WHAT WAR WITH AMERICA WOULD MEAN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 86, 2 October 1869, Page 6

WHAT WAR WITH AMERICA WOULD MEAN.

The "Spectator" concludes an atyle article on the prospects of war with America as follows': — England, if forced into this horrible war, would and could stop at nothing ; would and could rally in Virginia the men of the "lost cause " behind a well-appointed European army, supported by a population north and south, in Canada aa in Virginia, which would know that in her victory alone could their security be found. The Blacks ? Are we an enslaving power, or is the Indian constitution intolerable to coloured men ? Even then, when this had been attempted, and the Union was assailed on two sides, from North and South, in each direction, by four millions of men rallying Tonnd that hardest of kernels, a British army, we should have exerted but one-fifth of the strength we displayed in the revolutionary war, when, with Ireland included, we were but fifteen millions. We are twenty now without Ireland. We had then a million of men on foot, and drove through Spain a soldier who wielded, when the war began, resources in men even greater than those at the disposal of General Grant. Our finances 1 A debt double that of America — that is, an addition of 300 millions to our debt — would leave us where the Union is now, for she pays double interest on her loans. In 1815, for every pound an Englishman received he payed seven shillings and sixpence to the State. He now pays two shillings. The difference alone would yield 120 millions a year — that is support the war without incurring debt. But then our commerce ? There is no saying what resources thirty millions of Anglo-Saxona may find in their energy and patriotism ; but we are Anglo-Saxons also, and at first all naval advantages would be on our side. The Americans are deceived by Parliamentary talk. There is no fleet is existence that could stand three months in existence before our own, our merchant navy .outnumbers that of the world in combination, and earth itself is but a coaling station for Great Britain. From Heligoland to Hong Kong, everywhere we have harbours, docks, coals, cannon. Our sailors are the same in race, in training, in courage as the men who followed Farragut; our officers are the same as the men who blockaded the South ; our vessels the result of a competition to which America has been but a party. Why should we be defeated any more than our cousins 1 Is it not, at all events, possible, that after slaughter and ruin, such aa might make devils wince, we should emerge for the moment masters of the sea, with our commerce as secure as at present, and our maritime position higher than ever ? Look at it how we will, war between America and England is mere destruction, mere loss, a civil war in which the only possible gaineTa aie the enemies of both. ; but why in that contest of suicides should we not be at least the last to perish 1 Because the Union is so large ? Compared with the territories of Queen Victoria, it is a speck on the earth's surface. That sentence is nonsensical we acknowledge, but it is true, and is as sensible as the argument it refutes. In war, concentration is everything, not dispersion, and we have the •population of the entire North concentrated in a territory less extensive than Pennsylvania and New York . The policy which crushed the South cannot be applied to us, for when we had lost the lives the South has lost, all we should feel would be that our existing emigration had been diverted to an unforseen purpose. There is something shocking to ourselves in the mere use of such an argument, but the war against which we use it would be more shocking still — a war between equals, between brothers, a civil vrar spread over earth, a war in which every incident of slaughter would have the moral effect of massacre, a war in whioh victory on either side would be sheer loss, a war without a limit or conceivable end. We could gain nothing by the war, even if we triumphed, and America nothing, for Canada is not worth a double debt ; while if we lose, we lose only Canada, and America, if she loses, loses the unity she has spent so much blood and treasure to preserve. There never was such an act of lunacy as such a war would be, yet it is such a war that speeches like that of Mr. Summer would force on.

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