The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-03-08

NH i cell n m G o IN 9.
ENGLAND AND THE u. STATES

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tract from the Natchez Free Trader
I Whenever we go TO war with England, she will
be the first, proud and stubborn she Isl for
peace She lives upon her commerce and its rich
treasures, taxed in every possible shape, alone ena
BILE her to meet the interest on one billion dollars
Of the public debt. Stop these supplies and she be
comes bankrupt forthwith, and war Ministry
would he hurled from office in one week after the
! first nstallment OF interest was left unpaid. Her
agricultural resources,s far from furnishing
to meet any such deficiency in the revenue, do not
produce enough to stihe the cry of famine among
her starving millions, Canada Gibralter, and other
colonies, annually drain the civil list, and the lar.
gest portion of the immense amounts exacted from
the miserable bobdsmen of India is swallowed up
in the unsuitable nav Of the East India Com. and
its legion OF officers England repeat subssts
upon It's vast commerce. She is the common
| rer of nations, and the returns into her treasury
are immense. ten years with the United
States would cut this up, root and branch. Her
merchant vessels spot the ocean, and in every
our navy and our privateers wonid seek them Ii
Is there we would fight her She might effect
Judgement on our seaboard but every effort TO pen
citrate into the interior with the finest army she
could land would prove abortive from the facilities
we now enjoy, OF concentrating masses of troops,
in an incredible short period any required point.
II she landed with twenty thousand men, we could
in ten days meet her with thirty thousand, ready to
die for their country.-Bui, have said, the
war will be a maratme war, aud how that would
result may be inferred from looking back
early naval history. During the revolution
navy consisted at different times of about twenty.
five vessels Of various descriptions. Its achieve
mehts more than any victory obtained by
armies, led to recognition by France and
Holland. Early in 1879, small it was, the wide
ocean was FURNISHED with its lus,ure. The First
Lord Of the Admiralty, in a report made to the
House Of Lord stated that the American navy had
captured seven hundred and eighty three vessels
the loss of which he estimated $l2 500 ,00U but in
reality it amounted to $50 200, goo. Ina single
cruise Paul Jones made sirtecn prizes! Before the
war closed hundred and seventy.fve fighting
vessels, carrying twenty five hundred guns and
fourteen thousand seaman, sailed under American
colors They did not confns themselves to the
coasts aud harbours but traversed both the great
oceans and The India and China seas; they both
secured the Baltic, ravaged the British channel,
and sacked castles and towns the fast anchored
isle itself Al the beginning of the two hun.
dred British vessels were employed in the African
trade: before it's close the number reduced to
forty 1t would be an easy task. from such data,
j to calculate what our navy, with our extensive
means TO sustain it, would now accomplish enough
beyond doubt, to enable to destroy the credit,
prosperity and domestic tranquility of the power
that claims to be mistress Of the seas
DELlRIUM TREMENS.-A SKETCH
The delrium tremens is of the frgh t,
full consequences of intemperance. -When the
wretched victim Of unbrlded appetite has INDUCED
to a certain extent in his accustomed stimulent, his
Keeling brain conjures up multitude of fancies, far
more horrible than tantazed the widest ma
MAC. The concluding with such an ind:vid
ua is indescribably fearful. Death, in all Its Pros
team variety has affected with such n
sations as haye experienced when standing by the
wretched inebriate suffering with this terrible dis
order. One case 10 which my mind reverts, was
marked with circumstances Of painful interest.
Esquire Lang was wealthy gentleman farmer OF
extensive repute. He worthy member fthe
State Legislature, excellent neighbor, and in
days when a periodical revel was rarely accoune ed
an evil, Of irreproacha5le moral character
Few, in his own domestic circle, referred the
bIoated corpulency OF his naturally large system
and the fiery flush of his full lace to the Legitimate
cause His daily drains of Cogniac and his regular
retiring to bed avery day after dinner, were the on
" practices which the most scrupuIous whispered
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er or later to pay the forfeit. Mr.. Lang was
ted in his incorporate course by a fit of strong ape
pIexy He had been partially recovered by the en-
ergo,ic application ofthe usual restorans, and all
stimulating food and drinks, strongly interdicted as
certain hndrances entire convalesence. His
brain now tortured with emptiness as it had before
. been with plethora, was giving birth to all the
wild horrible imag inations of the delirium-tremens
tied my horse under one of bis ample sheds and
entered II sat bolseied uprighin his bed and his
counlenance was the image of despair. His eyes
were alternately fitnly gIanclngor fearfulIy rolling
in their strained sockets, ifln pursuit of every
changing objects, now advancing, now retreating
and now fitting with electric rapidty over the
field of vision. Startled at my entrance, he vehe-
menty exclaimed, Would you rob mef' Again