The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

SELECTIONS.

" SPEAKING OUT;"
OR HOW TO SETTLE THE YANKEES, SHOULD THEY
DECLARE, OR PROVOKE, A WAR WITH ENGLAND.

In " Uncle Sam's Peculiarities," just published, and
briefly noticed in our last, we have the following dialogue,
at an oyster refectory, between the author and a Major
of Philadelphia, one of the most intelligent and libe-
ral Americans, though still tinctured with anti-Anglican
prejudices, the former, had .met with during his sojourn
in the States. After successfully combatting the Ameri-
<oan aac itniptiesn.,.,thtat.tLN -Vl.auar 6...0 boo, t Ilvitioh in th.o
last war, the navy of the former, 'as well ea their troops,
being in great part Britons, the Major proposes a toast—
" I'll give you one you won't drink. In the next war
between John and Jonathan, may the most powerful whip
tbe, other.''' . -

" With all my^ heart. But do you really suppose you
would have any chance of whipping the English, if we
were, daring the war, at peace with she rest of the world,
so that we might concentre one-half of our means against
you? Why, you are the most naked nation in the world.
You have two thousand miles of sea board---with towns
worth attacking—to defend."

" We have:-and you have Canada to defend against
us!'

" Shall I inform you how we should make war
againq,you (heaven forbid it!) if compelled to make war
at all ?"
" Let me hear it."

We should bring one-half of the naval power of Eng-
land against you in two divisions. One would have a
powerful army on board destined for Long Island, of
which we could take possession in defiance of all the mi-
litary volunteers of the Empire State, with those of Mas-
sachussetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey at their back.
This army should be marched to the west of the Island
and plant two hundred field pieces, fifty mortars, and
fifty howitzers, with a park of Congreve rockets, at
Brooklyn."

" Where we beat you in the war of Independence."
" Granted, but these proposed operations would be as
different to our former pityful ones, as the present times
are different to '7G. The army would be brought over the
Atlantic in a hundred and fifty war steamers, only ten of
which would go to the Lottom. A mere trifle."
" Go a-head."

" We should keep possession of Long Island until the
other division of the navy, which would be sent to the
south, reported progress and compelled Congress to sub-
mit to any terms of peace we might propose, which of
course would include payment of every cent due by Me
Stales to Me -British subjects, and payment also of the
cost of the war."

" You're joking."
" Not a bit of it, my dear sir. As soon as we arrived
out here, we should offer ten per cent better wages than
you give, (and for three years service only, to all the Bri-
tish seamen serving in the American service. Your fleet
would then be denuded of half its strength, and have a
few sham fights with ours."
" Now I see you're poking fun. You are a comical
fellow ; that's a fact. And what would your other grand
division in the south be at?"
_

"'The other division would be sailors and marines, and
three black regiments from our West India Islands. The
marines would have two thousand petty officers, picked
from all the non-commissioned officers in the English ser-
vice, and on board the transports there would be three
hundred thousand stand of arms, with munition to corre-
spond. The black regiments, the marines, and the two
thousand extra officers would be landed in Georgia, and
arming as many of the slaves as might be found deserving
of freedom, march along the coast under the protection of
the fleet, and carry the servile war from thence to the
banks of the Potomac. During this campain Canada
should merely be called on to defend herself. New York,
and through her the whole of the United States, would
receive a terrible lesson, which would prevent future quar-
rels ; three millions of slaves would be made free, and
you would be compelled to he honest and pay your debts
in spite of yourselves. Now, major, I'm much obliged
for your attention, for I have eased my mind and spoken
freely for once. I begin to believe that bragging is infec-
tious, and that I have taken to it, suddenly.