The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-01-30


sions from the United States navy. These
vessels will not hug the coast to meet
your A Agamemnons and Warriors, but start
for Australia, and India, and China, and
take your merchant shipping prizes into
thousand Eastern ports. What can you
do? If it has taken twenty men-of-war
to find the Sumpter and Nashville; how
many ships will it take to catch five thous-
and privateers War with America
means the destruction of British COM
merce. 1t means more-civil war in this
happy land Revolutions are contagious
Revolution in New leland, revolution in
Hungary, in Poland, in Italy, revolution
in Russia, revolution in America; and
pray why do you except England!
War with America is not like war with
European powers. 1t means the destruc-
ton Of twenty-five millions of Americans,
or victory. | would rather you would ex-
press no signs ofappreciation or disappro-
baton until 1 have painted my picture
Your papers are guilty of goading you on
to all the horrors of brutal war, and lead
you to suppose that America is your bit
terest enemy instead Of your truest friend.
Perhaps [ can bring the frontier closer
home by drawing another picture. viii
in a few words state who is your friend
who your enemy Well, then, France as
you' natural ti-iend-America your natural
enemy. OF course the Americans know
that your great army Of Volunteers Is got
up against them--not your old friends,
France. Your enormous Army and Navy
they know is not against their true friend
France, but against their natural enemy
America Let me show you the force Of
my argument in another way. During
seven hundred years have you not always
been friends? Have you not a common
literature, a common law, and do you not
speak the same language What better
proof can YOU have that France is your
best friend than by talking with the off,
GERS of the French Navy, who worship
England for the burning recollections Of
Trafalgar. The army, too, love you as
brother for the sterling lessons you taught
them at Waterloo. The merchants like
! you for having rivaled them everywhere
in trade. And the priesthood almost
adore you for having done so much for
their religion, and showered so often bles-
sings on the head Of their Pope.
Have [ not proved that France must
naturally be your friend If not, then,
[ have another argument stronger yet
The people-they must naturally admire
revere and respect the nation that took
their royal guest out of the Belerophon,
and sent him to die, Parrhasius-like. on
sterile rock in the Southern Ocean oh,
YES France is your friend. Read the
DeJats, the lEontelr, La Presse and the
Consf5t,,tioanel. Don't you see how friend
" they are? How different from the
hostile comments of your national enemy,
America, \ nation that takes twenty
three millions of your manufactured goods,
and gives you forty-four millions OF your
raw material, must naturally be your
enemy. Are we not always insulting
you
Read your papers-what an outrage
that was fourteen years ago-how insulting
to sell Erin, pale with want, large cargoes
of food far 7oLIiag. Admitted gIoss insult
was offered by our having burned down
the City Hall to honor your officers in New
York at the time of the Atlantic cable
And more yet, that outrage Of sending out
the Arctic wanderer as a token of our
desire to insult your Queen. But If /
have failed to show that America IS your
natural enemy, observe how we outraged
all rules Of etiquette in the royal welcome
we gave the son of the noblest lady that
ever sat upon the throne of mighty peo-
pIe That insult should never be forgot
ten. This change of position of France
and America may show you how uncalled
for is this uprising of your people-civil-
ization is barbarism when Its result is
anarchy.
Americans want to come out to your
Exhibition next year. How can they in
the midst of war-then you viii want to
turn it into an exhibition of improved fire.
arms. Americans do no think that Eng
land would be guilty of doing so bad and
dastardly AN act as to strike a nation when
it is down. 1t is unworthy Of great Eng
land. If she agitates on this issue, rest
assured that no apology would suffice. 1t
looks to me merely as a ruse to get arms
into Canada, to be prepared for European
complications, and to take advantage of
leading the passions of strong people in
order to keep up weak ministry-but
there viii be no war. Ny instincts are
sometimes prophetic-there viii be no
war just thirty years ago placards were
posted all over the Kingdom with these
words: Stop the Duke, Run for Gold :
The remedy was powerful-the cure perfect
i'm fifty-eight hours the Duke was out Of
office-and the home guards did not shoot
down the people.