The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-01-05

| Department to place Of security in the coun-
| try. Mr.. Madison expressed his warm thanks
| for that service. The papers, &C., in the other
Departments. were destroyed by the enemy.
| THE LETTERS OF GEN. DUFF GREEN
| THEIR EFFECT IN GREAT BRITAIN.
We refer our readers to another Of the able
letters of General Duff Green, recently publish
ed in the London Morning Herald. 1t will
well repay perusal.
The letters of Gen. Green appear to be arous-
ing the attention of portion Of the British pub
| lie to the importance of counting the cost before
provoking war with this country. The fol
lowing extract from the leading editorial of the
London Morning Herald, concusively exhi-
bits the change in public sentiment in Great
Britain in relation to the apparent diversity Of
| opinion in America on the subject Of domestic
slavery, and evinces the effect which has follow
ed Gen. Green's exposure Of the fAllacies and
falsehoods which have been promulgated in
England by the Abolition missionaries from this
country. When it is recolected that the Herald
is leading organ Of The present BRUSH Minis
try, and its editor is high in the confidence of
| Sir Robert Peel, the importance attached 10 its
opinions and views will be duly appreciated
In long article on the subject embraced in
Gen. Green's letter, the editor of the Herald re-
marks:
1T is very true that American credit is in poor
plight in Europe--that while the Republic of Ham,
burg can though Of ruins, borrow with facility
at 81 per cent, the great Republic Of the United
States Of the boundless resources of which no man
entertains doubt, has failed to raise dollar though
offering per cent; still American credit, it must
not be forgotten, not in much better condition
when the revolving colonies carried on to
full close the revolutionary war, and when the
United States rushed into hostiites with England
thirty years ago. A war with this country would
now be, what it far from being in the latter pc
riod popular war it would, so far as land forces
were concerned, be conducted either in Canada or
the States, perhaps in both it would enlist the SYM
pathies and begct the assistance of than of
our European neighbors; and though America has
not large She has very resp ctable naval squad
rom The United Staes Government has either &C :
tually built nearly finished 10 ships of the line, IA
frigacs of the first class, frgates of the second
class, II soops, briggs, schooners, and steamer,
of war-a force far from being contemplate The
American militia, on paper, exceeds in strength a
million and half men; it is doubtless at present one
great awkard squad but still in Of necessity it is
capable Of endurance, discipline, and hard service.
The American States in peace divided and dis
putting amongst themselves, but popular would
be most likely to compose their differences and re-
unite their energies and enterprise. Slavery in the
| L. o,f
war; still even there the free population double in
numbers the slave, whilst throughout the Union the
proportions IA, 100000 against 2,4S7 600 The
| American revenue is not overilowing but it has al
ready re-equaled the expenditure and the federal
taxation does not amount to 9s sterling head the
entire population. American property has within
the last five years been greatly depreciaed but that
there is in the Republic an immense and now again,
rapidly increasing amount of available wealth If
impossible TO doubt To assert then, that people,
eighteen millions in number, lightly taxed easily ex-
cited against England, proud of their former military
success, having at hand the materials for discipline
and means by taxation, more than third of whose
adults arc almost daily accustomed TO the Of the
rifle and all of whom would regard the triumphant
conclusion OF single campaign with England as the
greatest Of glories-to assert that the Americans
can't go to war because Baron RoTHscnrLp would
refuse them oan does seem to us a most extraor.
binary delusion. 1t is one which the Government of
this country certainly does not participate in. A
people who can't go to war do not deserve to
be called a nation. Economy and The military
virtues" said, with bis wonted wisdom, the late DIR.
ARNOLD, are the great supports of national exist.
ence, as food and exercise support individual
bodies Self preservation is essential condition Of
all virtue. In order TO do their duty, both states and
individuals must first live and be kept alive. But,
more than all this economical and military questions
are not purely ntcrnal-they closely connected
with moral good and evil.n The United States would
indeed be fallen low if their ability to go TO
in the safe-kceping Of Jew banker. 1t is not for
the benefit Of humanity that such should be the csse
the power Of capitalists over any country is preudi-
cal in its ultimate consequences to every state"
The reasoning of The Editor of the Herald is
no less pertinent than forcble; and il would be
well if all our countymen abroad would assume
the manly stand taken by General Green in be-
half of our Institutions, instead of tacitly sub
hitting to The gibes and jeers Of the London
capitalists and their satelliles-and giving coun-
tenance to the abolition fanatics, whose impu-
dent fabricalions have tended so materially to
provoke the hostility of the British nati,n, in
the belief that we are divided People, and
that our glorious institutions are toltcring to
their base.
Intelligent Americans have spoken with en-
thusiasm of the change which was wrought in
the People of Great Britain by the publication Of
General Green's letters.
In another editorial article in the Herald Of
the l7th November last, the compliment 10
| President Tvler will be read with Measure bY