The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-11-15

sident Polk. Let Monterey, Buens Vista, and
the valley of Mexico, answer for the invincible
courage and discipline Of those recruits. Now,
with some ten thousand miles Of railroads pene-
trating and interesting this vast confederscy
in every direction-with some thirty thousand
miles Of inland steamboat navigstion-with
electric telegraphs between all the important
points of the country-with all the internal re-
sources Of subsistence and supplies for peace or
war in the most bountiful abundance-with an 40
tive and warike people, trained to the practical use
of arms, and with numerous factories for small
arms artillery, and all munitions Of war scattered
amsng the several States-with all the materials
diffused among the people sufficient to equip
for the field an army Of fifteen hundred
thousand fighting men, without drawing upon the
public arsenaIs, we may safely conclude that
these United States are in a condition not
only impreK enable, but terrible to their enemies,
whatever may be the extent Of their alliances.
Let the call to arms de mand it, and 10 twenty days
at any point of the Atlantic coast, from Maine to
Louisiana, an army of two hundred thousand men,
can be concentrated, so vast and complete are our
interior lines Of telegraphs, railroads and nsvi-
gable rivers.
When we consider the youth of this republic, this
rapid expansion into its present gigantic maturity
and strength is surprising to ourselves, and may
we'll be considered as fabulous and incredible
broad. But we have scarcely touched upon the re-
sources of the United States, and the illimitable
power in their possession Let war be declared with
Spain, for example, what will be the conse1uences
There will be military descent upon Cuba from
our shores. France and England may, perhaps,
feel compelled to interfere. The area of opera
tions will then be extended to Canada on the
north and to Cuba and the British islands in the
Gulf on the South and if Mexico is made the field
for offensive operations against US, Mexico will be
overrun and annexed, while the general war is still
in progress Our commerce will be called home,
while the supplies of the sixty millions year of
cotton to England will be suspended, and the thirty
millions of California gold will cease to flow into
the Golfers OF the Bank Of Eng land and the Bank of
France The cotton factories of England will
stop Millions people will be thrown out Of employ
ment from that cause alone, and the island will
soon be in state Of revolution; while the suspen-
sion of our supplies of gold will destroy the inan-
cial balances of England, France, and the Con nent
The whole of the great European pc Ters would thus
be bankrupted from the general financial pressure
and panic; and upon the heels of these calamites The
turbulent and terrible democracy. from the bloody
socialists of Paris to the terrible Magyars of Hun
gary, would rise in arms, and inaugura.e the fierce
drama Of another general revulsion, hundred fold
more formidable than the last In the cad, the re-
storation of peace would perhaps find republicanism
not only universal in North America and the islands
of the Gulf but predominant in Europe.
Such are some of the probable consequences of Q
war between the United States aud Spain. All
these issues are possibly involved in the panctlio
between our cabinet and the Spanish Minister 1t
is dangerous to stand triiing, in view of such mo.
mentous contingencies. Spain mus. be reasonable,
and the United States will be just. But if she per-
sists in an inadmissble requsition, Mr.. Webster
may drive it to open war He is in the right track
for that ul:imatum He appears to have suddenly
disco vered the popular pulse Of the country, and
feems to be feeling it with evident grat ,a,ion II
he is SO disposed, he may readily provoke rupture
This whole country is but a slumb boring volcano
Let it be cal ed int action, and the CONFUSION will
energy and unity to the various sections Of the
Union, and bind them together as in a single camp.
Werepeat 1t, that in these negotiations at Wash
ipgton there is a speck Of war-that the country
10 ripe for it, and that but little effort will be
quired to provoke an explosion-that the people
not alarmed but jealous of the power OF the
government; and that between the national honor
and the great object of peace, Mr.. Webster will
be fortunate, if to the public satsa elton, he main
tairs the one without sacrificing the other.