The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-18
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WALKRR's Central American raid will
bring Us In TO disreput to- not into trouble. with
all the virtuous and exemplary nations Of
the Old World Every we'll regulated Amer,
ican must be excessively shocked at the I'M
paralieled iniQuity OF the reputation we shall
soon have revived for us throughout all Eu-
rope. Every sensitive cons science In this hem
isphere will utter the most heartrendins re-
proaches at the idea of being again caught in
the very act of fiat burglary, especially after
so many repeated failures upon the same
dwelling Ii we remember rightly, on two
several occasions. when the "grey eyed man
OF destiny" had got his head and part OF ms
body in to the window of the mansion which
he rroposed to ransack, some Esgiish or
American policeman has; in the most abrupt
noa uncersmonious manner, arrested him by
thu coat tails and lifted him out of the country.
The possibility that such thing will occur
asain must shock the moral sense and the
sense Of proprieiy of every civilized Anglo
Saxon in the United States. Whilst we are
repeniins with genuine sincerity our constant
run OF bad luck, the world at large will sit Ia
Judgment upon the abs tract ques ton of NOR
ality. and we shall be condemned throughout
Chr,stendom IS a nation of land stealers and
pirates. Nothing gives such a sting TO the
remorse which all ingenious minds feel upon
being found out in crime, as the reproofs
of the virtuous and honest What apang will
shoot through the heart Of Young America,
when not only are his little, unsuccessful
attempts TO be vicious exposed TO the world,
but he is hauled mp before the tribunal of
tried and condemned by those reformed and
exemplary royal rakes, who have long since
sowed their wild oats, and are determined
heneeforth to be virtu GUS, and because they are
so, TO permit no one else 10 have "cakes and
ale"
We desire our countrymen to make up their
minds beforehand for the den unciatlons which
the London and Paris journals will soon hurl
upon their heads. That which gives impress
siyeness TO the reproofs OF England and France
is their own territorial magnitude, which was
ali obtained by the most honest and peaceful
transactions. 1t is the boast Of England that
the sun does not set upon her dominions, but
with extraordinary modesty, she never says
much OF the way in which they were acq uired.
Doubtless much of her holy horror At fiilibus-
tering srises from the manner in which she
was once herself overrun by Romans, Danes,
Saxons and Normans, TO say nothing of the
acciden tai incursions of Scotch cattle-thieyes,
and the occasional forays after her crown by
PreteIders and Dutchmen. Who ever heard
of England fillibustering in Asia, Africa, or
America And as to the French, the Emperor
is obliged to maintain standing army of six
hundred thousand men for the purpose of
keeping other nations from annexiDg them
selves 10 France. He has shown conclusively,
in his letter TO Lord PALMERsToN, that he de-
sires only TO develop the power and pr osperity
of his country, and that being his object, he
can have no other use for an immense stand
ing army than 10 keep the rest of the world
from hanging around the neck of the grand
empire, and delaying and impeding her peace
full and triumphant progress. The first Ma
PoLRoN avowed the same purpose and he had
10 kill great many foreigners and even
Frenchmen in order to accomplish it. Eng
land, France and other European Empires,
have been engaged. beyond all question. in
many long and bloody wars. If all the vic
Tins they have slain could rise from the dead.
il would look like the final resurrection at the
Day of Judgment ana if all the groans OF an
guish they have caused could be condensed
into one lament ation, it would sound like the
funeral dirge of the universe. But who ever
knew them to go 10 war about land, or TO covet
and appropriate that which was not their
oWnl
Seriously, we do not desire to be understood
as apologists for Gen. WALKERS raid into
Central America. We are no friends of fill
clustering, whether by North Americans into
Central or South America, or by Northern
philanthropicaI marauGers into the Southern
States But, whatever the criminality and
injustice of American fillibust eIing the ma
lions of the Old World can exert no moral in
fluence by words among those who have ever
looked at their works. JONATHAN WILD,
reproving young rogue for picking pockets,
would be a fair parallel to England aud France
denounciDg America for fillibustering. 1t is
hardly proba ole that WALKER can make as
great progress, or commit horrid cruelties
As happened III the conquest of India, or:s
Marshal BUGEAUD accomplished in Algeria.
Let the grey old sinners of Europe remove
the beam from their own eyes, and then they
will see more clearly 10 pull the mote from
the eyes OF JONATHAN. Let those Old World
lepers, faint ted from head to foot with corrup.
tion, find some purifying Jordan TO cleanse
and heal their hideous sores, and then they
may, with more consistency and grace, point
the finger of scorn and condemnatio at the
plague spot just appearing on the fair face Of
our young Republic.