The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-03
Holm Emil Blowing.

one of the vulgar and brutal kind of Eng
li>h newspapers is the I0mahowk. Thus
the wretch lectures this country:
\ WORD WITH BROTHER JoNATHAN.-You
arc going a little too far. clever Johnathan.
You arc talking to and Of us in tone that
We do not intend to stand, peacefully dis
posed though we be. We do not want to
NEEDLE with any one, but if any one med
dies with rs, there arc teeth in the Lions
laws vet, though he is old, and may not be
20 d,lrn'd smart. nor so noisy, rs that
thierinc, screaming bird of yours and he
viii fight none the worse because he has not
got the eternal quid in his mouth. So mind
Yourself, and your bird, too, Master Jona-
than; il you don't, both Of you will set IN
ugly scratch. -4.
10 drop metaphor, Brother Jonathan, and
appeal to your rcaSon--if you have got such
Il - fixing" anywhere about yOu-'' what Is
the reason that you use me thust" Is it
necessary for you to make political capital
10y abusing and insulting me! If the brag-
@ing. clustering footpads who call them
selves the great Fenian party are subjects
with whose allegiance (O you cannot dis
peuse, / am sorry for you, Jonathan. In
every respect. and most in sclf-respect, you
must have sunk lower than I everSuspected.
Whom else do you please by this attempt to
hrowbeat and rob us? Not the brave among
YOU: not the honest; not the intellectual:
not the upright; but disappointed specula-
tors. foul-mouthed brawlcrS, roWdy shoddy-
tnanuiacturerS-mcn who have pundered
You during your civil war, and being too.
great towards to take to highway rob-
berry. lind their occupation gone; dou-
hlc-faced. t;twning hvpOcrites. who, by
iriug, bribery, and unblushing shameless
ness, sncakcd or forced themselves into
Ia nryripn fry hat
might suck her blood like vampires
Us they are. "Thcse be your patriots )"
these are the "grcat people" to whose
voices you must listen; these are the Anne
rican nation, crying, trumpct-tongucd, for
"a morScl Of that ere British Lion ;" and
il you don't fog the ours into silence, Jona-
;han, by st. George they shall have bitterer
lnorSel than they bargaincd for! What
Tulk OF our enemies at home Talk of
ireland being thorn i'll our side! You
are serried with thoIns thick rs hedge
hogs bristlcS; you are one mass Of sores
within and without; you have more enc
mics in your own country than all the world
leagued against you could furnish. Show
me Il hundred men, whom vou can trust
With the public money, who will take ser
vice Under your Government.
You may may attack Canada, YOU may
declare war against Us, you may I'LL Ireland
with thieves and cut-throatS, you may cover
the ocean with priyateers to prey on our
commerce.. but You will do more injury to
yourselves than to lis. You will he making
The voice Of the lowest among YOU the voice
of the whole nation. You will have no SYM
pathy from any honorable foreign Power,
nortrom the worthy and noble among your
selves. You Will stop al real progress on
Your own Vart--and you are far from per-
feet, jonathan, go-ahcad though YOU be-
and you will be utterly false to all the ira
ditions which you received from the brave
You might possibly gain Canada, but your
triumph would lie that Of Il robbcr, not of Il
conQucror. You might extend your empire
over the whole continent OF America, but
YOU would lose forever that empire over
The hearts OF Englislmcn.