The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-27
Ths Tsnss On the TeIegraphic il
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We lately gave the substance Of sarcasuc ~"
Nl-sasursa article from the ioodoa Times, on the
ssltecs IL the gsAod Telsgraphie jubilee ~ tue
sesy 81 Mes York. What has happened OF 's
e aciAsisss the characteristic sweetness and s"'
sAiiity OF the rhundsrer's temper, IL 10 osfd 70
coaiseturs. IL 10 bat . en-, tiIss since ne "as
1Atseeisg and cAjoIiog Brother Jonathan s'd 10
q srstssssI cos6dcatai way, recommending Elm
70 turp tLisf high wsymaa and murderer, Tor the
Assest Of some Of Joasthab's needy relations In
the old couutsy. This immaculate representative
esd sxpounder Of public morality, hes lately ex
hassssd eli It's breath In eudsavefing 70 persuade
the Uaitsd States 70 butcher aud plumber Mexico
asd Cuba, for no other purpose 10 the world than
- Aaad over the contents Of their pockets to
their creditors In Engised. who could obtain their
noesy 10 no other way. This lev mode Of sscur-
log debt, viz: kaocking the debtor down, cut.
ting bis throat, and riding his pockets, was one
which Jonathan did not understand, and about
Which b had some seruples, not Of aconscientious
kind, Ier he hasa little conscience a. Bull. and
not hsif - much hypocrisy-but because the pro.
cess might not Be approved BY another Power Of
Dsrops, whom Engaud has lately learned to re-
srsct, aud who 10 regarded here ss much more
formidable enemy than Eneland,-we mean
Brancs. Uaisss louis Napoleon consented to our
sAs opisioos Of the London Times could not fscili-
sAes eur acquisition OF those countries, aud 1t IL
perhaps the cold shoulder which consequently has
beea gvcn 10 its proposition, that has turned all
che honey Of the Times nature, into the sourest
kind Of vinegar.
The Tmes 10 supercllious and contemptuous in
high degree over the extravagant demonstrations
10 New York, which, In truth. were regarded by
many Of our own eountrymsn o. absur d and uon.en.
steal. II accounts for the uproar in the United
Slater, By the fact that We are united with the
Old World, and for the spathy in England, be-
ssuss Baslspd 10 only utned to the Uuited state..
II thinks that an alliance Of this kind ia not ke,
- prove very advantageous to England, politically,
escsass II q chronic habit of the politicians OF
the United States to manufactore grievances against
Aogsand. and carry them to the verge Of war -
Thte 10 rather shower bath upon the hot heads
Of New York, but We arc not sorry to see It. Pos.
sioiy IL msy have . tendency to give them some
idse Of national pride and personal self respect
The o1ly nortifying reflection is. that al Amer.
ems are involved In the folly and extravasance Of
ths New York Glorincation, when, Ia truth il was
% strongly disapproved In many parts Of the Uni-
tsd States, and probably 10 every Southern State
~ 10 Great Britain.
The English journals must not confound the
Cnitsd States with New York. which, though a
great aud gallant, but somewhat viyacious and
lnsreuraI city, 10 not to America ~hat Paris is to
france. The people Of the South, for example are
NV and always have been as Indifferent TO the
Atlantic Telegraph as the people of England
There 10 scarcely Southern city which has mani
tested the slightest enthusiasm at the idea of be-
Ing connected Ia this manner with England. Asa
won dsrfui scientific achievement 1t has excited
sdniration, and has aroused new faith and hope I'm
humas character and progress, which, however,
1--we been expressed without any undue exal a.
Nvn Of feeling or language. But ~ link OF union
With Highland, II has all along been felt aud said
in this latitude that the commercial benefits would
snars principally to English advantage, and that,
In tie event Of war, IL would prove powerful in
strumsnt 10 the bands of Great Britain, which It
Va the height Of folly In rs ever to have assisted
In laying down. Indeed, We doubt whether the
exeitable New Workers rsjoiced over the Telegraph
bscause IL might prove bond Of alliance with Eng
land, or any other country. They wanted to have
. grand froIic, and they have had it, and are BY
this time - cool and philosophical in their seuti.
nsots rsspectipg the Cable - the London Tines
itself
The assertion Of the Times that It is a chronic
habit OF the politicians Of the United States to
tasm TO the verge OF war; has probably par ticular
reference to tho late excitement upon the subject
Of British outrages in the Gulf. Now, it is clear
% far a. the Cable has any influence upon subjects
Of national disagreement, its effects will be of a
pacific and conciIiatory character If the Cable
had been laid at the time when the late outrages
began, intelligence Of the fact might have been at
enos transmitted 10 England, and an instant BE-
sponse given, stating that the commanders Of the
British vessels wero acting without orders, ard d.
Sseting them forthwith to desist from their uu.
justinable proceedings. We should thus have been
kspt good deal farther from "the verge Of war,
than vas actually the case. That the grievances
complained OF were not imaginary, it ia only ne
esssary 70 say that the London Times has itself re-
marked that II an American vessel had treated
British vessels ~ the Styx did our merchantmen,
British man Of war would, and ought to have
been sent out st once with orders to sink her to
the bottom Of the ocean.