The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-03-27

pesss.
We hope every newspaper in the South will
N-publish Ordeu No. l6, with suitable re-
nsrka Let no man plead ignorance of its ex-
iEenee O. an excuse for absence.
Wendell Phillips and Virginia.
Wendell Phillips has recently proclaimed
that the deluded mAsses of the South will be
permitted to receive enlightenment from
Northern minds, and to smancipate their
slaves; but that some fifty thousand of them
will b made 10 go in exile o, die. Under
what he calls judicious treatment, he is Of
opiuion that Virginia will soon become like
New York.
We have no doubt of that, whatever What
Virginia has been and is, We know. 4 nohier
Commonwealth, in enlightened liberty, in de
vosion to principle, In the harmonious moral
and intellectual development. Of its people,
never lonrished in all the tide of time. We
care not to boass ct her past, although We
might aver, without fear of contradiction,
that there must be something beyond accident
in the fame of Commonwealth which,
from her first settlement to the present hour,
has produced generation after generation of
the greatest aud purest minds of the CONT
nent which, for centuries, from the hosr
when John Smith FIRST planted the ssed OF
American civilization in her soil TO the day
when Washington gave to America its liberty,
and from that to this, when her noble men and
generous women are offering. up their life
blood in defence of principle and right,
has been a. heroic and magnanimous
a Commonwealth as ever fouriehed in
ancient or modern times. We know what che
rs a. hospitable, warm-hearted, and pure
minded az the sun ever shone upon, and who
now, with an avaiauch of mercenaries hurl-
ing death and destruction upon their ire-sides,
stand as pond in soul and as defiant in spirit,
As in the days of her greatest prosperity and
power. and are prepared, to man, to die "a.
thsr than to submit to despotism.
And this ia the land. which we are told
sha.i be one day like New York: We shsll
be elevated by emancipation and Yankee en-
lghtenment to that condition, No doubt OF
It. We know what the progress of radical
ideas and universal emancipation has done for
New York. We know that it has buried the
ancient rssrectability and Intelligence of the
STATE in an abyss, 20 dark and bottoaless,
that. not even hope il left Of better day
Eoss statesman il loft among her public msn
seward, denagogus the most subtle, and q
villain the most profound who ever disgraced
the history Of any land, il the successor of
the Clintons, Van Renuselaers and Ssuyve-
aants. Tho population itsslf has become the
moss msrosnary, degraded, and hsartlsss in
America 4 worse collection of people, u
greater amount Of hnman derravity cannot b.
found On any equal area Of the earth's surlaee
than exists in New York city. A hundred
thousand bsggars, more than tenth Of her
whole population, depend on public charity for
bread Fifty thousand murderers, robbers,
and other criminals Of every hue and grade
are annually arrsiened at her courts OF
justice. Fifty thousand prostitutes parade
the streets ct night, and ~ many more, who
hesp up IN outside ssmblanee of virtue, ha.
bitualiy tread the Same broad road to death
We speak upon the .authorisy of their own
journals, tho n. Y. Times foremost among
them, when We say that fostering sore OF
dspravity runs through their whole upper ten,
that the parlor is often a. corrupt and de-
hsqohed ~ the kitchen, and the master ss great
q valgsTisa and Backyard as the man
Nor u this wonderful in society where ali
soeial distractions have been lsvellsd, and the
nsaials Of yesterday become the lords and
ladies ofto-dsy. Nor 10 IT only by the opera.
ion Of social laws and democracy run mad tia,
New York has become VIVA. che IL. Circum-
stances have made her the sewer into which
al Eorope hgs poured it, foulsst denominations
All the refugees from European Justice, oil
ths rsprobates. Of the Ola World, whose blood
had flowed through sooundrels ever sinos the
Hood" and who were fairly spewed out from
thssr native lands, have como to New York
and made It their city Of refuge, aud began
answ shsir csrser Of crime, and become ANAL
gsmaied snd identified with the sesthing mass
OF native corruption. The curren: Of foreign
immigration that bad in it spything Of enter.
psiss end valas flowed over New York TO the
rural districts, and lea there soshiag but that
vie eedimsnt which has bsen Stirred up bv
the prevent war. and which Wendell Phillips
exnlis In believing viii make New York Of
Virginia =.
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