New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-01

ysis in the onward march Of ingenious substitutes for
manual labor Having become poorer BY these means.
the reasons which Europe has for keeping pesee with
Us would be proportonstely diminished. Manchester
aud Birmingham would not be in al Orgssm Of delight
TO greet the American Minister there would be no
esgeIness to attend Mr.. Peab0dys balls; the
peace steamers between the countries would want their
accustomed freight and passengers and not even
Government grants would save most Of them from
being laid up. Interest having ceased to bind En-.
land and America together-ani what appies to
England. win answer with greater or less force for
other European States-misundersrandng dis
satisfaction elimination. recrininatOn, nOn-in-
tercourse. and war-the big war-wOuld follow. Then
where should We be OF course we should have at
least our share Of victories. Heroes low obscure,
would nail their hsgs to the mast and ont with
their ightred hands glowing with triumph. Canadian
armies would he cowed or conquered. and the Amer
lean eagle would scream with delight In the mean
while national bankruptcy would follow, and purely
intellectual service would be gagged il when
shakspere was yagrsnt by Act of Parliament Let
the people be turned into rabbe by war and they
become through stupidity, fit food for powder.
Is this an overdrawn statement No. We have car
red out the logic of the theme TO its inevitable concu
sions We have painted the necessary barbarisms of
retro5eton growing out of war; we have shown what
the apothegm in peace prepare for war leads to now
We do no; need steamers. with the oriental despO-
tisms Of the quarter deck do not need an army
with the tender mercies of the barrack we do
not need either of ofense or defense. We are
already defended aeainst attack NewYork any 9th
er of cur harbOrs could I've engineered in few days into
naecessibity as regards foreign foe Against army
landed could hurl by means OF railroads,
FIVE hundred thousand used to riggerpulling
tllery practice As for foreign seas, have already
shown that our means are ample and would be 50 If
We had no navy. Commerce needs no protection. Ii
protects itself fit necessary to put down Ma
lay pirates extemporzed expedition undertaken by
merchants would do is quite well as the navy. Hit
were necessary to combat Austria in the Meiter-
ranesn the merchant service would, at a moments
warning, giYe US a few more Decaturs and Balm
bridges. The more Government is doing for a
people. the less they do for themselves
The more expensive the Government the more barbar
GUS the masses. The greater the politicians OF a cOun
Try the smaller the people Peace will not come with
preparations FOR war but war will. The man who car
ries arms is he who them. So is il with nations
We mnst learn philosophy not to be found in
Putarch, or Tacus Macauay, but only in the study
of our own history for the last forty years In that va
ried not immaculate, but yet most instructive record
we can learn that every act of abstinence from the
means of aggression has secured 10 the same extent
the resources of repose and prosperity In Peace pre-
pare for-Peace.