The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-14
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From the London American
mr.. Train ON the American Navy.
We believe the time has come in the his
tory of nations for America to demand her
proper position in the void; and we cor
daily agree with Mr.. Train that the short
est way to arrive at that independent posi-
ton is again TO copy England aud have the
largest navy ahoat for sthe forthcoming
struggle for the mastery OF the seas
Mr.. Train--America must be the only
frst-cass Power in The world. Our Par
rott guns are superior to those of Napoleon.
Hurrah for Parrot Our Dahlgren guns
beat Armstrong and throw Blakely into !
the shade. Hurrah for Dahlgren James
projectiles and Sharpe's rifles are American
institutions. Hurrah for the American Ma
vy-hurrshl The navy of Europe is an
ark. The Monitor and the Stevens Bat
terry could destroy it in less than forty days.
1'Oh" aud laughter Why have we not
been a first-rate Power Because we had
no navy. But the times are changing
year since our navy was ghost-now it ia
a well-organizsd skeleton. Let Citizen
Lincoln hurry up its iron flesh--its steel
sinews and put life into it in the shape of
steam. Cheers ..,-,...,. SD
We must have navy larger than Eng
land, larger than France-never mind the
expense. We-he psople-pay the bills.
IHear Nations are powerful in proper
ton to their navies. Heart Peter the
Great was a shipbuilder-his power was
based upon his navy. Genoa was prosper
Gus with a navy-so was Venice, Holland,
and Portugal. They lost their power when
they-lost their navies. Who once owned
South America, Mexico, Louisiana, Florida
and Gibraltar ?-Spain. The Spanish Ar
mazda was sunk, aud Spain lost her COLO
MES when she lost her navy. Napoleon
signed for a Davy-France wanted shipe,
commerce, and colonies aud organized ar
mics. England had ships, colonies, COM
mercs, ana organized naviee. Nelson won
the Niles battle and Napoleon lost Egypt.
Napoleon lost Trafalgar and Wellington
gained Waterloo. The third Napoleon saw
bis uncle's mistake, and slowly and surely
has built a monster navy. America must be
the Erst naval poWer in the World. England
has become iDsolent, arrogant aud cowardly
insulting through her navy. No. She
has controlled the worlds commerce. How?
by her navy. England has no army of i'm
portance, but has domineered over all ma
tons with her navy. A few months ago
she sent her squadrons to destroy our en-
pire. CShame.] americans sOiH neUer for
get IL. Hear. EngIands bulwark was
her DavJ-her tower, her men of war
Cromwells Navigation Laws have always
been cherished by English monarchs-the
Stuarls the Tudors, the Georges and the
Victorias. [Cheers.]
If history is philosophy, teaching by ex-
ample, Americans are philosophers. The
irrepressibIe conflict is close at hand the
La,tfa rr;1a - tho d0pnfn;o1 If the univar-
sal ocean. Our brakes, Duncans, Jervises,
ColliDgwoods and Nelson's are all still alive.
Yours are dead. Monuments never fight.
Live men compose our navy. Our Du-
points, and Porters, and Wordens, and Far
rsguts, are worthy successors of our Deca-
turs, Paul Jones, Bainoridges, Lawrences,
the American navy A change is on the
enough. Our people, thank God, are at
last emancipated. England can no longer
irritate Us. Hail to our gallant navy. Our
people must pass law compelling every
merchant ship to take from FIVE to ten ap-
prentices. Let them wear navy buttons.
The captain must be responsible, and the
sbip-owDer must pay the bills. We want q
militia Of the seas IOheers1 Our sailors
must be on the ocean what our volunteers
are on the land. We must have navy
Our improyised gunboats have earned, in
cooperation with the army of the Conslitu
ton, immortal fame. -rr.-r
Who won laurels at Fort Henry?-th,
gunboats. Who at Fort Oonalson2-th,
gunbOats. Who captured the Islands oil
the Great Rivers 2-onr eunboals. VIII
gave victory to our arms at Pittsburg Land
ing-our gallant gunboats. Cheers.
Who captured Macon--Roanoke-P Pulaski
-onr eunboats. And who, pray, took New
Orleans I'll answer, our unconquerabl
gunboats. Vicksburg fell, Natchez capitu
lated, and Memphis surrendered to our ma
WI Oar sailors are as brave as our sol
diersare bold. Our gunboats are manne
by regiments of Cassabaucas Long er
this our gunboats have battered down trea
son in Mobile, Savannah and Charleston
Cheers America is emancipated. EGG
land is not our mother. America has pass
ed out of leading strings. Cut the connect
ing links of the gunboat- canal throug
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Max
passage along the lakes, and do it at nct
The people pay the bills. Cut another ca
nal to connect the rivers with New Orlear
via Carolina, and let our gunboats have
race-course inside our empire. [Cheers
The people of America never call each otl
er the mob. [Cheers. 1t is not sllowe
Some day the people here will not perm
the London Times 70 call them the mo
Shame, and hear.
We want two hundred more Galeni
Eauga,ucks. Tronsides and Monitors v
have now fifty, and must have 1000
sailors 70 compose our militia Of the Sci
Englishmen, you have lost great oppc