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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
uncharitable notion, we admit; but it none the less exists, and, should the cause of the Confederacy fail, England will be called upon to make good all damages to Yankee merchantmen in this war, and, what is more, she will have to foot the bill. For, in the event of its success, the United States will be no longer the same nation that it was when, in the palmy days of that political eunuch, James Buchanan, English gunboats chased and boarded our own vessels on our own coast, and when John Bull twisted the nose and slapped the jaws of brother Jonathan as suited his sovereign convenience. The United States was then like a horse or an ass, that did not know its own strength. The exemplary Buchanan took kindly every affront put upon his nation, and made many polite bows in recognition of the condescension. But even if the war had not disclosed to the United States its own military capacities, the eagerness of England to avoid a conflict with that power would rouse its valor to a