The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-23
To The Editor Of The Union.

| hope your position in Washington will enable
| you 10 render much service TO your country Age,
| trust, has not damped your energies, whilst il has
enlarged your experience. The blood flows freely
and warmly enough through your veins, without
rushing into eXcesses You go there with feelings
sufficiently fresh--with an enthusiasm lively and
strong enough to enter into the stirring and progress
i've spirit of the age-but with circumspectlon suf-
cient, trust, to beware of all wild Innovation and all
extrayagant speculations CHANGE, you know, is
stamped upon the age itself. Many changes have
| taken place in our own country, IN the last forty
! years. Many are in progress III Europe new
species OF federal government Is IN course OF for
nation, by the German people-a Zoll-Verein
league, which admits every member to participate
in the commercial privileges of all, and exemps the
interior States from the former duties, which accu-
mulaed upon the same article as il travelled from
the seaboard to the heart of the country. The sys-
tenn, if wisely formed and well conducted is one OF
the best changes which has taken place in the lands
commemorated by the pen Of Tacitus A new rev.
oluton is reaching the canons Of Switzerland.
The power of the Jesults is shaken
| England still holds the balance OF power. A
| porlentous change is coming over the disc OF the
| French government. The death of the wise and
venerable King Of the French must occasion new
| excitement and new struggles for power; and the
question of the succession, which involves the fate
of the dynasty, and against which the present min
listers appear TO be guarding with misguided sa-
gaoity, is destined TO aglae France and extend the
excitement 10 the surrounding nations.
| The Emperor Of Russia is looking to the East,
and appeals TO the governments OF his western neigh
bors to prevent their people from interfering in his
warfare with the mountain districts of Circassia.
The Gar of Russia is also, like every other sensi-
BILE of the age, engaged in studying the benefits
of internal improvements and trying to bind his
| extensive country together by roads and canals.
The Germans are also at work. That old canal
which was intended TO connect the Rhine and the
! Danube, is now complete. Everywhere the govern
mens of Europe are engaged in improving their
country.
England cannot stand still. The decree has gone
forth TO change several of her institutions; and the
| ball will continue to roll on The revolution that
was begun when her postage reduced to one
penny, exhibits the good sense that sometimes per-
| vades her councils 1t is the precursor of other
changes that To follow. A total revolution must
follow IN many of the features other civil poy. II
is in gradual progress, and will advance, slowly
! and gradually, without boodshed-not in the ru-
| lers probably, but in the manner of ruling.
| The government is gradually giving way TO the
interests and necessities OF itJ people. The last
repeal of duties the material of her principal
manufacture is effected by circumstances which
her ministers cannot control. Mr. O'ConDell declares
that the agitations of Ireland have produced the
grant TO the Maynooth College; and so, also, that
the manufacturers have compelled them TO take the
duty of cotton, and to continue the income tax.
THIS duty will have TO be doubled before ten Pears
roll over or the import duty on Dreaasus must also
be taken off.
The aim of our nation ought to be to bring on our
own cotton manufactures, without depressing the
| consumers. We must learn to work up our million
bales of cotton and we might gradually increase the
manufacture at the rate Of 1901 600 bales annually;
and thus the problem could be worked out in the
course of ten years But il must be effected in the
spirit Of our free institutions--by equalizng the
burdens and the benefits of our commercial laws
among all sections Of our country. The aim Of
those who govern this age and country, ought to
be to benefit ALL to Cypress none, at the expense of
any other and 10 leave capital and labor so to di-
vide themselves, as that all may be wisely and
probably employed. Encourage change, but leave
Nature mostly to herself.
SPIRIT OF THE AGE.