The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-03-06
From lIarper's Weekly.
Prospects Of Il Foreign War.

1t Is evident that the pcStlnancy
with which the Bill to increase the ar
my is pressed upon the consideration
OF Congress rests upon some deeper
motive than the necessity Of subdu-
ing the Mormons. No one seriously
supposes that the present force at the
disposal of the Administration is in.
adequate to bring Brigham Young to
reason. Nor does any well-intormed
person doubt that if additional force
were requisite volunteers would ans
wer the purpose better, and do the work
more cheaply, than regular troops
Still, Senator Davis and the friends of
the Administration press their Army
Bill forward, as though it was a mat
ter of vital consequence to the Gov
ernment and the country.
There may be good reasons for this.
The relations between this country
and several Of its seighbors are not
in a situation to preclude the possibil-
ity Of a recourse to hostilties within
brief period of time. 1t is impos-
sible to toresee even for a day what
may take place in Mexico; what out
RACES upon United States citizens the
Administration may not be required
to redress, or what measures it may
not be compelled to take to compel
the adherence of this or that revolu-
tionary Government of Mexico to it's
plighted faith. The United States are
on the verge of a war with the miser-
able despot who rules Paraguay,
whose audacious outrage upon Uni
ted States vessel, over two years ago,
still remains unatoned for In CEN
trail America all is utter confusion.--
No satisfactory amends have ever
been'made by New Granada for the
attack On the passengers by the Pana-
ma railroad: there is every prospect
that the United States may be forced
into collision with the other Central
America States as soon as a serious
effort is made to reopen the Nicara-
qua Transit route.
On another hand, it is not to be
that the President has ever
lost sight of the con iderations which
induced him, three years ago. to avow
the opinion that Cuba ought to be
part OF the United States. That opiu-
ion is not likely to have been weaken.
ed by the discovery that last year Gu
ba was, next to Great Britain, our
largest creditor for produce sold and
delivered. Since the Ostend Nantes
to has been made public, moreover, a
startling change has taken place in the
public sentiment Of Great Britain with
regard to the effect Of the acquisition
by the United States Of the Island Of
Cuba. 1t is now quite likely that, if
the United States had a CONVENIENT
pretext for seizing Cuba, England, at
all events. would stand aIoof, and pre-
pare to take commercial advantage of
the event. OF course, British sent-
ment is Of little consequence to the
Government of the United States; still,
the President is not so wrong headed
as to abandon a design which he once
strongly entertained because the En-
glish seem now to favor it.
Il Neither Senator Davis nor any ofthe
friends of the Bill to increase the army
have limited at Mexico, Central Ameri-
ca, Paraguay, or Cuba. But it is pos
sible that the peculiar state of these
countries, and Of our relations with
them, may have once or twice occur
red to them, in framing the Bill. Five
thousand additional soldiers would
suffice for any immediate operations
that might be required in the event of
an open rupture with Spain, Mexico,
or any Central American State. And
it may further be noticed, that, while
a foreign war would, almost under any
circumstances, be popular with the
masses Of this country, it would, just
at present, possess the singular adj
vantage Of diverting attention from
the slavery controversy--a consum-
nation which the President must de-
sire TO attain.
1t seems possible that the Bill to in
crease the army may fail, if not in the
Senate, at least in the House. But if
it passes, it may not be absurd to
prepare for trouble abroad.
A CHICAGO MrLLIoNAIRE.-Eighteen
years ago, E. B. Ward, the millionaire
of Chicago, sailed small schooner on the
lakes. In 1915 he took command of
craft of $50 tons, which was the COM