The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-18
d. t. VALENTINE, Clerk
COL. CHURCHILL.

OF
my who. if right in our recollection was induced
accept the office OF Inspector General against his
% anraon and cbancs Of Srar nomotion TO
Office in the staff higher than that he held at the tmehas
we lament to BY the General Orders published to-day
been discharged IRON the army Honorably discharged"
j. could only hes but very very hard that man whose
life has been devoted to arms who has won rroud name
among our gallant soldiers, and who was never absent
from remiss in duty should he thus cn of from his
profession at period Of life when he cannot begin TO learn
other There circumstances too connected with
this reform which aggravae not little its exceeding
hardship We do not know that any becoming station
be offered to Col Churchl but if there be such in
the control of the War Department II cannot be
able to surmise that the Secretary Of War would honor
himself by inviting Col Churchill TO accept itN,w York
Courier and Enquirer
No one at all acquainted with Col. Churchill
doubts his merits; and all who know the circum-
STANCES of his case, admit that it is hard one. But
that the administration is censurable for discharging
him, they do it great injustice. The legislation of
Congress required the discharge of one of the two
Inspectors General, Coils. Croghan and Churchill
both gallant officers-both highly mertorious on
account of having rendered their country signal SER
vice. Col. Croghan was the Oldest Inspector Gene
raj, and his retention rendered the discharge of Col
Churchill indispensably necessary by the act Of Con-
gress We quite certain that the executive
mindful of his claims to consideration.
TIE "New York Courier and Enquirer" per-
severes in the false position il has assumed
to which no proud American can extend his
sympathy and support. II tells us that we
must not carry musket into Texas, although
her Congress and her Convention have con-
scented to union with our own country; but we
must leave her territory, and the lives Of trust
ing countrymen (countrymen they now are, in the
best of the term) exposed to the ruthless at
tack of the invading Mexicans. Our administration
must fold their arms and abstain from the slightest
resistance until Congress shall have declared war
against Mexico. To the credit of the whig party
and the wing press be it said, that the "New York
Courier and Enquirer" seems, yet, to stand al
most alone in the idea of the dsonorable neutrality
which it recommends. The "National Intellgencer''
is silent. The Baltimore American" passes no cen.
sure upon Major Doneson's promises. The wing
press of Philadelphia, of Boston, &c. &C.. far as
we are advised, is silent. The "Tribune'' and the
Commercial" threw out hint; but, like "Fear,"
in the code of the Passions" seem "scared at the
sound themselves made" In the name of our proud
country, let the "New York Courier and Enquirer
enjoy the disgraceful distinction which it has re.
Gently solicited.
But, says the "New York Courier and Enquirer, y
elf the case be deemed one vital, that unless our
armies can be brought in aid of Texas, while in her
transition state from Independence to annexation, she
may perish be seriously aggrieved, let Congress be
called. Sixty days would bring them together
Sixty days. Does the editor forget the state of our
congressional representation Does he recoec that
there are several States who have not yet elected
their members, and that one or two States do not
elect before September or Octoberiin fact, that it is
not practicable to have an extra session of full
Congress, perhaps, until November Very well,
says the Courier" then is ''better Texas should
perish utterly" And this is the wise and touching
counsel Of wing press that had the honor of chris
tenng the party "whg" For once, at least we trus,
the oracle will be silenced by the better voice of the
wing party.