Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-02

~ me esin93 sl5s Of ~ FL some 500
ID hi = ~ asl1y re nary q
compared With Great Bsitsin md france. Bot
~ & - - s6osgotfea4 that the maritime ship
ping Of the Emitted States riSals oar own in tom
mage The Cnised States are in position to d
out superb feet from the merchant navy, corr
posed OF saiTng vessels and steamers, The
ocean would literally swarm with their clippers,
and the cotnnerce Of England, within six
months alter The declaration Of hostlities, would
be almost apnihilafed Not ship that left our
English ports for the East or West Indies, Aus
lralia, the Cape or Canada, would reach her des-
tinafion- This would be q contamination We
should not II al 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 commerce could not escape
U As to our being able to effect sny military
operations in war with the United States, that
farce. We have nov some City thousand
nen in the Crimea, which constitutes the larger
sortion of the rank and file Of the British army.
fhe Americans, on the contrary. possess tho
inest organized militia in the world, Their ri.
lemen are fauitless. Il is not too much TO say,
hat within one month Of the declaration o.
,osfilities, the Americans could and would mus
er an army Of some Eve hundred thousand mel.
IN the British frontiers. Although hastily called
o arms, they would not be raw recruits az ours,
nut well trained soldiers. for each one, in his
dventures in the backwoods, has handled thu
ife with unerring aim; bivouacked summer ans!
inter, in the forest and prairie; pioneers o.
he wilderness Injured TO danger and hardship
rained with the long rifle in hand from earlies
oyhood, their own commissariats and engineers,
i home in every position; whether trailing the
Wild Indian mr. UoA IN sho haa 0r mr.
,unt on foot or on horseback; on the "lonr
OBJ or in the canoe; wild, determined, fearless
Try; up to every work each and every one o
shom considers himself fit to pe President o.
'ommander-:n-Chief; such would form the ran
Ind file of an army Of 5ON.0UO dowr-easters OF
'nr frontiers, and work well TOO.
The Americans are peculiarly a military ma
on. They possess the qualifications for gener-
lship, in which we are grievously deficient
here are hundreds amongst them who cout
ommand an army Of invasion with the mos
,rilliapt genius. They are fully up to thei'
FORK as soldiers; aud, as tacticians, they hav.
lot one whit degenerated from their fathers wht
rove US from the Union in l776, and coinbattet
sith us in 1914. As to martial enthusiasm
here is no bound TO it. We are cold anf
,hlegmatic; the American fiery and ambitious
Che future of that people is to be great mill
AIRY nation, which will sweep the American con
nents from Hudson's Bay, on the north, tt
APE Horn, on the south, and no nation can stay
heir destiny.
An American army would advance from Maine
MO New Brunswick, and St. John and Fredef.
;kton would fall without blow. Another arm,
onld simultaneously cross the ST. Lawrence
nd invest Montreal and Quebec. From New
FORK State, Kingston and Toronto would b.
ummOned to surrender. The lakes woul,
warm with American-lrmed steamers. BON
ard New York, and the cities of the Canada,
vould be RACED to the ground. The knowledg'
# this fact forms the strongest fertilization
necessary to protect the Atlantic cities. NJ
over We have in the Canadas, with all theii
oval Inhabitants could preserve them to u.s.
They would be invaded at fifty points at once
nd in one great combined movement the Pro
inces would be wrcsted forever from the mother
oun.ry. So much for the commencement O.
he war; what would be the prospect OF it,
ermination? The West India Islands and tn,
5ermudas, one by one. would fall to the Amer.
ans. Thus our transatlantic possessions woalt
re lost. During this time Australia would in!-
,rove upon our difficulties, and it is not toe
iuch to add, that Tasmania would hoist the lon,
star of Independence. Our colonies lost to u
n the Atlantic and the Pacific, England would.
n truth, most assuredly have achieved q CRANE
uccess to remunerate her for going to war abou
Juba. We would impress this fact upon oui
eadcrs. The declaration Of hostilities with thu
United States would sound the first knell to Eng.
.and's supremacy as nation. Not only should
We be worsted abroad, but at home-in the gen.
raj commotion OF affairs which would follow
lynasies might change; constitutions be over
urned that which is now below will be upper
nost and in the frothing caudron Of our ''heli
ROTH" things stranger in this worlds histor,
han the child assuming the power and position
once maintained by the parent.
Those who would urge war between Eng
and and the United States, are no friends of tn,
country; the Minis ny who would listen to such
vii advice, would deserve at the hands of the
nfnriated people, punishment which could on
y be expiated by their lives. We have interior
d between the Turk and the Russian-that is
we'll and good-but emboldened by that success
ul experiment let us not interfere between Spain
md the United States. An ardent love for oul
,ountry, bids us TO exert oar power while there
$ yet time to avert a calamity which no true
patriot can reflect upon without shudder.