Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-20
COLLAPSE OF TIE YANKO-RUSSIANS

COLLAPSE OF Tile 4ANhO-RUSSlANH.
The infamous newspaper called New York
Herald" is the most authentic representative
and exponent OF that most ignorant. vain,
swindling, gambling, false and tickle city On
carth-.be city of New York. New York roars
cut 90 hundred thousand Welcomes to dis'ir>
yuishcd strangers and the moment she has
put them through follows them with curses
and ridiculcs. New York welcomes the com:
ing, kicks the parting guests; and after ste
has made tae welkin ring with loud protesta-
lions and demonstrations Of sympathy end
cnuneiat;cns Of principle, then mops and
rlows with soctof idiotic JOY as she tramples
down the whole affair, bursting with bcastly
rughter. We take q pleasure in exhibiting
every thing which may increase and Intensity
the wholesome disdain with which that semi
barbarous people is here regarded, and the
ioy and thankfulness which wo ought all to
feel in being now and henceforth foreigners
to New York. Fer this We reprint the 'ol-
lowing remarks of the newspaper above named
which of course had been the very busiest
and loudest in getting up the demonstrations
it now denounces:
AT last we can announce the close of the Russ
sian fetcs, or farces. Glad as we are that all the
fuss and parade is over we cannot allow the oc-
casion to pass without a few sehsi words in
REGARD to those who have made themselves so
entirely ridiculous during these farcical per-
formanccs. The great Napoleon, when confined
upon The Island Of st. Helena, uttered the memo
rnb,e proverb that if you scratch Russian you
will ind tartar beneath. Napoleon never said
anything more true, and we have found 1t so
during our recent experience in entertaining the
officers of the Russian fleet now in our harbrr.
We are q young nation, and we display great
deal more Youthful enthusiasm than mauly COM
mon sense in our hospitality towards foreigners,
Trol,ops, Dickens, Captain MarryRtt, Bull Run
Russell and half q hundred other European
scribblers have been received here with the ut>
most possible kindness, which they have return.
ed by slanderins caricsturing and abusing lis
rs soon rs they again set foot upon their native.
soil.
Mortified as wo have been by the conduct Of
these ngrases, we have not yet had sense enough
to avoid giving opportunities tor similar sneers,
Wa enter; ain the Japanese primes, or boot,
blacts-we are not certain which they were-in
a truly royal style, and they have Tetaliated by
numbering Ill Americans on sight. When the
Prince of Wales landed here. we,astonished that
Young nam and his noble attendants by Il vel
come which exteL ded from one end of the country
TO the C, her. and in which AL classes and cOndi-
tiops q! our people heartily joined. The English
have rather n5tonished US with the mariinr III
.wh.cl, ,hey have reciprocated our attentions. by
sun,,ly,.y tie rebels with navy. Offering Us
c .nnon BALLS for our soirces dansanics, and burn
;r:r cur merchant vessels as \ response to orr
t,rchIials professions Snd iuminations. But
why r., over the old, familiar storyl Suffice j:
20 say that we have now capped the climax of
;Jsuilny By teting lot of Russians who neither
care 10. nor appreciate our hospitality, ana WHO
iaurh il their sleeves at our juvenile and gush-
ing simplicity.
Upon the arrival of the Russian feet in our
harbor, we were seized with Russian mania
Our citizen soldiers paraded the streets, muddied