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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 I ^^^ 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. P JOSEPH HOWE. London, 31 Aug. 1855. I