Excerpt from The United Service Journal, Vol. 1: And Naval and Military Magazine
De rebus omnibus et quibusdam aliis.
Of every thing and something more!
At an epoch so rife in spurious principle, and so pregnant with violent change, we should desert our duty as the Advanced Post of the United Service, did we wholly abstain from the discussion of topics which, from being merely incidental, have become so absorbing and momentous.
Unused either to truckle with unmanly servility to the mild influence of constitutional authority, or, on the other band, to bow before the false idols of Liberalism - the intriguing handmaid of Revolution, - we acknowledge no party but that of our Country, nor any object distinct from her general welfare. Her enemies, whether domestic or foreign, are our"s; and in aiding to defend her from either, we represent the spirit and practice of The United Service.
Musing amidst the whistling of the storm around us, we fell into the first of our Reveries.
Our "immortal" Neighbours of the Great Nation are sinking manifestly into the state of Fallen Angels. The cloven-foot begins to peer - fire breathes from their nostrils - and the "sublime and beautiful" of the French Utopia explodes in a clap of gunpowder.
The Combative Bump of that restless Race is, we fear, too prominent to have remained longer than a month at a time undeveloped; we consequently find that at an entertainment given on the 10th of December, in Paris, by the Artillery of the National Guard to General La Fayette, present, the Duke of Orleans, heir apparent to the French King, and a crowd of officers, the following toast was enthusiastically drunk - "War! which will consolidate our liberty, and impart it to Europe!"
If there be "truth in wine," a more insolent bravado was never hiccupped in the face of Europe.
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