The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-26
sensitive Americans.

to a sensitive American to see the evidences OF
American avarice, aggressiseness and cruelty
in the slave trade, shown to the world
&c, &c.
Perhaps IL would be, il there were any "sen-
sitive Americans" left. But the truth is, our
once thin. skinned nation, which WINGED IN
der the prick OF pin, has been. so belaporeo
and belied by foreign tourists and forelsn
newspapsrs. that IL now has the skih Vi
rhisoceros and calmly challenges It's ae''"o-
tors 10 do their worst. For the last thir'y Vi
forty wars IL has been the vocation OF COCK
new scribes in London and Paris 10 oe'ioe ana
1.-The, the United States. A. FIRST, we kicked up
nnaer the infiietion, like a yonng colt under
The eurrycomb but the operation which is
alarming to the inex perience of a colt, becomes
rather agreeable to an old horse. The London
TYuaes need give itself no concern about the
pain these stories give us they rather afford
US agreeable amusement. We have been SO
scandaiized and lied about, that at last we
have concluded not to be troubled by the
opinions--good, bad or indifferent-of those
who are capable of such defamation and in
Justice. Moreover, we have observed that the
cons tant stream of detraction which Europe
has let loose upon us, has not yet swallowed
grain of the corner.stones of her power and
prosperity Instead of that, the country has
grown stronger, wiser, more popnlons and
happy every year of its existence; whilst Eu-
rope. which has had all sorts of charges
against America eternally rurg into it's ears,
for the purpose of prejudicing the public
mind against the United States, sends over
immense multitndes every year to ENJOY
blessings which they are denied at home, and
to swell the gro tn and power of the country.
Thus, "the world" the Times calls the
nations of Europe, does not seem at all affected
by these stories of American avarice, agrees
siveness, cruelty, and all other crimes, which,
is is feared, must be Calling to our sensitive
natures. ~he world" does not believe one
word of them. The "world," by which we
mean the European masses. are glad enough
to get to America. as to the little world OF
Emperors, Kings and potentates, they have
nowadays not much respect even in their own
dominions, and are only too happy to make
the best com parison they can with the liberal
ideas which Europe has obtained from Amer
ica in exchange for her industrious popula-
tion ard which are making the strongest
thrones tremble as with the throes of an earth
quake.
The idea that America should be CALLED by
charges of avarice, aggressiyeness, and cru
city, coming from that old continent which
is saturated with them and all other political
iniquities, does more credit to our juvenile
sim lcity and righteousness than we de-
serve. We have arrived at an age when we
know ourselves, and our Mentors also. If the
United States were guilty Of all the crimes
they alege. there is no nation in Europe
how
is scarcely a throne within its borders which
was not obtained by fraud or violence not
one strong nation which has not oppressed
the weak; not one empire whose history does
not exhibit the lust of land and power upon
an hundred bloody pages. England has Cir
died the earth with colonies stolen or robbed
from their original proprietors, and our do
mestic institu tons, against which she rails so
bitterly, were forced by her upon our forefa-
theirs against their repeated protests. Her own
West India islands in former days, and her
East India possessions show with what ad-
mirable consistency and modesty she can de-
nounce the United States for avarice and
cruelty! Nor is France. or any other Eu-
ropean Government one whit behind Great
Britain in aggressiyeness, in the greed of
power and plumber. Yet this is the world -
WDlcQ Is SuIIlUlOutu ~ SIT upOh
us, and before which we are expected to blush
scarlet, and cry for mercy, whenever any
newspaper or traveller chooses to look at us.
The time hes gone when we can be CALLED
after that fashion. We have become a "world'
unto ourselves. An ocean, thank Heaven,
three thousand miles wide, rolls between us
ard the malicious, but effete and paralytic,
Powers of Europe. We have survived the
Of. rhaf iaIA
we have lived and prospered in spite of the
base hostility of their libels and misrepresen-
tations; and we are generous enough to feed
our enemies when they are hungry, and clothe
them when they are naked. Providence has
given us productions essential TO the life and
comfort of mankind ; the "world is dependent
upon us-cannot live without us-a fact that
is more CALLING to sensitive Englishmen"
than the stale and WORKOUT invectives of
English journals are to sensitive Americans"