New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-19

Britain, now highly improbable; and we sol.
emily assure them that if our forces cross thu
border it shall be as friends and not as enemje,
We will force upon them no unwelcome EN-.
braces, and will not remorselessly play with
their young affections. Certainly the Home
Government is strong enough to protect these
innocents from being ravished by the wild and
amorous Genius of Democracy. Surely in the
event of such an assault, Mr. Darcy Mecca
would be in himself sword and buckler against
our lccntious propensities! He would bring
to bear against us a battery of rhetoric which
would make even Fauns and SatyrS continent.
and move us, as Orpheus moved stones and
trees, by his singing. A song from poor Or.
pheus would be nothing to speech from Mr..
Darcy MCGEE! We can imagine our most
valiant soldiers flying before the grape-Shot Of
his eloquence. No Democrat could refute him,
and therefore no Democrat could do less than
run away from him.
1t seems to us to be confoundedly hard that
Just at this time, when there is the least posi-
BILE danger of our undertaking schemes Of terri.
torial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and when we have about
as much as we can do to hold our own, that we
should be represented to our neighbors in the
hideous light of barbaric invaders bent upon
their destruction. We are glad to find that al
common-sense has not been extinguished By th.
torrents Of Mr.. McGee's oratory. Here and
there an honest man in those regions is not scared
out of his wits. If there is good deal Of shak.
inc under Mr.. McGees thunders in those NORTH
ern parts, there is also considerable laughing,
which is a hopeful sign. This gentleman mus
beware Of the rock upon which so many Of hi,
countrymen have split. When people begin t.
litter it is all up with the supertnest ora
tor. That Mr.. MCGEE himself should ID
/ in such tremble at this time, We regard
as the finest compliment which could Ia
paid TO us. Because we know that he is
naturally bold gentleman, of the Sir
Lucus OTrigger school, as we take 1t. And
what should put into his brave mind the notion
that we are coming incontinently to Kill and eat
Canada. at this time of all times, passes ou
COMPREHENSION. Somebody must have been
playing upon his manly credulity And how,
with his well.known character for the rgdest
political prudence, which he displayed so nobly
before his emigration, he should put such q
notion as that Of Canadian invasion into the
/ American head, always VIGOROUSLY fertile in
such schemes-that, too, most men Will find 1t
difficult to understand He should have laid
low-he should have watched with the eye OF
lvnx-he should have concealed his apprehen.
sions-but that perhaps was what, in the present
complication Of Canadian politics, he could Lot
afford to do. a good cry" is sometimes
trading politicians only salyaton-and Mr..
darcy MCGEE cries very well indeed.
II Mr.. MCGEE does not know it, we can tell
him that the party which is now in power in
Washington, is the very party which has always
discouraged territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; and
that il is his friends, the crouching or creeping
Copperheads, who have always talked OF chaS'
Using Great Britain and seizing Canada. But,
as about this time, Thomas will be getting ready
to be made Sir Thomas, We will not bother his en-
raptured mind by any more suggestions; and
so we leave him, with the balmy consolation,
that in any posture Of a.lairs, he can always
make a speech, upon either side of any question.