The Trinity journal., 1856-01-26
THE AMERICAN MILITIA.

! door TO La Belle France. John Bulls Lon
don Telegraph, of Oct. Goth, says:
AS to our being able to effect any mill
tary operations III war with the United
States, that is farce We have now some
fifty thousand men in the Crimea, which
constitutes the larger portion of the rank
and file Of the British army. The Ameri-
cans, ON the contrary, possess the finest or
ganized militia in the world. Their rilemen
are faultless. 1t is not too much to say
that, within one month of declaration of
hoStilities, the Americans could, and would,
muster an army of some five hundred thou
sand men on the British frontiers. And, al
though hastily summoned to arms, thsv
trained soldiers, for each one, in the adven-
turings in the backwoods, has handled the
rifle with unerring aim bivouacked winter
and summer, in the forest and the prairie :;
pioneers of the wilderness ! men Injured to
danger and hardship-traned with the long
rifle in hand from earliest boyhood their
own commisatiat and engineers ; at home in
every whether training the wild
Indian, or engaged in the bear or moose
hunt-on foot or on horseback-on the log
cob or in the canoe wild, determined, fear
less wiry, up to every work each and every
one of whom considers himself to be Presi-
dent or Commander-in-C -Chief-such would
form the rank and file of an army of 500,-
600 down-Easters on our frontiers and
work well too The Americans are peculiar
ly military nation. Theypossess the quail
ications for generalship, in which we are
previously deficient There are hundreds
amongst them who could command an army
of invasion with the most brilliant genius
They are fully up to their work as soldiers
and, as tacticians, they are not one whit de.
generated from their fathers who drove us
from the Union in l71G, and combattcd
with us in 1914. AS to martial enthusiasm
there is no bound to it. We are cold aud
phlegmatc the Americans fiery and ambi.
tious The future of that people is to be II
great military nation, which will sweep the
American continents from Hudson's Bay,
on the north, to Cape Horn, on the South,
and no nation can stay their destiny.
An American army would advance from
Maine into New Brunswick, and ST. John
and Fredericton would fall without blow
Another army would simultaneously cross
the ST. Lawrence, and invest Montreal and
Quebec. From New York State Kingston
and Toronto would be summoned to surren-
der. The lakes would swarm with Amcri-
can armed steamers. Bombard New York,
and the cities of Canada would be razcd to
the ground The knowledge Of this fact
forms the strongest Notifications necessary
to protect the Atlantic cities. No power
we have in the Cansdas, with all their loyal
inhabitants, could preserve them to u.s.
They would be invaded at fifty points at
once, and in one great combined movement
the Provinces would be wrested forever from
the mother country. So much for the com
mencettient of the war-what would be the
prospect of its termination The West In
dia Islands and the Bcrmudas, one by one,
would fall to the Americans Thus, our
transatlantic possession would be lost. Du-
ring this time Australia would improve up
on our difficulties, and it is not too much to
add that Tasmania would hoist the lone star
of independence. Our colonies lost to us in
the Atiautic and the Pacific, England would,
in truth, have achieved grand success to
remunerate her for going to war about Gu
ba. We would impress this fact upon our
readers The declaration of hoStilities with
the United States would sound the first
knell to England's supremacy as a nation
Not only should we be worsted abroad but
at home--in the general commotion Of af-
fairs which would foliow-dynastics might
change, constitutions be overturned ; that
which is now below would rise uppermost,
and, in the frothing cauldron Of our !" hell
BROTH" things stranger might occur in the
worlds history thau the child assuming the
power and position once maintained by the
parent" ......
BO- General Wolf, overhearing young
officer say in a very familiar manner Wolf