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 KECRUITING IN AMEEICA. 
 
 TO THE EDITOR OF THE GLOBE. 
 
 Sir,— As a g-ood deal has been said of late in the English Papers about the attempt 
 made by her Majesty's Government to draw foreign troops from the American continent, 
 throug-h the British Provinces, and as the question does not appear to be very well under- 
 stood, I crave your indulgence while I attempt to give to your readers accurate and 
 clearer ideas on this subject. It is one of considerable importance, and while I quite 
 agree with you, that it would be unv.ise to disturb, by any unwarrantable exercise of the 
 rights and advautagi s we possess, the internal economy or neutrality laws of the United 
 State I do not thi^ik that we ought to yield to clamour a source of supply to cur 
 armies, and which, if prudently worked, may add to our effective force two or three 
 regiments ev-ery year. 
 
 The surplus population of Europe overflows into the American continent annually 
 in large ^umbers. A considerable portion of this surplus goes to the British Provinces, 
 by far the larger portion to the United States. This migration includes Danes, Swedes, 
 Norwegians, Swiss, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Holsteinraen, and French, German, 
 English, Irish, and Scotch in large numbers. Of the foreign population, a great pro- 
 portion have seen service. Many of them have seen a good deal, and among them are 
 many gallant and accomplished officers, some of high rank and noble blood, driven out 
 by the revolutionary changes in Europe, and reduced to service employments and Un- 
 congenial associations in the United States. T.'if ae would gladly regain higher social 
 positions, and fight under the banners of the Allies. From this portion of the emigrant 
 population, the Government of the United States recruits its army, and obtains accom- 
 plished professors for its military schools, and swordsmen to train its youth at the 
 principal Universities. From this portion it is that any daring adventurer, Avho desires 
 to disturb the peace of neighbouring States or Provinces, draws largely the reckless 
 material for a Filibustering expedition. 
 
 Now the question for England and France especially to consider, for all European 
 Governments to examine fairly, is this — are the ties of nationality and country so com- 
 pletely forfeited by the mere passage of iieir subjects into a foreign State, that they 
 cannot, in cases of emergency, be withdrawn by the or<linary inducements by which all 
 armies are recruited — provided that this can be done without force, or disturbance, but 
 by the circulation of information through the regular channels, and by the payment ot 
 the travelling expenses of those who desire to return to their allegiance, or to immigrate 
 peacefully, and serve under their old banners in the civilized armies of Europe ? 
 
 This question, having been raised, should be decided, not by the clamour made 
 in the United States newspapers, but by calm investigation and fair discussion in 
 the diplomatic circles of Euroj)e, after it shall have been sifted to some extent by the 
 press of the two great countries most deeply concerned. 
 
 The European side of this question wns nrgued last spring, in a letter addressed to 
 the " People of the United States," under the signature of a " British American." 
 Though there has been a great deal of clamour since, nnd all sorts of attempts to strain 
 the neutrality laws beyond their fair construction, I have never seen the doctrines laid 
 down by this writer successfully controverted. 
 
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 After explaining and vindicating the conduct of the British Government in passing 
 the Foreign Enlistment Act, and . f Sir Gaspard le Marchant in obeying his instructions, 
 and opemng a depot for the enlistment of soldiers at Halifax, within the limits of Her 
 Majesty's dominions, the writer says : — 
 
 ^ " Now I think it will puzzle the most ardent enemy of Great Britain, the most 
 jealous stickler for the honour and peaceful relations of this country, to find fault 
 with any thing done by the British Government or by the Lieutenant-Governor of 
 Nova Scotia. 
 
 " So far, it will be perceived that neitlier has done any thing which it was not right 
 to do, nor any act beyond the boundaries of the British Empire. When advertisements 
 are published in this country for recruits for the American army, who questions the rio-ht 
 of your officers to issue them ? Who complains if they find their way all over the world ? 
 Who stops to inquire to what nation the recruits belong ? Who attempts to prevent per- 
 sons wanting to enlist from leaving the British islands or provinces, or France, or Ger- 
 many, to come here for that purpose? Who would think of preventing poor men 
 without arms, neither enlisted nor enrolled, but intending to take service abroad, from' 
 leaving Mancliester for Liverpool, or Liverpool or Glasgow for the United States? I 
 quite admit thai it would be another matter, if any attempt were made to organize and 
 arm men in the British dominions for shipment abroad, or for aggression or intrusion on 
 a friendly Power. That would not be permitted in England, and I trust it never will be 
 permitted again by the people of this country, although men, fully armed and organized, 
 have sometimes most unaccountably been thrown across the frontier, without producino- 
 half the excitement in the United States that has been caused by the appearance of a 
 single British American gentleman at a fashionable hotel in New York. 
 
