Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-07

| 1t IS admirably done and hits at every line
John Bull may have his naSies and armies but
we have men and arms, and while the army of
the Eastwould be embarking and crossing the
water, We could arm, equip and discipline an
army that would safely face thewhole of Britain.
As for navy, they have the advantage. SO far
as offensive opsF atoms upon the coast cons
cerned, but when 9 cutting up commerce. is the
game, with our priyatecrs We can beat the world.
From tte London Times, TebE2, 1885.
+ JOHN BULL AND RBROTHER
JONATHAN,
JOIN Bell TALKS D1cSTIEDLY OF MS ARN1ES. Ni-
WIS, AND WHAT HE CAS Do.
To sweep her commerce from the seas, to-
destroy her navy, to rayage her seaboaFd would
be feasts neither difficult nor dangerous to OIL
power with such forces as Great Britain now
possesses but little would be the honor and
heavy the loss of the suicidal triumph. We are
unwilling to fight; not because ne fear our enc
mics, forneverrWere conditions of combat more
unequal than those would be between Great
Britain and the United States at this moment,
but because we cannot bring ourselves to regard
them as enemies at all. When Lucan spoke of
more than civil war, he, certainly must have al
loded to such war as would be Waged between
| Great Britain and North America. The parent
devastating the fair inheritance of the child kin
dred hands employed III roofing out that pros
pcrity the increase of which has overhowed in
tide ef riches into this island, are subjects too
painful for contemplation, and from which the
mind of every Engiishman turns aside with un-
lconquerable disgust. Let US have war, ifneed
be, with any other nation, but not with those
icolonies-the proudcst historic monument we
possess the most enduring memorial of Anglo
Saxon greatness.
Yet what can We do and how avert that which
| this extraordinary nation, or those who have ut
least the legal right to speak in its name, seem
Ito be determined to bring upon usS Were the
whole attention of thewholepu5l mind of Ameri-
ca bent uponthe question we might hope for
satisfaction and reconciliation, but what IS to
be done with nation which is drifting needless
~ into the war with apeople possessing splen
did army and the finest navy in the world, while
| it possesses, iu truth, neither the one nor the
other? \ few thousand soldiers scattered over
an immense continent, and vessels carrying in
all about 500 guns are literally all the resources
with which the United States confront the enor-
nous feet and well trained armies Of England
about to be set liberty by the impending peace
with Russia. If we were the aggressors, if TAX
| ing advantage of the enormous disparity of our
| forces, we had been mean and base enough to
force quarrel ON an unofending neighbor, nowords
would have been sufficiently vigorous to repro
bate our conduct; but what is to be said when
power utterly helpless in military and naval re.
sources insists on fixing US with a quarrel which
We have as little power to avoid as it has ada
quately to carry out?
| Prom tile 81. Louis Gazette Of 1880.
JONATHAN REPLIES IN VERSE, AND NOT VERY
GREATLY FRIGHTENED.
wonder, john If you forget some sixty years ago,
When young, john and head was white
You didH's much, John, and thought to make
But found ont your mistake, john one day at Lexington
Made in Boston harbor, John, the teapot Of the free,
You didn't like the party, John, it wasn't quite select;
You didn't like their manners John, condn sandeIr
You thought got their heads and made
But you got very tpsy, john (yot drink little stt
The day marched acrosse Neck, and down Bunker
ny your Yankee SON, handled half scores
But nOT hope you're sober, John you're far too fat
You haven't got tie John, had at Remington
You had eoFps upon your toes, corn-vas va.
And at the tight YORKTOWN, why then you couldn't run;
You tried quite hard, must admit and threw away your
gun, =
And ysur sword Eye, John, for shame to George
And ike beast, you raised price pork
Thenwe had some spare, John, hooks with pork
And hung them Jersey shore, you evacuated
Another much loved spot John such sweet associations
When you were going down to York. to your rich
The Datchasn of the Mohawk John, anxious to entertain
Put up some Coates" that stopped you, John, saraoEs
plain.
That hill you must remember, John, lis high and very
to have lSqsEspss send your
The name it bore in T6wns simple Bemls Heights.
Yonr old friend Ethan Allen, John, of Continental fame
Who called you to surrender, in "Grcat Jshovahs"
The morn he called SO early john and took Fort
know you'll grIsve to it, JOHN and feel quite sore and
To learn Ethans Dead John and yet there's many
Growing in his highland home that's fond Of gum, and
And get. up early, JOhn those brave Green Noun
tain boys.
Oh never mention it. never thought lslueKy,
,hpaEht knew geography, but misses in their
WIZ tell you that Kentucky lay just then belo~ Orleans
And did you get the boOty John, somehow my memory
think n you made swap, 1ve got i. in INV head,
Instead gold and silver. You took i in cold lead
The mistress of the ocean, John she couldn't ruls the
You gsnsrs in your beet but, John, you had no
Your spirits, too there you took your hook
But John you couldn't stand take our
Perry,
We make them all just so, Joh's or on thesss
We took this little continent purpose to he free
Our eagles free he loves soar bear
But Jen he loves to scratch the bars and make the lion
rage.
Our sioroas stars sparkling increasing year
Supported by thousand hearts that knew
Our children lisp It in iher prayers It's eared Ger the
Dost hear i, John' thunder, there: "srs children Of
the free" E5.a
Free as our slrcs OF Is as bold and brave and true
To worship Sod and keep the land, dear John, took
To keep dag free the land, unsale on the wave,
Until The last bright star shall the last lreeman
Ths FREScH IAPEalAL CaADLE--4 Paris let
ter in the Independence, of Brussels, states that
the municipal authorities of Paris have already
given orders for a magnificent cradle to be got
ready for the expected infant of the Emperor and
Empress. twill surpass, it is said, in taste and
exquisite workmanship, the famous one present!
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