Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-09-02

principles ofreason and christianity. Ills
question difficult 10 argue. The advocate
ofwar contend for it because il has been
lis opponents contend against il on princi
pies which all win acknowledge in III.
abstract but win not believe, in The practica
application of, without experience. It'll
matter Of peculiar constitutions amanmigh
perhaps asreadily.te argued out of,hc tooth
ache as out Of his peculiar notions on these
subjects. We look il, vain for any reason in
war; men are shot down. slaughtered in
crowds-wives are made widows and child.
rem orphans, misery, sorrow, crime, are
sowed broad cast through land, 10 The detri-
meat OF virtue and prosperity, and to settle
aquestion, which should be subject 10 aud
under the control of reason. War is let.
ting loose of the wild and vindiclive-the
brute passions Of our nature. As enlightened
beings, in our intercourse with each other
we should be governed by those fcul-
ties, not which belong TO beasts in common
with ourselves, but which elevate us above
them, and lake us thinking, rejecting, and
accountable mor,als. We are ready to con.
denim duels betwee individuals and we
call loudly for laws 10 stop such crimes;
yet whenever our national honor is wound
ed in our own estimation, we at once de-
clare our intention, TO commence duel on
a large scale. There is no difference in
the principle at all.
There isa great difference between self
defence, and voluntary resort TO force, 10
settle a question in dispute. No sane man
will contend that man should not defend
himself when attacked by all the means in
bis power, nor that nation if beset by pi-
rates or robbers should not meet them with
their own weapons. Ii is plain in such a
case as this, that resistance is necessity
and virtue. But when We talk of wars,
we do not mean nor talk Of such cases,
We mean whe.e questions Of justice and
right are in dispute. Take the case Of Ire
land at present.. lfshe pe'severs, she wins
victory. Ii will be the silent and ire
s's'abie- triumph Of right over oppression
triumph Of a superior INTEL ecnce and
virtue. The very contest elevates and en-
mobiles her people and victory is won when
her people are elevated and prepared for a
rational freedom. Perhaps the people of
Ireland have the physical strength TO con-
quer and drive fom their soil, The En2lish;I
perhaps should they meet on the battle
field few thousand more ds The English
than the Irish would be slain, but at the close
of the strife, would they not fall prey to
lhemselves--to the evil passions which the
strife engenIered. Although they tough,
for high and holy end would such a strife
leave them in condition to appreciate the
end and benefit by it. We apprehend not,
and in the case ofour revolution it is little
short of miracle TO US, that anarchy did
not succeed the strife We were blessed
with men Of patriotism of purpose, which
by the blessings of Providence, even that
strife did not corrupt, and who swayed the
wild and almost ungovernabIe passions Of
our people at that time. War is the of.
spring Of blind and brute passion of our
nature land it is therefore not proper agent
for the assertion Of great and goodend.
But how foolish, the editor OF the Argus
will say,to talk of the world, or of nation,
without war. War always has been, ergo
il always will be. Such is the logic. We
do not think so. We are not forever 10 re-
main nation of semi-barbarians. The de-
velopmen,s of science and progress and i'm
provemeuts in the arts, mean something. -
We have minds capable of expansion, they
are expanding and improving. We have in
the progress of time abrogaied much evil,
and shall any man pretend to say that an
evil, SO outrageously in opposition TO the
common dictates of humanity, shall not
meet with the same fate in time. We think
that the manifestations which we witness in
the discussion Of the question, is evidence
of spirit awakening 10 exierminate in time
the evil; and instead Of peace sentiments
nanitesting dilution ofmorals we consider
them another step in The onward and up
ward progress Of the mass.
A man named MUTTON, recently from
the State of New York, died very sudden
ly in this town, and was buried on Friday