Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-12-08

Bombardment Of New York-Invasion Of Canada.
Tho following article from the London Tele-
graph of Oct. Goth, exhibits familiarity with
our affairs, which should put to blush those igno-
rant cocknics who delight in an exhibition of
their ignorance. But few European journals
have shown so much manlness and intelligence
respecting American affairs, as the Telegraph,
and If the article does other good, it will give
the English people to understand fully, that q
war with the United States would prove to them
a curse rather than blessing. A more correct
estimate of our resources ana general characters
tics, we have never read: .ssa
The United States possesses a nucleus of ma
Wy, numbering seventy-four ships of war, and
large navy, as compared with Great Britain and
France. But let it not be forgotten that the mar
thine shipping of the United States rivals our
own in tonnage. The United States are in a po-
sition to fit up superb fleet from the merchant
navy, composed of sailing vessels and steamers.
The ocean would literally swarm with their arm
ed clippers, and the commerce of England, with
in six months after the declaration of hostlities,
would be almost annihiated. Not ship that
left our English ports for the East or West In
dies, Australia, the Cape, or Canada, would ever
reach her destination. This would be a consum-
nation that We should not at all relish. In point
of fact, while we could assemble great naval
squadrons. The United States would, at the same
tine, sting us every where by cloud of clipper
hornets fl ON which commerce could not es.
cape.
As to our being able to effect any military op-
erations in with the United States, that is a
farce. We have now some fifty thousand men
in the Crimea, which constitutes the larger por-
ton of the rank and file of the British army The
Americans, on the contrary, possess the finest
organized militia in the world. Their riAcmen
faultleSs. 1t is net too much to say that with
in one month of declaration of hostilities the
Americans, could muster an army of some
100000 men on the British frontiers. And, al
though hastily summoned to arms, they would not
be raw recruits ours, but we'll trained soldiers:
for each one, in his adventurings in the back
woods, has handled the rife with unerring aim,
bivouacked, winter and summer, in the forest and
prairies pioneers of the wilderness men Injured
to danger and hardship-trained with the long RI
fe in hand from carly boyhood; their own com
missariat and engineers at home in every posi-
tion-whether 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 himself fit
to be President or Commander in Chef-such
would form the rank and file of an army of $780,
900 down. casters our frontiers; and work we'll,
ton. They possess the qualification for general
ship, in which we are previously deficient. There
are hundreds amongst them who could command
an army Of invasion with the most brilliant genius
They are fully up to the work, rs soldiers aud,
rs tactcians, they have not one whit degenerated
from their farthers who drove us from the Union
in 1716, and combatted with us in 1914 AS to
martial enthusiasm, there is no bound to it.. We
are cold, phlegmatc; the Americans 6ery and
ambitious. The future of that people is to be q
great military nation which will sweep the Amer.
lean continent from Hudson Bay, on the north,
to Cape Horn, on the south, and no nation can
stay their destiny.
The American army would advance fir m Maine
into New Brunswick, and St. John and Frederick
town would fall without blow. Another army
would simultaneously cross the St. Lawrence, and
invest Montreal and Quebec. From New York
State, Kingston and Toronto would be summoned
to surrender. The lakes would swarm with Amer
lean armed steamers. Bombard New York, and
the cities Of Canada would be RACED 20 the GROUND
The knowledge of this fact forms the strongest
Notifications necessary to protect the Atlantic
cities. No power we have in the Canadas with
all their loyal inhabitants, could preserve them to
us. They would be invaded at fifty points at
once, and in one great combined movement the
Provinces would be wrested forever from the
mother country. So much for commencement
of the war; what would be the prospect at its
termination? The West India Islands and the
Bermudas, one by one. would fall to the Ameri-
cans. Thus our trans Atlantic possessions would
be lost. During the time Australia would i'm
prove upon our difficulties, and it is not too much
to add that Tasmania would hoist the lone star
of Independence. Our colonies lost to US in the
Atlantic and the Pacific, England would, in truth,
have achieved grand success to remunerate her
for going to war about Cuba. Wewould impress
this fact upon our readers. The declaration of
hostilites with the United States would sound the
first knell to England's supremacy as nation
Not only should We be worsted abroad, but Mt
home-in the general connection of affairs which
would follow Gymnastics might change, constitu-
tons be overturned; that which is now below
would rise uppennost, and in the frothing caul-
dron of our 6 hell BROTH" things stranger might
occur in the worlds history than the child as
Stunning the power and position once maintained
by the parent.
Those who would urge war between England
and the United States are no friends of their
country; and the Ministry who would listen to
such evil advice, would deserve at the hands of
an Infatuated people punishment which could
only be expiated by their lives.
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