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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Notes of the War. (search)
im by "again shaking hands" The Emperor paid the United States Minister a more unusual compliment by "speaking American mostly." The proverbial astuteness of the House of Romanov is strikingly illustrated by the labor which the Emperor must have devoted to the acquisition of that nasal dialect of English which is seldom mastered by Europeans. Mr. Clay judiciously informed His Imperial Majesty that he should rather like a war with England, and "the Emperor seemed to like my defiance of old John Bull very much. " It must be admitted that great potentates can seldom find in the formal reception of a diplomatist so much opportunity for amusement. Mr. Clay concludes the dispatch with the hope that Gen. Scott will "slowly and surely subdue the rebellion, 'stock, lock, and gun-barrel, hook and line, bob and sinker.'" The gods have granted half his prayer in conceding the slowness of the Federal progress; and Mr. Clay himself, in his military capacity, will be in time to insure the final re
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The surrender of Nashville. (search)
Making came of John Bull. John Bull cuts a very ludicrous figure under the manipulations of the noble Russell and the ignoble Seward. The aged British Minister, who is getting in his dotage, has succeeded in taking all the starch out of the national collar and converting the lion into a lamb. The adroit villain, Seward, pasJohn Bull cuts a very ludicrous figure under the manipulations of the noble Russell and the ignoble Seward. The aged British Minister, who is getting in his dotage, has succeeded in taking all the starch out of the national collar and converting the lion into a lamb. The adroit villain, Seward, passes off a vast number of practical jokes upon honest John, which are evidently intended as insults, to be avowed as such, or retracted, according to the manner in which they are taken. Now he knocks John's beaver over his eyes, and when the bluff old gentleman squares away to resent the indignity, the Yankee assures him that it wa the cause of offence. And so he goes on, treading on John's toes, bruising his shins, and tripping him up, and, as long as he makes an apology for it afterwards, Bull considers himself bound to be pacified, and to rejoice at the restoration of their friendly relations. The seizure of British ships, the Trent affair, the stone b