316 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



tlie result of liis prognostications, his ^'unadorned 

 eloquence," what would he behold, now? Free 

 trade refused in America and France, and objected 

 to more or less all over the world, more murderous 

 artillery invented than ever, better-drilled soldiers 

 of standing armies, some of them, too, of all arms, 

 and those mighty nations which, by the ascend- 

 ancy of industry among tradesmen, farmers and 

 lienwives, were to have been crumpled up if they 

 presumed to frown at each other, in a very few 

 years engaging in fight, with results more san- 

 guinary, more terrible, and fraught with graver 

 consequences, than had ever been thought of in 

 Mr. Cobden's time. The study of each nation, 

 in spite of free trade, now is to produce the best 

 system of soldierly drill, and to invent the most 

 powerful cannon for the destruction of man. At 

 sea, in the fortress, in the field, nations now vie 

 Avith each other in the invention of deadly mischief 

 to the foe. 



Practice has proved that tlie Ijcst - drilled 

 army, the largest and most lieavy artillery, and 

 the readiest sword to fly from the scabbard, have a 

 million-fold more power to keep the peace, tlian 

 all the corn-oTowinf2r maudlin cono-rcsses i:>'athered 



