The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-10
,cNpaY MoRNIN0........F FEB. 10. lsss.
Who are AmsYiCans:

.a,, uho were and who were not Ameri-
ans In lhose days. when the sdmonition Of
cAn Washington, "Pat none but Americans
-, Onsrd TO night, was the watehword Of n
,ormidabe political party, the only "Ameri
CANS" were members of the Know Nothing
order. They did not, however, long main
tain the monopoly Of that comprehensive and
pstriotic title, and after their early decease it
reverted to its original Proprietors, the United
State. At large Since the secession of the South
arm States :he Yankees with their accustomed
naodesty, have appropriated tho old national
uAme Of Americans. Having previously ap
propria;ed the territories, the army and navy,
the military stores, the flag. the common Cap
iioI, Hail Columbia, and tho public Exche
oaeF, i; lie not to be wondered at that they
assume also monopoly of The American,
name, aud that foreign nations with their
Customary discrimination, have aecor led to
.Asm that title. What jastiee thsre is In
- appropriation OF tho name Of Americans,
81. nc Id be hard TO show; nor i. there any
..n,,v oe sensa in The South surrsndering
eI.imt, a, least some share of Aneri-
csnlsU
II the tret ,iace. i. 5vas in accordance with
.p- swelling ana boasH Hai ep.ri; Of Yankee
.jo,- 10 assume such a Iame eYea fer ;ae
United State. at large lien, IL point Of
b,7. i constituted So slaA. d iaIt, terri
toraily aud nup4ar.c lily, OF the continent OF
America still more ridiculous .s ats aSsUu p
ton by the fragment of Yankee States broken
a by recent political commissions. AS de-
,cription Of race, the term is vastly more ap-
pUcable TO the people of the Southern than
lie Northern States. The form er are, with
little exception, of pure English descent, a
homogeneous people, identified In interests,
;nstitations and descent, and never having re
,elved more than local visitation from the
couds of immi grafton, except the hostile ele
neuts which have visited us in the lightning'
aadthunders of war. The North and the West
on the contrary, have been the vortex into
which enormous tides of all the populations o.
the earth have been pouring for the last fifty
wears. The principal cities of the free States
contain population III many cases OF one
fourtb and in others, almost half of foreign
Immigrants In the cities of New York, Bos.
Lon. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, one may hear
.pch n iargon Of foreign tongues as has not
been paralleed since the dispersion at the
tower Of Babel Nor is it the cities alone,
bn, some rural districts, comprising large
portions Of the best land in the country, are
inhabited by colonies Of Europeans who still
retain their old language aud customs, have
uo knowledge of constitutional liberty, and
no sympathy with anything American ex
cent that which is iseonnected with their mean:
Of living The Northern army now invading
III. South is not an American army, but con
,a;ua At Sast hundred and fifty Thousand
,hapd Ge rmans, whilst not few even of the
oaieers are men of foreign birth. For such q
eouvIomeraiion as this to monopolize the
name of American is the most barefaced piece
Of impudsnee and dishonesty which tina
shameless pack has ever exhibited. When, I
few wears ago. the Thames was gorged ant
almost driven from its bed by the sewerage OF
london, it WAS about as near the once pure
and classic river of former age as thai
which is now called America is to the Ameri
"a Of ls76.
la other and even more impo rtant respects
the United States have no longer claim t.
the name of America; stil less to the me
nopoly Of that name. What liberty won b.
our fathers, what right, franchise. or prerog
alive of freemen is now left that unhapp
people7 They have shivered to atoms tn
Union which gave America ali its glory
they have trampled the Constitution. whic
was the bond and life of that Union, in pei
feet tempest of passion under their feet, an
danced upon its torn fragments like 80 man.
bowling dervishes; they have erected CO
iossai Giiis2ry d4spotism upon the ruins o
republican liberty. They do not seem to b.
tia same men, intellectually aud morally, an,
more than politically. Not single statesman i
left within their whole borders. Insteadof th
C1tons, Spencers, Grosvenors, LivingstOns
Van Nesses, and Van Renselaers, of New
York, there is that miserable scrub, Seward
combining a Gilbert Glossin and Oily Cannon
An educated blackguard-of all blackguards
she most disgusting-a fellow without birth
breeding, or any of the ideas or feeli gs of
gentleman, and whose whole career has neve
exhibited one single example Of sa.aciou
aud comprehensive statesmanship. lnstea
Of the spirit Of Americanism which nan
years ago animated the Northern masses
there hss risen that vile spirit Of seetio
which, i'll the choice of Abraham Lincoln, de
ela-ed that the North should be master OF tn
South an Infamous declaration, which tn
South, with her drawn sword and her stOI
right arm, has made null and void. Eve
those men of the North who once claimed +
be Americans Ind eouaervatives-the Ever
cit. Of the Whig and tue Dickinsons OF tn
Democratic party-have thrown themselve
into the very front of the sectional crusadt
aud stripped themselves of every attribute o
the American, as well AZ every quality OF tn
gentleman What magnificent assurance
then. IN the Yankee nation to monopolize tn
ol'e proud name Of AMERicANl A. wei
l9ht the brigands who infsst the mountain
and plunder the villages Of modern Greco
da.a kindred with the demi gods who hav
made tha pame of Greece immortal, or tn
ia2zsroni who beg and steal under the shades
of the eternal city, claim to be Romans, AM
ihs noblest Romans Of them all.
Bsmb Psssf Batteries.
We are Informed that our water bstterie
ip so,na ;unortant DOiutS ara still vvithOu