 " So far I trust I have made it very plain that no violations of the laws of this 
 country have been committed by Her Majesty's Government, or by the Lieutenant- 
 Governor of Nova Scotia. Their acts have been legal, and constitutional, and in strict 
 accordance with the friendly relationr which subsist between two great nations, that cai^ 
 afford to respect each other, and each other's laws, whatever their by-gone differences mav 
 have been." -^ 
 
 As respects the agencies employed within the Union up to that time, « the British 
 American" offers this candid and rational eyplanution :— 
 
 ''A number of letters had been sent ia to the Imperial and Provincial authorities 
 from Briiish officers, from Foreign officers, and from other gentlemen residino- i„ this 
 country, who either had seen or were dep-ous of seeing service. Some of these gentle- 
 men not only stated their own desire to^ m a Foreign Legion, but expressed the opinion 
 that great numbers cf persons, fond of the excitement of military life, or thrown out of 
 
 employment by the depressed state of commercial afiairs in this country, would follow 
 their example. 
 
 " These voluntary offers of service neither the British Government nor Sir GaSpard 
 le Marchant invited. They were made by people living in this country, who supposed 
 that their swords were their own, and that they had a right to g-o out of the United 
 fetates as freely as they came into them j who were under the impression that, even before 
 the passage of the Reciprocity Treaty, they might have gone into the British Provinces 
 to enhst, with no more violation of the laws of this country than if they had gone to get 
 a wife, to buy a barrel of mackerel, or a cargo of potatoes. 
 
 "If these impressions were natural on their parts, what more natural than that the 
 Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia should select a person, in whom he had confidence 
 to come into the United States to ascertain whether these offers of service were made in 
 
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 good faith ; whether the parties were gentlemen of good chai-actei', of Capacity, and ex- 
 perience ; and whether there was any foundation for their belief that a large number of 
 the unemployed classes here were disposed to join the British army 1 Surely his Ex- 
 cellency had a right to do this, and the person so selected had a right to comet Let us 
 hope that he has discharged his very delicate duties with the common pense and discretion 
 of a gentleman." 
 
 Having vindicated the conduct of the Imperial and Provincial Governments, the 
 writer proceeds to argue the main question — to show how clear is the right of the Allies 
 to claim the aid, at least, of their own subjects— how ungenerous it would be to prevent 
 the unemployed, or (lie ardent, from going peacefully out of the country, simply as 
 emigrants, without arms or organization, to hetter their condition, or to gratify their 
 love of military adventure. Though the extract is rather long, I trust that you may 
 have room for it : — 
 
 " But let us look at this matter from another point of view. The profession of arms 
 is an honourable profession, and has, since the earliest ages, presented to the young and 
 active irresistible attractions. Again, the veteran soldier is rarely, after a certain period, 
 content with any other mode of life. Shall it be said, then, that Republican America 
 will deny to her own sons the right, if so disposed, to see a little of the worldj and to win 
 distinction in the civilized armies of Europe ? Shall it be said that when an old soldier 
 drifts, by the accidents of life, or with the storms of revolution, within the charmed 
 circle of this republic, he must never serve even his own country again ? That ' who 
 enters here must shut out hope' — must give up ambition, allegiance, country, the pride of 
 race, the noblest feelings of our nature? God forbid ! 
 
 " Would you deny to a Frenchman the privilege of joining the gallant band who 
 in the Crimea are illustrating the gaiety and valour of his nation ? "Would you restrain 
 a Pole or a Hungarian from lifting his sword against the Northern Despot whose iron 
 hand prostrated the liberties of his country ? Again, I say, God forbid ! I think more 
 highly of the American character. I have more reliance upon the elasticity and freedom 
 of your institutions. 
 
