Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-18
what our Neighbours Thlnk-very
Amusing but NOT mpl1mentary.

The Monireai Commercial ia discussing Amer
lean affairs with n speine- which will be found
moro amusing than complimentary. II says;
..While The American Government is doing its
best 10 provoke a quarrel with England. n state
Of anarchy Sufficient 10 engage all its energies
exists in its own domlnions. One thing only pre-.
vents a war with England. one only stays civil
war in Kansas. The American Eagle il half
breed beiwfrp a carrion ynlture and n dunghlll
rooster. lie lacks the courage necessary for
fair combat, and he crows the lopdest when fur
thcre-t from the enemy. The men of the revolu-
rion are dead, their inferior children of 1872 arc
in their dotage, The present generation raised on
hot cakes mud swee, fixing. and stimulated with
tobacco juice. i. all talk aud no cider. as desii
inte Of thu stamina on which conrageis founded
as its mothers are IT flesh.
Il ,nok nj tho women; charming Mt sixteen.
faded at twenty tonihless at twenty five, hideous
a, thirty. dividing their time between their rock
lug chairs and their beds, incapable Of exertion,
incompetent to exercise, ever filling lazy.
straight up and down like mn old-fashioned
clothes pin making up the deficiency of their
development with whale bone. cotton and bran
ARE these the things 10 suekle heroesl The
race has deiefiora,ed and Is dwindling away;
and but for the constant introduction OF new
aud healthy blood from immigration, would disap.
pear in u century.
THE moral deficiencies of the people nre equal
10 the physical; the boys slang each other, but
never fight; the men ssh ssinate, but never come
to blows they talk terrible things in public meet.
ings aud confne their terrible dongs to
cealed shot, or a sudden stab at an unprepared
enemy. Ministers Of the Gospel advise blood
shed. and take up subscriptions for rifles, every.
thing necessary for u combat is sent to the scene
OF contention but pluck: the men are white liver
ed, and afraid ofeach other; and if one party ad
vances, the other runs away: houses are plum
dered and burned. and unarmed people butcher
cd. If the assaulted pick up courage and advance
again, the assaants run in their return, and like
scenes follow their footstep. Indignation meet
ngs held in all the cities and all the States;
money is subscribed for nims and ammunition,
for food and clothing patriotic orafions thunder
from the rosirum, and incendary declamatlons
from the pnpt--tle North is about to vindicate
its liberties, the East to fly 10 the assistance of
its children outraged liberties is to appeased
with the blood Of the marauders, the freedom OF
the soil of Kansas to be relieved from the oppro-
brious despotism of its invaders. Now surely
there will be fighting No, gentleman, not bit
of tit is still all talk. very tall and superlatve
talk, but still, DOR et preterea nihH"
After desoanling on Kansas and the ingori-
nus capture by Sheriff's posse of the city of
Lawrence, armed with 500 rifles, the CONNER
cial concludes in the following true John Bull''
strain:
1--WE do NOT thlnk there Is much occasion 10 be
afraid of them, whether there be peace
a contest in which there is more hard knocks to
be got thnn plumber, is exactly the one in which
our degenerate cousins have not the least desire to
Engage. Let them hold Kansas Meetings and
Sumner Meetings, and Champion Indignation
Meetings. If they please; tnlk IL their peculiar yo
cation, national institution and one of the most
innocent. When population. which, eager and
ready TO invade the rights and property of others,
ia without the courage to protect its own with an
army made up of the congregated sooundrels of
all nations, and fleet manned feebly. as it is.
with such set Of riff raft that while tho one half
of the crews are in irons, guard beats, while in
hnrbor, hnveto watch day and night to prevent
the desertion of the others. and the service 80
opular, that sing 10 steamer has taken months
after it commissioned to obtain n crew
there il no more to be dreaded from vapor
ing or the reality Of it from the United States,
than from similar gasoonade, or actual action on
the pat of His Serene Majesty tho Emperor OF
1imbuctoo."