The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-01
MIR. DISRAELI AND WAR.
From the N. Y. Sun.

From the NJ p. Sun.
Although the press of this country may
sometimes talk saucily and Congress vote
impudently where England is concerned,
our venerable parent has the most palpable
assurances before her eyes that the United
States entertain no warlike intentions towards
her. We have disbanded our great armies,
and sent all the people who composed them
home to their work. In the arts of civili-
zation which now engage them, such as rail-
road building, farming, manufacturing, mer-
chandising, and steamboating, these great
masses have already begun to forget that they
ever were soldiers and any reminder of the
fact only serves to inspire expressions of
hatred and disgust for war, rather than any
desire to embark in it again.
Our navy has been sold and scattered to the
four corners of the earth, till we have only
enough good vessels left to serve as pleasure
yachts for our more puffy naval officials. Our
seaboard Notifications remain uncompleted,
and the most languid attention is paid to all
complaints of the indefensible condition of
our long line of seacoast. The whole course
of legislation since the close of the slave
holders Rebellion has been directed to the end
Of extiDguishipg our whole military and naval
establishments; and we undertake to say that
it would be difficult to point out a mode in
which this praiseworthy result could
have been more rapidly and thoroughly
Our army of a million has gone down to a
few squads, numbering perhaps 30, 900 in ALL
and these are no more than sufficient to do
police duty on our Indian frontier. Without
an army, without a navy, and most made
quate coast defences, and not the slightest
effort anywhere to supply our deficiencies,
we think England must see-and all the
world besides-that of all things that the
United States are now anticipating, foreign
W a ha fnr
If any evidence could establish the fact that
this country will not commence war with
any power unless it is first attacked, this
which we have now cited would seem to be
conclusive. We commend it to Mr. Disraeli's
attention, in the hope that it will allay his
nervousness. For from his late utterances it
would appear that he thinks our wordy philip
pics and our Congressional indiscretions must
be the forerunner of hostilities between Eng
| land and America.
For ourselves, we believe in nothing of the
sort And, Notwithstanding Mr.. Disraeli's
intimations, we do not believe England in
tends to wage war against us with a view to
mend our manners, of which the Tory leader
| SO much complains. Thus we are not ruffied
at his observations, and shall refrain from
retorts SO easily framed out of the Parlia-
mentary reports of exultant malignity so often
manifested during the late joint contest of
the shareholders and Mr.. Disraeli's party in
England to destroy the Government of the
United States
There is an abiding conviction in the Anne
rican public mind which tempers the wrath it
has felt toward England for this grieyous
offence. This is, that we have no need to
come to blows with her to secure the with
drawal of her flag from the American conti-
nent. The growth and rapid expansion of
this country areso great as TO make it palpable