The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-01-30
|SBURG Pa THURSDAY, JANUARY 80, 1862.

! ty old lawyers who have been so long
dried up. The senior partner of that dis
tinguished frm-Grotius- 1T is all
right; Puffendorf says it is all right
Hurrah for Puffendorf. Lord Stowell
says it is all right. So does Chitty and
Parsons in the law of nations. Hurrah
for Parsons-and all the junior members
of the firm say it was all right-Wheaton
| and Kent and Pratt in his work on Con-
traband So does Phillimore and old Vat
| tel. Hurrah for Vattel. They all say
| that Wilkes was in order-and propose
as the last way of avoiding conflict =
| Let the Lord Chancellor sum up the evil
dence-and if England will say that all
similar acts on her part were illegal, then
America may fairly say that this act OF
Wilkes was equally so.
Why has England the right of monop-
oily in all these good things? England
is always Christian-America heath
en-. England is the law, America the
prophet. You speak of our getting up
national debt. Pray tell me what ight
England has to monopolize all the nation
al debt of the world? Why Is she the
only nation allowed to put great burdens
on her unrepresented millions? You say
England has seen the evil of them
! America wants to see 1t, too. England
has sown her wild oats on the battlefield !;
America is emuious of a similar amuse-
ment. How singular that the Queens
proclamation should come out just alter
/ the Southern cargoes Of arms and powder
had sailed Why is it that the Confed-
crate flag is allowed to plant its traitorous
/ folds over the Strand while the Stars
and Stripes in Fleet street over the Lon
don AMERICAN are ordered down by the
| Chief of Police? Is it the way England
has of showing her neutrality? Are you
| aware that the pirate Nashville Is now IN
your graving-dock at Southampton =
You have kindly let me state my case,
and if you are willing to allow America
any of the rights that England assumes,
YOU will, am sure, give me verdict Tor
peace. But what mean these bitter lea
! ders of your journals-such animus is sell
dom seen in the English press. DO you
! believe it all? You cannot, for those L
meet are not anxious for war. The pa
pers would lead you to suppose that the
moment England said war, America was
dead man. AS you have heard your
side, should you like to hear mine =
viii you let me talk it right out, just as
l feel. Yes.
Well, then, I think that war with
America is the worst thing that could hap
pen your empire America can shut your
nations gate and live; close England's
door and she must starve. You are IN no
! position to go to war England is not a
military nation. You have always fought
i 4
ga. Swiss and Germans in the Crimea.
/ To-day, you have not forty-thousand men
! in your empire, and what are forty thous-
and soldiers, fighting for shilling day,
/ against cur two millions who fight for the
! Glory of the nation You are in no posi-
| tiOn to 90 to war-never so weak as now
and America never so strong Here
are some obstinate truths. It looks as
though England was short OF corn this
year Is that so? and Ireland is short
! of potatoes. Then you have elements of
famine in the land; famine means the
/ importation of 150,000,000 bushels Of
! grain Where eau you get it! From
! France ? No. She is short, and the
! Faubonrg St. Antoine will take care that
/ Napoleon don't get the taint of Secession.
Egypt is short this year, and the Baltic
and Black Sea will ask higher prices.
/ War with America means starvation pri-
ces for bread in England, when millions
/ of men are thrown out Of employment.
! Never before did famine in corn, and fam
| inc in cotton occur the same year. Eng
| land, then, cannot go to war at the pres
/ ent time
/ Then look at Canada. Not q gun, a
! fort. or defence on thousand miles Of
frontier? What protects the Canadian
/ towns 4? Can you depend upon the Or
ancemen of Toronto! The French Ca
4 nadians of Montreal ? And are you sure
YOU have not some belligerants nearer
! home than the Carolina shore? Do you
not think that workmen crying for bread
NAV make good material for be.ligerents !!
And for your sake look at Ireland be-
fore the war commences. Is not the O
Donoghue belligerent And Sullivan
of the Nation War with America
means fighting with your own blood rela-
tions. What other people sends you over
million year in small bills OF exchange
to your emigrants? Depend not too much
unon your navy. Navies are deceptive.
! No worse investment can be found. There
is no bar in America that will take the
Warrior. Twenty-seven feet IS too deep.
America has FIVE thousand fishing sInacks
coasting packets, brigs, barques, and ships
that don't pay just now in regular trade.
They are ready for action, not as pirates