Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-02-26


to oNpcnd fifty or sixty millions, to re-
cover four or five?
2. The War must be attended with n
vast expenditure Of life. The victory of
Waterloo filed Europe with widows and
orphans. And War with France, must
fill our country with weeping families
Every victory and every defeat will a
like bring to many dwellings lamenta-
tion and wo. There will bo widowed
wives, and childess parents, who will
weep tears OF blood, and go down in sor-
row TO the grave. Oh! what are a few
millions Of dollars, compared with The
blghted hopes of parents--and the ngo-
nies Of the widowed wife, and of the
maiden weeping for her lover who new
er can return? A tax upon the Nation,
for u hundred millions Of dollars, would
not produce one half the distress of a
years War with France. And shall our
citizens feel the weight Of these woes,
for the paltry sum Of few millions Of
dollars? Shall we expose many thou
sands TO be shot down upon the deck of
the ship, and on the bloody field? Is
the life of an American citizen of 80 lit
tie value, that we can afford to have
thousands weltering in their gore, rather
than lose a sum Of money so small, that,
if lost, scarcely one in million Of our
inhabitants, will ever feel it!
/ 3. The War will be attended with
immense Physical suffering. Many,
mangled by the horrid missiles of War,
must linger for hours in the utmost in.
tensity Of physical agony. A cry OF,
pain must ascend from many deck, so
loud and so dreadful, that, could it fall
upon the Nations ear, the Nation would
be filled with dismay. The surgeon
must ply his fearful instruments, in cut
ting off arms and legs, and digging balls
and slugs from the mangled body,
Many young man, now in the PRIDE OF
strength, and walking in the beauty OF
his manly form, will return from the War
a poor deformed and crippled wretch,
dragging out for weary years misera-
bic existence, loathing life, and longing
to bury in the grave, the dcformties
which War has stamped upon him.
Oh! who can guage the dimensions Of
: this wo? Who can tell the years of ir-
remediable wretchedness, which multi
tudes will endure? And for all this is
our rich country to receive but the pal
! try pittance Of few millions Of dollars!
| 4. This War will cause vast "a
mount of our property to be destroyed by
the enemy. How many small towns
are there along our extended coast, en-
trely unprotected. A few hot shot from
a French ship, envelopes one of them in
flames. The wretched inhabitants flee
in dsmay, from their burning dwellings,
beggard and miserable for life. The
conhagra,ion Of one half, may destroy
more property, than the whole debt that
! France owes us, and cause more distress
| than the unpaid debt would cause, if it
were twenty times greater than 1t IS
/ To conquer this country is impossible,
| but any powerful Nation may send sor-
row through the whole length s breadth
! of the land. True! we may perhaps
ravage the coast Of France, and send
hot shot into her dwellings. But if my
house is burnt down, and my son slain in
battle, and l myself made beggar for
life, it is poor consolation to be told that
some three thousand miles across the
Atlantic, there is a Frenchman equally
wretched! 1t is the very spirit of War,
for each to do the ether as much injury
as possible. The fleets Of France would
! not long scour our coast, without show
ing US the horrors Of n sacked and con-
! flagrated city. And he who has heart
to feel for human woe, must shrink ap-
palled from the retaliating woes, which
we shall suppose ourselves under the
necessity Of innlcting upon the french.
/ These woes will fall upon the innocent
as well as upon the guilty; upon the be-
/ reaved widow, and the broken hearted
orphan; and the march Of invading ar
mics must be followed with those woes
Of female violation, at which humanity
! shudders.
/ 5. This War, will be attended with
the arrangement Of all our commerce.
! Our onterprisng merchants, now find
every sea open before them. Every
breeze impels our deienceless and yet
fearless ships laden with the treasures
of every cline. But the moment the
notes Of War are heard in the distance,
commerce receives a death blow. En-
terprise is annihilated. Our ships must
rot at the wharves, and our merchants
bec ONE bankrupts. Our whalcmen,will
discharge their cargoes in tho ports OF
France, and French privateersmen will
pocket the fruits Of their toll. Hence
ensues national calamity and impover-
ishmcnt beyond the power Of arithmetic
to compute in comparison with which,
the few millions we are trying to regain,
u -. ..xco,,iv cootemntibla The whole