Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-05-16


says Caudle. in his MS, ''for here nature re-
lieved me with sweet deep sleep"
From the New Orleans Pcayuae.
ICY havoc and let slip the dogs Of war"
And so the British Government is ''resolved
and prepared to maintain the ''clear and I'M
questionable right" Of England to the terrific
ry of Oregon; and the British Government
''has not abandoned or suspended the Right of
Search!" And Sir Robert Peel makes the an
nouncements with all his usual precision and
more than his usual energy. These are brave
words, and smack Of war assuredly, yet are
we of opinion that England will not go to war
with the United States-at least for either of
the causes indicated above. The issues invol-
we'd in the Oregon question not SO lmme-
diate and pressing as to preclude negotiations,
interventions, arbitrations and the other re-
sources Of diplomacy. The whole world
knows that the Right Of Search has been tacit-
ly if not formally abandoned. 1t has been so
declared in Parliament by the most distin-
guished of British statesmen. 1t is our opinion
that the wound which rankles in the heart Of
the British Government is the annexation of
Texas to the Union. She sees in that great |
measure an accession of power to this Union
which will make it regnable-which will |
60 far to defeat her long-cherished policy Of
rendering the industry and the richness of the
whole earth tributary to the Golfers other mer
chant princes, her grasplng factory owners,
and her arstocracy. This policy she has I'M
devatlngly pursued, trampling upon or over
to overreach the strong. Thus, from its in
does not openly protest against it, for with
what face could she do so, who is continually
extending her dominions most unrighteonsly
| by the sword-neveF by the peaceful and mu-
tual consent ofparties? But she hampers with
Mexico-she seeks to bride Texas-in order
TO defeat the most natural Of unions, against
which she had no right to raise her voice.
| Her Vaccinations in the latter country cannot
be successful; 1t is possible, however, that
she may involve US in war with Mexico
Without her secret aid, such a war would be
impossible or ridiculous; but war with Mex
leo would inevitably involve war with Eng
land. If England, then, wishes war it will
come in this shape. Oregon and the Right
of Search may be put forward as the ostensi-
BILE grounds, but they will only be ostensible.
But is it to be supposed that the United
States will recede from the position they have
taken, even if Sir Robert Peel be in earnest,
and England be determined 10 assert by force
of arms her pretended rights? Never. If war
must come, it will be waged on our part for
the settlement of two vital principles, which
our people will never abandon-the freedom
of the seas, and the independence of this con-
tinent of the dictation and control of Europe
an powers. On these two great questions
there is unanimity of sentiment among the
masses of the people which cannot be shaken.
The more they are discussed the more gener-
al and deep becomes the enthusiasm to main
tain these two American principles. If any
thing can give intensity TO this feeling, it is a
dictatorial, arrogant or bullying tone on the
part of ENGLAND. IF she wishes TO fight, she
has but to say the word and she will find all
classes and conditions of men in the United
States ready to join issue with her, and stand
forth in denfence of principles which have be-
come so infused into the national heart as to
form distinctive trait of national character
If she is only bullying, she but adds fuel to
the flame of hatred which thirty years ofpeace
have not extinguished, and which recent E.
vents have bountlfully fed.
The evils of war are terrible, but there is a
spirit aroused in the breasts Of American citi-
zens which will encounter them all Cheerfully.
rather than submit to British dictation. 1t is
not to be endured, that England should, month
by month, seize an island here and an island
there, subiugate whole nations in fact, and
then turn round to us and say, 'rhus far shalt
thou come, and no farther "The proud
waves" will moi ''be stayed" and if war en-
sue, they will sweep on broadly and magnif-
Gently to the Pacific. 1t is not to be endured
that Great Britain should hem US in on three
sides with her military posts and naval sta
tons, and then threaten war because We will
not allow her to complete the Gordon. Nor
can her sleepless policy be much longer toler-
ated, of tampering directly or indirectly with
with the system of servitude in the Southern
States, under the sanctimonious garb Of phi
!lanthropy, which has been again and again
stripped off, revealing nothing but hideous a.
varice and guilty lust Of dominion. The
people of the United States will not submit
to this accumulation of nsoence and wrong :;
and if the stand must be taken. it may as well
be taken now. The tide Of popular feeling
sets strongly in this direction, and upon the
first kinding of the lurid torch of war, the
: East and the West, the North and the ooulh,
would array themselves for the conflict. ..
Great as are the horrors and the calamlties
of war-and they can scarcely be exaggerated
1T "a tn he horne in mind that these will fall
ton fold more heavily upon England than up
IN MS War would endanger her national ex
istence: il would confirm and rivet together
tho American Union. however calamitous
n might be its issue. In England there are mil
7 Lions of hungry artisans and laborers who de-
: pend for their scanty pittances of bread for
i themselves and their children upon such lord
ly manufacturers as would shut up their miila
u upon the first passage OF arms; these millions