The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-04-04
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IL mas occ" s.e 80 -. tho satire and s'anoe' VI
70 nav - - r. ey.t moments OF us eAi''e".s
H1'. .i n.r;ng the Revolution 'ne 'o's ~"
. nation. par1s 80. lampooued as without
England ana ., arrows nyisg thicker and
mercy ,ae ~. muske. balls and cannon shot
ia"et ,o.' 80, lately published containing the |
a 1--WE ~ the Revolution, and II must be adj
Era, IA scurrility and occasionally 10 sar-
49,. ,h.x sueeeeded much better than the red |
-. ana Hessiaus did In the field. Ridicule Is
,,,,erful weapon but IL IL not more powerful than
sruth or virtue. II Was oonsoling no doubt 10
laugh at the ragged aud barefooted Yankee Doo- |
dies, but "let him laugh who Winds" Yankee
Doodle, Ia his rags, proved more than match for
Boil in HE restmentais and At the end OF the war
his bare foot was onlJohn's breast, and he sang
Hall Columbia In style that took the point out OF
all the tory satires.
Ever since that conclusive aud glorious struggle,
the wits, tourists and snobs ofevery monarchy IN
der heaven have fairly dsrkened the air with mis-
silea Of derisicn and detraction, hurled at the
United States aud its people, and with just a. little
eject ~ the Same weapons produced In the days
Of the Revolution. A volume was written soon al
ter the independence Of America, by British no.
bleman, which proved to the satisfaction OF the
aristocracy that this country could never become
great 10 commerce, population, any OF the
elements Of national strength. When the course
of events exploded this marvellous prophecy, the
Trollope's, Halle, Marryatts, Fidlers, Dickenss,
aud others, caricatured our manners and hbeiled
our character in very witty and certainly unscru.
pulous manner. We were q nation Of traders,
plebeans vugarans, barbarians, little better tina
capuibals. As in the Revolution, the lsmpooning
and libelling all on one side; the action and
success on the other. The reply of America to
Europe was an advance in power, greatness and
civilization unparalleled in the history OF nations
The people of Europe, from whom so many libes
upon our country have emanated, forsook their ma
tive lands in multitudes, showing that they did
net believe one word of what was said against us
The greater the falsehoods of the travellers, the
larger was the emigration from Europe, aud for
every leaf of every book that the stpendiaries OF
monarchy issued against us, a feet of ships left
the Old World bearing off its backbone and muscle
to vitalize and build up the New.
The last of the adventurous knights who has
endeavored with his single lance, to stop the pro-
gress of mighty Republic, is NJ. Felix Belly,
famous for project not yet executed, Of cons
structing ship canal across the Isthmus of Mic
aragua. Belly has addressed a letter to his I'm =
perial master, Napoleon Ill, entreatiug him to
take under his gracious protection, "the L attn
races" aud to arrest the progress Of the American
barbarians. NJ Belly, who is bit of a theologiar
as we'll as poet, is Of opinion that Evil assumes
two forms in order to rule the world, one under
the guise of Tyranny, (meaning thereby o
course, no reflections on Nspoeon,) and the Other
under that of Liberty. "America," says NJ Belly
sis divided into two great sections, united at the
Isthmus, the possession of (which by the UNIrEl
SfArEs'-whom he regards as the incarnation o
that other phase of Evil, represented by Libert,
--"would be the signal for the conquest of tn
politics and the religion of Europe" He has as
certained that our occupation ofthe Isthmus would
lead to the seizure of Cuba, aud that the Queer
Of the Antilles "would speedily be converted
into a Naval Arsenal" the creation of which
has been already proposed with a view-to what
to the conquest of the whole of South America, ant
of the numerous fertile Islands in the Caribeal
Scar No!-but to enable Ito complete tn
overthrow of Catholicism in Europe" Don
imagine am romancing! exclaims Mr.. Belly. l
10 solemn truth am telling your Msjesty. "W
have had, from the very mouth of NJ. Pierre Soule
the svowal of these projects, which be did no
conceal at Madrid His Majesty is, moreover
implored neither to smile at, to treat witt
contempt the threats put forth by the Presiden
of the United States in his last Message. TIL
Emperor is seriously assured that Mr.. Buchanan
means malice, and that his Message should awake
In all Europe the desire to reply energeticaly."-
We regret to say that, as NJ. Belly warns with hi
theme, he INDUCES in very iudecorous languag
towards the people of the United States, whom b
characteristics indisciplined rout of thieye
and bankrupts." Mr.. soule ia again referred t.
as having publicly declared at Madrid, that tn
period sis not far distant when the American flee
will land on the shores Of Europe fifty thousan
Of our Yankees, who shall make more than
mouthful of your pretended civilization"
Our bellicose publicist next proceeds to inforr
his Imperial Majesty that it is only necessary t
blockade the ports of the United States to set 18th
Yankees" to fighting among themselves. "Put
wall around them, sire, j" he exclaims, sand the
will eat each other up. They will devour escl
other like eavages as they are. Have they no
already tasted of each other in Utah 2'' NJ. Bell
thus looks at the subject in gastronomic as We
q, q political point of view. He goes
assert that We are very weak and cowardly pee
ple," that as an adversary, we are "but what fan
tastic shadows are to a child-a mere phantom
which will vanish if it lie looked steadily in th
face" that our merchant vessels could not float
moment before an Imperial frigste, and that "
cannot "raise army capable of putting to figh
few battalioned fsols." This would ensur
safety, certainly, to NJ. Belly, but how does b
reconcile it with his avowal that it is necessar
for ell Europe to array itself in arms against suc
an impotent and cowardly people2 Evidently NJ
Belly's grand inter.oceanic canal project is nc
in a prosperous and promising condition.
If he can succeed in raising the wind by thes
dyspeptic exposions,it will be great relief to tn
victim of diseased liver. America will contn
ne to exist, Notwithstanding the antipathy of
Belly. Even Napoleon III. could not annihilat
us by blockade. nor force us to eat each othe
up-a task which would be much more diff cult
to accomplish than to swallow all France, evel
including that fragrant tit.bit, NJ. Belly.
A Bloody Record.
The New York Express gives the following lis
of murders and stabbiDss which have occurred il