The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-29
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THE-DAIL Y DISPA TCH,
III 49,
Friday sI.rnIas. rssrs.ry g. Isss:
A Bsassfai Briton.
f.,aon Telegraph dsmolishes the Amen
S.rv With broad-sids, and bofnbards OIL our
eI,ies Al follows:
~. ,.v. shewn what the Americana sasaes 90
80 vf,l'pcIus oat what we nando Our nay ss.J
mo. .s.t sos os.aa FROM s.:1; IL sie
I'd zoseom de 1haafse g sas PseNs rese ,h or
for. IN Enslands history sd sra. sssSsarS i
essay as so s1s snnihil..e their commerce 4. 70
~, Nary II q absardt to talks q tae tmerseans
emsS na,xe TNsn Aos are he 4ffianfie cities Of
"a. T,u;fs6 Slater sifsdtedf TIER nof one CITY,
Tro~ Panamaquoddy Bay n ns Norls 70 sa!rss ss
-, >, avn boat shat eaanot batter 10 the 9roand
f,rentyfssr hosys. The following cities in the y.
Name ass, New
Hsmnshire; Boston, Massachusetts, Newport, Rhode
Island; New Haven Connecticut: New York, BROOK,
lyn and Jersey City, with the towns on Long ,ssnS
Sound; Baltimore, Maryland; Wilmington, North
Carolina; Charleston, South Caroline; ST. Ausus.hs,
and Apalsshicols Florida, Mobile, Alabama ana ~s
weston. Texas while San Francisco II sne eef'"'A
prize of our Pacific squadron. oxr
Independently Of our military resources IN oar
thoroughly loysl provinces we w nus could dispatch
powerful feet of steamers and sanoo'; wan.,ss al
Lawrence 70 Quebec and from thence, Wa Mon.Is a
and the Rdeau Canal into Lake Ontario, through the
Wsllsnd Canal into Lake Erie and via Detroit and
Lake St clair into Lake Huron. To Lessen the
drsush Of water the heavy suns oH. IL s ana
cessarv be sent per rail from Quebec to Canada
West, there to be re-shipped at our Lake ports on
Lakes and every American town and village, from
Mackinsw--Michigan, 10 Osweso-Lake Ontario. Ii
declared, our fleets would at once appear be-
fore the chief of the Atlantic cties-Boston, New
York and Charleston-indicate that the hrst Amer.
can soldier who crossed the Canadian frontiers and
these towns would be battered to the ground and
doubtless such would be our policy.
1t is obvious that the jubiant Briton who indict
ed the above had more than usual proportion of
gin in his water. Nevertheless, there is a good
deal of truth in what hes says. Our national repre-
sentatives, in their neglect of the imperative duty
to build up large Navy. and keep pace with the
naval improvements of the age, have left our
coast and commerce completely at the mercy Of
any sudden invasion of hostile maritime power
But the Telegraph, like the Times, and other
London papers, which are bursting with coneeit at
the formidable condition of the British ornaments
and their capacities for destructiveness, do not
look an inch beyond their rubcund noses They
seem to think that the war would consist in the
immediate bombardment of American cities and
a sudden swoop upon American commerce Why,
that would be only the beginning of the war
That would be the hrst page in such q volume Of
blood and devastation as has rarely been opened
upon the earth. For every drop of blood spilled
in this first onslaught, and every dollars worth of
property destroyed we should obtain in the end
tenfold both of life and treasure. 1t would be q
longer war than the war of the Revolution, unless
we could sooner obtain our revenge. For though
we have neither army nor navy, we have resources
and capabilities for = navy as large and an army
ten times as great as that of England. In two
years we should have million of warriors in the
field, Navy which would make every sea echo
Its thunders and scores of prvateers annihilating
the commerce of Great Britain We should take
Canada with ease, and lead an army of fifty thou
sand disciplined Irishmen in their native land
bowling for vengeance. In the meantime, whilst
England was bombarding our cities, and running
up . long account of vengeance at our hands
she would suffer more from the deprivation of cot
ton and the loss of American customers, than could
be visited upon her by the loss of q hundred bat.
ties. The braggarts of the British press ought to
take the general results of the into their cal
culation, and its effects upon British commerce
and manufactures, before they give way to such
uproarious emulation at the prospect of fight
with America u rsf---.sss frs ..
We rejoice to believe that no such unnatural and
suicidal struggle is likely to take place in day
and generation. The Governments of England
and the United States have too many and mighty
interests involved to permit such contest. Great
Britain could afford to 80 to war with Russia, for
the commercial relations Of the two countries were
not of nothing like the magnitude of those between
England and the United States. In fact, English
commercial interests have scarcely suffered at all
from the Eastern war, and her merchantmen ira
verse every sea with the most perfect security
Not a single English merchantmen has fallen into
Russian hands since the beginning of the war
But q war with America would tell different
story. She would lose the best customer she has In
the world; she would cut off the supplies of cotton
from her factories at blow; and not ship of her
whole merchant marine could put her bowsprit out
of port, with any security that it would ever re-
turn again Both countries would suffer from q
war, beyond all calculation; and with both, "ds-
erection is the better part of vaIor"
MIR. Fillmore.
The nomination of Mr.. Fillmore for the Pres.