The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-06-26

Ii is one OF The anomalies III dudifS Oh Oo-
yernment TO see how a distant and compare c
lively unimportant spot often rlvets the at +
Of the whole Christian world, while il !.
almost appears to overlook its nearer and !
more immediate interests. Thus, during the
past twenty years, England, France, Russia:
and the German Confederacy have occupied
themselves, by turns, with the affairs OF
Greece, of Spain, of the Levant, of Algiers,
of India, and of the Pacific Isles. Yetthere
were some thirty millions of people in Eng
land, as many in France, twice that number
in Russia and Germany, and we do not ven
ture a very bold assertion in saying that ID
neither of these countries is government yet
Exactly perfect, nor the social system yet so
organized as TO produce as much comfort and
happiness to all its component parts as il
might do. Still it seems that novelty is as
desirable in grave matters as it is in those OF
a lighter nature.
The brokers in Wall street, when they
have sufficiently run upon all the well known
stocks, generally seek out the most distant
and the most rotten institutions they can
fnd-the more worthless the better-out OF
which they make a new and clean pack, and
the bystanders eagerly join with them in the
game. So politicians, arhen all is peace
and q~uietnesS at home, go to TIE reTy reTge
OF the southern or arestern horizon, and
thence bring IN a ncD theme for prolific de-
bates, speeches, and diplomatic notes, and
the people, pleased Nth the norehy, foHoU
their movements Nth an eager gaze and alt
absorbing stare. But there is a limit to
both these operations. Pay day comes
round. The game cannot be kept up indeh-
nitely. lis denouement sometimes enable
those who begin it to retire from the table
with their pockets filled, but sometimes an
unexpected reverse oil fortune awaits them,
and they go down in the ruin they have
brought about them. Who can tell whcre
the great game Of rar, If once begun, mag
lead?
Commenting on the above, the National
Intelli gencer, says:
Right manfully has the Post come forth, at
this j%uncture to speak plain truth to its read
ers; to point out to them the danger athand,
which it had, when at a distance, %prophetI-
cally announced; and 10 exhort them TO brace
up their courage TO meet the worst that can
befall them. This indulgence of a passion
for territorial aggrandizement; this hankering
after the property of our neighbors; this SIN
stinct'' of the Anglo-Saxons, who areas
T General HAMILTON once said in a much-ap=
plauded speech at a Texan festival-"the
; greatest land robbers in existence;" this
.squitting our own to stand on foreign ground,' .
, so solemnly protested against by WASHING
I TON, whose admonition on this subject be-
came, twenty years ago, the keynote of the
"Democracy," with General JACKSON at their
head-the Post shows clearly enough 10 It's
readers is not likely, as some seem to sup
i pose, TO end in a sort of pleasure-party &c
:. "the Halls of the Montezumas," nor yet in q
. great lottery for the distribution of the bril-
q liant spoils of their descendants. A day q
recTo"eeS NUS s IS to be created; and the
General Government cannot, as some oiheI
Governments have done, contract debts which
n they do not mean TO pay. This debt, when
created, mast be paid, and can only be paic
by taxes upon the People; and, indeed, be-
o fore it can be created, money must be raised
+ in the same way TO pay the interest upon it
: to the amount of tens of millions annually
: THIS war with Mexico, supposing ii TO begin
and end with her, may, as the Post shrewdly
! hints, serve to fill the pockets of a score OF
! two of contractors and hangers-on upon the
O Government, but to carry it on will grind the
: face Of the people, and involve in ruin many
!. important interests of the country.
The knowledge that such will be the eff
feet, to a greater or less extent, of a war with
e any foreign Power, makes its due impression
: on the mind of the "Post," as it must do on
the mind of every man who is at once intel
;. ligent and honestly which we mean who is
uncorrupt, unbiased by direct personal in
: terest in war, or in the particular object for
which war is TO be waged. In the mainten-
9 ance of essential rights and interests, we
know that such conside rations as these, now
ever powerful, must sometimes be disregard
] ed. There is a necessity which has no law.
There are cases of collision with a foreign
: Power in which there is no alternative
= One of the great vices of the Texan scheme,
the iniquity and false pretences of which,
g however doubted before, are now undergoing
daily developme nt and shameful confirmation,
] is, that it has put the choice of the alterna-
= lives of peace or war beyond our control. II
r is in the hands of Mexico. The d~estinies of
t this country have been ~fearfully put at haz,
ard, by a heartless combination of ambitious
politicians and interested SPECTATORS; and
f the great body of the respectable, and or
, DERBY, and contented population, are 10 bear
the consequences, whatever they may be, of.
this rash experiment upon the public pros
perity.
We are glad that the Evening Post has
fairly put the question, which we trust will
be fairly met by the journals of its own party