Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-12-18
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The lon1en correspondence Of tie Kew York
zuss, gives the following lively aoesdRt Of lsts
achievement Of Mr. Dallas.
Touusy not know that Mr. Dallas q capital shot,
and Yields the Mantou IS oleverly Is the pen. No
scoomplishment oan possibly Gene aniss 70 diplo-
mssis although our good people in general seem to
think even good manners and decent knowledge Of
their Enlanguage superauous ornaments. unworthy
the envoy Of a Republican state-and Mr.. Dallas
skill IS a marksman served him very prstfily the
other day in an extempOrizsd match with certain.
veteran Viscount who is trying to console himself in
the turnip fields for his defeat upon the aOOr of st.
Stephens, and pops away at partridges with
surer aim than at Jones' Our Minister was the Wis
counts guest at the charming country ssat Immortal
Liked By that most modest Of ehronielers, Mr. Hen
y Wykef, and was enjoying the morning aiE, when
his host emerged from the manson gay with thss in
exhsustibls gayety which fifty years Of London life
and government have not sbated, and arrsysd for
the field in the inevitable CATERS appropriate to the
murder Of birda.
He vas apolOgizing for leaving his guest, without
suspicion that an American diplOuatst could think
Of meddling with 90 peculiarly British . sport as
shooting Parridges in the urnip fields involving
as it dees six or seven hours Of pretty hard walking
with no slight pull upon the WhOlesystem, muscular
and nervous, when our Envoy most politely insisted
upon setting of ACQUIRED as he was, rather for the
drawing room than for the open country, and trying
his hand 81 the business The Viscount Of course
assented no doubt with such private ohuekle over
the coming msfortuuss Of his diplomatic friend Is
Rochefoueauld would have delighted to witness, and
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the small array Of dogs and gamekeepers. The FIRST
American yolley wss delivered from both barrels,
fright and left" and brought down as many birds.
Fancy the Viscolnts amRzsment. This, however,
might be piece Of luck But what could be said
when every Whrl and rise in the field was followed
by the same prompt and precise results ill the hour
Of luncheon found the unprecedented gamebsg Of
the western representative rather more than twice
ss heavy as that Of his distinguished companion
Only fear hatWe are often more fortunate thanWise
for have known some Of our ambassadorial corps
whom should hsvs been sorry to pit either in point
of skill strength, endurance, good humOF good man
ners or good sense against the veteran ezeader Of
English liberals and should be glsd indeed to think
that halfof our young of education and posi-
ton could come as credtitably cut Of such chaBce
encounter as an actual Minister al the Court Of ST.
James. Meanvhile you msy safely enroll Mr.. Dali
les, with Chief Justice Marshal, Chancellor Kent,
Gen. Scott, and other vigorous worthless to whom
you once appealed against thenotion that our Amer
loan breed Of men carries less weight and viii stand
lessWear and tear thsnthe ancestral British stock We
are our own worst enemies certainly and need only
take honest thought Of our own bodies and what
they require in the way Of play and work alike, to
hold our own with our cOusing OrWith all the world.
But Of this honest thought have the sorest need
and trust that every young Yankee who, on read-
ing this, feels inWardly convicted" the he should
have been unequal to the silent challenge Of the Brit
ish statesman, win forthwith shoulder his gun and
hunt the fields until he has brought himself up to the
mark