The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-12
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TVS rS6lualous doctrine-which never had
1haaand1ioa q NJ. Monroe, and is, there
4eget 0nas improperly called by his name
~ ssvivsd lev days since In the Yankee
Hsass a Representatives. and. Of all other
nsa,by Mr.. Henry Winter Davis, the man
NO psohNbly - said more and bittcrer
tA1nge aeainst u than ell other persons CON-
hlneA, an1 uAo onee wrote foolish book,
Mn . 1oo1sA title. to prove that Russia and
- Uaised States we're TO fight out the final
oa111o - monarchy and republicanism Oh
eheso0 q ~ Western continent. 1t seems,
Aousvef, that II. Uavis is no. prepared for
any Immediate step OF wsrlike nature He
do0 NJ propose that the Yankee Cougs sss
ehAf ~ b 20 many words to the Emperor
q he French, You shau not establish de-
pe01sncy Of your empire In this hemisphere;
Hyoado. we win aing you and yodf soldiers
isto The ~ he only goes the length of
1st3ng that ruler know that 1.-The does so, the
Yankss Coa2ress win be very much dis
pssased We wonder Hthe French Emperor
did not know that before Mr.. Davis took
0e trouble % sssure him of It! We wonder
Ms = ignorant Of what all the rest of the
vosA hAs known and been commenting on
a. the last twenty i've years. We wonder
Il - - noe ewA.e that the universal Yankee
nation has long axed Its greedy eyes upon
1Gieo-has long been looking forward to
The 6ay when It might find o pretext for
mailing meal OF II; regrets the present war
Win the Confederacy chiefly because it las
Taissd . lion In the path to the silver mines
and gold beds Of the dllapidated republic.
We wonder II the French Emperor never
reads The editorials Of the Yankee newsra-
pen. or the speeches In the Yankee Con-
9ress, or has never heard Of the manifest
Destiny" Of tho amiable and interesting
Yankeepeople! 1.-The has heard and read Of
IN thb, We suggest that he was very we'll
aware that the Yankee Congress would not
take hb movements kindly, and that Mr.
Davis's motion b, therefore, an act Of sure-
reception, especially o. it Is not to be
backed BY any waterfall thunder. The Yam
leo Congress u to ''protest," and if that
don no good 1t Il to protest again. II Napo.
Icon stin turns . deaf ear, Mr.. Davis will
tAen follow the advice of Dogberry, and tell
him s'he y not tho man he took him for"
While this farce Is In course Of enactment
- Washington, Nj. Dayton, in Paris, hastens
% prosar2te himself before Macmillan, and
% declare the readiness of his Government
- eend 1inister to Mexico, as well as to
receive . minister from her. Whatever
my DO tho real feeling of Yankee doodle
upon The subject-snd We doubt not it was
fnNY lRDrAaaA6 nv he resnlnfi0na r,ffared hr
II. DAyis-&heir Government dare not hold
oack q sueh . crisis. The whole process
through which Il has been compelled to go,
from the beginning to the end, finds no par
allel exceptin the persistent resolution with
which Ylusllyn eompels Ancient Pistol, in
the play, to swallow the leak, which he had
vntared to seod AZ, though the badge of
hssve and honorable nation, and Yankee
doodle "has swallowed the leak" with
vngeaucel He did not even wait for the
Emperor of the French to resort to that las:
pesuasive Of obstinacy employed by the
valiant Welchman, blows. lie gaped and
swallowed, without waiting for the infic-
: don Of the cndgel, although he had rather
nave swallowed arsenic or Prussic acid, or
any other drug that most speedily divorces
soul and body. The "Monroc Doctrine y
II from thb time forth, al exploded hum
hug. and the Yankee nation will not rule
from the st. lawrence to Cape Horn. They
might have thus ruled, had not the Coniedc.
ste States forbidden Il, AMI thus far the
world owes them debt Of gratitude which
u seams In no haste to pay.