Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-24
FEBRUARY "a, 1859.

COiSudlHeQ U say Iudb ~ HOL kuoW now TO
understand her. In virtue of having large pos
sessions on this continent, being large land
holder here, she probably has right to be
heard. and right to look out somewhat on this
continent. That would be fair Buff she
wanted Cuba she would take it; and, in my judg-
ment, we could not stop her, especially if SIZE
were backed by France. Look at what she has
done in the Crimean war, which is just past;
war more destructive than any other, on account
OF the improved state of firearms, and the vast
additions made by new inventions TO destructive
implements of every sort; war such as you
read of neithtr in fable nor in history. The
tabled war of the gods, when the mountains
were upheayed and the trees were torn up by
their roots, or Millions description of the battle
with the fallen angels. does not equal in grand
eur and greatness, and everything that pertains
to fighting, of Balaklava and Inkeman, and the
taking of Sevastopol.
Do these great achievements seem to stop herl
Not at all. After that unfortunate charge of
Cardigan's supposed she had hardly an eff
eient horse left; but she concluded, since that
time. that she must go over into Persia, and box
her jaws. Notwithstanding the example of the
disaster of Cardigan's guard, the English made
charge against ten thousand Persians, on the
plain of TehereD, compacted and fixed in the
best way they could be for fighting. They
stood their ground for battle; but the English
troops came up. suppose the same Scotch
Greys that charged Napoleon's artillery at Wat
erloo-in three columns cuniform, and with but
one forlorn man, a lieutenant, to break the rank
They charged down upon those ten thousand
men. Two of the ieutenants were cut down,
and the third one was killed, from the fact that
his horse careened, and he lost his sword-arm
before heplunged him on the bayonets; but all
three columns made road through the enemy,
and they fell before them ike nine pins. They
formed, and recharged through again; and, COM
pared with the mum Der engaged in that battle,
there were not. In twenty minutes, as many
Persans left to tell the tale, as there were Gre
clans left by Leonidas at the Straits of Therno-
pylae. That is the sort of fighting they do
Ours is done with Mexicans and Indians
What else has England DONE She has made
China come into her measures Tho facs that
there was a vast rebellion iu her provinces in
the East did not check her at ALL General Har-
diuge, who was to have been made peer, and
o glorious old Christian commander he was, in
q series of one hundred splendid engagements
subjugated place after place, until he eventually
died. His successor, Sir Colin Campbell,
seems to go ahead with equal spirit and equal
strength. The provinces will all be brought in,
and they will be made to pay the expenses cf
the fight. They will be put under stricttr dis.
cipline by way of prevention, and to satisfy her
self, England will annex a lew other provinces.
There is where her ambition is; there is where
the prosperity of her empire, in great degree,
lies. She has been going on in this way for
centuries, without the horrors Of war at home
upon her own shores, or any fear of foreign
invasion, and with only occasional civil out
breaks. Of her it may be said that, for thou
sand years, the temple If Janus has substantially
never been closed A bloody old bruiser. she
has roamed around the world insulting, brow
beating, and whipping anybody and everybody
she chose.
Her fleet is five or six hundred ships, ten or
eleven times as strong as ours. The fleet of
Francois about ten times as large as ours, and
| suppose she would join in such struggle
just for the grandeur fthe thing Suppose we
get into fight with them about Cuba: how are
we to get men there! and if we get them there,
how are we to succor them with ether men and
with provisions! Willthey not cut off all inter
course! If fthe island was given to US to-day,
they could come and take it, or stsrve US out,
unless the climate killed them off; nothing but
the yellow fever would ever save us. 1t is ab-
solutely point of weakness, in NV estimation,
instead of point of strength. Gentlemen talk
ABOUT us DelnS the Key, and commanding the
Gulf of Mexico, the queen of the Antilles, a
gem, and hardly know what ell All manner
of things are said. Why Sir, does not every
man know that outside Of the reefs of Florida
there is passage enough for vessels, AMI that
you cannot raise such works of fortifcafion
there as would interrupt the passage of vessels
in the channel So it is on the Cuba side,
where you go into the Caribbean Sea It is ut
terly impracticabe. Suppose we had the Moro
Castle, and there were eight or ten "a gun ships
before it; how long do you suppose it would
standl There are many points on the island
where soldiers ceuld be landed England keeps
$4,000 men in Canada as her regular compile.
ment. She could run them down, and land in
Cuba these regular soldiers trained in war
Your regular French Zouaves, BeJouin Arab
fighters, could GO there; and what would be our
raw troops, our green troops, against theml-
Our troops, ofeourse, would be Impoverished.
We should be driven out Of the island, not be-
cause our people are not brave and willing to
fight, bet because We could not stand such fight
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