The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-25

Tho military weakness OF EGG
'' land.
From the N. Y. Herald.

From the N Y. Herald. ...
England, as the London Times speaks
for her, is disposed to warn Canada of the
possibilities and dangers of future war
with the United States. Her argument is
that if the United States shall be iriitatcd
BY English insolence and injury past all
endurance she may, by-and-by, when the
present war is done with, strike out in
new one and strike at that province; and
the province is accordingly told on all oc-
casions that in such case it must manage
its own defence. Canada must fight her
way through the trouble that England may
bring upon her, and England can give her
no assistance. Alas! for tn, good old
days whom Louis Qainzs said that England
"pai1 for all and fought for all" Those
days are gone by, and that England is
dead and buried under the taxes. Eng
land NO longer fights for all, anu acknowl-
edges that sbo cannot even fight for her
own dependencies. Canada is referred to
tho CrimeaI campaign as the measure of
EnglaEd's resources-a campaign in which
Englano's weakness was disgracefully prov
en--and the Times rounds the whole sto-
ry by the declal atioL chat England cannot
supply men for the wear and tear of sin
gle great battle conducted On Gen. Grants
principles.
England has given even later evidence
of her impotence as military power than
the campaign in the Orimea. She has
shown us how absurdly little would be her
power for war Oh this side Of the Atlantic.
Her game was all buster when trouble
was threatened over the affair of the Trent,
and then, by way of a seasOnable show of
what might come if negotiations would
not do England reinforced her troops to
Canada. At great expense and by great
effort, she managed to send out force of
10000 men She seat $1,000 to hold her
frontier against power that loses twice
that many men 10 a single battle, and
hardly feels it. But England was also to
be defended by volunteers. Great efforts
were made to excite the English on this
subject, to get those cold John Bulls en-
thusiastic. and to have the whole mass of
the male population fall in as Royal Rifles
But it wouldn't do. England couldn't be
brought out to any such tune, and the
whole enrolment amounted only to 14O,-
900 men, England only had that many
men willing to say that they would fight,
and whether even that number would
come to tho scratch for actual service is
q very doubtful matter
Let England and Canada compare the
force thus shown with the force that we
now have in actual service, or with the
force that it is now proven that the States
possess. Fancy England's litsle pipe
clayed bagatelle of ton thousand men face
t. face with the army under Grant. fought
son Grants principles; or with the
army under Sheridan, fought on Grants
principles or Sheridan's either. Remem-
Der, also, that these armies would be REIN
forced by a column from the Shenandoah
Valley by the force that besieges Charles
ton aud the force that besieges Mobiic-by
the garrison st Hilton Head-by the force
that holds New Orleans-hy the troops in
Missouri and the numberless srn..ll forces
scsttered up and down the Mississippi
River that the power thus srrayed
would be power composed Of seasoned
veteran troops. As for highlands one
hundred and forty thousand volunteers,
and OSnada's entire fighting population,
they would perhaps be good efficient
fOrce after half of them had died in camp
or been killed in battle; but let them be
counted at their full numbers, what does
that amount to? New York State alone
has actually sent into the field three hun
dred thousand men, and Pennsylvania
nearly as many. We need 60 no further
to show how utterly contemplate is the
military power Of England and her prov
ince as compared with ours and as Eng
land continually points this lesson for
Canada, We may suggest the propriety of
her taking it more directly to to herself.
We may extend the advantages Of our
institutions to Canada some day.