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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Three hundred dollars reward. (search)
Poor Old, John Bull. --Those English journals which paint such terrible pictures of the effects of a rupture between England and the United States, may succeed in staving off for the present the collision they deprecate, but it is only for the present, and even that temporary advantage is purchased at the cost of national honor and of ultimate and permanent security. They say they are dependent upon America for grain, and that a war with the United States might starve them out, and, besides, their commerce would be destroyed by Yankee privateers. Supposing the South to be subjugated, they would be dependent upon the United States not only for corn, but cotton, and thus be more completely in her power than at present. Therefore, they could never go to war with the United States, and would have to pocket every affront and indignity she might put upon them till the end of time. A dignified situation, truly, for a nation which claims to be the mistress of the seas and most power