The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-14
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vers,cious Bennett announces: "lu lees thai
elk weeks Richmond will be in our hands.
II will be in very. dirty hands then. 1t vii
be moreover in the hands Of the greatest liar
in ell Christendom. and the most unparalleled
braggxr,s. ], will be in hands that are We. feo
with the humilia,ing surrender Of Mason ano
Slidell 70 Great Britain--,o that British Lon
which each and every one of them--th'
noisy Bennett at their head-had sworn shoni'
be humbed We should think that this DIS.
gusting game of brsg was by this TIME P'"seo
out, and that even the sudaeity OF Bennett
who has predicsted the occupation OF kieh-
mond ia periods varying from thirty 70 six'.
dave, at least fifty times since the beginning
Of the war. aud who threatened that !!
Grea, Britain made any fuss about Mason ane
Slidel the United Ststes would overrui
and annex Canada in six weeks, would scarce.
" be capable of attempting auy further i'm
positions npon popular credulity. But til.
hardened old reprobste has been long az,
dead TO ali sence Of shame. No one knows
better than himself that Richmond will MOI
be in possession Of the Yankees in six weeks
six months, six years, or six centuries
The Yankees once had possession of itand OF
the whole South, from the inauspicious mo
men, when the South permitted itself to enter
into the American Union, which, from the
time of its formation, has been used to drain
the South of its life blood in tho way OF
trade, and make il a mere commercial vassa
and tributary Of the North. There is not d
Southern city, town, or village which has no,
been in possession of the Northern merchants
aud manufacturers since the foundation Of the
Government. Their pedlars made more su (.
cessini invasion of the South as long as tit,
years ago than Mcclellan Grand Army, ano
their hosts of dru miners of more receu. date
have thrown all the exploits Of the pedlais
into the shade. a great Eastern King WAS il
the habit of reminding himself OF his mortali
~ and keeping himself serious aud humble
by having a skeleton displayed at his ba =
quets, " hIst one OF his servants proclaimed,
"oaladin, King OF Kings, Saiadin must die. -
We suggest suat Mcclellan moderate bis
supteme citation at finding himself III com
mand of the Grand Army, by procuring, Ii h'
can, the skeleton Of one Of the Yankee PEG
lars OF tae beginning of this century, anu
also the old cart i'll which he peddlei his
wooden clocks, Tin wares and other notions,
aud getting Greeley, or Hale, to shout aloua
that this Yankee Doodle marched withou
hiudrance from Massachusetts to Now o.
leans, whilst the magnificent Gererailssimo o.
the Grand Army caunot get twenty tive. mIiee
S,utn Of Washington. Let Bennetl ooserv,
BY the light Oflueso simple facts wha. shock
ing biuuder the North has made i'll attempting
to We. possession OF the South by any other
means than trade and traffic. 1.-THE North had
stuck to that method OF Invasion, the whole
South would have been in her possession up to
this hour. Her goods, wares aud merchap disc
would still have filled our stores, her books and
literature generally have continued to poison
the minds Of our population, and BENEFITS
Herald with its dirty list of Personals,
its infdel editorials, and its vsgabond
correspondents have still been abroad
in our land. Through unjust and par
tisi legislation, through Yankee fnesse, and
in some degree, through our own want OF
enterprise and energy, we were unequal to
cope with the North in the pursuits Of
peaceful life, but, in an evil hour, it under,
took the only branch of business which we
were good at,-ighting,-and the conse-
suence is. it has lost in a year of war all it
had gained by fifty years of commercial
swindiing. Let Bennett be assured that
hereafter the South will no longer be in
Northern hands, either in the way of trade
or conquest. 1t ought to know by this time
that we can fight it to the crack of doom, and
become improved and invigorated by the
process. And, 80 far as commerce is con
serned, we should prefer any other ma. ion of
the earth to the North, especially old Eng
land, whose noble and virtuous people are
our friends, and whose merchants and traders
will hereafter possess all the enormous profits
hitherto reaped by the short-sighted and sell
fish ingrates of the Northern States.