Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-05-17
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
Beware, oil Ne Nations Of the EartN
SATURDAY. MORNING. MAY u. isss.

beware, oil ye Nations 81 the Edrfk
Since the establishment Of the Washington
Union. all Of US should feel ease, respecting the
internal welfare and external glory Of, the Re-
public. That paper is more than ainatch for the
combined world. From late article in il, one
would conclude, that all the bellicose propensites
Of all, the Heroes from Agamemnon to Dorr
were concentrated in its editor; and that his
| teeming head carried all the wisdom Of all the
wise men from Solomon TO John Jones, inclusivel
Mark the lofty, the imperious spirit which per
vadcs the paragraph Note the inetfable sco,n,
which leaks out in every line at the ''pucrile
views, "'fhe infatuated counses, 1.-THE worse Than
Egyptian Darkness" which sway the destinies of
the British Empire! We tremble for Sir Robert
Peel and poor old England, when this portentou.
paragraph reaches that country The fact is,
and the world cannot know it too soon, that we
are the only brave and enlightened people OH the
face of the globci wealone. with our indo,ni,a.
bio valor and the genius to direct il, understand
the high courtesies of refined and civilized life
All the rest are outside barbariansl" We pity
the British Ministers-whose infatuation better
fits them for Bedam than for the control Of a
great empire Let them study diligently the
columns of the Washington Union, if they would
recover from their insanity acquire the elegan-
cics of diplomacy and learn tho arts by which to
govern nations!
We copy from the "IInion:''
"Where (tho Times a,ks) obtain the twenty
twenty live thousand men which would be necessary In
march TO Mcxico' Let tho London Times first blind
deceive itself aud then deceive the Mexcans We should
not want twenty-five twenty thousand men, but
ten thousand would be sufficient and such gallant and
enerprsing spirits the ,eeming valley OF the Mis.ssp
could send forth less than three months, would be SUIT
heent To overrun the whole country. Volunteers would
start up like CadmGss men from the ing OF the dragons
teeth Sound the bugle through the West and
let the Uniied States raise the standard and in
this Proclaimed crusade the halls OF xums aud
the mines OF Mexico, twenty thousand volunteers would
appears and with the cry of "Ho, West the specuatons
Of the London Times would be disspated into thin air.
we were To Judge OF the staesmankc views of the Br
sh Ministers by these speculaons Of their press never
was Cabinet more deuded there people des-
uned to sadder Disappointment We despse such puer
lie views, and utterly astonished that British Ministers
should suffer them be retaed. They would present
another confirmation OF the old Swedish Chancellor: With
how little wisdom is ,his world governed !"
iii these revelations of the London Times are TO be
received the best specimens OF English .tatesmanshp
Heaven defend Old England herself II ,he Times be-
indeed, the best exponent Of the councils by which
she Is direeed she had better look her safety in
stead ct forming extravsgant cusades against the Of
the world. Her Minister knows Mexicans we'll and
he knows something OF Yet he is not familiar
with Western people; does he know what an i'm
proved edition they constitute upon the military and adj
yenturous spirit OF the Ang1 Saxon He is vet TO
know how. in such enterprise this will be- tow ards
the setting the freedom vi in Young
and rising sts the blood and exals the daring
enterprise 81 free and vigorous people. What not men
eaougl Why, let the United States but her clarion
and display her Nag upon the banks OF the
her but say to this man:-Go to the capital Of Me1ieo
ana TO these Go with your wives and children 10 the
region Of Santa Fe;' aud 10 another March with Your
neghbors the delicious banks OF the Colorado Of Cali
iorna. and they will only have volunteers enough To
the call, but than enough The difficulty
will he in keeping back. sending men forward
Does England really desire by thu, tanning the fame into
MEXICAN war, take California; and not only
take IT, but keep tl than Egyptian darkness has
her land. II she ruled by such infatuated coun
sells as this oracle OF the London Times would preach up
10 her people"