The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-26
THE UNION.
FRIDAY NIGHT, DEC. 26, ls45.
OBSERVE THE DIFFERENCE.

country IN respeci 10 The 81 lrt displayed Just now,
when the subject of our relations with Great Britain
is very manifest, is striking that it cannot have
escaped the attention Of any one A prediction
may be made, and slime the test Of truth" will
certainly make it good, that the same deep con
demnation awaits the opposition for their general
course with reference to the Oregon controversy,
has long since been expressed for the wing party
on account of its resistance to the annexation OF
Texas; an opposition in that case fac,ous and art
fetal, got up and stimulated chiefly for the pur-
pose of sustaining presidential candidate in the
ns,o and absurd position which, in most distressing
exigency, he assumed, and very unfortunately for
himself as the event proved.
No; il cannot be forgotten that no longer since
than the last year, the din and clamor about the
imminent danger of war was as loud and continu-
Gus we find it to be at the conclusion Of this
year. The meek conserpaiors Of the peace of the
world, whose warning and lamentations we have so
often heard, are likely to meet now, 80 far as we
can sound public opinion, with little sympathy
and respect as they have hitherto received.
That the United States was to be involved with
Mexico, on account Of what was alleged to be our
unwarrantable aggressions upon her terrtory--that
in consequence of certain collision with that re-
public, we were to be cmbroed with England-and
that finally all Europe would participate in the quar-
rel, on thus or that side, were recently regarded
events of inevitable occurrence. The democratic
party remained impassive, certainly unterrlfed by
these evil omens. The process of Texas anne xaton
unimpeded by the cowardly arguments urged to ar
rest it, is terminated at last cio war, or exist
IN, ,,f !, III N;,b III
example-supplying as it has done proof of strong
delusion, or fegned alarm-we not prepared
now, more than formerly, 10 see the nation panic
struck by the certainty of war with England,
much lie IS a, the prospect, be it never so remote
There is evidently Sc, purpose to scare if posi-
BILE, the people of the United States, by illusions,
pregnant and emphatic, to the popsr and the sensi.
tive national pride of Great B.itan. And lest that
sort Of intimidation should have the effect to make
us think little of our own power, and our own
proper pride, long dissertations upon real national
honor-and especially upon american honor
prepared by editors assuming great consequence
in position of party neutrality, and who write in
vein very descriptive of the class to which hey
belong--a vein, by-the-by, distinguished for good
deal of impernence and vain glory.
At the head of the neutral concern, in our esti-
nation and certainly in ita otpn, stands the New
York Journal Of Commerce. Right as that paper
is upon several subjects, and distinguished has
been in unfolding the truth when truth has been
on its side, we must say that the journal" is
rather foolishly occupied in writing such articles
we find commended by the "Natonal Intelligent
Ger, and appropriately honored as the whig editors
affirm, by Christmas republication.
Let us give the reader specimen, in the shape of
an extract from the Journal of Commerce article,
which has SO tckIed the fancy of the benev and
pacific editors Of the National Intelligencer Says
the Journal "Some OF our statesmen are talking
now very loudly about national honor. That must
be sustained at all hazards What do they mean
by American honor' Are they pinching the peo-
pies ears they would dog'si or is it true that
the homer of these United States is in danger How
can it be- Our mercantile honor has been ever well
sustained by our importers" &C., &c.
We think it probable that the first proof offered in
this fattering enumeration is the very FIRST in i'm
portance in the estimation Of the Journal of Com
merce. From the priority in the order of succession
submitted, the Commerce" editor evidently regards
the priority of the class patronizng his paper ent
tied to particular encomum, and the subordinate in
stances in which he thinks he proof of the pre-
servation of "the American honor" are of charac-
ter that goes to show the Righteousness of any 9TH
er standard of national honor than the payment of
DEBTS.
'tSome of our statesmen talking very loudly
about American honor" Well, and who are they,
pray, that are guilty of this crying oifencei Are
Mr.. Webster's sensbilities particularly aroused by
that theme: With an exception or two, (the more
conspicuous from being almost alone,) what wing
has had the generous ardor to talk as he should
without reserve, without qualification and without
dread, about" American honor''' .#
Has the Journal Of Commerce an audacity min
gled with its pety, sufficient to authorize the belief
that It's poor sneers have been directed to public
men who have, and yet ready, to peril life for
american honor" Has General Cass, by a course
unanimously sustained in the Senate-sustaned
grudgingly by several who burst not oppose his
proposItions--is it that gentleman who is hon
ored with the sarcasms of a commercial ga
zette in the city of New York; If So as no
doubt it is, the blush of shame should mantle the
cheek of him, who, venting his reproaches upon
the most eminent patriots of the land, finds no
genial spirit in the Senate who did dare vote against
series of resolutions which contemplated the pos
sibility of war; now hereafter.
The course of the Journal of Commerce is a sani-
pie of that Of the wing press generally, but not uni
versay To read what is said about the Oregon
difficulty, and observing the temper and tone which
mark the wing press, one might conclude that il
was in utilization with the most anti American por-
ton of the English journals. The democratic pa
pers, with extraordinary unanimhy, are exhibited
in glorious contrast They averse, deeply aversc
to war. War they deplore. But, with them,
american honor" and American rights are some
thing something for which they may be called upon
to make the sacrifice of peace, dear and desirable
that may be-.
x MIsrAKE.-We announced on Wednesday