only all the enterprise but
all the yillainy of the old world is first poured
in America, before it is distributed to other
parts Of the country. The politicians have
al e flaat hlr lNarr
which is to be found in all large cities, and
thoroughly organized 1t into depraved and
criminal train bands nominating, in primary
| caucuses packed to suit their purposes, their
| own creatures for offices, whilst virtuous and
| respectable citizens abandon the polls in dis
gust. The consequence is that, officially as
| well as socially, New York is made to present
an aspect to outsiders which is at once ridicu-
lsus and repulsive, but as false TO her real
character as it is possible TO conceive. Be-
| tween the upper and lower strata of New
| York society, may be found half million of
| as Industrious in telligent and orderly popu-
| lation as the sun shines on. The Duke OF
! Newcastle, who, well rs all the royal party,
must have been thoroughly nauseated with
| the intense vulgarity of the foolish aristo-
cracy at the ball, were enthusias tic in their
| admiration of the New York PEOPLE, who
| lined the vast thOroughfares OF that city on
| the arrival of the Prince, the Duke declaring
| that he had never seen grander spectacle
| We can well believe it. Soldiers and shows
they had seen many times in far greater mum
| bers than America could exhibit, but we
| doubt whet Their that or any other regal party
ever before passed in review three miles of as
| wide awake, well dressed, and manly popu-
| lation.
| If the Union of these States shall ever be
| dissolved, there is at least one city in it whose
skirts will DE clear, and that is-New York
| From the first moment to the last of the Gov
| eminent, she can show Il clean hand on that
| subject. There never has been an hour when
| the faint of abolitiOnIsm or of treason has
| touched her heart. At this moment, amid the
| boiling sea of sectional passions, she is the
| only firm and stable object in the flood, and
| stands the Pharos of the storm tost shore the
| consolidated lights of the Union still shining
! brightly amid the surrounding darkness, and
! giving the only rays of cheer and guidance that
| now break upon the troubled sea. We predict
! that this patriotic and chiyalrous metropolis
Will main tin is character TO the last and if
| she loses all else in this contest Will not lose
| her Honor.