Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-04
The Grand Fight.

Inc grand nght-the international
oontest-has transpired; the champions
have pummeled and punched each 9th
er to their hearts content,-the people
have learned Of the result and have cx-
pressed their qualification and opinions
ten thousand times apiece, and again are
getting Gown into the usual quiet condi-
ton. After having read the accounts Of
the fight, sober-minded men, unbiased
by country or aught else, can but decide
that Heenan was the victor-the "bet-
ter msn"-that he won the fight-sub-
dued the champion of England-pun-
ished him until punishment was no
longer to be borne, and that he-Hee.
nan-is to-day the champion prize fight
er Of the world. 1t don't amount to
much, reader, and after all it amounts
to good deal. There was not an
American heart, however pious and
however good that heart might have
been, that did not contain strong in
ward desire that the young American
hight win the battle and receive the
laurels. 1t is human nature, and you
can no more rub it out than you can
deny your country. We are all glad of
the result, however much we might con-
denim the brutalities Of the p. r. We
have seen men of staid religious habits
eagerly swallowing down the glad news
and giving forth expressions Of joy at the
success of the "Benicia Boy" We can
not censure any man for doing it, no
matter what may be his condition or
position, if he be an American. As
we said efore, it is natural it is born
and bred in us and you can't rub it out
you can no more wash that feeling
ont of an American breast than you can
wash the rich dirt off from the face of a
Western prairie with sixpenny sponge.
But what has old England-our old
mother country-learned from this tus-
sles Her rich men, her peers, her
earls, her noble lords and gracious
dukes-aye, even the members of the
Royal family-the acknowledged head
Of the nation, have oil been interested
at heart-nearly as much as the common
folks who talked loudest about it. What
has the British Lion learned. Why.
he has learned that John can whip
Tom; that the boasted championship Of
the world belongs not on her side of the
creek; that Johnathan still retains
pluck and muscle; that we not only
claim the lead in the arts and sciences,
enterprise, fast horses, chess players,
fast yachts, powder and ball exercises,
and all such features, but we claim the
champion of the prize ring. The last is
but an accession Of another National
victory. Nor was it less bloody in CON-
parison to the numbers engaged than
was the famous international squabblc
at Yorktown aud New Orleans, We
are sorry for Brother Bull that he did
not do the fair thing by Jonathan in
this last fight, but we have made
enough out of it to forgive the old fel-
low. Let England retain the belt; let
Sayers buckle it around his vanquished
body. 1t will do him no honor-;t will
girdle his loius, not as the trophy Of
well fought battle, but will be regarded
BY al honest men in the light of sto-
len bauble-regarded as rightly belong
ing to another, yet still retained because
he aud his friends combined have suffi-
cient brute force to withhold it from the
man who fought for it and won it. ri
it 10 any satisfaction to thus hold it. let
it remain in his keeping until the day Of
his death.
The fight is over, the excitement ia
subsiding. What next!
We are sorry to learn Of the sudden