The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-02-13

hght, end he didn't he smelt blood, bu, would
not taste drop Daniel gives some account Of his
own experiences during his stay In the royal dor
mitory Of lions, and also Of the kings feeling who
with the most conscientious scruples and desposic
quams Of Tenderness, had put him 10 bed with
such strange bedfellows. And he declares that
angels chad shut the lions mouth" But the En-
glish lion had to hold his own mouth, without su-
pernal aid. We can imagine the creature, with ono
paw beneath the under.sw and another above his
muzzlc, rcsDutely holding fast mouth 10 which
some remains Of the old nature yet fingered. But
now the lions mouth Is opened again but this
time TO utter CALCULATIONS and praises Of bis own
transcendcht virtue May he never fall FROM grace
If he has not yet attained TO the eating of straw,
like an OK, he is on the way to il. He feeds sur
prsingly well on cotton, and his diet agrees with
him. SO long as the cotton bale eudures, the Brit
ish lion will be pious.
4. TIE other eide
We ere really gricved N know that there are
scorners around the royal den, who deride all the
soft experiences Of the lion, and who charge him
with conduct unbeconing--wc will not say to q
civilized lion, but to the dignity of OF those
superb wildings Gerard hunted There, for in
the same week with The Britsh Standard, that de-
scrbcs the conduct Of the royal brute in this scan
dalous manner;
"For, look at the case calmly for moment An
American captain has exercised, In u somewhat
questionable form, one NJ the rights Of war, which,
let it be remembered, has become such mainly
through our teaching and example,
and has been more frequently and more pcremptor.
lily practced by than by any other nation in the
world. Aud what has been the resultP Why
this That before time has been given to investi.
gate the case, before negotiation with the Am ri
can Government was possible, before the great au-
hOricS International law could be compared and
collated, so as to elicit anything like clear and
consistent Judgment, the public voice has broken
forth into an hystcTic scream of anger and defiance
Numbers OF people 60 about with ccnchcd fists
and flushed countcnanccs refusing to hear of any
alternative but that of TO the knife. The air
rcsounds with words Of threatening aud slaughter
The newspapers surcharged with every form
OF outrage and insult they can devise against the
American Govcrnmcnt aud people"
paper in Oxford England, in its January is
sue, has tho following editorial language, of .
character exceedingly Objectionable to all believers
in the British lions
"And is there not q mockinc, scornful proud,
lying, and bloOd-thirs legion entered into that
other church, the priesthood Of literature, So
calicdf In the very presence, as il were, of our
| unbured dead. have not the worst passions Of our
| nature been stimulated rs by incarnate icnds By
misrepresentation aud exaggeraton, by defamation
and falsehOod i'll thousand forms, the chief liter
AIRY organ Of the nation has day by day stmulat
ed 10 hot and hasty and unreasOning revenge With
a settled and studied and cold malcvOlence which
we like not TO call human, but which cxempifcs
all the satanic in man, The 3,mes has breathed out
thrcatenings and slaughtT. II has sought to pois
on the very lilebood Of the nation it has strivcn
to sink the national honor into eternal nfamy, and
to have the national courage branded with q cow
ardice through all time. Have not The Times and
its followers sought to identify the Government and
nation with that s,0n 0f oil ualuinics slavery and
! to ally the nation with conspirators, mcn-stcal
ers, and the wouldbe founders of a slave empire :?
Have they not greedily seized occasion-hase they
| not made occasion to do this? With a cowardice
and criminaity too great for name, have they not
| striven to excite and hound on the nation? Yes
| the cry has been, Strike Stride, and do not hear
strike, and kill, kill kill the man. our brother,
| who has fallen among thieves and is struggling
| for honor, freedom, life Strike with and for the
rebel stakeholder sandcr and strike your crring
brother in his extremity and call that the viudica-
tion of national honor, and display Of British
| energy and courage. Strike. and do not hear.
| Write and speak "r The Anicrcun GrnapaiJn,' of
our enemies and of the war; rs il you feared
peace, and were Of those who delight in war,
against whom inspired prayer stands written! Thus,
as II indeed Satan were unbound and cntcJed into
the men of The Tm,es and The Saturday Rerie,o 49,
thus, even in the new widowho1d ID of our honorcd
and beloved Queen, have We had the suggestions
OF cold malcvolence and studied wickedncss, and
war shreks, as of internal spirits, the enemies of
God and man, nthirst for human blood"
Somebody is mistaken. Either pr. Campbell is
or the peace folks are. Somebody's lion has been
conducting himself rdculousy. What are the
| facts