Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-11-23
From the Boston Poe.

Straits-S Peeer
w None to California
From the Boston post
Jonathan John
The French have taken Sebastonol sortb
ish feet is ordered into American waters T; Dit
poleon and my Lord Clarendon have decared VA
alliance between France and England go S' the
America and the British press,-the Chrorioiss 10
Halifax, the Albion, in New York, and the Tondan AL
Times, through lackey writer of the nresent ~N
mier,-have mounted stills and are talking asorfiap
ingly loud, brave and threatening. And vo, I
thans knees do not quake; his face does not orow
pale with fear and he has not begun to mt H.;
self in position to bow down his head like hnlnnL
and do obeisence to John Bull. In all this Ioas
than may be very presumptuous, but it is his wnu
and he can't travel out of it. way
But what's the matter with cousin John T. l.
furry because Jonathan doesn't choose 10 % avis MS
the pond and fight his battles for him? 1t must t
admitted that MIR Bull is now cutting curious G.
ure before " the world and the rest of mankndns
the fighting line. What he wants is few batta;on
of that material which constitutes statenb;nb
melted men, who know their rights and are rpo1r
to maintain them-an article money cannot buv
This is the staple that John Bull most needs b,
which he cannot get. No doubt this worries him
To be just must honor the persistence Of bis
remedial efforts He tried first at home, and c,loS
for thousands, fifty believe the number was 70 On
out to the His government issued proclamSa.
tions his recruiting agents secured the three realms
his press sounded out implorngly the necessity bnt
John might as we'll have tried to call up spirits that
| Pluto holds chained in the lowest Deep The men
would not come Nor all England Scotland ana
Ireland nor even the vast British colonial possessions
added, furnished 1.-THE of the number required
But John has pluck, and did not " give it IN son
He remembered The past-how hundred years ago
| (1756) when he feared descent from French ar
my, he managed to get over masses of Hessan mer.
cenaries from Germany to defend his native soil for
him-and how he hired them, at later time to fight
the rebel Americans. John thought of all this; and,
for year past, he has perseVeringy secured the net
ty governments of Germany, industrously picking
up mercenary wherever he could find him, and thus
manufacturing battalions. There is no denying the
fact that John has been more successful in this quar-
ter than he at home. Let him have the credit
of it Hamburg letter, by the last arrival gives
the following account of the last results of the &C.
lvity OF Mr.. Bulls "recrutng agents" 1t is dated
the 18th ult.:
"The English frigate Perseverance found at Elsi
more, en- her return from Libau despatch from the
admiralty, ordering her to Heligoand to take on
board htty German recruits and convey them Erg-
land. Those men are TO be incorporated in the bat
talon OF rifles commanded by Col. Jocelyn The re-
cruitng agents in the north of Germany haue ulreod
enlisted good number Of men for the formation 09
third battalion Of infantry Of the line. Two hun
dred soldiers of that battalion have already arrived
in the island, where they have been placed under the
command of Col. Talbot. This is the fifth battalion
able to raise IN the NORTH twas believed that during
winter. owing 10 the difficulty of landing with small
boats, the recruiting operations would be suspended
until sping; but orders haze arr1Ued from EngqnS
to continue them Nth the activity and the gov
eminent stores in the island have been accordingly
amply supplied with provisions. The number Of
subatern officers who have offered their services TO
obtain commissions in the British foreign legion ex
ceeds the actual wants of the former Several Dan.
ish soldiers have of late enlisted, but the great
nf
longed to the dsbanded army of SchLeswg Holstein"
Cousin Johns efforts to maintain his ground are
worthy of all praise, surely but as he airs
Jonathan must ask him, in relation this business
of getting men to fight, if he will not, for his
credit, take an observation and draw an Inference
1t SO happened that, year two ago, Jonathan
needed this article OF to enable him to
maintain has in foreign land. He wanted 10
conquer Mexico into peace. He made a call for
fifty thousand. Did he have to 90 from home to get
them Did he send ssrecruiting agents" into Den.
mark and all over Germany to sneak into petty
duches, and besides violating law, there engage cut
hroats, the off-scouring of mankind, vile
ries, 10 come under his banner, and help defend his
cause? Say did Jonathan think of prowng about
Johns purlieus, like thief in the night, snatchng
away, here and there, from Mines and factories, and
farms, wretches in a state of semi. barbayism Why,
the very suggestion would have more stirred iona
than's bile, than would the whole SPbastOpol
force on his soil arouse his fear! No; Jonathan
quietly raised the stars and the stripes in different
places on his farm and not merely FIFTY THOUSAND,
but FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND FREEMEN vol
unfairly gathered round this glorious and unsuIIed
banner and what most troubled Jonathan was, 10
know how TO pick out Of so many gallant the
few he really needed
Now cousin John Bull, you had better stop being
gruf and surly, and impertinent, and arrogant &c,
towards Jonathan; and put this fact down in you
note book. It's something worth considering, John
Roll ii all under your tongue, John. Stop grumbDg
long enough to think up 10 its full meaning and sg
nifcance, John. There is good deal to he inferred
from this most striking revelation of national power
which this age has seen, John. You might make
forty such exhibitions of yourself as you have made
last year In the Crimea-we say nothing about the
French feats-and lose credit before the world each
time while the fact that HALF MILLION OF FREE
MEN-e1acly such men, John, as paid their respects
TO you at Bunker Hill, and Saratoga and Yorktown
and New Orleans-volunteered to go out of Their
country to fight, tells how young America would
look with arms in his hands Think of nation Of
soyERE1GNs with arms in their hands, John
But this is not all-not half of what you will do
very we'll to think Of John. You are sending few
OF your ships over here, you? Well, JOnahan'
farm is good deal extended and exposed, large
part OF it is not fenced in at all And you mgn,
put five or fifty thousand of your d" foreign legion
on 1t IN many places-say in order to protect. lie
land J! Now there is new problem in poinc'
arithmetic which you may think Of 1t would n9
hurt you hit 10 work it out. If half million u
reemen volunteered, in 1886 to leave their puFsn''
and 20 forth to defend the rights of their country u
a foreign tdnd, how many, John, would flock aTGun'
the stars and stripes, from every walk in life, TO '
t'se an invader Of their matiUe soil How long ~Gu1
1t De before these thousands of invaders would 'n1"
away Again we say, think up John, TO the emtf
nent gravity Of this question; to the half m1"0""
men fact We have named and let Jonathan alone j.,
The best thing Lord Pamerston do is 10 Oh, Ths