The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-07-01
IDAHO WORLD.
A WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN.

The London Spectator is the Chief Liberal
organ of England. It is the organ OF that class
in England who are the counterpart OF the he
publican party of the United States. During
the war it went so far in its sympathles and
prejudices for the North and against the South,
as that it desired to be more of q New England
than an Old England advocate. Until Senator
Sumner made his recent speech on the Treaty
with England and the Alabama claims question,
the Spectator regarded him as the model
statesman of the United States. 1t is there
fore well to understand how leading English
journal of such proclivities views the situation.
In order that our readers may learn of its pres
ent attitude, we copy the following from the
Spectator of May 18th. 1t is leading article,
and says:
We desire to offer some considerations to
Americans which may induce them at least to
recognize the magnitude of the issues involved,
to pause before they imperil the future OF the
world by precipitating civil war of the Anglo
Saxon race. They say, or think, that the strug-
gle would be brief because the conditions are
10 unequal; we say that the combatants would
be 80 equally matched in spirit, IN tenacity,
and in power, that the only possible result
would be the exhaustion OF them both, the TO-
tai paralysis for good, perhaps even the perma
nent paralysis of the whole English speaking
section of mankind, that is, OF the only races
whose rule WHITES, and who, II they can but
keep from killing each other, are advancing
steadily, but irresistibly, toward the peaceful
mastery of the world. No power on earth
nd ati nf
could resist the command of the people who
speak English, if united and in a century no
power will even venture TO think of trying.
But, nevertheless, that immense strength is
more equally distributed between the two
branches than the American one is willing to
allow A war between them would be n fight,
if not for existence, at least for pre-eminence;
the whole spirit of both people would be thrown
into the struggle, and even on land the result
would be very doubtful. The Americans boast,
with great justice, of their immense military
force but have they ever seriously thought out
their position, if England behaved as they
themselves did in 1861, determined to make
the war final, devoted to it her whole resour-
ces and resolved to wage it to the bitter end
We say nothing of the possible adhesion of Ma
poleon, who is directly threatened by every
menace leveled ut US for acknowledging the
belligerency of the South, and conine the argu-
ment wholly to ourselves. Why do Americans
think us weak! Because we could not defend
the Canadian frontier Possibly not; but We
should infallibly try to do it, and Americans,
who, on this point at least, are not unfair, will
acknowledge that, to destroy British army 81
10O, 900 men, backed by the Canadian popula-
ton, and by feet sufficient 10 blockade every
port north of the Potomac, would be task
requiring all their resources. That effort would
oyertax usl We made it in 1857, sending an
army FIVE times the distance, and, after three
wears of war which covered continent, that
army remained in India, with its strength I'M
broken or increased, while ut home another
still greater had garnered in reserve But we
have Ireland! Have not the Union South
or do northern Americans believe that the SEN
tinent of Irishmer toward US is worse than
that of tn South toward them! England, i'll
forced into this horrible war, would and could
stop at nothing, would and could rally in Viz
ginia the men of the Lost Cause" behind a
well-appointed European army, supported BY a
population North and South, in Canada as in |
Virginia, which would know that in her vic
tory alone could their security be found. The
blacksl Are We an enslaving power, or is the
Indian constitution intOlerabe to cUlored men 7
Even then, when this had been attempted, and
the Union was assaied on two sides, from North |
and South, in each direction, by 100000 of
men rallying around that hardest of kernels, |
British army, we should have excrted but one
fifth of the strength we displayed in The revolu- |
tionary war, when, with Ireland included, we
were but 100000. We are ~, 900 900 now
without Ireland We had then 100000 of
men on foot, and drove through Spain soldier
who welded, when the war began, resources
in men even greater than those at the disposal
of Gen. Grant. Our finances A debt double
that Of America-that is, an addition Of f300.-
100000 to our debt-would but leave us where
the Union is now, for she pays double interest
on her loans. In 1945, for every pound an
Englishman received he paid Is cd to the state.
He now pays So. The difference alone would
yield f120,000,000 year-that 49, support the
war without mourning debt. But then our
There is no saying what resour-
ces 100000 of Ango-Saxons may find in
their energy and patriotism, but we are Anglo
Saxons also, and ut first all naval advantages
would be Oh our side The Americans are de-
ceived By parliamentary talk. There is no
fleet in existence which could stand three
months before our own our merchant navy
outnumbers that of the world in combination,
and earth itself ia but coaling.station tor
Great Britain. From Heligoland to Hong Kong,
everywhere we have harbors, docks, Goals, &c.
Our sailors are the same in race, in training.
in courage as the men who followed Farragut;
our officers the same as the men who block
AIDED the South; our vessels the result Of
cnno naftion IN which Amnrica has hcap hut a