The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-22
The Ocean and the bikes.

| traveller i'll Holland, during the peace of Amien:
says that one night while he at of the coas
towns there came a horrible roar of surge and bill
| low and raving Boreas horrible, that even tn
| phlegmatc Dutchmen were inclined to give it al
up and many Of them sent their wives and children
goods and chattels far into the Interior doubt
| Ing that the dixie must give way and their who'll
| town be swlmped into humiliation. Next morning
| however the sun rose clear and bright and wheI
our traveller among others, took courage to go down
and examine the site of the anticipated breach, ht
found the dixie stronger million times than all tn,
labor of half dozen plodding centuries had evel
been able TO make it. The raging ocean, he says
had hurled before him such mass of sturdy SOLD
stuff that every heave it gave only added new line
OF bulwark to the deserted barrier OF trembling
Mynheer, who, i'll consequence of that fortunate
hurricane has since reoicci i'll circunvalla-
ton that would defy a dcluge. Ever afterwards,
when the ocean looked hunsrily at him over the
dikes or dashed itself into angry waves, he ate his
saur-kraut with increased complacency, and felt
very much obliged to the winds and waters for get
ting into such passion
The Confederate States have had a similar expe
rience with the breakwaters which they built at tn
beginning OF the var to keep out the flood OF Yanke
appearance, that when the Yankee hurricane began
TO rise i'll its wrath the respondent apprehendcd tha
the waves would make clean sweep, and many of
the inhabitants OF the towns sent of their household
gods TO the interior But, after the storm, came The
sunshine, and it discovered that the dkes
waxed stronger in proportion to the strength of the
storm. Fort Sumter by year Of siege has been
rendered perfectly impregnable and Richmond
10, ,1T-if
become the Gibraltar OF America, SO that the Lon
don Tunes correspondent says no such earthwofk
Notifications now to b. found elsewhere IN the
world. We appreciate our obligations 10 Lee and
Beaureeard; but our principal benef,ctor Is the Yam
kee ocean With every fresh transport ofts rage new
rise-the more force it SENDS the
more Notifications appear TO resist IT, If 1t will only
work away with steady violence We shall see the
whole South converted into huge fortress
Therefore, cease not, rude Boreas, with all Yam
keedom storming at our doors, We go about our daily
avocations with as much coInposure and regularity
as the Dutch behind their imperyious bikes, and
snap fingers at the Yankee ocean and the blue
bellied sharks that are hunPering Tor deatluc-
ton.
1t is not alone in material Notifications that the
fury OF the Yankee elements has aided in throwing
barriers in their own way which they viii never b.
able to surmount. Whereas, at the beginning of the
war, humane military policy hike that of Mcclellan
might have undermined the constancy of some
weak brethren; tie emancipation, conf ANA
determination madness Of Lincoln, aided by the
horrible eXeesses of his brutal sodery has console
.ted the whole Confederacy into gigantic noun
lain OF adamant, impcrvous alike to the breeze ana
the tornado, the ripping tide and the roaring
billow. We tender our profound acknowledgements
to the fanatic rage and rcmorseless cruelty which
have rendered our security more secure and our
separation eternal. Let the sea and the tornado
settle their accounts together Between them they
have made it a matter of indifference TO US whether
hey live In concord and quietness discomfort and
storm.