Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-19
JOHN BULL.

Our relations with this famous old gen.
tleman, somewhat disturbed by the aid he
furnished the rebellion, are likely to as
sumo a definite character at an early day.
Doubtlessly fearing that a longer postpone
ment of a settlement will not conduce to
his credit and benefit, or that he may get
a long deserved pummeling for sticking
his ugly nose into other peoples business"
he is becoming very tractable and pacific.
He has given an intimatlon thathe is will
ing to adjust the Alabama claims, as well
as other matters of difference in a fair and
honorable way. Johnny Bull does not
make this proposition, nor viii he comply
with it from any love of principle and re-
gard and good opinion of international
compacts. Pure selishness is his chief
characteristic, the lust of gold and power
is his soul, and intolerance and tyranny
are his very being. In every attack upon
the rights of our country. impartial histo-
ry exultantly records the most condign
punishment of his tyranny and heartless-
ness. The feeble, struggling thirteen col
onies, in seven years series of bloody con-
Aicts, and Notwithstanding the vaunted su-
periority of his soldiery, vast naval equip
ments, and almost exclusive dominion over
the high seas, ''took the wind out of his
sails" and taught him the s~alutary lesson
which he remembered for some time, that
he could not trample with %impunity upon
their sacred rights. But after so long a
time the memory of American heroism,
endurance and determination failed him,
and he sent over his myrmidons, whose
brows were still flushed with the victory
that terminated Napoleon's career in Eu-
rope, but the iron-willed and brave Jack
son, with his undisciplined militia, met
the jubilant and sanguine victors of Wat
erloo at New Orleans, and sent them back
discom6tted, beaten and disgraced, to their
native isles. This settled Johnny until
the rebellion came up. Then he was in
his glory, and again began his aggressions,
furnishing loans and munitions of war to
the insurgents, but cautiously avoiding in
tervention. Looking overthe seas, through
his cotton-bale telescope, presented by the
Southern Confederacy, he thought be de-
serted the near approach of the opportune
moment, when he could crafty his hate,
and strike the fatal blow, for which he so
ardently longed. But he was again disap-
pointed, for he soon saw the South in hope
less ruins, a remnant of an army fleeing in
dismay and terror from the lost field, and
victory blazing from the onsweeping lines
of the national arms. Then eame his fear
and trembling. He knew the reckoning
day was coming, and his investments in
the rebellion would prove a disastrous
speculation, if not entangle him in the
evils he had laid for us. Our home diff
~culties, which afforded him some hope and
ease, for a little while. approaching a ter
mination, his fears were awakened. and he
begins to make overtures which will prob
ably be accepted by our Governments
Gen Schenk. has just departed to Eng
land. and as it will be the first duties of
his mission to bring the two nations to an
understanding, we may expect interesting
advices from that quarter soon. The pay
ment of the Alabama claims, and for all
injuries sustained by the United States,
.'Johnny" may rest assured of, and if he
c~onsults wisdom and policy, he will make
the naturalization without parley.