Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-12
JOHN BULLS saslE;AAT sAr1sFAo'


srofnnnd sensation everywhere in Europe,
PnJ the evidence furnished Of the universal
Condemnation Of the crime, shows a nnuch
more healthy state Of feeling to1ards our
Government than could be said to exist pre-
yinus to the fall of RichT ond.
The London journals trdrmty eutogtSed the
character Of Mr.. Lincoln.
Ah.e-e-m! We have italicized those
words which strike US as peculiarly signia-
can't in the foregoing paragraphs. "Great
satisfaction" Old John Bull with his
bare foot in fox-trap grinning horribly
a CHASTITY smile, is a picture of "satisfac-
ton !" that pleaseth US. 1t tickleth us and
cau<eth US to larf consumedly. The Star,
and one or two other British journals,
have done the United States justice dur
ing the late war, and have protested against
the wrongs perpeuated against US BY their
Government; but the mighty engine Of
the British Press as mass, from the Lon!
don Times at the head. down through the
whole range Of magazine and pictorial
literature, has persisted in course of ma
lgnant Misrepresentation of our nation.
our statesmen. our generals, and our cause.
and of unstinted and fulsome laudation
of everything connected with the rebellion.
Their hes, their arguments and their pre-
dictions have been annihilated by the stern
logic of facts that admit Of no dispute, and
now John Bull halls the result with
"great satisfaction !" Ny heyes!
The Government which they have pro-
nounced in its death agonies, has demon.
strated itself the greatest military Power
on the earth. The Traitor Confederacy to
which they have given their sympathies
and their material assistance, is ruined,
shattered, destroyed. They have built
ships, furnished ammunition, manufsctur-
ed equipments, loaned money, made
speeches, and done everything that malice
and hatred could suggest, in aid OF the
plot TO break down Free Government, and
make the American Republic soothing
among the nations Of the world. But the
Union is triumphant. Under the strain
of tremendous civil commotion, Free Gov
eminent has exhibited a strength such as
is possessed by no Monarchy in Europe.
And John Bull experiences lively sat
isfaction !" 1t is said thar five hundred
millions Of dollars rebel bonds are held by
British subjects, the interest upon which
was paid in cotton and tobacco while the
rebels held Wilmington. n. c. Now that
Richmond as we'll as Wilmington. has
passed into our hands, they will have to
wait patiently for their dividends. No
doubt these rebel sympathizers had been
led to believe. that even in the worst event
for their friends. the loyal people Of the
North would recognize the rebel debt for
the sake of peace. The utter MASKING out
of the military power Of the rebellion. and
the annihilation Of every shadow OF politi-
cal cohesion of its elements, has shown
John Bull the fallacy Of all such expecta-
tions. and that noble Briton, forcibly re-
minded of the adage that "a fool and his
money are soon parted" is overcome with
a sense of profound &" satisfaction !" Oh!
Johnny Bull! Blarst my heyes but you
are easily satisfied" At an early period
of the war, when England was openly and
shamelessly and fearlessly because conf
dent in our weakness) furnishing the
rebels with pirate ships to devastate our
commerce. our Government gave quiet
hint that for all these things there would
be a day of reckoning. A few British
statesmen needed the hint, and foretold
that for every American ship thus destroy
ed England would be eventually compelled
to pay full compensation; but the Lord
and Commons laughed the idea to scorn.
So late as last November, Mr.. Adams, our
Minister to the British Court, Informed
Lord John Russell that such demand
would be made by our Government.
The bill for damages in this hehali
now amounts to some forty millions OF
dollars. The close of the rebellion give>
Mr.. Seward leisure TO turn to his books
and make out that " little bill " and pre-
sent it at John Bulls counter. John
knows all this, and he knows that he mus.
pay the biz, or Gght-and he can't fight.
Delightful confederation of circumstances,
this, and yet John bull exhibits "great
satisfaction !"
The existence of "a much more healthy
state of feeling towards our Government"
is announced IS q result Of the proud and
unmi=takeable assertion of the mistaken
and unshakeable power Of the American
nation. Il is the "more healthy feeling"
of respect and terror which is felt by the
bully and the bragsa-t, when the man he
has insulted takes of his coat and exhibits
the bone and Drawn and muscle that could
batter and throttle the life out of the
OluStCILuS IO"uy VIM hoS oASNSSN A1%S @-N'
This is>the "much more healthy feeling
towards our Government which sud-
denly Animatss the craven. treacherou'
heart Of John Bull. And still John halls
the result with "great satisfaction J"
John Bull may smile grandly at an i'm
putation of cowardice he may point
back to a thousand battle-felds, from
Hastings down to Waterloo, to prove hi>
courage. But that was the courage Of the
past; the courage inspired by conscious
strength and powerful alliances. John
Bull to-day. is weak. and he knows it
he has no alliances, and can make none;
he is hated and despised Of all Europe,
and he knows it and admits it in his par
liamentsry debates and ministerial reports
There is but one nation on earth to whom
John Bull has for the pas, quarter OF
century looked for sympathy in his single
handed battle against absoluteism. That
nation has been the United States. And