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stment for foreign service, a slow and tedious process, as was found in the late Sopoy war. Were she invaded by 700,000 men, she would not hesitate to adopt the conscription, or any other mode of raising soldiers; for she is the most practical of all nations, and she is well aware that it is use less to talk about infringements of the Constitution when the enemy is on hand, ready to destroy it, Washington, it is further said, never resorted to the conscription, to which we may answer, that Washington never had to contend with 700,000 men, and a fleet of several hundred iron gunboats. It were to mistake the character of that most practical of men, to suppose that he would not have resorted to any scheme whatever, however obnoxious, to prevent the subjugation of his country. We tell gentlemen, whatever they may think, this is no time for talking about rights and privileges. If we do not beat these Yankees, we shall soon have not the vestige of a right, not the shadow of a privileg