Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-11-21
From the London Telegraph, Oct. %.
The Bombardment of New York--Invasion
of Canada.

and some 1000 and odd guns. This is net a
very large navy, as compared with Great
Britain and France But let it not be for
gotten that the maritime shipping of the Uni
ted States rivals our own in tonnage. The
United States are in position to fit out SUI
perb feet from the merchant navy, composed
of sailing vessels and steamers. The ocean
would literally swarm with their armed clip
pers, and the commerce of England, within
six months after the declaration of bostilities, I
would be almost annihllated. Not a ship
that left our English ports for the East or
West Indios, Australia, the Cape, or Canada,
would ever reach her destination. This would |
he a consumation ,ye should not-at all relish.
In point of fact while we could assemble
great naval squadrons, the United States
would at the same time, sting us everywhere
by cloud of hornets from which our COM
merce could not escape.
AS to our teing able to effect any military
operations in a war with the United States,
that is farce We have now some fifty
thousand men in the Crimea, which consti-
tutes the larger portion of the rank and file of
the British army. The Americans, on the
contrary, possess the finest organized militia
in the world. Their rifemen are faultlcss.
1t is not too much to say that, within Que
moth of declaration of hostilities, the Amer
leans would, and could, muster an army of
some FIVE hundred thousand men on the Brit
ish frontiers And, although hastily sum-
noned to arms, they would not be raw re-
cruts, as ours, but well-traincd soldiers, for
each one, in his adyenturings in the back
woods. has handled the rifle with unerring
aim; bvouackcd, winter and summer, in the
forest and the prairie; pioneers of the wilder
ness; men Injured to danger and hardship
trained with the long rifle in hand from earli-
est boyhood their own commissariats and en-
gineers; at home in every position-whether
trailing the wild Indian engaged in the
bear or moose hunt-on foot or on horseback
on the {. long cob" or il the canoe; wild, de-
termined,s fearless, wiry, up to every work
each and every one of whom considers HIM
self fit to be President Commander-in
Chicf-such would form the rank and file of
an army of SOC, 900 down-Eastcrs on our
frontiers and work web too. The Ameri-
cans are peculiarly military nation. They
possess the qualifications for generalship, in
which we are grievously deficient There are
hundreds amongst them who could command
an army of invasion with the most brilliant
genius. They are fully up to their work. as
soldiers; and as tacticians. they have not enc
| whit degenerated from their fathers who drove
us from the Union in 1916, and combatted
with us in 1914. As to martial enthusiasm
there is no bound to it We are cold and
phlegmatic; the American fiery aud ambi-
tious The future of that people is to be a
great military nation, which will sweep the
American continent from Hudson's Bay, on
the north, to Cape Horn. on the south, and
i no nation can stay their destiny
An American army would advance from
Maine into New Brunswick, and St. John
and Frederickton would fall without blow
| Another army would simultaneously cross the
! ST. Lawrence and invest Montreal and Que
bee. From New York State, Kingston aud
! Toronto would be summoned to surrender.
The Lakes would swarm with American
armed steamers Boinbard New York, and
the cities of the CaDadas would be RACED to
the ground The knowledge of this fact
forms the strongest Notifications necessary tc
protect the Atlantic cities. No power WI
| have in the Canadas, with all their loval In
| habitants, could preserve them to Us. The,
would be invaded ct fifty points at once, anc
in one great combined movement the Provin
ces would be wrcsted forever from the mother
/ country. So much for the commencement OF
the war; what would be the prospect of it.
termination ? The West India Islands anc
the Bermudas, one by one, would fall to tho
AmeTlcdIlS. uuS OuI tfdiSdtfdbtlC Jo>Scs SiUh,
j would be lost During this time Australi;
1swould improve upon difficulties. and 1T Il
not too much to add, that Tasmania woulc
hoist the lone star of Independence. Our col
onies lost to us in the Atlantic and the Pacific
England. would in truth have achieved
lgrand success to remunerate her for going t.
war about Cuba We would impress this fac
upon our readers The declaration of hostili
ties with the United States would sound The
first knell to Englan rs supremacy nation
Not only should We be worsted abroad. but a
home-in the general commotion of affairs
which would follow-dynasties might change
constitutions be overturned; that which il
now below will rise uppermost, and, in the
frauthing cauldron of our he'll broth, /" thing
stranger might occur in the worlds histor,
than the child assuming the power and posi-
ton once maintained by the parent.
Those who would urge war between Eng
land and the United States are 10 friends o
their country; and the Ministry who woul,
listen to such evil advice, would deserve at til,
hands Of an infuriated people a punishmen
which could only be expiated by their lives
We have intcrfered between the Turk and tn
Russian-that is we'll and good-but embold
ened by that successful experiment, let US no
interfere between Spain and the United States
An ardent love of our country bids US to exer
our power, while there is yet time, to avert
calamity which no true patriot can reflect up
on without shudder.
ANECDoTE OF WASHINGTON On certain
occasion, Gen. Washington invited a numbe
| of his fellow officers to dine with him. Whil
at the table, one of them uttered an oath
The General dropped his knife and fork in
, raoment and in his deep undertone and char