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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A British Contraband. (search)
Humbling John Bull. --The redoubtable Yankee nation have just succeeded in "humbling John Bull" Three weeks ago they said he needed "humbling," and they were the boys to do it. They declared that if he said one word about Mason and Slidell thJohn Bull" Three weeks ago they said he needed "humbling," and they were the boys to do it. They declared that if he said one word about Mason and Slidell they would instantly steal nine hundred millions worth of his property which they alleged was in their possession; that they would send out six thousand privateers to rob him of everything he had on the ocean; that they could raise a million of men inkidnap Canada, where they alleged there was also a strong Union party, in three weeks. Having thus victoriously humbled John Bull on paper, they wound up by humbling themselves in reality, and licking the very dust from his feet in their abject degrweeks ago Bennett was going to whip all creation; now he is willing to take them one at a time, and not lock horns with John Bull till the South is conquered. If England is spared till that happens, she has a fair prospect of living a long time