The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-11-30
Abuse of the United states.

The British press have opened the fioodgates oil
their long pent up abuse, and are coming down
upon us in deIuge. AS specimen, we mako the
allowing extract from a leading article III TIE
London Weekly Dispatch of Novemer 4th ~
IL was significant-we might say profound-ob-
servation of Lord EIiesmere, who has hlinsen tla,
yelled for q period quite available ter lnsight ana
obsefvati in the United States that the Yankees
are by nature the warike people on the lace Oh
the earth As the great war community OF sne a af
cient world was ,'ihe genuine seed of outlaws ana 81
robbers" the United States are peopied ofisioay
hy convicts and recently by the runaway sasa,
bondage of Europe Fighting with the WOODS ana
wilderness the Indian and the wild beasts the eli
mate and the necessities of individual isolation hnn'
ers trappers, fisiierneu adventures ny nood and
| field their very habits gave them ntrepldlty, anu
that spirit of adventure to which is the greatest
minister. Having conquered WORLDS they stlii ~
cine new" Vast, gigantic 10 their territory, they
20 ON and 60 FORTH invading the lntermeclate Whael
ness and then annexng Mexico. Their appetite for
acquisitions is Unsuitable They hunger after oregon
and thirst for Canada; they nbble at MOSQUITO anu
coyet Cuba California is already settled aud Salt
Lake is in their grasp. They openly proclaim their
design to bring whole hemisphere under their sole
dominion. Already numbering twentyhVe m 1a
everv man can handle rife and hunt; every adult male
is duly drilled at stated PERIODS Ihey
born sailors and comparatively limited as Is tner
capital, they are the bodest ady entuIers IN ,r
! tion whereof their inland fresh water seas, thelf
great lakes and form the appropriate nursery
I'VE see clearly that, within the next twenty years.
they foil to become the greatest political pow
er In the world; that they will become the master
key the politics OF Europe; that they will swell IN
to vast military and naval pOtentiaity hold the
greatest army and navy-aye, and use then1 too, Tor
dictstion, conquest and dominion. .a'
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We dsown these recreant desce ndants of the no
BILE stock whose just prerogatve it has been to teach
the uatioDs how to live. All absorbing, all CRASHING
we mark with disnay and concern their entrance up
the theatre of the European political system We
| do not seek underrate their vast power-power,
we tear, be welded unscnpulousy the interest
of rnischevous selfishness. We believe that daily
they will mghtier, and arrogant and domineerins
in ratio of their might We how Russia plays
| up to them;' will Germany, until we shall see
them, for the sake OF sainfuf commercial treaties,
maIshaed the side of legitimacy and in the inte
rests of absolutiun 1t in time 'closee ranks
The Eastern like Intervention of PrOyi-
dence to cement union with France. Its continue
anco, its extension and consolidation, the
| only hope of Europe-of the world. II f.
| If the United States are as wariike and danger
Gus as you pretend, it would be good policy to keep
| civil tongue in your head. The day will come
when they will settle up long score of insults and
indignities. "We disown these recreant descend
ants Of a noble stock" You disowned Jonathan
in ZIG, but the date of his prosperity and power
never began till that disownment