The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-20
The Greatness Of America as a n
Unit---England Policy.

From the Richmond Ezdminer, Nou. S
The greatness of America is a recent
revelation to Europe. With the North
and South confederated under the old
Government, the United States possessed
a military power and an abundance of
resources which her citizens, even in the
excess of their self complacency, never
dreamed. But few minds in Europe had
any idea of the power of the young giant
in the Western World. One or two of
their public mon, as Cavour or Napoleon,
might have apprehended, by the force of
their genius, the military magnitude of
America. But it was generally dim
speculation in Europe. Our basis of mil
itary powers were frequently ridiculed by
the English press, and passed as trans
atlantic bluster. But this war has shown
that even these boasts fell far short of the
reality. 1t has revealed TO TIE world an
enormous power that overshadowed what
eve; there is of military display in mod
ern history, and has amazed the most
arrogant nations of Europe.
Within eighteen months of this war,
the North and South have raised armies
larger than those of the first Napoleon
iron clad fleets have been launched capa-
bic of destroying the combined fleets of
England and France two millions of men
have been put in the field and yet the
internal system of the industry of the
country and the ordinary pursuits of peace
have been but little interrupted, unless
from the exceptional cause of the blockade
of the Southern seacoast. Had the North
and South continued as one nation, there
could scarcely have been any limits to the
achievements of their military power
England could never have checked it. We
could have overrun the Continent, taken
Canada in the teeth of combination of
all the European powers, and crushed
England alone as an egg-shell is crushed
under the hammer.
The bloody and unhappy revelation
which this war has made of enormous
military resources, has naturally given TO
Europe, and especially to England. an
extraordinary interest in its continuation.
Nothing could be more contrary to the
wishes aud policy of England than that
the war should end in reuniting the North
and South and consolidating and renewing
in rivalry to her a military power which
is now wasted in internecine strife. That
the Union never shall be restored is a
foregone and settled conclusion with the
British Government 1t would not now
hesitate for moment to recognize the
South, unless firmly persuaded of our
ability and resolution to carry on the war,
and unless it had another object to gain
besides that of permanent division in the
nationality and power of her old rival
That object is the exhaustion of both
North and South.
England proposes to effect the continu-
alton of this war, as far as possible, to the
mutual ruin Of the two nations engaged
in it, By standing aside and trusting that,
after vast expenditures of blood and waste
of resources, the separation Of the Union
will be quite as surely accomplished by
the self devotion of the South as by the
less profitable mode of foreign intervention
To the advantages she hopes to gain from
this separation she desired to add those
which she expects from loss aud ruin to
both North and South in long war Her
present policy of neutrality with reference
to the war is founded in the confidence
that the South is able to achieve her in
and that the prolougation of
hostilities does not risk her subjugation
In this unchristian and inhuman calcu-
lation, England has rightly estimated the
spirit and resolution of the South We
are prepared to win our independence
with the great prices of blood and suffering
that England has named. But we under
stand her in this matter Behind her
mask of conscience and pharisaical precis-
ion there turks hideous and devilish
purpose.
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