Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-07


and sea. IA
Let the iron voice which was wont OF ol9
to startIe Flanders into arms resouho
the nation:
sI am Roland, 1 am Roland,
There IL war In all the land
We must fight our neutral friends be-
yond the sea. We must induce upon the
ROSY couuteuauce of John Bull that pleas.
ing hue by painters yclept "neutral TINT
by pugilists known as "black aud blue -
There is no help for it. We have composed
a variety of questions with these "dlscom.
fortaole" cousins of ours. The "Trent'
question was settled. as its name required,
10 council not of war. The "PeterhoH
question has subsidized into SOrbonian bag
of litigation. The questions of the GAIA
bama" and the "FIorida" are still at sea.
The ram" question has resulted in the i'm.
pounding of those honed horrors. But
what can settle the 'WOmau" question
With woman strife first came into the
world, aud whenever, in the course OF hu-
man affairs, it becomes necessary to quar-
rel about a woman, all use OF reason fails
Astaaea deserts the City Hall cupola Tor
her native skies Janus Aings wide his
temble gates, claps ON his hat, sallies out
and takes to dissipated courses.
who is she2 was the first question
which au astute French Judge was used to
put TO the criminals who came before him.
AS in the experience of Individual men 80
in the worlds larger but not wiser history,
"the fair, the fond, the Inexpensive she
doth more infallibly than comet, or than
meteor, perpIex the race with fear of
change, and shake the solid frame OF things
assunder.
when the "lAdies' battle begins hope
for season bids the world farewell"
Aud the ladies battle has begun between
England and America. By whose act war
exists posterity may amuse itself with de-
termining, If il shall please so to do. Mr..
Panch, the Saturday RsUle1, and other
great organs OF British opinion announce
with solemn emphasis that Nathaniel HaW-
thorne is the WiIlfuI and " direiul cause"
of many coming woes. They charge 1t
upon that accomplished author that he
has inadvertently and osely assailed the
British matron ia Language like that with
which Mr.. Pickwick sought to deter Tracy
Tupman from going to a fancy ball in the
costume of brigsnd, TO wit, tights, and a
velvet coat with u two-iIch tail.
sin the first place, sir said the Vener-
able chief to his misguided follower, "you
are too fat"
$500 fat, sir2"
"And in the second pace, sir, you are
too DID,"
"Too old, sir 2"
The indignation of Tracy Tupman at
these allegations was mild in comparison
with that of Britain Whln Mr.. Hawthorne
deliberately declares 10 belief that the
British matron is both tho old and too fat
to appear as her wont il at balls and fes-
tivities, with "vast and bare and brawny
arms" and "developmeuts" less suggestive
"of the rosebud than the cabbage rose"
The journals of Brttlin, each after its
kind take up the cause d the British Venus
with vehemence which proClaims the
nearer advent of the -hritish Mars. The
"woman question" is the order of the day.
"Your English women are stout, beeTy,
beefy," excIaims the ungallaut Hawthorne;
''they make too much noise, they are
shakers of the earth; they take up too
much roanA-..LAs they Oit do~pJ they
wear out the roads when they walk. Your
English Venus is female Bull"
"Call her a COW at once, you brute, and
be done with II" foars back the Infatuated
island of the free. Your American wo-
man is lank, cold, wooden, poor. She has
no blood in her veins; she reverses the
ideal Greek; she is incapable of love, and
yet capable of haze. She has twaug in
her voice which makes her tenderness in
tolerable; she gives wooden reception to
her lover; but she can go scudding over
the UuuIon, female fury, to lecture on
behalf of more blood-letting.
When things have gone so far as this
land we are only making up q cento of the
compliments paid in our British files to the
Yankee fairl what is to be done but to
fall to, as the knights of old were won't to
do, and prove
"our beaa,ties orthodox,