| Show A great many people speculate as to what would be in tile the event of OC a great war between our country and great britain with germany find and france as En glands allies well that would be a portentous affair but thirty tour four years ago this country was suddenly called upon to meet the awful upheaval of 0 a civil war the northern halt half of tile country was almost bereft 0 of a navy it had a bankrupt treasury Tica sury it its 3 people were entirely untrained in martho marthe mari I 1 southern halt half of the country was mas lust just as much untrained in the ac actual business 0 of war it had no navy but b u t the result was that in four years ahr three e 0 millions of fighting light lne men word were in the he held north and south a navy was created which could have su sunk all tile the navies ot of the world and though the country in its internal feud cud lost nearly a a million ot of its best and bravest men it was in ft a condition at last to fairly meet the combined powers 0 of any two nations ot of the old world now if war were to come the north and south would be united tho the effort of each section would be to make a better showing than tile the other section could within six months the ocean would lie be ablaze with english merchant ships there would bo be such an army in the field in this country as the world never saw before and the final result would bo be that when the war closed no english paper would say gay that great britain has more possessions in america than tile the united states slates has it would be deplorable plo rable in it many ways but it would awaken reawaken re the american spirit it would call back the n manhood 1 ot of A america merl which has been deteriorating of late it would mould make us independent not only politically but financially ot of great britain and that itself would be worth a L war to |
