The Arkansas banner., 1845-09-03
 4 KGU AENTS FOR PEACE.

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 The following extract from the last num- Der of tho British Quarterly Review gives the best arguments for peace--tlIe arguments of a statesman, which are mol at all alike the ra- wings of the fanatics or traitors of the Peace Societies
 Free 1'rade Hie Cause of pcace-The paralelism of fcoincidence of economical truth with practical Christianity, is especially ma nifcst in the tendency of commercial freedom to the preservation of the peace of tlle world. The cause of free trado is the cause of peace. Tine international morality of monopoly is jealousy, suspicion and self-isolalion, s'iade- pendence of foreigners for fear of war; re- ciprocal lniletlon Of injuries provocative of war. It's peace is, at best, that :. armed peaee,' which IS sort of war. Free trade seeks that mutual dependence of nation on nation, which creates and cemenls interests and habits incompatible with war. We'll says the Secretary of the Board of Trade, ''the greater the commercial relations between nations, the. more disastrous would be the consequences of war which would inter- rupt their reciprocity of interests: in propor- ton as this commercial and reciprocal inter est has been of long standing and gregter extent, the greater would be the securities for the maintenance of peace.o And again "A war Of material interests, or, more pro- pery speaking, of material inluries--that is. war of custom houses or fiscal forts, with garrisons of revenue officers and servants has long been declared and carried on be- tween most of the European nations. As warfare of interests, or injsries, has not eeas- cd with the wars of bloodshed; and If we may ever expect security against recurrence of the calamties attendant on, and consequent to, the latter, 1t will be in destroying the ele- merits of the feffner--in short by the exten- sion of free trade between all nationsn-- (Macgregor's Commercial Statistics. We earnestly commend these thoughts to the consideration of the Christian public of Great Britain. New .sseeurites ol the maintenance oi peaeeo are just now he worlds great want. Il is painful relection-eireumsla ccs have arisen, and may arise again, to ren- der t an alarming and fearful one-that we have neglected to take such securities Tn our dealings with those two countries, our peace ful relations with which are of the first mo-, ment, both to our own national veal and to the general interests of civilization and Aur manty. No nations oi the earth offer Us more inviting natural facilities to commerce conservative of peace, than France and the United States--yet with none is our com rnerce more shackied and cbstructed by ar tifcial restrictions-with none have we more harrassng and irritating diplomatic en.hroil- ments. That we still have trade enough with the United States to render war ire mendous calamity to them as t5 ourselves. is, in the present temper of large portion of their people, our chief safeguard against being dragged into wholesale aud organized about some miserable Oregon or Texas question, which, were that trada what it might be according to the obvious arrange- ments of nature and Providence, would im- sink into insignificant harilless- ness.