The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-13
Henry Winter Davis.

Probably no speech delivered i'll the House
of Representatives since the commencement of
the present session, has been as we'll calcula
ted TO provoke an on tbreak OF civil war as the
late malignant and truculent attack upon the
South by HENRY WINTER DAVIS, the represen-
tatiye of Baltimore. Not one Black Repub-
lcan of them all, since JosHUA X. GIDDISGs
left the public councils, has uttered such afro
cious sentiments, nor dared to brandish over
the South so boldly and ferociously the toma-
hawk of open war. 1t is worthy OF notice
that whilst the galleries of the Senate were
promptly cleared upon a single manifestation
OF applause TO WIGFALL, for Vindicating the
Sou tn trium phantly against Johnson, OF Ten
nessee, 10 such effort was made in the House,
when the galleries, said to be crowded with
Baltimore " Plug Uglies,' - imported for the
purpose, applauded furiously every bloody
sentence of that representative Plug-Ugly,
HENRY WINTER DAVIS. We cannot believe
that the city of Baltimore, although it has
long since ceased to be Il slaveholding city, can
endorse such a speech az that of DAVIS But
if she does not endorse him, she cannot too
soon clear her skirts Of the responsibility by
ousting him from the position which lie has
betrayed. 1t is supposed that this incendiary
harangue was a strong bid for Il place in Mr..
LISCoLN's Cabinet; but journal, which APP
pears to be well informed, says that it will be
go that LINCOLN looks upon DAVIS as an
impracticable, who is also objectionable to the
Germans, who, i'll the Northwest, gave the
President elect some two hundred thousand
votes. We should like to know what CARL
SHURz, the Black Republican leader of the
Northwest, who, though only five years III
the United States, gave Mr.. LINCOLN the
Northwestern German vote by which he was
elected, would say to the introduction into
Mr.. LIScoLs's Cabinet of the recognized Gen
eralissimo of the 3" Plug tglies,'' whose yo-
cation and entertainment it was to hunt for
eigners like dogs through the streets of Balt-
more, and shoot Il German or an Irishman
with as little conjunction they W ould
shoot a dog. In our opinion, there was not
one of Mr.. DAVIS four Plug Ugly" const-
tuents, who Were hung in one day in BaIti-
more, for the brutal murder of a policeman,
who was more responsible at The bar OF Heaven
for the atrocities committed upon foreigners
in that city, than the educated and influential
chieftain of those assassinating Thugs, who
would now let loose his brutal myrmidons
upon the South. Moreover, thing more
we may say with perfect truth, and that is,
that HENRY WINTER DAVIS is not a represen-
tative man of the South in any way or shape.
There is no slayeholding city of the South,
identified in birth, interests and sympa thies
with a slaveholding community, i'll which
HENRY WINTER DAVIS could be elevated to the
office of constable. Here in Richmond. such
"A man could never see daylight, politically,
and ii would be an insult which the most out
and out Union man in Virginia would justly
resent, to call this reckless political adyentu-
rar as some Northern Journals call HIM, a rep
resentative of the Union people of the South.