Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1845-06-05
The War Feeling in Ireland.


Dublin Freeman's Journal, the editor of
which is strong and very sensible writer.
How different his language from portion of
the press of our own country.-We have in
in the United States political party which
takes its cue from the Tory party in England,
and which, whenever this country and Eng
lam get into dispute, almost invariably takes
sides with the latter. In the two wars which
we have had with that power' the leaders of
the federal or whig party have been found
plotting against the government of this coun
try, but the mass were found on the side of
their own country. At the present time,
when difficulty is again talked OF, portion
of the whig press at the north are endeavor-
ing to show our inability to compete with
Eaga OIL land or or on the sea. The great
mass Of the people howeve have no fears of
the result, and are ready and willing to de-
fend Cur territory and our honor. 1t is truly
sichenlng 10 hear an American editor use the
language that is daily found in some of our
northern journals. Some of them even pre-
tend TO doubt our ability to sustain ourselves
in war with ''feeble Mexico" Here is the
extract from the Freeman's Journal :-Detrois
| Free Press.
"The receding of England from the posi-
ton she has taken about Texas is deeply sig
nifcant, and history may hereafter use it to
mark the poiut at which the food of her for
tune began to ebb. America is no ordinary
power. Her greatest strength can be put
forth upon England's own ocean domain. A
quarter of acontury ago, when England was
supposed capable of annihilating the lttl ma.
rine of America by single stroke Of her fin
and the relative dimensions of their navies
justified the suppostion--the younger nation
seized the knife between her teeth, dashed to
meet hei enemy on her enemy's own element
and many spuutng vein of the monster oi
the seas crlmsoned the deep on which they
struggled.
| .'America is better grown now. Her COM
rnercal navyIcovers every sea, and in its quail
| tiles leaves all rivalry far behind. Great as
have been her advances in population and
in wealth, her progress in commerce has out.
stridden even these. The maratime strength
of nations is no longer measured by counting
their ships of war, but by sounding the degths
of that source whence the military marine is
to be supplied-their commercial navies.
| England is mightier at sea than France. not
| for that every 100 tons cf Louis Phillppe's
royal navy, Victoria's number l20--or what
ever else may be the proportion of the excess
| but because the commercial tonnage OF
France being but 100000, that of Eng land
amounts to 100000. BY the same standard
the maratime strength of England and the
United States may be compared and that they
stand lhus-England has 5000, ,0O0-America
has already 2,00O,OOO! This is the relative
position, not Of countries whose distance has
long maintained a stationary proporlion,but Of
countries, the second placed of whom has
gained upon the first by strides almost incred-
ible. Fifteen years, erhaos-twenty years.
certainly-wlll reverse their position in the
race. @t
"England will not 90 to war with America
on account ofTexas, nor on account Of Ore
gon: and scarcely on account of anything
else that the New World contains.
"Eng,and will be especially cautious of go>
| ing 10 war with America, or dashing herself
against the compact constitution ofher States
when she reflects that America is country
with whom foreign nations are ambitious to
become united, while she herself is country
from whose merclless gripe kindred nations
Struggle to be released,
England, keep cool-don't 60 to war. Be
content to show your abhofrence of slavery
by robbng your people oi two annual millions
at home, to put them into the pockets Of the
ex-slavesdrivers of the West Indies. Do not
exhibit your philanthropy by dashing your
brittle empire against the iron clamped fed
Grafton of America"