The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-28
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II IN. GOOD old Heathea days. wnea 49,
-, .h,,.,.rs., from Mount Ida, ana Inv iniAsi
.,.,,,e. rn.med. like knight-erTan's, .uae~ea
~. ,vayh in auest Of adventures. Sh's"''
80. assop or some other equaiiy uhq"os''oa'
-. .,,nority that two OF these erraue o'-
-. Arorlo, representing the sun, ana
- uho.e constituents were all the winds
-, ,,,,v naneath the heavens met upon the
..,,mtt OF olympus, or some other equally
-. ..,c mountain, and Immediately fell into
.,,.nu,a with regard TO the comparative
.trensth OF their several endowments. The
God of the winds, said EoLUs, Is the most
powerful OF all the Gods, JUPITER the father
OF them all, and his half-brother, NRrTuNE,
emperor of all the oceans, alone excepted
"You will be so kind as TO include in your ex-
cepsioa, the God OF the Sum- said he who
acted as the Automedon of that fiery chariot.
81 except no one, retorted the clustering di-
viu,ty, with a voice full OF sound and fury,
sisaiiying great deal Come, come, broth
err suggested the soft-spoken God OF Song
and Poetry, there is no occasion for us to fali
out. or 10 call in an arbiter to witness the dis
graceful scene OF a quarrel in the roy al house.
the test upon the spot. DO You see yonder
traveller walking across that wide and bare
old field, in which there is not so much as
shrnb Or a bash TO he seen. Now, let US both
try our u,mos; upon him, and he who shall
FIRST compel him 10 lay aside his cloak, shall
be considered the most powerful God of the
two" agreed said 1EoLus, land here goes
for wager" SO saying. he summoned ID his
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we do not remember; bu, il matters little, for
the curious in such matters will find them
duly recorded in the first book of the Enid.
Instantly they raised an awful pother around
the poor traveller. His hat was blown off his
head. and his antics in attempting to catch 1t
afforded infinite amusement to the Juvenile
divinities, sole spectators of his dilemma
Having. however, at last accomplished the
very difficult feat of getting possession of his
beaver, while running at full speed, his cloak
flying in the wind, like the streamer of a man.
Of war under press of canvas, he began to
be,hink him of defending himself against the
weather. His first motion was to press his
hat down tight upon his head, and his next
was TO wrap his cloak tightly around his
body AoLus clustered, rallied and stormed
with all his might, but finding that the only
effect he produced was to make the man wrap
his garments around him more closely, he a!
last gave ii up in despair. "Now,'' said APoL-
Lo, "iet me try my hand . and he shot forth
the brightest and most powerful of the many
million of rays he always kept in reserve for
extraordinary occasions. The effect was in
Simultaneous. The man first took Off his hat
and wiped his brow, then Ioosened the folds OF
ms cloak, and finally removing it entirely
from his person, carried it upon his arm
Moral: "Soft sawder'' is better sometimes than
brute force.
We could not avoid thinking of this fable
and the lesson it was intended to teach when
we read. the other day, that the English had
been mauled by the Chinese on the ri Ho, in
the attempt to force their way to Pekin, al
most as badly as they were mauled by the
Americans forty-four years and some eight
mont tbs ago, on the Mississippi. when they
attempted To force their way to New Orleans
while the Americans, who used no weapons
more powerful than few conciliatory words,
Were admitted without the smallest difficulty
Soft speeches seem TO have been fairly pitted
on this occasion, against round and hollow
shot. and a cunning tongue found its way,
where Armstrong guns could not force one.
The British Government might learn, we
should think. that the diplomacy of force is
not always the best diplomacy and that there
are other ways to win the confidence of men
besides shooting them like dogs whenever
they fail to convince them of error Stung by
the disastrous issue of their attempt to carry
out an extorted treaty by the same force that
extoried it, the English press console them
selves by abusing the Americans, who have
had the good sense not to offend the pride of
an ignorant and proud people, in their at
tempt to open an intercourse with them. and
have therefore succeeded in obtaining by favor
that which they did not think proper 10 con-
cede 10 threats. Such result was the most
natural thing in the world. The Chinese
know the English as a naughty, truculent
overbearing people, always ready to take ad-
vantage of their superior strength by treating
them contemptuously, and having not the
least respect for their feelings, or their pride
In point of fact, they have rendered them
selves As much detested at Shanghae and Can
ton as they are at Madras and Bombay, and
they find 1t impossible TO ex tort any concession
from the Chinese except at the mouth of the
cannon. twas, we say, under such circum-
stances, the most natural thing in the world
for the Chinese 10 receive, with exceptional
favor, the envoy of a nation from which they
had never received anything but good Offices.
and which had always taken the greatest care
to treat their customs, their religion, their
government, and their preiudices of every de-
eeription, with the utmost posi- BILE degree of
res pect The contrast was too great, not to
have an immediate and sensible effect upon a
people weak AID childlike, in their pride and
prejudices, but peculiarly sensitive to insult
and highly susceptible of gratitude for kind
treatment. There is no occasion to account
for the reception of the Americans, as the
London press does, by fancying a peculiar
kind Of understanding with the Russians
The fact that they never treat the Chinese
with disrespe and that the English, when in
power, always treat those whom they consid-
or beneath them with insoience, is sufficient to
account for it all. 1t is this characteristic
which, in spite of their great national quail
ties, has rendered them, from Paris to Pekin,
the most detested of all people whom history
has thought importantenought to mention.
We presume the upshot of all this business
will be that China will be invaded, and her
people slaughtered by the hundred thousand.
The government may be oyerthrown, and the
Emperor sent TO die in the unwholesome at
mosphere Of Calcutta But, what then
What is 10 become of China The English
will hardly make another experiment after
the GIVE and WARREN HASTINGS fashion,
They viii not venture. we opine, to annex a
fresh 4u0, 10000 of Asiatcs, while the 1e0, 000,-
100 that they already have in tow are still
straining the cable SO intensely. After they
shall have been covered from head to heel
with blood, brains and glory, what will they
do next, Why, leave China just as il is now,
her population ignorant of the laws of war
and her rulers always ready to evade the |
treaties. whose stipulations they cannot mn. |