her resisted her and at last separated from her after a long and hearty quarrel the effects of that quarrel still survive and centuries of peace will hardly remove the jealousy and hatred felt by the most ignorant men of nations as well as by their political leaders if two countries are united by a war as and russia the spirit of intense and national hatred remains yet longer and is still more violent it is a great wrong for a powerful and civilized people to attack a nation that is barbarous and feeble the of honest is justly aroused against france for her conduct towards she had her but between the weak and the strong every body knows where the provocation commonly be ns the old fable of the wolf and the lamb is not likely to be forgotten the conduct of england towards the various nations in india towards china towards ireland � fills the world with indignation the history of her achievements in asia is the history of her shame honest men in england know it as well as we is powerful and is weak the emperor is of the ages while the new pope is a son of the nineteenth century the war and of course a he loves his church loves his p loves mankind institutions which the cannot relish or even which the peculiar institutions of that monarch l e middle ages and the nineteenth century are hostile institutions which ought to be separated by hundreds of years quarrel at first touch if should therefore the states of the church attempting to re the march of to his possessions in ix � the advance from to would raise a cry of shame in every europe and find a manly echo even in america justice es sides with the party most in the right humanity against the strong the present war against is to a serious examination the are few poor weak half civilized they lack the elements which give a people strength they have no national unity of action the example of the united states they separated firom the mother country and tried the experiment of a liberal constitution they have been in a quarrel among themselves ever since and have perhaps shown themselves unfit for a republican government the people cannot go alone they are weak distracted but possessed of a wide and rich territory valuable and attractive the americans are numerous patriotic united and of course powerful � the most energetic and nation ever developed on the earth besides this they have established a form of government which individual freedom national unity of action a government which of all others is the best fitted to develop energy and enterprise one most of all to direct and a conquering army we know this is not the common opinion but the military man who is also a and familiar with the history of states � if such a military man can be found amongst us � will see the truth of this judgment the strong nation is at war with the weak america has the example of france and england to sustain her and other examples not quite so but which shall be no doubt the english nation � we mean the portion thereof who trade in politics on the one extreme and on the other the brute portion of the people � would justify the american invasion of would think more highly of the war us for the undertaking and the success of it it is plainly following the example of england herself � a copy of her treatment of the and the east indian here too the men who trade in politics and the brute portion of the people like the war it matters not which party they belong to they call it patriotic they go for the country however bounded and the country right or wrong before such men we lay our finger on our and say nothing let lime teach them but there is another body of men in all lands and powerful in this � philosophers who are not satisfied with a war merely because they are engaged in it who think it no better because against a miserable opponent or because it is fought by their own country who that successful wrong is no better than when defeated to such men it is necessary to offer a reason for disturbing the peace of the continent the president of the united states in his message at the opening of the second of the last has undertaken to justify the war in his statement there is a certain of purpose quite apparent he makes a special plea with a compound issue thus � the began the war and we acted only on the but then there were a great many reasons why we might ourselves have the war without waiting for the to take the thus is he doubly armed if the major weapon of argument � and it is shown that the did not commence the war � then he holds ai by the minor that we had a just reason for beginning it ourselves but let us examine this matter more nicely we extract from mr s message of th the are our own such has been oar scrupulous to the of justice in all our foreign intercourse that we have given no just cause of complaint to any nation and have enjoyed the blessings of peace for more than thirty from a policy so sacred to humanity we should never be voluntarily to depart but commenced and forced the war upon i� � p but even if it were not so long before the advance of our army to the left bank of the we had ample cause of war against but some he adds have represented the war as unjust and unnecessary and as one of on our part upon a weak and injured enemy such 