Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-12


Such al event IS 8 naval ar with England. or
even with England and France and no other thsn5
naval war Is within the bounds Of probability -
would not only alter the entire condition and policy
Of the United States but would change the face Of
the world It's effects in . material point Of view
upon this country would Be most extraordinary.
Our external commerce stopped, our domestic indus
try would receive m unparalleled impulse Not
only would our artisans and manufacturers have to
supply the ordinary domestic demand, but they
would be called upon to meet the requisiton of q
great and active war. This we could do with ease
for we possess within ourselves or in immediate
vicinity every soil and climate, and every element
and skill requisite for the most immense production
Grains and meats for food cotton and wool for raj
ment iron and coal for mechanical appliances, gold
and silver for trade, sugar and coffee for luxury,
salts and alkaes for the arts and inventive fac
ulty and energy ofenterprse for their employment are
equal to every possible emergency. Home produc-
ton would be increased thousand fold. Shut
out from the European markets for only short
son, and we would show to them that we need
neither their Skill their labor, their capital to
attain the very highest purposes of production
and enjoyment.
But the immense industrial impulse that naval
war with England would give to u.s. is not, by any
means, ,''O hole effect il would nrnduce Close
markets for short season to England and France,
and they would lose at third OF their entire
foreign trade and half of the elements Of their
industry, which they do not and cannot produce.
Such an event would deprive the powers of Western
Europe Of the greater part of their of revenue,
and Of paying the interest their enormous debts;
and produce social and political revolution in every
country there upheaving the very foundations of
society in all of them except Russia which posses
ses almost the same elements of self sustenance
ourselves.
The political results of such war would be even
more vast than its industrial effects. The first ef.
feet upon the United States would be to heal all
sectional disputes, and set thousands at work devel.
oping coal, iron, silver, gold, wheat and other
natural productions and manipulating them for adap-
tation to use. Then five millions of tons OF ship
ping would be driven home and turned at once into
a volunteer navy, to cruise upon every sea. AS in
the Mexican war we saw two hundred thousand VOL
unteers offered to the President in six weeks, so
should we see then, five hundred thousand men Of
fered ready to march and take possession Of every
harbor ON the Continent and it's adjacant islands,
from Greenland to the isthmus of Panama Before
the first year had EXPIRED should find ourselves
in possession of Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, St. Domn-
20, Mexico and Central America. All of these would
bring new sources of supply, open new avenues of
industry and internal trade and augment the foun.
tains of strength, while their accession to
Union would sensbly diminish the strength of the
European Powers. When the war ended, it would
exhibit results similar to those of the Crimean strug
gle, but on vaster scale. We should come out of
it first in the world France came out Of the East
ern first in Europe.
No can foretell what may be the results of the
present irritation of the public mind here against
England, and Of the political complications there A
naval war is not the most improbable result, and
every rejecting must see that it is far from be-
ing very undesirable thing to this country. 1t
may be that it is one of the inscrutabe designs of
Providence for working out the true and manifest
destiny of this great republic"