The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-15
From the New orleans True Delta, 4th.
The GrandiIoquent Collapse.

The GrandfIO quent Collapse.
So it appears, beyond dispute, that the
! Lineolnites have actually come down from
valorous stilts have descended from their
high purpose of humiliating Britain, have
| heroically abstained from carrying out
Stewards design of annexing Canada, have,
in fact, stupendously wilted in presence of
| i've thousand relocated fellows sent to the
| frigid Canadas and a few Armstrong guns
landed at Halifax. And is it come to this,
is it actually admitted that government
| possessing, according TO its official lists,
seven hundred thousand men in arms, and
very great difficulty in keeping the num-
Der down to million, with feet of near
three hundred armed vesseisin co nmission
has ingloriously sculked, cur-like in pres
ence of peremptory demand, from a con-
ficI with power which the orators of
Washington, every session of Congress for
the last twenty years, have pro- laimed to
be effete, to have passed into 81 nilitY, to
have literally dwarfed into the Dimensions
OF an ordinary second rate power Is it
the same Seward that painted for he oppor-
tunity to troHnee the insoIent islanders.
and whip them of this continent who now
has, at tue very first serious look G old Bull,
ran yeiping to his kennel witho It having
Sc much spare courage left as to liable him
even to growl back at his new m,sters? To
this complexion is it come at last. johnny
Bull, the old, eorpulent second-l and fogy,
blind to consequences, forgetful oe Seward 8
grand army and enormous fleet: Utterly OBJ
hyious of the Muscovite giant wi o was. in
the event of an American war, t., bestride.
like Colossus, his eastern empil e. reading
and suhJugating it; is John s,nmndful.
stupid old beef-eater that he is, that a Bona
tn h1a
eargerly seize upon the occasion the Lin
colnite government had, in its ov n opinion,
been generously and considerably Y prepar-
ing for him the clumsy, obese ind thick
headed old curmndgeon we see is Indifferent
to these considerations, and in bind conf
dence Ia his rusty valor, absolutely defies
the fate that had made up its mind to de-
throne and destroy him, and spurts from
his not toOthless mouth, a very defiance in
the face of the boasted architects of the
grand scheme to overthrow him. What if
Bull immemOrially disregarded all interna-
tioBal rights and international duty stand
ing in the way fhis interests or his ambi-
tion, upon the element over which his do
mlnlons claim to be mistress does it follow
that he will tolerate any such coward
ly braggart rump like that of Washing
ton in an imitation of his own precedents? I?
Far, very far, indeed, is it from bis
intention, and that the door may
not be opened TO any such pre-
sumptuous pretence, the old buffer his
digits firmly clenched and his robust fight
ing attitude of olden times taken, when he
challenged the world to combat, makes a
peremptory demand for a compliance with
his wishes, a yes or a no to his categorical
requisition, and the boasters of Federaldom
shrink like kicked hounds from the alterna-
tive the glorious old rascal presents for
their selection. la all this is to be found
that boasted genuine British feeling which
dehes every combination against it. and
seems to live and thrive prosperonsly, in
spite of every adverse element and of old
Time himself Other nations stand ap-
palled in presence of domestic differences |
difficulties and calamities but here is the
old, self-vaunted mistress of the seas, with |
the strong right arm of his strength palsed
by famine, and the left arm of her manu-
featuring power bereft of all its strength, |
by want of the material which gave it force |
and vitality, at once fiinging aside all such
considerations, and, forgetful of all else |
than the supremacy she boastfully demands |
as her right on the seas, challenges an ere
my self-proclaimed more than her superior |
to combat, and prepares to give him battle |
at bis own freside, three thousand miles |
from her island home. Truly, although the |
sequel is discouraging to us here, the spec
tacle is one transcendantly sublime
II is almost immaterial in this connection !
to inquire whether the British demandi was
made under one pretence or another, as ia
any case precedents she herself has furnished I
can be given for the proceeding of Wilkes. |
1t is probable, however, her demand was
based-as we had previously informed our
readers it likely would be-on the fact that
Slidell and Mason were political offenders
according TO United States recognition, and
consequently not capturabe upon the YES
sells of foreign nations beyond the recog-
Hized iurisdiction'of the Lincoln authorities.
Upon this ground we cannot see how their
detention could be justified but at the same
time the humiliation of the northern gov
ernment is none the less complete and de-
cisive, for the contingency was well under
stood by it, and they either should have sur
rendered them voluntarily, or, as they first
maintained, they should have held them,
regardless of all consequences. We cannot
rejoice over this termination of the affair.
1t will be means of prolonging this war
and continuing indefinitely the suspension
Of our commerce; for it is incontrovertibly
clear that no action of Great Britain can
now force the Lincoln government into /
contest with her.
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