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Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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in English watering places, and to takepart in two sea battles, wherefrom it departed sans adieu and CHEEK BY JOWL OUR WATCH DOG?1 i somewhat precipitately, thru a desire, of course, quicklyresume its fleet in being functions. To people who are staying awake o nights because ot possraids or other hostile attacks along the coast, any dimmut of our sea defenses will be unthinkable. The home-made stra*gists are solemnly advocating the contribution of a few banships of the older types, which they think can conyementlj spared because outclassed by the newer dreadnaughts. Whatthe use of the Oregon if half a dozen like her can be stoodby the Pennsylvania, or of the Indiana, which the An»n-might rip to pieces before the old fighter could get near enojgto render her guns effective? they demand. The answer m£after the dreadnaughts on both sides have met and got tmauling and hammering one another, the unscathed re serveiMof the second line will become extremely important as agan - MHBHHHHBBHj
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)Wr.. GRAY IITLKS IN A GRAYER SEA what is left of the victor, should the German vessels prevail—so important that Admiral Mahan long ago insisted that thenation which can then (after the battle of the dreadnaughts)put forward the largest reserves of ships of the older types willwin. The ships of Santiago, therefore, are far from useless—they may be very useful indeed—and we cannot spare them. And there are the people who have already begun to howl tothe Navy Department to station a battleship before our har-bor. That is not a battleships business—and, what is moreserious, it smacks of treason—for there is no surer way of con-signing the fleet to destruction. It is really charitable to believethat only fools, in a cowardly and futile effort to save their ownskins, would be willing to see each of our dreadnaughts over-powered in turn. And lastly the nervous—the very nervous—who so recently have been set trembling over the prospective shelling of New York for an hour by a b

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