The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-03


repeated battles and according late advs Andromi-
kohl having beaten and repused shamyl whom the Allies
had subsidized to enter Georgia
"Thrty thousand (meaning English and Freneh)
have advanced Routschouk" That is mistake OF
fact
formidable body for Decentralization is the watch
to establish itself on the of the Crime Watching
for what Surely if for opportunity they could not
have had better one than when the Russians raised the
siege of Sstr and began to retreat but too far OF
to succor the Cmea fit had been then attacked by the
Allies
Several of these last tha is Russian ports the Bal
tic) have been bombarded"
That is very representation of the facts The
Allies in the Baltic fred shot here and there into lit
tie Finnish port but they did not lombard any What
they did was to attack and burn deenceess fishing vii
lagos contrary all the rules of honorable warfare and
then pretend to be Mortified at the affair of Greytown
Forty thousand in progress of taking posses
sion of Bomarsund and the Aaaad islands" Forty thou
sand men to conquer little group of outot-the-way
islands, defended by only 1000 Russians Why, Napo-
leon undertook and accomplished the conquest of Egypt
with smaller force than the Allies employed in the Bal
tic with no other result than the pay and sterile one OF
dsmanting and then abandoning, the little fortress OF
ticIe the Courier calls "the struggle ofgants'
Finally argues the Courier ut this stage of the war the
Allies had examined the and studied Cronsaet
and ebastopo When Sir Charles Napier sailed from the
Downs in command of the proudes fleet which England
could equip it not understood that he was bound on
surveying expedition that he went to study Cronstadt
he proclaimed that very otenatousy too, with much
exhortaton sharpening cutasseshat he was going
r.. al,
St Petersburgh 1t the miserable gasconade of this
of the expedition coupled with the fact OF
the exguy of its results and that after ALL Sir Charles
had to call in the aid of the French auxiliary army COM
manded by paraguay dlies in order to take not Cron-
sadt and St Petersburgh, but only Bomarsundt is this
lame and impotent conclusion of an expedition, so
boasully commenced which has covered it with ridicue
not less in Europe than in the United States
The Courier proceeds
ain one word more than one hundred thousand men
have been transported to the theatre of operatons and
with them the horses of cavalry, provisions
and munitions of every kind, the materid for campaign
and siege necessary to provide against every event AND
all this much greater distance from the shores OF France
England than that which separates Mexico from the
United States"
That is not exact in any sense relation. The French
troops were embarked Marseies and Agers and land
ed Galipolis which is quite easy and quite as SAFE
voyage as from Pensacola New Orleans the Brazos
de Santiago Vera Cruz 1t true the English troops
had to make longer is from Portsmouth or
Southampton Constantinople but in correspondence
with this large portion Of the American troops destined
for the Gulf of Mexico, embarked at Boston, New
York Baltimore and Norfolk besides which, large bodies
of American troops entered Mexico by land marches of
great length in the of the several columns which
invaded New Mexico, chihuahua, and Coahuila and the
troops for California had to traverse the entire continent
or make half the circuit of the globe by Cape Horn 1t is
quite idle therefore, to imagine that the difficulties OF
transportation which the Allies had to overcome have been
any more serious than those encountered by the United
States.
Great Britain is accustomed in the of her many
military operations abroad transport troops to great
distance; and therefore Engshman would not have
regarded the transportation of men or munitions OF war
from France from England, to Consantinope in
so serious light it seems to be considered by the
Courier And yet is remarkable to how in all the
English accounts Of what is going on in the Baltic the
fact of the very imperfect organization and equipment OF
the British troops continually apparent The English
journals are full of complaints of the inadequacy and de-
ciences of their commssary quartermaser and medical
service indicating that in this respect as well as IN the
celebrity and efficiency of operations in the held the Amer
ica government Judging from the completeness OF our
staff service Mexico has nothing to lose in so far as re-
CARDS the management of foreign war; by comparison
even with Great Britain. a.
| The Courier proceeds to say:
| Even then though nothing more should be accom-
pshed by this campaign, Ia hypothesis but little proba-
be it would already be immense result to have pre-
pared all to have assured ALL in such manner that in
the earliest days Of the ensuing spring. there needs but to
give the signal for operations to open all slices at once
| r. Ln;,. "A NV, mig
chance"
The hypothesis which the Courier thus presents is in
effect a surrender of the whole matter in controversy
Our war with Mexico the Courier suggests in subse-
quent paragraph commenced IN May, ls46, and reached
as the Courier has it, its decisive events in August ls4
1t would be exact to say that the reached its
conclusion in 1S47 The argument of the Courier is that
if the Allies should do nothing in the first year. after land
ing at Gaipois and Constantnope except to make prep
araton for efficient operations in the second year. then
they VIII have accomplished much did in the first
year of our war with MEXICO The conclusive TO
this view Of the subject Is, that ~ the rs year we con-
quered completely and cut off from the Mexican repabic
half of its territory reduced the conquered erri-
tory into absolute subsection; governed it by the
agency of military commandments we had possession
Of all its ports had gained haa dozen pitched battles
in the field, and numerous minor engagements All these
events were decisive great results and preparation for
the conclusion of war altogether decisive than
and surveys and other things of that