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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
ny foreign Power to hold its own against the force that she could send there; but she is situated with regard to the United States precisely as Spain is situated with regard to France. The United States can pour a million of men into her, if it be necessary, and she can do this while France and her allies are preparing their ships. The number of men that the latter can send must be very limited, even allowing, for the sake of argument, that they have entire command of the Mexican ports. Vera Cruz is but a small port, Anton Lizardo is not much larger, and there is not a port on the Gulf large enough for the landing-place of an army of fifty thousand men. If France mean to make any show at all, she must send at least two hundred thousand men, and she must send them at once. Now, we take it, the French and English navies combined could not transport two hundred thousand men, with their artillery, horses, baggage, and munitions of war, at one trip, across the Atlantic; and they must b
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
o with reference to the resolutions lately introduced into Congress on the subject of the Monroe doctrine. It is understood the Secretary has left for New York, where he will remain until he hears from the Emperor. Advices via Havana from Vera Cruz state that additional forces are being forwarded to Mexico. Twenty-five hundred French troops had already arrived at the latter port. Latest intelligence from Paris states that six thousand French soldiers had embarked for Mexico. It would scers claim to be thoroughly informed as to all the means the United States have at their disposal here and in Texas for an advance into Mexico. [Very wise men! very likely story!--already discredited by telegraph yesterday.--Dispatch.] A Vera Cruz letter says troops from France continue to arrive, six hundred more disembarking on the 2d instant, who were immediately sent into the field. There is great anxiety to ascertain what will be the ultimate action of the United States in rega