Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-28
THE TALK OF WAR WITH ENGLAND.

THE TALK OF WAR WITH ENGLAND.
Whatever may have been~the motive of the Lon
don Times for its begerent articles against the Uni
ted States the idea itself of by England against
this country is mad idea, and needs only to be
mentioned to excite the surprise and contempt of
the civilized world. The government of England is
at this moment engaged, through its agents in near
" all portions of the world, in purchasing bread
and meat for English paupers at home and for the
English troops in the Crimea; and more than this,
the once naughty mistress of the seas is also engag
ed even in enlsting for her armies in this
try and in various parts of Europe in manifest vio
laon of the law of nations Cut off from the bread
stutfs and cotton of the United States what could
England do? Starvation would come upon large
portion of her people, and they would tear down the
government that made the war, and take English
affairs for a time into their own hands. The Rich
mond Enquirer truly says
England like Carthage in her latter days, carries
on war by means of money and mercenaries. When
wealth. and luxury, and corruption creep into q
ton whereDives and Lazarus elbow each other in
the Streets where chvalry has departed and avaricc
usurped her seat the government in tottering to it's
fall Well does Carlyle, in view of this state of
things, eXclam, But in the days that pas
sing over u.s. fools arrested to ask the
ing of them. Few of the generations of men have
itv, disruption, dslocation, confusion worse con-
founded If they are not days of endless hope too,
them they are days at utter despair; for it is not
small hope that will suffice, the ruin being clearly
either in action or in prospect, universal. THERE
MUST BE NEW WORLD IF THERE Is TO BE ANY WORLD
AT ALL" Such is the picture of England from Eng
lands most gifted son. Yet with government
the eve of bankruptcy, with starving population,
with an inefficient and disgraced army, with spir
less and degraded lower class, and sensual imbe-
Gle and contemplate nobility, with costly and
bloody on hand that cuts off the usual supply
of food for her paupers on the one side-the Times
throws down the gauge of battle to America, who
alone could palliate if not relieve, her hunger and
her nakedncss, from the other side. Whilst her
agents are here buying up meat and bread, in the
vain attempt to avert impending famine, and three
millions of her population dependent for lveli
hood the single article of American cotton, the
Times proposes to rush into with America If
England prefers and iron and leaden bread, such
she is getting from Russia in the Crimea, three
hundred thousand " fiery volunteers ready to
feed her to her hearts content, she lands
upon shores; such volunteers, as in the days
of the Plantaganes bore the banner of the to
Antioch and Jerusalem, such g tilted at Aspra-
mont and Montalben,' and fought at Cressy and at
AgincouIt. The nobility no longer found in Eng
land, is found every where in America. The Genius
of Chivalry took her flight from England with the
Puritan and the Coroln lowered over their passage,
and dropped her mantle in their midst where they
landed America is truly the '' most warlike nation
in the world, because her citizens the freest
the most independent, the most undetermined. You
will find no fiery volunteers" such as those who
conquered France and Ireland and planted the BAN
ncr of the Cross in the streets of the Holy City,
ready for this expedition. Such men (the Earl of
Ellcsmere is right only to be found in America.
But you may take a lesson from Santa Anna. Get
recruits he did for his great battle of San Jacnto
Apprehend your beggars and vagrants empty of
their inmates your jails your prisons and your aims
houses, and you will have army far more numc-
and quite efficient his. You will readily
find in the ranks of your arStocracy officers worthy
to lead such army.
But, since you hate blood, and glory in the tricks
and regulations, and restrictions of trade and COM
merce. WILL if you choose, make it commercial
war, q of non-iatercourse. We will furnish
you neither cotton, corn, nor wheat, nor meat,
provisions of any kind We will send your
agents back with sacks empty as they brought
them.-You will send us no more cloths, nor silks,
nor iron, nor other goods, Cut off thus, from the
granaries ofEurope by your Russian war,and by war
with u.s. from those of America, you might, by fam
inc get rid of your whole surplus population In
single year. All your writers concur, that excess
of population is the great that Expresses you.
To get rid ofthis excess, may be your object fight
ing u.s. If So whilst it vindicates your sanity, it
enhances your wickedness. The Ministry should
be hung by an indignant popuace, who should en-
brol England in war with America"
We shall have no war with England. The appeal
of the London Times to the abolitionsts of the New
England States will have no other effect than to
country. Some of them, doubt, would be glad
to join England against the United States-but they
would be literally gibbetted soon as they commit
ted the overt act of treason by the indignant people
of the very States referred to. The Times seems
to think that war between England and the Uni
ted States would surely lead to dissolution of the
American Union. We can imagine no event which
would more inevitably produce concord between the
States and bind them together with hooks of steel
An English army in abolition Boston even. would
rouse the spirit of people throughout thirty-one
sovereigntes; and Southern and Northern blood
would flow in the same streams and on the same
fields as of old, in united onset upon the armies
of our ancient, hereditary foe. If the English press
and the English nobility desire to dissolve the Amer
lean Union, they must adopt some other plan than
that of against this country. There is one
union which such war might destroy, and that is
the unjust and oppressive union between England
and Ireland.
HEALTH OF JUDGE DoUGLAs.-The Terre Haute
Qnd.) journal of the 9th inst. says:
"Senator Stephen A. Douglas is still in our city,
at the residence of DR.. Ezra Read under his medical
treatment. He has been much afflicted with a