The Trinity journal., 1856-04-05

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are second to none on the American CONT
nent. We have shown that we possess an
efficient, acellofTcered militia of 400, ,O0Omen.
| We can send to Canada, from the United
Kingdom, within six weeks, $4,000 bayo-
nets-our embodied militia, equal to regu-
lars, could furnish alone that quota-and
5000 from the West India command. Our
artillery is one of the finest in the world:
and thus, with 100000 men, militia and reg
ulars, we can defy any attack from the
American lines. The prospect of Euro
pean peace is so great that we can also al
most count 1000 men from the Crimea in
addition to the above. In a campaign of
invasion, the enemy must bring their COM
misSariat Of supply with them. We are on
the defensive in our own country, with am
pie supplies We have railways extending
from Quebec to Western Canada, and in
twenty-four hours we could move large
army to any given point. The Americans
could not take US by coup de main. Our
telegraph wires place every point of the
Provinces in immediate contact. In Canada
an American army would be thrashed to its
hearts content. 1t could not live twelve
hours across the frontiers. Brag and Bun
KUN is one thing; but discipline is quite
another element, and in that respect we are
pre-eminently superior Canada is safe
Let Americans ponder over this fact, and at
once give over all their nohsensica rhodo-
montade about an invasion of our Provinces.
We have shown what the Americans can
not do; now we will point out what we can
do. Our Navy is the most powerful that
floats In Sheps, guns, caIlbre and men, qce
can Srccp tie Ocean frcm tie Arctic 10 tie
Torrtd Zoae-.( from the Atlantac 10 tile Pa
c9fc. Never before in England's history did
britannia more thoroughly rule the waves
Ihe Amersoan sea6Oard IS ours. We could
annihlate their commerce. AS to their
Navy, it is absurd to talk of it; the Ameri-
cans themselves confess that we could blow
it out of the water in one broadside. Then,
how are the Atlantic States situated?-
There is not one city, from Passamaquoddy
Bay in the North to Galveston Bay in the
South, which has water enough to float a
frgate, or gun-boat that we cannot batter
to the ground in twenty-four hours. The
following cities in the United States are
comparatively at our mercy after war is
once declared: Portland Maine; Ports
mouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massa-
chusctts; Newport, Rhode Island; New Ha-
ven, Connecticut; New York, Brooklyn and
Jersey City, with the towns on Long Island
Sound; Baltimore, Maryland; Carolina, st.
Augustine, and Apalachicoa, Florida Mo-
bile, Alabama, and Galveston, Texas; while
San Francisco is the certain prize of our
Pacific squadron.
independently of our vast military re-
sources in our thoroughly loyal provinces, we
must not forget that we can command the
Lakes. We could dispatch powerful fleet
of steamers and gun-boats mp the St Law
renee to Quebec, and from thence, via Mon
treal and the Rideau Canal into Lake On
tario, through the Weland Canal into Lake
Erie, and via Detroit and Lake ST. Clair
into Lake Huron. To lessen the draught
OF water, the heavy guns, our 32 and G8-
Founders, and chief stores of shot and shell,
could, if necessary, be sent per rail from
Quebec to Canada West, there to be reship-
ped at our Lake ports on board our men-of-
war. Thus we could sweep the Lakes, and
every American town and yllfge from
Mackinaw, Michigan, to OswegO Lake On
tario. If war was declared our fleets would
at once appear before the chief of the At
lantic cities, Boston, New York, and Charles
ton-mdicate that the first American sol
dicr has crossed the Canadian frontiers, and
these towns would be battered to the ground
aud Canada will be safe for generation to
come And doubtless, such would be our
policy.
In the above details of our military and
naval operations we have not referred to
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, any reasonable man believe that, if war
broke out and with the command we will
: have OF all the southern ports, the slaves,
who go through fire and water, when oppor-
tunity offers to escape from their horrid
bondage, Will see st. George on the Main,
and not rise en- maSSe to liberate themselves,
: ana JON the free standard of England? Our
splendid West India regiments would soon
: discipline the slaves, and we hesitate not to
= assert that the war would result in the lib
Grafton OF three million fellow-creatures now
held III the IRON chains of slavery. Let us
have war; and the United will then be-
come the dis-United States. The Republic
will be at an end
If we are driven to WARRIOR we are will
ling to avoid it by every honorable means
ia NN' lO"ol We HuSl 20 10 Work III flgnt
earnest! and we must say that, in a quar-
re! 50 unustiGable as is now attempted to
be fixed upon us by an obscure politician,
such as General Pierce, for his own political
advancement, severity will be mercy, for we
will thereby place an eliectual tournquet
upon the efuSion of human blood. Let our
Ministry act with promptitude, for the time
has nearly arrived for them to do so, and we
will have no war. Let us hesitate much
longer, and the too greatest nations on earth
will be up to the arm-pits in human gore
Strike for peace through war, at once No
longer hesitete or argue; our cause is just,
e ana demands that the United States shall
: at once renounce all preposterous claims or