The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-10
TIE DAILY DISPATCH
WEDNESDAY mvKniNo, JANUARY 10, iss5

WEDNESDAY, mvkniNe, JANUARY 10, less.
BRITISH OPINIONS OF AMERIcA-A friend
has lately put in our hands an old volume, full
of interesting matter, entitled IAN Appeal
from the Judgment of Great Britain respect
ing the United States Of America Part First,
containing an historical outline Of their me-
rits and wrongs as colonies, and structures
upon the calumnies of the British writer's
BY Robert Walsh. Jr, 1919"
This work embraces "a review of the dis
position and conduct of Great Britain towards
this country, from the earliest period and a
collateral retaliation for her continued injus-
tice and invective.''
We are among the last who would cherish
and keep alive the natural antipathies of our
counfrymen against Great Britain-a nation
which has so many admirable traits in its in
stitutions and Ia the individual character of
ITS people. But proper selfrespect should
prevent US from lavishffg our sympathies
upon an empire which, however great and
noble 1t may be, has no love and regar Tor
US, and never has had any, as thisrolume OF
Mr.. Walsh abundantly demonstrates.
From the mass Of materials before IS WE
select q single illustration of British freju-
dice against the United States, and of the sz
traordinary pains taken to Undue with that
prejudice the minds of the sons of the British
nobility and gentry, the men who are deter
mined to become the legislators of the coun-
try and give the tone to national sentiment
At Westminster School, that great seminary
for the young mobiles and gentry of Great
Britain. it has been long the practice to ex-
hibit annually Latin play, of which the
characters are filled by the senior students
about to be translated to one ofthe great uni
versities. A Latin prologue and epilogue
accompanied the play. The performance is
attended by the principal dignitaries and no.
bility of the realm.
Mr.. Walsh gives the following translation
Of an epilogue in an exhibition which took
place about the conclusion of our last war
with Great Britain. The subject was emu
grafton to the United States, and it was
treated in the form of a colloquy between a
person preparing TO embark and patriotic
Englishman endeavoring to dissuade him
from the adventure. We ask the attention of
our readers especially to what is said In this
precious lampocn of the American Chief
Justice then John MARSHALL:
"DAyUs TO GETA-Whither do you pro-
pose to fly? Geta. To Hesperia (America.)
Davus. What to that country which is be-
yond the ocean; country barbagous in it.
self, and inhabited by tardarians. In that
country, Astrea is not virgin, but a virago;
Sometimes, as report goes she is drunkard,
often pugilst; sometimes even thief. Nor
is it easy to say whether the tenor Of their
manners is more to be admired for simplicity
or elegance; negro wench, as we are told
waits on her master at table in native nudity
and beau will strip himself to the waist
that he may dance unincumbered, and with
more agility. Do you love your glass; every
hour brings with it fresh bumper. There
you have the gum-tickler, the phIegm- cutter.
the gall breaker, the anta.togmattc. No man
is q slave there, for negroes are not consider
ed as of the human species in America. Eve
ry man thinks what he pleases and does what
he pleases.
"The young men spurn the restraints of
laws and of manners his own inclination is
there every mans sufficient diploma. BRIDE
peH and the stcws supply them acih senator's,
and their respectable chjef justice IS wOrth-
less scoundrel Does a senatorial orator
dexterously aim to convince his antag-
onist he splits plentifully in his face, and
that this species of rhetoric may be mere
eficacious, tobacco furnishes an abundant
saliva for the purpose. THE highest praise
Of a merchant IS has skill IN tying. Then
their amusements to gouge out an eye with
the thumb, to skin the forehead to bite oGthc
nose and to kill a man, is an admirable
joke. Believe me, Geta, even if the black
vessel of transport alton you embark in should
bear you safely to this elysium OF yours, the
very passage would exhaust all your funds
and your whole life would be held in pledge
never to be redeemed your destiny at las
would be to feed the rats of prison. But
come, think better of this scheme while yor
have it in your power Let the ruined man
the impious tcretch, the oHtl01c, praise Ameri
ca; if you are yet in your senses, Geta, stay
at holne."
This dialogue, we learn from Mr. Walsh
was committed for circulation to the English
Gentleman Magazine for April, 1915 three
months after the signature of the treaty OF
peace and Gmity between Great Britain and
the United States.
1t is not wonderful that when the men who
control public sentiment in Great Britain are
educated to hold such sentiments of Ameri
ca, that Americans should entertain CORES
pondent feelings. True, they ought TO let by
cones be by-gones, and to forget and forgive
but our bartarians, Scouadreis and mrctche.
can scarcely be expected TO throw up their
hats and hurrah for Great Britain in every
contest she may have with other nations.
A Coon 1DEA.-Thsre is very great suffer
ing in New York, among the many poor who
are without employment. 1t had been sug
gested that the pressure was in great de-
gree owing to the extravaganza of upper
tendom," who, having by their excuses be