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The Power Of the United States
What an English Paper thinks Of

The Power Of the United States
What an English Paper thinks Of
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From the London Telegraph, Oct. 80, '55. ]
The United States possesses a nucleus of
of a navy numbering seventy.four ships of
war and some 1900 and odd guns. This is
not very large navy, as compared with
Great Britain and France. But let it not
be forgotten that the maratime shipping Of
the United States are in position to fit out
a superb feet from the Merchant navy, COM
posed sailing vessels aud steamers. The
ocean would literally swarm with their
armed clippers, and the commerce Of Eng
land, within six months after the declara-
tion OF hostlities, would be almost anphi.
lated. Not a ship that left our English ports
for the East or West Indies, Australia, the
Cape, or Canada would ever reach her desti-
nation. This would be consumation we
should not at all relish. In point Of fact,
while we could assemble great naval squad
rons, the United States would, at the same
time' sting us every where bya cloud Of
clipper hornets from which our commerce
could not escape. e
Asto US being able to effect any military
operations in war with the United States,
that is farce. We have now some fifty
thousand men in the Crimea, which consti-
tutes the larger portion of the rank and Gle
of the British Army. The Americans, on
the contrary possesses the finest organized
militia in the world. Their rifemen are
faultless. 1t is not too much to say that,
within one month OF declaration Of hostil-
tiles, the Americans would and could, muster
an army of some five hundred thausand men
on the British frontiers. And although
hastily summoned 10 arms, they would moi
be raw recruits, as ours, but we'll trained SOL
diers; for each one in his adventurng in the
back woods, has handled the rife with un.
erring aim; bivouacked winter and summer
in the forest and prairie; pioneers of the
wilderness; men Injured to danger and hard
ships, trained with the long rife in hant
from earliest childhood; their own commits
saries and engineers; at home in every po
sition-whether trailing the wild Indian OIL
engaged in the bear or moose hunt--on foo
or on horseback--on the along cob''~or II
the canoe; wild, determined, fearless, wiry
up to every work; each and every one o
whom considers himself fit to be Presiden
or Commander.in-C Chief; such would form
the rank and fle OF an army of 500, o0e dow
casters on our frontiers. and work we'll too
The Americans are peculiarly military ma
ton. They possess the qualifications fo
generalship; in which we are previously de
ficient. There are hundreds among then
who could command an army of invasion
with the most brilliant genius. They ar,
fully up to their wo as soldiers, and as tao
ticians, they have not one whit degen
; Grated from their fathers. who drove d
in 1914. As to martial enthusiasm, ther,
is no bound to Il. We are cold and pleg
matte, the American fry and ambitious
The future Of the people is to be grea
military nation which will sweep the Amer
ican continents from Hudson's Bay, on th'
! North, to Cape Horn, on the South, and nj
nation can stay their destiny.
An American army would advance iron
Maine into New Brunswick, and st. Joh
: and Fredericton would fall without blow
Another army would simultaneously eros
the st. Lawrence and invest Montreal an
Quebec. From New York State Kngstoi
and Toronto would be sum moned to sufren
: der. The Lakes woald swarm with Ameri
can armed steamers. BoInbard New Yorl
and the cities of Canada would be raised t
the ground. The knowledge of this fac
forms the strongest fortfcation nece ssary t
, protect the Atlantic cities. No power W,
have in Canada, with all their loyal inhabi
tants, could preserve them to US. The.
would be invaded at fifty points at on ce, an
I in one great combined movements the Pro
: vinces would be wrested forever from tn
mother country. So much for the com
mencement of the war; what would b
the prospect at its termination! The Yves
India Islands and the Burmudas, one by on
would full to the Americans. Thu, ou
transatlantic possessions would be lost
During this time Australia, would improY
: upon our difficulties, and it is not too much t
+. add that Tasminia would hoist the lone sta
of independence. Our colonies lost 10 u
T, in the Atlantic and the Pacific, Englan
would in truth, have achieved grand sue
cess to renumerate her fer going to waraboa
Cuba. We would impress this fact upon ou
I readers. The declaration OF hostilities witt
: the United States would sound the frs
hnell to England's supremacy as nation
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