The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-30
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"BE JUST, AND FEAR NOT"
The Baltimore American" may be assured that
nlain manly dealing, is superior to all the arts Of
,,bblng and equivocation. II had better nurse
,s wit to keep il warm" 1t is a quality very rare,
and ought not to be wasted. lift has any on hand,
il had better reserve it for some more convenient op
Dortunily. Why cannot the american" treat us
fairly if not literally in its article of this morning.
lis generally one Of the most decent and liberal
.oecimens of the wing press. Why should ii
ever condescend to mutilate articles, to mis-
represent sentiments'
Il saws The official journal at Washington
fmeanins, we understand, the Union0 has two
voces-one is for peace, the other is for war !" that
I'VE sometimes play the part of Lucius, and then OF
Sempronius that " the tone Of the Union one day
is on the high key smacking strongly of the drum
and fife and breathing, the next day, gently, hike
an Eolan Aute,n with much more of such amusing
waggery and Of classical illusions. 1t is pleased to
;nsnuate that I" the Union seems to have on hand a
perpstual conflict between its character as an Off a
paper on the one hand, which must be careful not
to commit the government on question now under
negotiation with foreign power, and its propensi-
lies as partisan paper the other, which looks to
the war agitation vast accession OF party cap-
tal, capable of being turned to great advantage"
And all this, when the s'Amercan,n in its very
next breath, seems to wonder how we can
"forego the opportunity to denounce the wings
MS British whgs-to call them the British party, the
Anti.American party" And it does "the official
paper the justice say that its tone in this respect
is far better than that of another paper which it
ponounces to be fierce, bitter, and vndictive, to
degree of almost insane Juror"
Might we not have hoped, therefore, to receive
little more forbearance from the Baltimore Amer-
particularly when that spirit is called for by
Justice to us, as well as liberality'
| We have not varied our voices, as the "Amer-
can" insinuates. We have taken our position plain
", unequivocaly, and as it was marked out by the
position in which our country might be placed We
venture to say that who is in his nature, as
well as name, an AMERICAN" can properly dissent
from u.s. We want peace with all the world; but it
must be an honorable peace. We would prefer war
now, as we preferred it in 1879, than sacri-
flee the rights and the honor of our country. This
is the position which we have uniformly maintained,
before and after the war Of lSl2-from 1915 down
10 the LIST of this month-from the LIST of May down
to the present hour This is the spirit of all our
tcles. For example, in the first number OF the
weekly Union," we find MS follows:
"we want peace with Great Brainpeace with all the
world must be an honorable peace We hope that
the present administration win continue the negotiation
calmly discuss The subject with British
what he has to adjust the dInercnces De pos
sible compatible with rights and our honor But 1t
must be- with due regard those categores. Such
our own opinions; aud such opinions when, in
Britain by doing justices and in 1914 when pre-
and defended to full meeting of the citizens Of
Richmond decided resolutions calling upon Congress for
Again, in the third number of the weekly
Union," we say:
prefer peace infinitely, to with her. We trust
government will do everything it honobly to pre-
peace and repeat in all the sincerity Of
hearts said late paper and what the wing pa
E have 50 ieqaeay quoted and VIVA, the as. new
good temper and in good spirit" &c.
In what respect have we departed from these po-
sions' Was it in the two cases to which the Bal
timore American refers, when we had to reply to
the arrogant tone of the London Timesi Was j,
for US to knucke to the "Times," when it idly
disparaged either our power or our rights?
When the "London Times" wished to rouse up
Texas against us, and, by pointing to the great
empire of which she might be destined to constitute
the nucleus, excite her pride and her opposition to
her annexation with the United States was it for an
american" to fold his arms and talk only about
peace?
When that same London journal appealed even
to the pride of Merico and attempted to egg her to
war with the United States, and upon the ground
that she might foil us in the contest; that we had nc
troops to invade her soil; and that we had not q
regular soldier to spare from our Atlantic from.
tier, did it not become us to tell the "Times' thai
we had "men enough" that we should find volun-
teers enough upon the banks of the Mississippi, to
carry the capital of Mexico, to sweep the region
ofSanta Fe, and to carry victorious banners &c
the banks Of the Colorado Of California; that Grea
Britain herself would be acting under deluded coun
sells ii she stimulated Mexico into war against the
United States--unless she wished us to take Cali
fornia, and to keep it tool
We advise the Baltimore American" most re.
spectfuly, to spare its criticisms as well its wit
and the next time it purposes to refute our argu
men,s, not to strip them from their context, but tc
state them fairly
MAIL-STEAMERS.