Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-06

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now to expect 10 see the flames spread to The
| Danube, the Seine and the Thames. Russis
| may have all our irouclads at cost pIlce and
| fit them out in our ports, and her privateers
/ may be purchased and manned here 10 ma
raud British commerce. We Will LOOK on
with the same sympathy for Russia's diPlo-
| macy and social contempt for the British
I tradesman and his misfortune which that
magnificent snob exhibited toward us when
Mr.. Jefferson Davis persuaded the English
masses that the dagos OF Florida, the mor-
| grel-bred aristocracy OF Louisiana and the
| Illicit distillers of the West were gallant
cavaliers, while the educated, industrious
mechanics of the North were vulgar
| Puritans The mills OF the gods ara al
| work on old England, and the bully OF
| the seas and tyrant OF small nations and
| tribes shows habbiness OF muscle and
| want of stsmina. With 10000 British sol
diers Lord Give would long before have scat
| tered the wretched Soudan negroes and the
| half-fed timid Egyptians who carry guns at
Arabi's heels, and driven that truculent hey
TO seek refuge in some hidden oasis IN the
desert. But with 10000 picked men OF the
English army, three or four OF their best
generals, q roy al duke and German prince,
Sir Garnet Wolsely was afraid to march
straight TO Cairo and fight a battle In the
open field if Arab and his tatterdemalions
attempted TO impede him. 1t really seems
wouldn't stand fire delivered from behind
ditched intrenchments, and was 10th 10 leave
the protection of the huge ironciads, where
men only die from old age. 1t must be re-
membered that England has not met Zoe
worthy OF the name since Waterloo. Blucher
and his sturdy Prussians won that battle for
them after Napoleon had out-maneuvered and
fairly beaten the dull, bull Yelling
ton. Of course the English usurped all The
glory, and the English language being un-
fortunately too well understood in this
country, from their newspapers, their his
tories, their arrogant, egotistical clamor, an
entirely erroneous idea of the battle of Wa
terioo prevails among Americans. The clod-
poles who are enlisted for the British army
never were of much account to assault in
trenchments. There ia no dash, no quick in
telligence about them. They will stand or
lie down, and stupidity receive fire; will
fight well when they know they have got the
best of it; bat one dash OF Stonewall jack
sons command weuld have settled the fate of
Waterloo beyond the power of Blucher and
twice his Prussians to redeem it. In spite OF
cannon, abattis, moats, Greek FIRE and bristling
bayonets on the ramparts, Frenchmen will
climb over walls like rats, and continue to
offer up their dead until they effect lodg-
ment. Outside of a small set of snobs IN
New York and Boston, Americans have long
since refused to be patronized by England.
peare" fails TO throw the sturdy, real
American off his guard. There is
nothing common about Shakespeare.
He belongs much to Germany as
to America, and is understood by more peo-
pie in Germany than in England. Shakes
pesre has been more keenly analyzed in
German than in any other language. The
beguilement of "blood is thicker than water"
has also lost its charm. The heart of the
United States beats now in the Mississippi
valley, and not always in half-Tory Boston.
Paddle your own canoe, John Bull; you're
no kin of ours, and no friend 10 anybody
where there is the blade of Sheffield knifs,
a bolt OF Manchester cloth or Birmingham
plow in question. II France, Russis and
Spain turn in and take Egypt and Gibraltsr
away from you, and drive the Turk out Of
Constantipople, you can't expect US 10 be
sorry about il. ii in the possible complica-
tions of the near future French and Russian
privateers should light the seas with your
burning ships-o Ia Alabama, which, by the
and aided by one of your pleasure
yachts when the Kearsarge sent TO
the bottom her piratical hull, you can't
expect us to turn TO sackcloth and ashes
for surcease of woe. Eugland's grip on the
throat of the world has been materially
loosened in the last half century, and if her
majesty through an excess of economy or a
defective literary taste, does not take the
Capital, the British minister may assure her
and the premier that every well-balanced,
sensible American is glad of it. A military
friend with whom ! have exchanged views
on the question of how England managed
for 30 long to maintain so great fraud as
her supposed military supremacy, reminds
me of Lord Charles Beresford, late OF the
active and audacious Condor, now promoted,
and OF Major "Bill" Beresford of great cav
airy fame in Zululand and Afghanistan
True, nv friend, but did not forget them
more than did the Duke of Wellington. The
An Irishman fights gallantly and succ ess-
fully for every country but his own.