New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-19
peeping out Of the pockets of "Our Coentry's
Bird" there il no distant prospect Of free aud


Bird;" there is no distant prospect Of free aud
enlightened citizen larrupng his niger, or OF the
people risen in their msjesty, hanging an Adolf
ZIONIST. In the old time we seldom saw our glo-
rious country personifed without some concoiniI
tants of this kind, and we never complained of
them, for these are legitimate subjects tor satire,
and We were Slways willing to take our share OF It
without making any WI faces about it. But tho
absence of ANYTHING of the kind is as full OF mean
ing as egg Is Of meat.
But We have not merely this negative evd nee
of changed, or changing state OF mind toward
us; but the tone of the dedication is very different
from the high and confident vein in which we were
formerly addressed. After very civil beginning
and continuing, he comes to the following exhorta-
ton, which we must think is strung few pegs
lower than the tune we have usually heard on such
themes: /" Let us, then, for all future time take
heed that we be mutually moderate, mutually for
Clearing. is to that matter Of Cuba, confess caR
"hsrdly see rhy, i you paid for il, yo~ should not
"hare IT," And is ii really SOL Is John Bull
going to recede from the ground he has always
maintained as to his right TO interfere for the
the water as well as on the other Is he ready to let
Jonathan establish himself in Cuba, whence it Will
be an easy stride for his long legs to Hayti, and
thence 10 Jamaica Is be willing that Giant
Jonathan should deyOur Cuba and Hayti, if his own
islands may have the POlyphemean privilege OF
being deyoured the last OF all For he must see
that Jonathan can swallow all these sunny islands
as easily as the dragon of Wantley devoured houses
and churches, -" which TO him were but as geese
"and turkeys, or as John himself can dispatcha
smoking plum-pudding; that Cuba would be
mere ,-het-an oy stcr or beccafco before supper.
Ii may be So But if so, the war has made John
dull as well as Punch.
We are we'll aware that Mr.. Punch is not the
Prime Minister of England. We do not take his
opinion as necessarily that of Parliament or the
nation. But we believe him TO be a Power on
earth, and that when he speaks a multitude of
minds speak through his squeaking organ. We
see in what he SAYS and in what he does not say,
how serious matter war with the United States
looks to the English people. We see that it ap-
proaches them in much more formidable gulse,
and that it threatens to come much nearer home TO
them than the distant crusade against the Car.
That this feeling will not be diminished by the
Presidents Message, which had not reached En-
gland when Mr.. Punch thus apostrophized his
Brother Jonathan, we may be sure. We cannot
infer from his friendly advances, to be sure, that
England will depart from her traditional policy
to balances of power, or give up any hold she may
have on this continent. But We think we may de-
duce from it the conclusion that there is DISPOSE
ton on the part of the midding classes of England
to make almost any concession to avert war with
us. Whether such Il concession as the consent to
stand by and see us gulp down Cuba will be among
the possible ones, remains to be seen. And per-
haps Mr. Punch himself will feel less literally in
cned toward us should the Esterhazy mission
prove to be mission of peace. We would not,
therefore, advise General Walker or Colonel
French to fatter themselves that England is quite
ready TO let them shake the Cuba tree just yet,
because of this proposed accession of Mr. Punch;
while We need not point out to General Pierce
and General Attorney General Gushing how safely
they can increase their political capital just at
this time, by an unlimited issue OF bullying mess
ages and speeches on the basis of this advance
made TO them by the Autocrat of Fleet street.