The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-11
ENERGIES OF THE wEsT-wARNINal

ENERGIES OF THE wEsT.--WARNINGi
The s'Cincinnati Gazette' dedicates very ex-
traordinary article the subject of the great enter
prise of the western people. This article originated
in an editorial article which published some time
since and which has elected no little attention from
the American press. The "London Times" had
indirectly encouraged the Msxicans to make war
upon assuring them that we had no troops to
spare for the invasion of their territory In re-
ply, we begged the "London Tines not to
up the enierprisng volunteers of the West in
war with Mexico. The "Cincinna,i Gazette" now
begs us not to raise this war spirit, as if what
said was not drawn from us by the blunders Of the
"London Times" and as il we did not "craye
peace, peace may be honorabiy had" much the
"Cincinnati Gazette" itself But its general remarks
so emPhadcaly confirm all that we have urged upon
the London Times" in relation to the sweeping
energies of enterprisng volunteers that we shall
call the attention of its London readers to the thrill
ing picture which it draws of western enterprise
For example:
"our locstion-the very natural advantages enjoy
give vgor energy to human life which, with these
operating causes surround us with peril No be
great without reverence love Of home steadnes and
patience No nation can be great or permanent without
geographically. There is hardly spot distant near
which may not be reached in few days II the wayiaer
stands the wharf at Cincinnati he knows he hears the
escape Of steam that he may be at the Balze the falls Of
St. Anthony he is missed almost from homes and every
boy knows it, oo all know that Texas is within short
distance and Oregon not beyond the hounds Of travel
Is there excitement greater opportunity for gansurer
other distant sections they oaof though we have
civilization and millions OF inviting their settlement
off though they quit home and the kindred Of home. We
have freedom Of wfreedom Of action and the vgor and
energy consequent hereuponn their widest FORM be
reverence content love OF home steady regular indus
try that fxedness opupose and ofhabt essential to safe
t congress and safe stability in the individual or the ma
Now taking these views of social and political po
son-of the natural necessary influence arising from
location--we do dread every thinking must
dread question: at home abroad hch
may feed the fire Of excitement among and fan into
ntenser flame the passion rapid Individual adj
vancement or for wider empire We can work through
can work through them trinmphanty, and with the
great qualities of soul possess attain the highest pitch
and crush u.s. We know what a spirit Of conquest has
wrought out ever for other nations We know man has
whenever this Internal thirst for acquisition
has been let loose and made the central principle Of action
principle fire the weset i prepare the people the
West to the buges blast summoning them to the
zumas and the Of Mexcofor California the Pa
cifc and its spirit would sweep with the fury OF the hurr
later by desoiaton and death We dreadit It seems as
look upon it, and sounds hear it, while moving
steadily ana slowly marshang its force the very
plague spot and deahknel Of our home and
freedom
LET not the editor Of the Union because of the st life
he has led in Virginia think indulge of speech
in referring to the energy ofthe West None of realize
its extent We know what IL has done; but know not
what may do The second child born In Cincinnati lives
and has not the middle age of lfe yet the city
has eighty thousand inhabitants The old pioneer
among hearty and strong If his locks be whitened with
the winter of green old age; yet he amid throng
of millions Of souls and heholds improvements which
the elder States Of the world do not And the first
child born Of American parents west Of the Allegheny
mountains, who knew Washington o surveyor the
banks of the Kanawha when the whole northwest with
material exceptions, in possession Of the savages is
yet alive and numbers her fourscoe and
yet her day she has witnessed the growth Of empire
the pcopng of the mighty valley between the base Of the
Let the "London Times" read this picture, a lit
tie overcharged in one respect, little unjust to
western brethren, little exaggerated, it may be,
in others, from the pencil of whig, and learn to
speak more soberly the next time it descants upon
the inferiority Of our means compared to the arms
of Mexico. Let the "London Times" and its al
lies ponder over this striking pcture-weigh well
this impressive lesson-and beware how it rouses
Mexico, or any other power, iea with the United
States We do .crave peace, if peace may be hon.
orably had"--we crave il honestly and sincerely
bu. give war, rather than sacrifice the rights and
honor of our country