The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-02-04
The Monroe Doctrtne.

The Monroe Doctrine.
DANGEROUS CONDITION OF FRANCE AMI
ENGLAND-THE YANKEE FLAG TO FLOAT
OVER ALL EUROPE WITHIN ONE YEAE
AFTER THE sUBJUGATIo.S oP THE SOUTH.
If the Confederate States could ever be
subdued, they would have at least onecon-
ISOLATION in their misery. France and Eng
land would be sufferers in a degree only
inferior TO themselves for their folly in
persisting to ignore them as independent
States. In less than one year England
would lose Canada and all her possessions
in the West Indies. In less than two her
3eets, mercantile and military, would be
driven from the ocean. Not ship
would be allowed to spread sail, or to get
up steam, save by permission Of the United
States, and that permission she would new
er give. American cruisers would hang
around the coast Of Great Britain and de-
sfroy her coast;ns trade. American fleets
would land thousands and tens Of thous-
anGs Of e1iles, burning with hatred, in
Ireland, and that dependency would he lost
forever. Great Britain hopes to compen.
safe herself for tho loss of American cotton
by introducing that Of India. She would
ind that branch Of her trade, and with It
her dominion over India itself, utterly de-
stroyed before the next ten years shall
have passed over. When these things shall
have come to pass-as they inevitably
would-a new generation will have arisen
who had not the felicity Of knowing Joseph
that is to say. Lord John Russell, and
tney Will curse the hour that gave him to
Britain. Manufactures, commerce and her
colonial empire all destroyed, Great Brit
am would shrink to her proper dimensions
and be known merely as large island. in
the middle Of the sea, inhabited by fierce
and starving population; for suffering will
bring about revolution, and revolution will
PROSTATE all her fictitious prosperity and
level all her pride to the dust. How long
would she retain India and Australian
permit her.
Under such an inconceivably small poll
ticiao as Russell, it is not so strange that
Great Britain should have acted as She has
done. That fUnctionary cannot see an inch
beyond his nose. But the conduct of the
Emperor of the French, whose horizon is
supposed to be wider, is altogether unac-
position that il the United States should
succeed in coDluering the confederacy, she
can never hold colony without their con.
sent. OF course they will never consent TO
her holding Mexico. OF tha: colony she
will be dispossessed il less than one year.
Her fleet will first be destroyed. and those
great armies that are now lighting each
other will be united under one flag and let
loose upon Maximilian, who must fall q
captive into their hands; for there is no pos
sible mode OF escape left 10 him. It will
rest entirely with the United States wheth-
ey Ere nee shall retain even Algeria, or be
herself exempt from the horrors Of inva-
sion. Napoleon will find that he has Ii.
messed TOO deeply and lost the game that
might easily have been won by straightfor-
ward playing.
Arothnso fh;pevs n mo ync0 Lob - mr.
has been going on here for four years past,
and then say what they are. Here is a
power that within that time has increased
from thirty ships to six hundred-that has
increased her marine from few thousand
sailors to fifty thousand. Here are two
Powers engaged in q deadly struggle, each
of which has sent forth armies sufficient to
France. These two armies, the mos. tried
and the best fighting in all the earth will
be combined. Recruits enough will be adj
ded to make million of men. They hate
each other, but they hate England even
more. At sigral-the very slightest
this whole world will be let loose upon her.
The United States have long looked upon
States, as part Of the old Union, participa.
ted in that sentiment. The government of
the conquering country can easily rekindle
this flame, and bring under its banner all
the discharged soldiers of the Con.edera-
cy to operate against Mexico, and it will
do it.
Such would be the inevitable coree-
quence Of the conquest Of the ConfeGeracy
by the Yankees. In one year The Yankee
flag would foat over the whole continent
and the isles thereof. except. perhaps. over
the Russian possessions, and the glory and
of England and France would
be gone forever. In forty years the popu-
lation Of the United States would be ore
million. Itwould be the strongest
nation the world ever hehald. It's inhu-
ence over the whole world would be I'M.
paralleled, owing TO the weakness and tim
idity OF France and Engiand.-I .icIn,omd
Wing, Jan. 20.
POPULAR BIoaRAPHIEs.-R1c AND
PooR.-1t has been urged that early power
~ is 100 much the staple OF the current BIZ
ographies Of the day, that rail-spli:ting
almost takes rank as q tine art, and the
Bobbin Boys and Tanner Boys have things
all their own way. To select such facts is
we are told, a trick of sensation writers.
who delight in the effect Of strong contrasts
and like to fat;er the prejudices Of the
masses. Or. Holmes assures us affably
that the self-made man, who whites out
his own jack.knife, is 10 be honored for
doing lassabiy; no one expects him to Go
well. It is added that W hen u
poor boy works his way to eminence. be
does so not in consequence of early hard
ship but in spite Of it.
Now there is little truth in these state
ments, and only q little. Hardship alone
will not make a man great, but isin i'm
postant aid in the development Of great
ness. Ability and aspiration are doubled
in power by the stimulus of want. There
is an untold might in deprivation. In
prison gill Of water in solid rock, and
simply deprive it Of heat, and it will burs;