Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-23
80 f.a,,vari on American Armies

The Paris Ch0FiVari on AHoEhcun Afnhos'
Dr.. Ohd7iVqyi gives a caricature from Cham,
which represents four indlyiduais !whose
n~atiopalityis easily recognized by their dress
and p~ersopal characteristics) holding up
torches in afog and trying to penetrate the
dmvsteries Of the obsCurity BY their light.
The first individual in the group is a Yankee.
aon whose torch Is inscribed the words, 80
hutton OF the American Crisis" The next Is
a Turk, who bears the inscription, solution
ofthe Turkish Financial Crisis" The third
is an Austrian, whose torch says, solution
of the Venetian Questian." The fourth is a
German of some kind, who is trying to
throw light upon the Danish question.
u Another number of Chdrivari contains the
following bit of American affairs, under the
bead of 1.-THE American Legions :"
HHappy Americal Fragment Of Eden in
closed bT two oceanst It is not thy children
WHO keep up innumerable armies 20 main.
tain their rights"
"a Read and see:
General Scott, more suspicious than ever
Continues his preparations OF defense, AM
notwithstandipe the opposition of the Presi
dent, has sent 70 Fort Monroe, in Virginia
seventy men," r
What do you say to that, oh Virginians
my friends2 Talk of Secession in presenc
of such armed masses as thesei
Such a display of armed men ought to Civ
us q magniied idea of the value (numerica
of each American soldier.
IL is evident that when General Scott II
epforces q garrison, he does ii in repeating [
himself the phrase, parodied from one of th
four rules: 81 give one that is worth
thousand" s.i1E cdN
The following is the tariff:
u For an important city, undermined b
Secession ideas, fifteen men and one sergean
To render impregnable a fortress of th
first class, thirty. two men and one officer.
And so on for the rest.
Ut would not be believed how much tn
sobriety pleases and astonishes us.
But don't you know, Europeans, that TIL
intrinsic value Of the American soldier ough
TO canse reflection in our GovernmentsP
Suppose that some fine morning the new
should arrive that a Slavery General haI
embarked upon a yacht, in company with
platoon Of Carolinians, with the object
establishing the slave.trade, OF maintainin
the Russian ssrfs in bondage, or Of retakin
Gaeta: .
What would you do, | ask?
Suppose. further, that England was mel
aced by an apocryphal Stuart, brought BAG
by a Walker, second of the name, command
ing seventeen freebooters; poor Gre
Britain, che who suffers so much at Il
thought of an invasion-what would be b.
fright2
She has her volunteers, we know, b
would they suffice to defend the immacula
soil of the mother country?
n "Hol you tarnal English nation, su
render /" would proudly cry Walker II,
throwing the grapnels of his yawl on Lond'
Bridge.
mo, we are going to fight you !" respol
the generous sons of noble Albion.
"Humbug, folly !"
"Don't care. Well show you how we c.
defend the right of our aristocracy, the
comes of cur Bishops, and the statue
Wellington"
-"You imbecilesl If make a sign you a
suuashed into nothing!"
'"WeI, wen at least be squashed wi
honor"
"Come on them"
Gentlemen pirates, fire frstP
"How you provoke my pity exclair
Walker II. Look and tremble To yol
feet, my brave army. Every man on Il
bridge! ~
TIE seventeen men, hid under the seats
the yawl, suddenly rise to their full hig
before the affrighted English nation. !
their view the bravest of the riflmen e
claims, "Ahl there's too many !"
Resistance thus rendered impossible, hui
bled England bows her head, and, struck o
from the list Of nations, is no longer but
geographical expression. Happy f now al
then an American topographer consents
place her on his map with the indicatio
fSmall island, poorly inhabited, belongil
to South Carolina, discovered aud conquer
by Walker IL, and christened By him wi
the name of Walkerie.n
The heart is moved, the eyes grow lachr
NOSE at the thought.
God of Mathematics, protect the soil
France forever from the innumerable hord
of transatlantic Attillas We should d
with shame if our million of soldiers al
aimed citizens should be conquered aud su
jugated by a quarter of a hundred delirio
Americans !