The daily union., 1846-04-01

quence mas avowedly acquired IN the eyes OF TOT
eign nations as one of the first powers in the
world. Every new invention Of our ingenuity in
creases our importance in our own eyes. We be.
come daily more and more attached to each other by
participation of the honor which we are obtaining,
and the high destinies to which ws are rapidly as
cending.
Let this British cayiller see US assembled on the
great anniversary Of our indepeadence-h the
strains Of our national music let him witness the
intimate union which prevails between the
citizens of this great republic, they daily
assemble in the Capitol, and then let him
cant, II he can, upon our want Of a ma
tionsl character, or upon the mbeciity Of our
eonfederacy. Divide the Union II is impossible
so long as we preserve our senses. What crafty
this minon Of monarchy, and break up our union
into fragments at home despised abroad
the prey of intestine discords, and the play things
and the tools Of foreign States. What divide this
glorious Union in twain, and instead of this mag
nifcent river, (ss Lord Morpeth called it,) which
runs at the base of the Capitol, bearing upon its
tranquil bosom the productions and shipping Of peace
full States, see its banks covered with elabo-
rate Notifications, and bristling with hostile eannon
II is impossible! These specustions Of the London
NAVAL and Military Gazettee" arc idle as they
absurd.
tbs our policy to preserve peace, but it must be
an honorable peace II the rights and honor Of our
country demand war, we are prepared to wage it
with all the vgor of young, and ardent, and enter
prising republic. Our revilers will soon find
whether we have national honor enough to vindcate
our rights, and whether we have the necessary
means to carry it on. We have already proved our
energies by the glorious results Of two wars We
showed even in the last war Of 1872 how ready we
were to cope with England single-handsd; to en-
counter the best discip plined troops which she had
brought fresh from the wars of the Peninsula; and
how competent we were TO conquer the con-
querors Of Europe, they vauntingly styled them
selves.
The NAVAL and Military Gazette" urges Eng
land to prepare, and we must repeat the caution in
the ears of our own countrymen. Let us, too, not
be altogether unprepared, because England is pre-
pared. We have something more than priyateers
to assist us. We should enlarge our steam navy
discipline our militia-organize State volunteer
legions-add in some degree to our regulars,
il events should justify it. We are warned
Of the deadly war, which is to be wsged
against US. The slaves are to be reused against
their masters; black regiments are to be landed
from the West Indies; and between the advancing
black troops from the South, and the invaders from
Canada we are to be crushed as between the upper
and neither millstones. Impotent threatsl-but
threats worthy Of the most barbarous ages Of the
world. Let Great Britain try it, ifshe will. twill
only unite us the firmly together, and produce
an Overwhelming excitement and resistless energy
of character which will battle all her exertions and
sweep her from the continent. She has many an
Achilles heel here-she has many at home. Can
ada, instead Of becoming the invader, will be the in
vaded. This desperate mode Of warfare will not
only inspire us with an indomitable and irresistible
power, but it will rouse the civilized world against
her. What General Cass so eloquently said yes
terday in his Oregon speech about the causes for
waging in the present age, will apply with equal
force to the manner of waging it, "War has passed
from the cabinets Of princes to the tribunal Of public
opinion"
"'AMIRIc will not go to war; they have no means.
no navy, army, no money, no crednn So folk
say, and the inference would be RATIONAL and con-
elusive, if it regarded any European State, any
monarchcaI body, where the pulsations at the ex-
tremties beat in unison with the pulsations Of the
heart-where the belly governs the limbs, and not
the limbs the belly But the Americans are not
people; they nation. National honor they
know not-national turpitude they feel not. No
strains of music kinde in their breasts a glow Of
patriotism; loyalty is emotion unfelt, unknown
by them. The men of the southern States are as
physically different from those Of the northern,
are the Italians and the Russians. The commercial
interests Of the end Of the territory diverse
from those at the other end, and we know that an
agonis,ic interests separate even brothers, much
more so people. The several well defined topo-
graphical lines which ntersect the country are prog
nostic Of and mark the limits Of future nations
republican or monarchical-which shall divide the
land Of this heterogeneous people.
Estates they are-united thew are called. Yes uni
ted as the dsproportioned limbs of an overgrown
consumptive youth united to his attenuated
body scarcely subject to the same volition. The
unnatural appetite for acquisition the sezing of the
Texas like food to the disease of atrophy contrib
ues not to the support of the body. The very excite
ment of the Oregon affair is the hectic flush which
shows feeble constitution, and indicates proximae
Observation-Disclosures before maturity has been
attained-a State rotten before it is ripe.
'Nether the boundary question nor the matter of
Oregon ought to have been left to tester at the con-
cluson of the last America magnanimously
chose her time for making war on England, when,
Europe against us; when our hands were full and
England should have chosen her time for settling
the boundaries when her victorious arms had
crossed the Pyrenees and peace had been proclaimed
in Eurnpe-when England had America alone to
deal wth--by then drawing the line with the
| bayonet, ay, with the British bayonet. Jonathan
would then not have been particular to where it
had been run; for be it remembered, the northern
and eastern States, as announced by Mr.. Clay in
the House Of Representatives, had determined to
declare their independence, if steps not taken
to put an end to the war But what did the British
ministers of those days--knowng, too, as they must
have done, the declaration of Mr.. Clay1 Why,
leave US to be overreached in the settlement of the
boundary-pay the Yankees 100000 for the ne
groes who had run away to US from their owners in
the land, professedly, of freedom-and keep the
Oregon for spontaneous combustion
"Mr. Webster, it is said, among others Of the best
of the Americans, has given it his opinion that
there will be no war. The wish of this enlightened
statesman is, perhaps, father to the thought But
we must not forget how our minister at Washing
ton was deceived in 1912, when he wrote to the late
Sir Herbert Sawyer, our admiral on the North
A atatiop wing that although The lou,er