 " On the causes of the present war I do not wish to dwell— nor on its management) 
 which we may assume to have been defective. But look at the magnificent battle of 
 Alma— at the splendid charge of the Scotch Greys and Enniskillen Dragoons at 
 Balaklava, who scattered the hordes of Russian cavalry like chaff before the wind. 
 Look at the fight of Inkermann, where eight thousand noble fellows held their ground 
 for half a day against an army of sixty thousand. Now, shall it be said that an 
 Englishman who wishes to leave this country, to fill a vacant place among the Coldstream 
 Guards, and keep up the reputation of that distinguished corps, who crossed their 
 baj-onets with the enemy eleven times in one battle, shall not go? Suppose that an 
 Irishman sees a vacant saddle in the Enniskillens, and thinks tliat he might as well fill it 
 for the rest of his life, with good pay and rations, as to be sweeping the streets of New 
 York— shall he not go ? Suppose that a Scotchman, dreaming of that thin line of 
 Hio-hland warriors, wl-o won the admiration of the world at Balaklava, dreams also that 
 he might, if he had the chance, swell the ranks of that fine regiment, and perhaps 
 emulate the example of their leader, Sir Colin Cau'nbell, himself a poor widow's son — 
 shall he not go ? Sliall not a British American, if lie desires to do so, cross the frontier 
 into his own province, or take passage in one of his own vessels, without being called 
 uj)Ou to declare whether ho does not intend to enlist when '.. gets home ? 
 
 " But above all—shall French, or German, or Holstein gentlemen— shall the 
 gentlemen of Hungary and Polan 1, thrown out of their true position by the convulsions 
 
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 of Europe, he condemned for ever to teach music, or fencing-, or dancing", for a livelihood, 
 when honourable service is offered to them in the professions to which they were bred— 
 when their rank as officers, and the eociaj distinctions to which they have been accuse 
 tomed, are ag-ain witUin their reach ? Sl^all these gentlemen not be free to go into 
 Nova Scotia, if so disposed ? And if they do, and many of them have gone, who can 
 prevent their countrymen, who have fought under their banners, and have confidence in 
 their leaderships, from following- their example? 
 
 " Surely, surely, it has not come to thia— that the United States are to be converted 
 into a great eel-pot, that lets every body in but nobody out. That a ring fence is to be 
 made round Uncle Sam's farm, so contrived that though all the produce of the farm can 
 go abroad, the labourers cannot. All this is too ridiculous to be supposed possible, and 
 yet some people are sanguine enough to hope that it will turn out to be true. 
 
 " I do not believe it ; I have too high an opinion of the intelligence and common- 
 sense of the American people — too much reliance upon the free spirit which pervades 
 their institutions, to believe thisk possi^'e. Let the question be fairly stated in any draw- 
 ing-room in Boston, New York, or Philadelphia, and every American lady would say 
 
 * Let them go !' State it fairly to the Democracy of any large city of the Union, in their 
 wildest moment of excitement, and the people would sa}', < Let them go.' Put the 
 question to any gallant regiment of riflemen in Kentucky or Tennessee, and I much 
 mistake the characters of the men if the answer would not be—' Let them go !' " 
 
 Along the frontier line of the British Provinces, where there are convenient barracks 
 and arsenals, depots may be formed, towards which the more adventurous spirits to be 
 iound in this British and foreign population, may be steadiN drawn, by good manage- 
 ment, without any infraction of the neutrality laws of the ^> ed States. A transport 
 arrived at Portsmouth the other day wi'h 350 men for th yt- -i;?' ^ ion, most of them 
 old Soldiers, well officered and ready to take the field. -o hitudw.] more are now at 
 Halifax, ready to embark, and I learn that "Sir Gh ,.•-■ ■' !«> • (.» at has all the 
 troops in that garrison under canvas, killing their own rr ,„>^ u- j " ,• their own bread " 
 employments quite as indispensable, by the way, as the eternnj ^.arade movements, in full 
 dress, to the sound of martial music. 
 
 Here, then, are the materials for a regiment collected in a few months, in spite of 
 clamour, ignorance, and Russian spies, and devilish agencies of all sorts. What is to 
 prevent us from collecting a fine regiment every few months ? Can we not at least 
 supply the garrisons of British America and of the Was, Indies from this source, without 
 s.niding men at an enormous cost across the sea ? But may we not, if this war goes on 
 draw men enough in this way through, if not from British America, to turn perhaps the 
 scale in some bloody encounter with the hordes to which our army is now opposed ? 
 This is a question of some importance, involving rights of some value, Trustino- that I 
 have stated it fairly, I have the honour to be your obedient servant. 
 
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 JOSEPH HOWE. 
 
 London, 31 Aug. 1855. 
 
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