Fremont Daily Journal

To Richmond and Memphis.

A Washington letter to the Tribune
says:

"Yesterday I made the modest request
that we should have a Fourth of July dinner in Richmond, with an oration by Mr.
Everett or some other eminent master of
patriotic discourse, with appropriate sentiments along with the walnuts and the wine.

This morning, I humbly crave that my
Western contemporaries, as they cannot come
through Harper's Ferry, shall have a frugal
spread of the same sort at Memphis, with
indigenous corn, both in bread and fluid.--
Do this, and you shall have sumter mules
waiting at your door with panniers of silver
and gold. Do this, and your carrier-pigeon
shall fly across the Atlantic--Mr. Field's
telegraph not being responsive--with news
that shall start My Lord Palmerston from
his after-dinner nap, and take Count Walewski hurriedly from the opera. "You will
have no more twaddle about treating pirates as belligerants, or giving friendly marine salutes to buccaneering flags. You
will not have Mr. Dudley Mann going in at
the back door to seek an interview with the
English Premier, or T. Butler King waiting in the private anteroom of the French
Emperor.

"But suppose we fail ?"

In a case like this "there is no such word"
-but you shall not drive me to quote Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton. The people will
hold you harmless from the responsibility.
Make the attempt ! If you succeed, you
shall have enough, and more than enough,
and receive the plaudits of the Nation. If
you do not succeed, the grandeur of the
effort will give dignity and nobility to the
baffled enterprise. Trust something to the
inspiration of the good cause, and more to
the battalions of your chosen men the
bloom and flower of ardor and heroism. Make Richmond and Memphis the advanced posts of your encampment, which on
Christmas are to be planted on the roofs of
Tortugas and in the rice plantations of
Georgia."