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    Governors of fiwnaSu mi

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    bjJOTii tg States , it is certain t & at tkte CJovefriment of that country will preserve the app ^ dranee of a strict neutrality . But will the 10 , 000 men demanded by the Canadians be the less readily forthcoming for that ? An army on the frontier could not arrest the

    riflemen who poured into the Texas . Will the fine canals , rivers , railroads , and lakes of the North , afford no facilities to the passage of individuals , in still greater numbers ? And will the central Government be

    able to prevent , by simple command , that which they could not enforce with the aid of an army in tjie South ? It is objected that the French Canadians will not fight- It looks however very like it at present . . And the French have not been remarkable for

    avoiding the field of battle . Not many years back French arms held a great part of Europe in subjection , and the English did riot feel then quite so confident in French backwardness . Waterloo was not won bloodlessly .

    But they who trust to the mtteket are grossly mistaken if they think fighting will decide the contest . The victories of the British in the War of Independence were more numerous tjiari their defeats , which were lesfc owing to the Superior

    prowess of the Americans , tjiabn to other very different cffcumstances . r l 1 ie British possessed every advantage of skill , numbers , accoutrements , weapons , supplies , camp fittings , discipline , military ex-

    F;^ Our Jungs Have Mad E Themselves More...

    perience , money , ^ av ^ l assist ? ance , an old reputation , $ ft & the prejudices hi favottr of royal despotism . Their enemies only excelled them in

    possessing a knowledge of thfe country , and a personal interest in the cause . The iroops of Britain were poured like water on the enormous territory oif the Union , only to be wasted .

    It would have been nearly afc rational to attempt to lay the dust in the Tartar steppes . A few glorious puddles might be inade here and there ; but the dust would still blind and

    choak British eyes , for all their water-carts and steam-engines . What good resulted from the victories of the British ? The first of any note , at Breed ' s hill , was as disastrous as a

    defeat . General Howe possessed Boston ; and he gave it up again . Meanwhile Washington recruited his miserable army , without tents or weapons , in the face of the British , who

    would not believe the fact , when they were told of it . Howe took possession of Philadelphia ; and he gave it up

    again . Washington watched him at Valley Forge , with his army suffering from want of clothes , want of food , bid lodging , want of discipline , ana want of all kinds ,

    embittered by sickness . Burgoyne overran the North ; and surrendered his victories into the hands of Gates , Cornwallis overran the South ; and gave up his triumphs to Washington . A partisan chief harassed hi ? army with thirteen men ! The American war M »

    Governors Of Fiwnasu Mi

    Governors of fiwnaSu mi

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/3/