The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-01-21
Gro~sag Greataess Of the Cnited Stases-
Decay Of Ireisnd.

Decay Of freitsnd.
The reader will be struck by the cxtraordi-
nary article from the London Times, published
upon the first page of this days issue. The
view which il takes Of our actual condition,
and the prophecy which it hazards, with re-
gard TO our 'future," are certainly justified by
the actual condition Of the United States at
this moment. Yet it is strange that praise
should come from such quarter. OF all the
active, untiring, unappeasable maligners which
this country has found among the journals of
Europe, none has been SO active, 30 untiring,
20 per,inacious as the Times itself. The con-
fession, that after oil, we ore worthy Of cons-
Iteration, comes with such bad grace, that
il cannot bu, be remarked by oil the world
1t is obvious, that the torrent Of abuse which
il was wont TO pour out upon everybody and
everything connected with this country, arose
FROM jealousy of our progress in that very
path which Great Britain had heretofore
claimed as her own. We are now praised, not
from any love, but from the hope that in the
present crisis of affairs in Europe, we may be
useful to England. For our own part, we care
as little for its abuse, as for its censure, and so
we believe do nine .tenths of the people in the
Union.
The contrast which is exhibited in the con-
dition of Ireland is absolutely appalling. In
the middle of the 18th century, a whole people
is seen. moving off from its native land, as in
the days Of Moses and the Jews! And that
people too, is not in nomadic state, but is
one OF the Oldest aud first civiiz !, inhabiting
a country endeared by thousand recollec-
lions, as rich as the far famed Goshen itself,
and lying beneath climate the most salu
brious, and the best adapted to the prolonga-
ton OF life, of any upon the globe! There is
something absolutely fendsh in the consola-
ton which the Times finds for this loss of
whole people, and scarcely less so, in its state
meni Of the Inconvenience which must ensue.
The Celt, when he lands in America, will, for
the first time, purchase English manufactures.
This would be enough to console England for
the remorse which she ought to feel for running
one Of the finest races that ever existed, but
foi one drawback. That drawback consists
in the loss of 'the sinew and bone" which we
are told sis no small consideration" In other
words, when England shall think proper to set
the world once more in an uproar, she will TO
longer have depot from whence to draw that
terrible Irish infantry, which assisted SO largely
in bringing her ,riumphantly through the wars
of the French revolution. But for this fact,
the Times would gladly see Ireland filled up
with English and Scotch, forgetting that all
lrisilinan may have a heart, as well as an
Engiishman, and that the home of his fathers
is dear to every created being. With such
cold-biooded indifference docs the Times de-
scani upon the ruin which seven hundred years
of English misrule have brought upon whole
nation; for, to say that people, unless under
the pressure of Governmental msmanagement,
could IN ten years get rid of one fourth of it's
population, is to offer an insult to the under
standing.