The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14
BOMBARDMENT OF NEW YORK AND
INVASION OF CANADA.

| bOMBAkDMEN1O OF NEW fOkk AMI
INVASION OF CANADA.
The late talk about war between great
Britain and the United States, gave rise to
innnmerabe articles in the leading English
journalism some of which Brother Jonathan
was "fanned" out without the least trouble,
while others expressed anxious doubts rs
to the result of such contest. Among the
last we find the following, which is taken
from tho London Telegraph:
! The United States possesses nucleus of
n navy, numbering seveDty.four ships Of war
aud some 1000 and odd guns. This Is not a
very large navy, rs compared with Great
| Britain and France. But let il not be forgot.
ten that the maritime shipping Of the United
States rivals our own in tonnage. The United
States are in n position to fit out superb
fleet 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 hostiitics,
would be almost annihilatcd. Not ship that
left our English ports for the East or West
Indies, Australia, the Cape, or Canada, would
ever reach her destination. This would be
consummation we 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 n cloud of clipper hornets from which our
commerce could not escape.
As to our being able to effect any military
operations in war with the United States
that is n 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 rillcmen are faultless.-
1t is not too much to say that, within one
month Of n declaration of hostiities, the
Americans would, and could, muster nn army
o: some five hundred thousand men on the
British frontiers And, although hastily sum.
moned TO arms, they would not be raw re-
| cruts, as ours, but well trained soldiers, for
each one, in his adventurings in the back
woods, has handled the rifle with unerring
| aim; bvouacked, winter and summer, in the
forest and the prairie; pioneers of the wilder
ness; men Injured to danger and hardship
trained with the long life in hand from carli-
est bOyhoOd, their own cOmmissariat and en-
gneers; at home IN every position-wheher
trailing the wild Indian or engaged in the
bear or moose hunt-on foot or on horse
back--on the "long cob" or in the canoe; wild,
determined, fearless, wiry, up to every work;
each and every one of whom considers him
self tit to be President or Commander-in. Chief
such would form the rank and file of m
army of 100000 down. casters on our from.
tiers. The Americans are peculiarly mill.
tary nation. They possess the qualifications
for generalship, in which we are grevously
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, MS tacticians,
they have not one whit degenerated from
their fathers who drove us from the Union in
l7T6, and combatted with us in 1914. As to
martial enthusiasm, there is no bound to it,.
We are cold and phlegniatic, the American
fiery and ambitious. The future of that peo.
pie is to be great military nation, which will
sweep the American continents from Hud.
sons Bay, on the north, to Cape Horn, on the
south, and no nation can stay their destiny.
An American army would advance from
Maine into New Brunswick, and St.John and
Fredericton would fall without blow
Another army would simultaneously cross
the st. Lawrence and invest Montreal and
Quebec. From New York State, Kingston
and Tornto would be SUI poned to surrender.
| The lakes would swnt4n with American armed
steamers. Bombard New York. and the ciiirs
of Canada would be razed TO the ground.-
The knowledge of this fact forms the stronp.
est Notifications necessary to protect the AZ.
lantic cities. No power we have in the
Canadas, with all their loyal inhabitants, could
preserve them 10 us. They would be nyad.
cd at fifty points ut once. and il one great
combined movement the PROVINCES wouId he
wrested forever from the mother country
So much for the commencement of the
war; what would be the prospect at its termi.
nation! The West India Islands and tho
Bermudas, one by one. would fall TO the
Americans. Thus our Transatlantic posses.
sons would be lost. Duriup this time Aus.
tralia would improve upon our difficulties.
and it is not too much 10 add that Tasmania
would hoist the lone star of independence.-
Our colonies lost to us in tho Atlantic and
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We would impress this fact upon our rea.
ders. The declaration of hostilies with the
United States would sound the first knel to
Ehs'ahds supremacy MS nation. Not only
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