The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-15
The stonewaa, jackson stasue.:

r +
:. LospoN, October So.-A brief cable dis
patch to the Times; of Thursday announced
the unwilling Of the Stonewall Jackson
statue at Richmond. The ceremonies are
described as imposing, the demonstration
the greatest ever seen there, Ihe city deco
rated, stbe British colors being prominent"
The announcement has, caused a certain SEN
sation, not altogetherIof an agreeable kind.
People doubt whether twhateyer: the South
NAV do) the, whole country will welcome
a gift from England In hotor Of man
whose sole titles to fame spring from his eff
forts to destroy hiscouptry. They, do not
am speaking Of the great majority Of sensi-
BILE Englishmeu, and of their opinions as they
have found expression III various WAYS du-
ring the last ten years--they do not wish to
revive on your side the memories of hostile
acts which were done on this Side during the
rebt lion, or, of the hostile sentiments which
were SO often declared. There is, SO far.a
one who lives here can judge, asincere desire
to be on good terms with the United States.
There are, however, good many old Anglo.
Rebels whose sympathies with the lost cause
are still keen. They hate the North as they did
duringehe war, and despise it as much as cir
cumstances will now permit. 1T is from
them. ] presume. that the Stonewall Jackson
statue comes. They write the articles on
American subjects in The Stdndard-articles
which mere ignorance will not account for,
articles marked by curious ingenuity in
misrepresenting facts that can hardly be the
Offspring of anything but malice. They give
the tone to certain well.known circles in
London. They would, fear, rejoice over
the outbreak of another conflict between the
North and South. They are, perhaps, one
in thousand, but they make noise and dis.
turbance out Of all proportion to their num.
bers. I'LL,
The Times thinks the matter Of conse.
uuence enough to be the subject Of its lead
ing article on the day following its telegram.
It warns these people that they have been
guilty of an Sc extreme indiscretioa " in send
ing u statue to man "abSolutelv unknown
until he took up arms against the American
Union, and all whose triumphs were won IN
a war against bis own countrymen." Doing
full Justice to the personal qualities of Jack
son, it points out that the scene IN Richmond
was none the less political display; that
il is calculated to perpetuate enmltles
which the North, with rare magnaDimlty, has
done its best to bury; and that 1t may once
more stir up rancor between England and
America. With all that believe the i'm
meuse maj ority of Englishmen agree, beart-
lilly. Wheeler, in, fact, this untimely gift has
awakened slumberiDg auimosities' in the
North against this country there are as yet
no means Of knowing here. We have car
ried forgiveness to The South and the Cop.
perbeads. SO far tbat'it may well'include> her
allies in Europe Also 70 T.fAI
This morning, as might have been expect
led. Mr.: Beresford. Hope comes forward as
spokesman for the Jackson.statue clique.
Air! Hope, to do him justice, is IN 9 more
apo}ogetic mood than Is his, wont. He ex-,
|pjains that the money for the statue was
collected and the commission given to the
late Mr.. Foley within few weeks after the
news of Jackson's death had reached Eng.
land. The delay in compie letting and sending
the statue has been due, he declares, to The
III.bealth and lately the death OF Mr.. Foley,
the competition of bis many other engage
ments, and his anxiety to perfect the IKE
ness" $50:
Rumor has given other and more curious
reasons but no matter. = The statue when
done was offered to the Governor OF VIZ
cinia. It's subsequent history you sknoW.
MI. Hope argues that all responsibility be-
longs to the Governor and Legislature OF
Virginia, and, with that confusion OF fhougnt
which marks men of bis kind, rejoices in his
spontaneous expression OF brotherly love
between England and Virginia as mark OF
."international amity." So 1t would have
been had Mr.. Hope had his way. AT present
10 serves to perpetnste the fact that he had
not, though he and the object OF his admiras
ton tried hard enough. e. 3 ISL 81 3