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in favor of this kind of'pigs, and says
they are easily iattend.
Maine Cultiyator.
From Me u. S. Gaseffe

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sentatives OF the United Stoies' setting firth syt-
tenn of national def nee, which he has prepared afer
seventeen years dclbcration.
The first part is recommendation Of immense
n 'ating batteries, from 200 to 800 feet long hy 80
to $50 feet vie, 10 be moved 10y steam ships each
battery to have accommodations for 600 or 1000
men, wi rooms for muni ions and these batteries
may be used in lime Of peace to clear out rivers
and harbors.
General Gaines thinks that these batteries are
rendered necessary by the recent inventions in the
ar, Of war, and had Denmark possessed them, she
would not have suffered a, Copenhagen.
The memorial pr, ceeds to point out The numerous
advantages TO be derived in various ways from these
batteries in both war and peace.
Seeondiy-The memorial proposes the immediate
construction of seven railroads, each from 500 TO
700 lies in length, costing about SOS 900 600,
which in q state of war will enable the government
to transport troops with great facility The p I'm Of
operations for the constructor Of these works is then
laid down, and the advantages TO result from the
operations are set forth.
Hc Htf1OIIul poCttuo w oIsCuss NdIiuur sutN
jects connected with the great propositions, and to
pon, ou, their applicability, their consti,u,ionlty
and iheir practicability.
The plan also includes schcihe of emarcipa,i A.
which in the next country may be promoted by
about two huudred millions of white nhabilants
which our nation will possess, who can supply an
army Of protection and inst, action for the black
frs, here and then in Africs, He says:
This navy and army of protection and insirueiion
may be accompanied and followed by such detailel
corps of the instructed Blacks Of our country as
may be qualified to assist in the grea, work. These
detailed corps continue with the consent Of their
owners until every Black in America shall find
comfortable safe home in the land Of his Fathers
Any o,h-r system of abolition would inevitably de-
lay, though it nigh. no, defea, the accomplishment,
Of the great work of giving civil ration and self gov.
erment 10 Africa, and of giving to the United States
Republic the glory of the achievement. But if we
negl CT j, until The crowded heads Of Europe shall
have leisure to prepare another holy alliance; with
fifty to one hundred first rate ships Of war adapted
to the action Of steam power, we may, possibly in
the next ten years see our foreign commerce under
the controe of tnat holy alliance, and # we resist
and who will have the ha'dihood 10 say tee ,cM
NOT resist we may be told by the vain diplomslisrs
Of that Imperial combination Of Piraiss-"Yan.
kces The holy alliance is gIaciousy pleased TO per
nit you, with your wife and children; to seek an
asylum beyond the Rocky Mountains" Otherwise
we must submit 10 the degradation of seeing all our
sea ports in the possession Of the invading foe oil
out the possibility Of our bringing to their succor
sufficient force in time for their prolectou.
The memorial thus closes;
Your mcmorialist having a, different times dur
ing the last seventeen years, submitted 10 the prop
el authorities Of the War Department mos, Of his
views contained in the foregoing 80 sections, as
will more fully appear fom his official reports (Which
he prsys may he called for and taken as . part OF
this his memonall he has thus repeatedly appealed
to the War Department, but he deeply regrets to
say that his appeals have been wholly unavailing.
He uow respectfully GALES on every mem'er OF the
National Leg stature who loves his country and
her institutions, to sustain his efforts in preparing
for her system of defence ~crty Of their Fathers %
| the Revolution, worty Of the USioS and os Tie
CONSTITUTION which we all stand )l t,ced tc
support. Your memorialist did net e.,ter the ser
vice of his country nor the m"re .elfsh ehjoyniqn
of the pomp and spheme' al nonors of the field O.
battle, (though he world not shrink from a com
parison of has Serr.ees in battle with those Of AM
other Un'ed States commander now living his an
acip%ted glory and great ohject have been to en-,
10y ner means OF defence, ample as they mus
ever be, so sfectually to convince hei neighbor
that honesty is The best policy, and that defeat mt,
attend their every act Of inpasioni and thus to d
rect the elements fDar 10 the attainment of "peat
on earth, and good ,oiH toward men," With thes
, impressions he deems il TO be an act Of commo
r justice to himself. his wife, children and friend
, that he should soci, the only relief to which
I S. General officer. honoied as he has long bee
T with one OF the highest commands in the army, az
q whose best fiorts cue to his couniry's sc
J. vice can with propriety claim-he claims to 6e
S atlthor and inrentOr Of the system cf national
fence herein set forth and explained; he thereis
prays Congress TO confirm his claim by such an act
VI Joint solution as in their wisdom shall seem j.
! and right. And your memorsllst as in duty boa
:. will ever pray.
In NAsRviLlI, TLss. Dec 3is', 'sa