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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Van-Dorn 's victory in Tennessee . (search)
Success of British policy.
It is but a few years since the European Powers (and especially Great Britain) looked with unmistakable Jealousy upon the progress of American power on this continent.
The following language of one of the most it fissional organs of the public of Great Britain expressed in brief terms what all Regland thought and apprehended: "And has not Northern America, during the last twenty years, exhibited the most unequivocal evidessees of the last of conquest having gaGreat Britain expressed in brief terms what all Regland thought and apprehended: "And has not Northern America, during the last twenty years, exhibited the most unequivocal evidessees of the last of conquest having gained possession of the most influential portions of her inhabitants?
Were they not actually at war with us in 1837, to support the Canadian revolutionists; did they not cheat us out of three-fourths of Maine, and bully as out of half of Oregon; and have they not squatted down, without the vestige of a title, on Texas; and when the Mexicans resented the egressions, invaded their territory and wrested from them the half of it, including the whole auriferous region of North Carolina? " No wonder
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Another Notification to Foreign Consuls of opened ports. (search)
Military force of European Powers.
The regular army of France amounts to 408,630, and the National Guard to 2,630,800.
The regular army of Russia is about 700,000; Austria, in war, 626,453; in peace, 378,562; Prussia, 379,291; Great Britain, 180,000.
Russia is the only power which keeps on foot as large a force as that which the United States profess to have.
So that the Yankees may boast that they have the largest army in the world, and do the least with it. At one time they had a million--so they say; but it was so cut down by disease and death that Lincoln had to call for six hundred thousand more, and now he demands three millions.
When he has succeeded in that object, he would better undertake the conquest of the world.
Three millions of live Yankees ought to be enough to Europe to America, and make Abraham the First universal monarch.