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The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wisdom and Folly. (search)
ave it in his power to invade her whenever he may think proper. He has nothing to do but to build these iron ships, and to man them with his conscripts.--The skill and valor of English sailors is no longer of any value in maintaining the dominion of the sea. It is as though the straits of Dover were dried up. France can always man twice the number of iron ships that England can. From Toulon she can realize the dream of Louis XIV. and the first Napoleon. She can make the Mediterranean a French Lake. From the fact that the Monitor is a good sea-boat, it may be inferred that any number of invulnerable vessels may be made so. What becomes, then, of India? What of the Cape? What of Australia?--Upon all of these. England depends for establishing a monopoly of the cotton production. Apart from cotton, however, what becomes of Gibraltar, and Malta, and last of all, but by far most important, what becomes of Ireland? This war will teach England that selfishnes is a two-edged sword, a