Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the ~ o. Republican, .4ugust7
BRIrAIH-THE UElTEp
SIATts-OUE NAVY.

IATtS-OUE NAVY.
II is now reduced 10 a certainty thai we
are to have brush with Mexico. The
probability is. thai England will be party
lnit. There Is no apprehension in this
country of such a contest. Whenever We
20 to war with England she will lie tie
frsl, proud and srubn6rn as she is. to sue
for peace. She kvrs upon her commerce
and its rich returns, taxed in every posi-
ble shape, enable her 10 ply lhr interest
on one thousand millions of dollars of pub
lie debt. Stop those returns, and she be-
comes bankrupt forthwith, aud a war min
istry would be hurled from office in one
month after thr first inslaIment of inIeres!
was left unpaid. Her agricultural resour-
ces, so far from furnishing means 10 meet
any such Deficiency in the revenue, do not
produce enough 10 sllae The cry of famine
among her hungry millions. Her COLONIAL
interest. " hich was once SD productive,
has .dwindled under lhe curse of anti sla
very experiments, until even Jamaica it.
self is likely to become .pauper and
public charge. Canada, Gibrafler, Sierra
Leone, and other colonies, annually drain
the civil list and the largest proportion Of
the immense amouu's exacted from our
nisera JIe bonhsmen Of Iudia. is swallowed
up by the Unsuitable NAV of the East La
hia company, and its legions Of officers.
England. we repeat, subsisls upon her
vast Commerce.. She is lhe common car.
rer of nations. and The returns into her
treasury are enormous. A five years ar
with The United States, would cut This up.
roo, aud brauch. Her merchant vessels
spo, The ocean, and in every sea our navy
priyat rfs would seek them. Ii is on the
ocean, that We would strike her. She
might ef1ect II Judgment OIL our seahoarJ.
but every cforI to penetrate iu1o the int
ror with the finest ar. y she could land,
would prove DISASTROUS, If not abortive,
from the lacilies we now possess of con
ceurrating masses Of trGops. IN an incredi-
hfy silor, period. at any required point -
Bui. as we lIavs remarked, the war will
be maralime war. aud however such an
one would result may be inferred from
review of our early naval operations
During the revolution our navy consisted
at different periods Of abou twenty five
vessels Of every grade and description irs
achievements, as much any victory won
by The army. led To our recognition by
France and Holland. Early in ITS.
small as il was. the wide ocean was bur
nshed with its glory. The first Lord If
the British Admiralty. IN report made to
the House of Lords, stalled that the Amer.
rcaus had capurrh seuen hundred and
eirhtu three vess Is, the loss of which he
estimated al t,cstue and q hal millions Of
dollars. bu, this Was asctralned subse
ouenly ID be uearer taoenty millions! In
single cruize Paul Jones captured sirteen
prizes
Before che close Of the war, one hundred
and sevruly FIVE fighting veSs' Is, carrying
twenty FIVE hundred guns and American
colors They did not confine themselves
TO tie coasts aud tarbors aud narrow wa
ters, but lraverscd both the great oceans
and the Indian and China seas. They
secured the Baltic. navigated the British
Channel, aud sacked castles and Towns on
the fast -anchored-isle" itself. Al the he
ginning of The war. taoo hundred British
vessels were actively employed in the
Slave Trade. Before its close the number
had been reduced to jorty! Aud Bristol,
then the most commercial city in England,
was literally broken up by the spoliations
of our cruizers, and has never since re.
covered its prosperity
I,would be an easy TASK from such data
10 calculate what our present navy, with
our existing RESOURCES I'D sustain 1t and
augment ii, might accomplish. Enough
be, ouu doubt, lornabls US to destroy The
credit, stop the factories, slarve the opera
lives, and break up the prosperity of the
naughty power that claims to be "mis,ress
of the seas"
New York Enterprise. New York