The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-31

The London Illustrated Meas is very
wrathful upon Mr.. John Mitchell, on account
of his inability to sympathize with Great
Britain in the present contest with Russia. II
suffers considerably from low spirits, in re-
fleeing that Mr.. Mitchell escaped the scat
fold in Ireland, and its melancholy is height
ened by the fact that he has effected com
plete deliverance from the apparently hope
less and eternal exile to which he was con-
signed by the administrators OF justice In
Ireland. We submit that it is expecting al
most too much of Mr. Mitchell, or of human
nature in its best estate, that a man who has
just been liberated from the grasp of people
thirsting for his blood, should turn round
make them profound bow, and wish them
the most perfect success in all their future en-
terprises MIR. Mitchell is a man, and with
all the feelings of a man, even if he be an
Irish felon;'' which term we in this country
understand as the highest compliment an
English Journalist can bestow upon an Irish
man. And being man, with his soul yet sore
from the iron of injustice and tyranny, it is
quite impossible that his heart should swell
over with sympathy for Great Britain in the
grievous wrongs and outrages she is suffer
ing from that 'inevitable Gar" or that he
. should put on sack cloth and ashes at the
prospect of any possible mischance which
may occur to her arms in the Eastern war.
The News asserts, however, that Mr.. Mitch
ell, in his sinful and hardened ingratitude to
the mother government of Great Britain, re-
ceives no encouragement from the Ameri-
cans, who, we are informed, loathe the Gear
of from the bottom of their hearts, and
also hold Mr.. John Mitchell himself in deci-
ded contempt. This is certainly mems on this
side the water, and the Illustrated Mems,
which illustrates all it says, ought to publish
among its graphic plates, as an evidence of
the contempt in which Mr.. John Mitchell is
held in this country, an illustration of the
splendid banquet given him in the capital of
Virginia, in which the Governor of the Com
monwealth, standing at the head of an enthu-
siastic assemblage, who had come together to
do honor to the Irish exile, exclaimed, "In
the name of Virginia, say Welcome Wei
come, Welcome, John Mitchell to this old
Commonwealth The Ners might also in
form its readers of the extraordinary com.
pliment paid Mr.. NJ by the Legislature of the
State Of Louisiana. and the invitations which
have been showered upon him to visit some
of the principal cities of the Union, as add
tional proof of the great contempt" in which
Mr.. John Mitchell is held in America. .
The truth is, that dreaded '.pen,' that wea-
pom more formidable than pixies, shillelab, or
even Paixhan, which Mr.. Mitchell Yields with
such tremendous force, and the fear of which
drew down upon him the vengeance of the
law in the oldeountry, that pen is in danger
OF doing much more damage to British power
IN America than ever in Ireland The Irish
Exile has appeared in the American "Ca;
zen" and, at moment when it is most impor
tant that Great Britain should be regarded al
Inc champion of the oppressed, here stands
one OF the oppressed themselves amongst us
ana gives Us in his own person, just released
from an exile as intolerable as Siberia, an inn
pfeSsise lesson of British justice and bums,
h'y. his pen is at work on broader ella
andwlth the prospect of mightier results tho
were possible in Ireland. 80 ssr e..
regarded with contempt in Amn-: De.ns
Mitchell is universally admired A. oonh
man Of high and noble bearing, nurs as.
honest patriot and a man whose intsllao..S
calibre is superior to the whole comb;n..
force of his assailants