The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-12-24

be AZ has his day, and the table will soon be turned
This is bank panic; the panic has nearly subsl-
dcd. The sub-treasury law will produce as great a
panic among the banks, as those institutions have
lately produced among the brokers.
Europe and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Moral
Differences.
Among the numberless discussions TO which the
policy and course ~ the United States have given
rise in the English journals, we have been more
particularly struck with the singular tone assumed
by tie Times, and other journals in London and
Paris. In certain remarks upon the Annexation of
Tsxss, by the London Times, it applies to the Uni
red States the following extraordinary anguage:-
The annexation of Texas has been successfully
achieved, and mas only stan ped deep and lasting
crime on the policy Of the Union but prepared the way
for hlunted the conscience OF the peo
pie, and whettsd their appetite for plumber"
Here IL will be perceived, annexation" is boldly,
aud wllout qualification, dsnominaied crime.
Strange perversity OF judgment! unaccountable in
fatuatlon OF political prejudice Incredible blindness
10 facts and demonstration This clearly shows
the existence OF an irreconcable moral difference
conIrarIeiy of moral principle, between the two
Countries.
What are the facts =! What is historyl
There existed free and independent people,
having right to separate political existence It
had acquired that right by conquest, by battle,
by settlement, by occupation, by recognition,
by treaty More than all, it possessed this right by
nature. Now mark our course. Do we seize upon
this country? Do we make war against itl Do
own by the lannon's mouth, and the people our sub
jects by bonds and letters and force! Not So We
annex this country 10 our own Unlon-it freely and
into 4, Il
junction OF nations is made-the weak becomes a
member Of nation that is strong-and all this is
done with perfect good will and amty on both
sides; not an individual suffers, or is hamed-not
one drop of blood is she'd; andthi the Times calls
ga crime"
Now mark the contrast Ireland is annexed to
pgand-and how? BY bribery-by treason--by
corruption-by blood poured out 1t is held annex.
ed, by force ard by the bayonet, spite Of the loud
cry Of her nine millions against t-she is robbed,
starved. and pundered by the forced annexation and
force. continued union. And this-ths, is no crime
Thus. annexation and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by violence
cruelty, oppression, and tyranny is no crime; but
our annexation, by love, kindness, peace, and mu-
tual consent, that-that is crime
Again. the vast continent of India, with her nu-
merols islands in every ocean-comprising popu.
laton exceeding hundred milons-has also been
annexed to the British empire ;-and not as we
have done IN the case of Texas-by treaty. and
with the free consent Of the people; but by the
sword-by years of desolating war and bloodsheI
Now all this, the journals of England will call
g conquest glory, honor, victory" &c The blood
that has been shed--rhe violence that has been done
the fetters uader which nations are made to
groan-here IS 40 crime But peaceable union OF
natlons-a differentiation Of free people-etfected
without cost and without a sigl-this Isl crime
With such evidence before US Of tie gross viola
ton OF truth IN the estimating of right and wrong,
mag we not well say that Europe has IN regard to
US, moral obhquity of vision and that she in
vents a science of ethics when she speaks or
looks towards America
Cases in point, illustrative OF this singular moral
oblquity, so numerous it would be tedious TO
cite them. Thus, France may carry on in Africa, as
well as England has in India, the same system of an
neXatlon-she may desolate country, by years of
and bloodshed, in order to s'annex" it-she
may butcher tribe upon tribe, and roast the people
and families alive IN caverns in eflecting the an
nexation OF their ctunry-and yet, in Europe, they
cannot discover in al this any crime
Again Russia may annex Poland, and Circassia.
and Wallachia and the best provinces of Turkey.
against the will of the people, by violence, force.
and torrents of blood-she may hold them annexed
By unheaId OF cruelties and oppression-bu the
Times has never found out that here is a crime,
So with all the European monarchies. Ii would
be tedious to track the bloody traces their footsteps
every where have left behind them Yet when
America, without coercion, or violence. or force.
OF bloodshed, but by the joyful consent of people,
rifor IL, III
crime-a crime! %
England and America differ essentially in MANY
striking points in age, climate in extent, in con-
ditlon, in prospects. These are physical points of
difference, however there is another more impor-
tant line of separation between them, wider than the
Atlantic ITSELF and 1t Is this-they differ morally in
prnciple-n the very estimation OF right and wrong,
applied to political affairs. Now, the differences
and disputes respecting things and places, or con.
corning physical Objects may all be settled and re.
conciled; the controversy respecting Texas, O,
Oregon, or California, Mexico, or Africa, or the
Ocean, may all be terminated amicaby and by nego
tiatlon; but this difference of prnciple-ths mora
division, these opposite views of right and wrong
arc, we fear, altogether irreconcable and can neve,
be adjusted by any treaty negotiation or sliding
scale OF moral appreciation.
TINS difference between us proceeds on the part OF
Europe-we are bound TO state our conviction
though with sorrow we say it-from an inveterate
inherent and deadly hatred and opposition to OIL
very existence as free people, and as republican
nation. This may be seen in the new scheme Of
morals they have established when they speak OF TIM
country then 1t is that right with them become,
wrong; virtue is converted INTO vice honor be
comes lnfamy; and justice is made 10 appear INNS
ice, in their vocabulary and in their moral estima
ton of American conduct and policy The charac
Ter Of the remarks made by the Times is strong ex
empifcation of this moral distortion of view-th
ooliquity OF moral vision, whenever America an,
her measures are taken in view There Is in thu
single sentence remarkable condensation of gal
anu spleen against our country. Coming from sucI
paper as the Times, which stands in the sam,
position 10 England that The ueroM doac IN d..