The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-10-12
RICHMOND. VAT
Tuesday Morning, October 10, 1872.
EUROPEAN OPINION WITH REGARD
TO AMERICA.

not vorthy of the name, the change OF tone
which has taken place with regard to us IN Eu-
rope, is subject ofjust exultation. Forty
five wears ago, England and France, believing
that we had not the spirit TO resist any INSULT
however gross, any injustice, however palpa-
BILE. took especia care 10 load us, both W it'll
insult and injury. The British Orders in
Council. swept one third of our commerce; the
French, Berlin and Milan DEGREES swept an
other, and as the influence of France or Eng.
land was paramount in every port in Europe,
we were in fair way TO be driven entirely
from the Ocean. The timidity with which we
resented these acts, our embargoes, our non
intercourse laws, our gunboat systems, but
tempted them TO go fur Their, by proving, as
they supposed, incontestibly, that we had not
the spirit TO defend our own rights. When
matters approached crisis, and it became cvi-
dent that war must ensue, Mr.. Canning, in the
House of Commons, contemptuously declared,
that it would take but few weeks to sweep
our halfdozen fir-built frigates from the Ocean,
as Burgoyne said, in the same House, he
could march from one end of this country TO
the other with 10000 men. The frigates, how
ever, were not swept away, though they swept
away some British frigates, and Gen. Bur
goyne never even got as far as Albany, except
as prisoner.
Yet these facts, both CT revolutionary and re-
cent occurrence, seem TO have had no effect,
either upon the pride Of the English, or our
own feeling Of inferiority. During the year
1914, while the Allied Powers, after the fall Of
Napoleon. were in London, the American Com
missioners almost duplicated the British Min
istry for peace. They were received almost
contemptuousiy, or with demands, which the
Ministry well knew they would never submit
to. The fact is, they did not want peace. They
had just gotten rid ofther old enemy, Napo-
leon, and could now turn their undivided for.
ces against this country. They wished, as their
journals openly declared, to punish Mr.. Madi-
son for his contumacy, in not submitting to
their Ubiquitous measures. They wished to
do him as they had done Bonaparle-that is,
get possession of his person, and confne him,
by way OF q forced penance, upon some dreary
rock, where he would no longer be a thorn in
their sides. In this state of affairs MIR. Gala
tin applied for advice TO the Emperor Alexan-
der, of Russia, who always had bees, strange
as it may appear, what he continued to be TO
the last moment, the staunchest friend Ameri-
ca ever had among the rulers of the earth.-
The Emperor told him that he had but one ad-
vice TO give the United States and that was to
double their forces, both by land and sea, and
beat them soundly three or four times They
would then be not only willing, but anxious,
to make peace. The experiment was tried,
and it succeeded completely. From that day
TO this, the English have learned how to re-
spect Us, and though national jealousy will
sometimes break out into a flame, they may
grumble, but they rarely sneer.
Since that time, until within few months
past, the English have done all they could TO
malign US, and to lower Us, in the scale of ma
tions. But, with in the time alluded TO above.
wonderful change has come over them. 1t
is evident that, as far as they can see, we hold
the destinies of this immense continent entirely
in our own hands, and that We have but TO say
the word in order to have it annexed to this ia
vored land. We loom largely in the eyes of
the English. The London Times has even gone
80 far as to publish an article upon the subject
of Americas future destiny, in which it iudul
ges in the most extravagant conjectures, with
regard to our future progress. There cannot
be stronger proof, that we are regarded in
Europe already as mighty nation, for, of all
countries on the face Of the earth, this is the
one against which the Times has most con-
stantly directed its batteries of endless abuse.
We are no longer people whose vessels can
be stopped and searched at sea, whose sailors
can be dragged from their ships TO man British
cruisers, whose merchandise can be confsca-
ted in ports, and whose memo fwar can be
fred into with impunity. The nations of the
Old World have been taught 10 admire the
prodigous rapidity with which we have sub
jected country, almost as large as Europe, 10
the wants of man. They have likewise learned
how to respect the energy which the nation is
capable of putting forth, in the day Of her trial.
OF the former, they see examples whichever
way they turn, in the vast cities, smiling
to"uo, ioFeiy villages, WiICn sprung up every
day in the wilderness, as iffrom the stroke OF
an enchanter's wand. They see it in the in.
Vulnerable railroads and canals that spread
over the face OF the country, and in the thou
sands of steam vessels that crowd our rivers.
They see it in the trade which is carried on
with the whole world. With regard to our
energy, in time of war, they have only to look
al the battles and results of the Mexican war
TO be convinced ofthe high respect in wbicb VIC
deserve to be held, il, for nothing else, at less,
Tor our great physical strength.
The Continental papers fully correspond
with the English. They regard us as a might
natlon-they believe that we hold The ass,nn
OF all this continent in our hands-,bev Io.t
upon US with mingled awe and admra,;on
We shall never again hear of British c.
noner rising in his place, and saying tina, bs
can march from Quebec TO Florida with 10 ooo