Year: 1859

she were backed by France. Look at what she has done in the Crimean war, which is just past a war more destructive than any other, on account of the improved state of firearms, and the vast additions made by new inventions to destructive implements of every sort :; a war such yon read of neither in fable nor in history. The fabled war of the gods when the oun- 1 talns were upheaved and the trees were torn up by their roots, or Milton's description of the battle with the fallen angels, does not equal in grandeur and greatness, and everything that pertains to fighting, to Baaklava and Iuker- man, aud the taking of Sevastopol.

 Do these great achievements seem to stop her. Not at all After that unfortunate charge of Cardigau's, supposed she had hard- ly an efficient horse left but she concluded, since that time, tLat she must go over into Persia, and box her jaws. Notwithstanding the example of the disaster of Cardgans guard, the English made a charge against ten thousand Persans, on the plains of Tcheren compacted and fixed in the best way they could be for fighting. They stood their ground for battle but the English troops came up-I suppose the same Scotch Greys that charged Napolcons artillery at Waterloo three col umns cuniform, and with but one for orn man, lieutenant, to break the rank They charg- ed down upon those ten thousand men Two of the lieutenants were cut down, and the third one was killed, from the fact that his horse ca- rcened, and he lost his sword-arm b,fore he plunged him on the bayonets but all three columns made road through the enrmy, and they fell before them like nne-l,ins.. Th y form ed, and r,charged through again and, com pared with the number engaged in that battle, there were not, in twenty minutes, as many Persians left to tell the tale, as there were Grecians left by Leonidas at the straits of Thermopyle. This is the sort of fighting they do Ours is cone with Mexcans and Indians

 What else has England done ? She has made China come into her measures. Tie fact that there was a vast rebellion in her provinces in the east did not check her at all General Hardinge, who Was to have been made peer, and glorious old Christian commander he was,

 ill a series of one hundred splendid engage ments subjugated place after place, until he Caml beH, seems to go ahead with equal spirit and equal strength. The rroviuc, will all be brought in, and they will l.e made to pay the expenses of the fight. They will be put under stricter discipline by way of prevention, and to satisfy herself, Engla will annex few other provinces. There is where her ambition is there is where the prosperity of her empire, in great degree, lies She has been going on in this way for centuries, without the horrors of a war at home upon her own shores, or any fear of d foreign invasion, and with only occasional civil outbreaks. Of her it may be said that, for thousand years, the temple of Janus has substantially never been closed. A bloody old bruiser, she has roamcd around the world in sulting, brow-beating, and whipping anybody and everybody she chose.

 Her fleet is five or six hundred ships, ten or eleven times as strong as ours. The fleet of France is about ten times as large as ours, and 1 suppose she would join in such struggle just for the grandeur of the thing. Suppo<e we get into fight with them about Cuba how are we to get men there and if we get them there, how are we to succ IT them with other men and with provisions? Will they not cut off all intercourse ? If the island was given to us to-day, they could come and take

 it, or starve us out, unless the climate killed them off nothing but the yellow fever would ever save us. It is absolutely point of weak strength. Gentlemen talk about it's being the key, and commanding the Gulf of Mexico, the queen of the Antilles, gem, and 1 hardly know what al All manner of things arc said Why, Sir, does not every man know that out side of the reefs of Florida there is passage enough for vessels, and that you cannot raise such works of fertilization there as would in- terrupt the passage of vessels in the channel So it is on the Cuba side, where you go into the Carribean Sea. It is utterly impractica- ble. Suppose we had the Moro Castle, and there were eight or ten 74-gun ships before it, how long do you suppose it would stand There are many points on the island where sold: iers could be landed. England keeps 25.00O men in Canada as her regular complement. She could run them down, and land in Cuba these regular soldiers trained in. war. Your regular French Zouaves, Bedouin Arab fight CTS, could go there and what would be our raw troops, our green troops, against them Our troops, of course would be improvisioned We should be driven out of the island, not be- cause our people are not brave and willing to fight but because we could not stand such fighting.

 Then, instead of going on in this way, should like to have some reflection and some thought bestowed on the subject. If we get Cuba. we must certainly hold it by fortifica. tions and l should like to send Commission there to examine it, such as we sent out ill the Crimean war to examine the Russian fortfca- tions and the armamentS of the allied armies, and would add to that Commission the Sena- tor from Mississippi Mir. Davis,) for l have more confidence in his military ability than in any man now in the United States and ] would also put on it the Senator from Mime sota MT. Shelds.) Let them go down and survey Cuba as a man would survey piece O land before he bought it. Let them come bacl and tell us whether there is any Cronstad there, such as the Russians have to defend St Petersburg. Let them tell us whether there