The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-12

DletlDct fIoU the ordeJ OF scOuu0rel we have
newfoundland we only want something for him
70 dove believe that for new country and
considering the lax administration of crimina,
law, the frequent changes In the organization Of
the courts and the police systems, the general
confusion of a hydra headed form of govern
meDt-we stand to-day freer from crime than
any other nation on the face Of the earth.
Volunteer Military OEeaniaati0ns-England
Following . GSssd Example.
Yesterda company of the militia of Wiscon.
sin arrived in this city from Milwaukee, distance
of thousand miles, upon an excursion, at their
own expense. At Buffalo and Albany, en- route
they were well received and escorted by nili
'ary companies in those cities; and here ia New
York they were received by one company Of the
Seventy first regiment Of militia, while another
is ordered to assemble on Tuesday morning to
show the Milwaukee boys the lions. The com
papy is to have its quarters during its stay at the
Astor House.
1t is thus we do up our military matters In
this country. We have a million of men In
arms, all volunteers aud soldiers con amore-and
all without expense to the government. We
hare million and half Of just such sceA drilled
men these regularity enrolled in the United States
They are called militia and target companies, but
they are the right kind of troops for q sudden
emergency.
Time was when the writers of the British
press used to despise and laugh at our volunteer
military organizations; but if they forget the
lesson taught them at New Orleans, they have
hardly forgotten another one taught them
BY the Mexican war, ten years ago,
when those same troops assaulted and
CARRIED by storm the greatest fortresses
of the enemy, and when at the battle Of Buena
Vista small baud of rifemen utterly destroyed
the flower and the chivalry of the regular Mexi-
can army, including magnificent body Of caval-
~, in the open plain.
Now, when the English people are terribly
alarmed about invasion, they take leaf out of
be American book, and they organize volunteer
rife companies after our model, and numerous
advertisements appear in the English papers re.
lating thereto, very like what are constantly ap-
pearing in the New York press. We are glad to
see this onward movement in England. Only
place arms in the hands of the people, and teach
them how to use them, and they will not only
offer an cfeciual resistance to invasion, but they
aristocracy who have oppressed them for centu-
ries. For great number of years the English
people have been the most unwarlike of European
natiOns-a strange anomaly, while their armies
were coDquering half the world But these armies
chiefly consisted of the Irish and Scotch, and the
English peasant and townsman was not permitted
to possess or carry gun lest he should kill the
game of the country, to which the no
bility asserted an exclusive right. But
that is all changed now. As long as
there was no danger of invasion by sea, the only
mode in which England can be invaded, it was
the interest of the arstocracy to keep the people
without arms. But now that steam navies make
invasion practicable, and now tina. France is en-
gagged in war which may become European in
ts extent and embrace "the tight little island"
in its vortex, the London Times encourages the
American idea Of volunteer military organize
tions-shows their efficiency and value-says
every man here is a soldier, and that England
will never be sale until the same can be said of
her citizena
We trust, when the English people thus become
armed, they Will not lay down their weapons 60
soon as the danger of invasion is over
At the time Of the Revolutionary war in
the British American colonies, French in
vasion both Of England and Ireland was
feared, and there was not soldier to de-
fend the latter. The Irish were not permit
ted the use Of arms, lest they should conquer
their independence The fears of England over
came her prudence. She permitted the enroll
ment of volunteers. immediately eighty thou.
sand Irisbmen appeared in arms. Before they
laid them down they demanded and obtained an
independent Parliament for Ireland. Afterwards.
by csjolery and treachery, they were induced to
disband their organizations, and the result was,
that they were roboed Of their Parliament, and
their country deluged with blood by British mer-
cenaries. Let the English people therefore take
this opportunity Of securing second Magua
Charta. as the armed Barons wrested the first
from King John at Runnymede. But never let
hem part with their arms or break up their 70
unteer organizations. THUS, and thus alone, will
hey be match for the oligarchy who keep them
down by standing army, supported by taxes
wrung from the sweat Of their own brows.
WHAT JUDGE RUSSELL Has Done IN THE
GENERAL SEssIoSs.-Tbe May term of the
Court Of General Sessions, which was extended |
by Judge Russell-who avaled himself of the
provisions Of recent actin order to expedite |
The public business and aid in clearing" the |
over crowded prisons before the hot weather ar.
rives, was brought to close yesterday by the
and sentence of Felix Sanchez for the
murder Of Hartman Cannon, in Sullivan street.
During that period the City Judge trel over
l6e cases, In which were included indictments