Weekly national intelligencer., 1845-11-22

SEQUENCES. We should not speak VI IL WlulOut
!. realizing what it means"
They, then, who are stirring up these dangerous,
these bad these absurd, these perhaps fatal public
passions, 10 excite which on this side the Atlantic
is 10 call up like and other men as pcrnciouS
to iniame them on the other side the Atlantic, are,
according to the News" demagogueS; who are
ready to plunge their country into any evil, that
they themselves may, In the low deluslon Of that
moment, shine forth, to the abused and presently
ruined populace patriots, and, under favor Of that
name, keep or attain unmerited power. Unnamed,
the News" certainly leaves them ! but, once
again. its very silence is expressive Of those, and
those alone, whom we have already designated as
the regular, systematic, interested chiefs in this i'll
omcncd ciamor, this horrid concert of birds Of
prey, whose voice of death, the harbnger Of public
wo, calls the brave to carnage, where the ravens
and kites and crows that have announced it fit safe
and fill themselves out of national calamity. But,
let us go on. OF what war really is the |" News :"
proceeds next to give us an image: first, it gives
the moral aspects of war even the most legiti-
mate then the economical and political ones:
War on paper is one thing--war in reality is
quite another. The glowing aniicpations OF bril-
liant victories the distant Of the cannon, the
thrilling strains of martial music, the reports Of
+ mighty deeds in arms, the rapures of triumph,
L the glory and the romance of war, are all very
fine, when read from some book or journal, while
one sits at in his armchair, surrounded by
: his happy family, secure from harm. But a hun
/ dred thousand men engaged with all the imple-
ments OF torture and death, manning and and muir
dering each other, here splitting open head, and
there hacking off limb the agonies OF the bloody
field, the desolation Of the country, the pillagng
and destruction of towns, the burning of homes,
the flying of arghted families, the endless mourn
ing and sorrow, the interruption of all the ordina-
/ ry avocatons Of life and the multitude Of evils
and miseres which no pen describe, and
L which follow in the wake of war, are not SO very
L fine. They come nearer TO the reality.
sand this is not all. These evils, sharp and
bitter as they are, can scarcely be said 10 equal
those others which cannot fail to appal the heart
L Of the true Democrat--of him who has high and
i warm hopes for the progress Of his race. war
at once arrests all such progress, and carries
| back at rate moro rapid than we have ever been
able TO advance. 1t produces widespread demo
ralzation, and unsettles the steady habits Of the
| people, Ii loads the nation with crushing debt,
which it will require the sweat and toll of unborn
cuse for high tariffs and paper-mpney schemes,
and all the machinery which moneycd aristocrs-
( cy desire to make of in country like. this 20
faeld al.oi- -I themselves I'M
|. equal privileges. Thus will the country suffer,
and the people be made to endure the iron in their
souls long after the has terminated, if its
termination should be in the highest degree fa-
/ vorabe.
We must not be understood as being of those
L non-ressting advocates Of peace who would, un-
L der possible circumstances, advocate war. On
L the contrary, we admit that there might be evils
L worse than war. We would resist TO the last
drop of blood any wanton invasion of our nation
| al rights or national honor. But we cannot be-
lieve that in this age there is any danger of being
| called to such dire work. One thing is certain
the means of arriving at the truth, and the require
| ments Of justice every great question are now
so abundant that no civilized nation can be involv-
| ed in war with another without the most awful
| crimnality on the part of one the other. Let
| England look well TO this we are sure America
| will do SO. The retribution which the people Of
| either country would visit upon the heads Of the
l. Government for involving them in an unjust or a
| causeless war would be fearful in the extreme.
/ Far distant be the day when any such calamity
shall fall upon the world This should be the
earnest prayer of every lover Of his race
word, before we pass further, of that retribu-
ton" Of WHICH the News" speaks as certain to fall
on those who, for their own wicked ends, shall lead
the country on to consequences which il SO strongly
deprecates, all the good and prudent must do.
There are, we must remind the News" politi-
clans whom no form Of retribuiion, except one
which cannet reach them in this country can af-
feet. 1t is easy enough to blow the trump Of COM
bat, and afterwards keep out of the field. In a
word, there are many Of these people whom Fate
will leave TO enjoy wonderful antiquity, if il spares
them until they are found on battle-ground. And
as for that other sanction adverted TO by the
!" News"-the loss of popularity--ihat will little
deter men who never had any but counterfeit of
| it TO lose.
POSTSCRIPT
| What is written is written, and shall stand: for,
thus far, il was deserved And, the paper, whose
just and honest language of to-day has exorted our
praise, hastens tomorrow TO cancel il, there can be
no filter commentary upon the fact than TO append,
to what we have copied and said, its own rapid
contradiction. What we have given entire above
was the leading article of The New York Morning
NcWs of Friday last and its leader Of Saturday
last rs IN the following words
oREeoS AVID WAR.--Wc yesterday took occasion TO
express The views Of adherence with which regard war,
ana % audc incidentally some Of the evil effects which
would result from between this country and Great
Britain. The apprehension which was not merely croaked
oy oes'gning dcmagogues and journals but really felt by
many o. our wisest statesmen that hostics would
WIN nenco py reason of annexation, having happily
proved groundles alarm have now seized hold Of Oregon
as Jusylng tho icudest blasts Of the trumpet Of wo
Dcmagogues, close pushed by political calm and editors
whose natural alnent consists continual rchas Of