BLIND SECURITY.
New York, 12th November 1852.
Your article of October the 23d has been republished in most of our papers. It is time that England begins to perceive her isolated position in Europe. That she is destined to be invaded, no reasonable man can doubt ; if not at-
tempted by Louis Napoleon, it will be by his successor, be that successor Joinville or Chambord-. But is it not the grossest infatuation on the part of England,—she who is generally so keenly alive to her interest and to her safety,—to see her, in this great emergency, do nothing but raise a Militia of 80,000 men, when at her very doors she has an enemy of 500,000 troops unmatched for discipline and bravery. Eighty thousand Militia!—why, ten thousand French soldiers would play with them as a child plays with a shuttlecock. Is it that the spirit of a sordid economy has crept into the councils of the nation, and that she would rather risk her future than tau herself; or is it that the gods have blinded her, in order to make her subju- gation more easy ? The Continent bristling with bayonets, and the richest nation in Europe unwilling to be taxed! England under Elizabeth ! England under Victoria 1 An invasion would have been spoken of as an idle dream, had England had 250,000 volunteers under arms; and she would never have received the insults from Austria and Tuscany had those two powers known that she had an army to defend her home, while her navy could be revenging an insult.
The cost of arming is nothing to what will be the cost of an invasion. Therefore, we, who are wellwishers to England, say, "Arm! arm 1"
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