The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-15

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When Alexander the Great was ovcrrun
ming the Est. Il Is recorded Of him tha
At each enccessive victory he would ea5
"What VIII they think Of this In Athens !?
In that stsgs OF tho worlds cxistcnce, Will
Athens, though euslAved, was still the Cap
ital Of civilization, and had 1t In her rowe
70 bcstow or withhold reputation, We cal
updsrstaud the keen anxiety Of the cen
querof, Who Va DESTROYS above al tning
20 DO regarded as . genuine Crock. to vii
tho good opision Of its citizens. But o.
loving. Is We do, no euch supremacy 10 Lon
don, VIC are entirely at loss to undeTstanf
WHY there il 30 much anxiety in the Coined
crate 6.a.es to know whl. the Eagiish PEG
pie Thick of Us. We are sure ot chs
thing at least, aud that is. that whatever
NAV be their opinion, they can do as n;
coed Il favorable, and no harm II the contra
re-. We Gee tina. their Government il deci-
dedly against S1s, and ~ that Govcromsn!
processes to be popular Government. IN
der the ,ntrol Of tho people, We might in
fer that the people themselves are against
ma likewise. Yet VIC are continually feeding
ourselves with the belief that the English
people love Us dearly. What IL they do
They viii do nothing Cor MS, aId this Is nc
time Tor empty professions.
We published yesterday series OF e1-
tracis isom EAgiish papers Of every shade
ot politics with reg ri 10 the battles in
Spots icAnis The samentss of the whole
batch is Al striking that AIRY person might
he excuseLsos thinking they were all writ.
ten by the same persOn. The reason OF the
strange likeness is evidently that they oil
derive their iuformatlon from tho same
sources, aud those sources hostile to ms
The Yankee newspapers throughout this
war have been their historians. How they
we'll enough. We have just had ample spe-
cimens in the telegfams Of Stanton, which
~ kaow to be tissue If the most bare
faced lies ever presented to people who
do not wish for truth, ii it be uupa!atable
. But Of ti,is thu English newspaper writers
know nothing, for they only rarely. End at
long Intervals, sec our papers. For that
reason they almost invariably get false
impression Of the actual state Of ali sirs, and
upon the impression thus derived they base
their articles. In these very arlk les, for In
staucc, every one Of them speaks Of Grants
''splenoid strategy" - if It had ever once
compelled Ice to abandon position before
Grant himself had withdl avn ffon his font !;
as II 1t had ever once compelled Lee 10
give way; rs IL, in every case, Lee had not
.t0llo,oed Grant, instead Of retreatirg before
him. The tone throughout would lead to
tho inference that Lee was falling back to
his defences around Richmond, with an
army still strong, 1t Ia true. yet beaten in
every engagement. In word. these papers
but repeat the tale Of the Yankees, which
everybody here knows to be . monstrous
falsehood, and which Ia now showing II.
self to be such. With all their experience
Of Yankee mendacity, at each repetition
they yield the same credence that they did
In the beginning.
The Yankees have always been more sen
sitive to the opinion of the world than any
other people we are acquainted with. We
had always believed that the people Of the
South were comparatively indifferent, and
We are sorry to ace that evidences of the
contrary begin to appear. The Yankee Is
vrasu Aah <,ro l.
their many national failiugs. They wish
oil tho world to believe that they are the
most valiant and most refined nation on the
earth, that New York IL the greatest of all
cities, AMI that Boston il the Athens Of the
modern world, and they are constantly call
ing upon foreigners to admire theis mighty
empire Tho South, on the contrary, has
never laid claim to any particular species Of
greatness, and is therefore not Liable to the
rude shocks which Yankeedom sometimes
meets to its vanity in the disallow ance of
IT. claims. True. II has produced Wash
ington and Lee, Marshall and . Henry,
Jefferson aud Calhoun. True, the only
statsmaes of The old Union came from within
her borders. Her valor has been sufficiently
illustrated In this war to place her on level
wlah any people that ever existed. But she
inyitee, on this account, no comparisons,
and Ne cannot see why she should care Que
farthing Tor the judgment OF England or
any other couatry. Let her be true to her
set, aud let the world judge Of her as /. may
thlak proper.
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