The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-01-08
"For the Atlas,
"OREGoN-No. II.
"Polk, with whitening look,
The pdr denouReing trumpet took.

The pdr deH0unetng trumpet took.'
Sour national and state governments pro-
fess to be instituted, maiuly, that each ind-
vidual may enjoy 'life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness;' and yet, what an anomaly
does the National Government present 10 us,
the ci.izens, at this moment-It is trying,
with all its delegated power, to endangsr
life, TO destroy liberty, and TO annihilate,
for years, the pursuit Of happiness, with the
flames of general war, lit up over our own
country--perhaps over all Europe. Where
shall the quiet citizen cultivate the arts Of
peace--and who ever heard of life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness, as compatible
with bloodshed, rapine, murder and all sorts
of atrocities? If the good of my country re-
quired it, know, feel that the Wings would
bear their portion of the ruin, as patiently as
any other pariy--but without, shadow Of
reason for plunging the country in war, how
can it be expected that the Wings, compos.
ing, at least, one half of the citizens of the
United States, three quarters Of the property,
and seren-eighths Of the intelligence, should
support an Executive, in whom they have no
confidence, in measures not called for by
any necessity, nor justified by any right, and
which would effectually destroy the prosper
ity and happiness of the present generation,
and probably entail misery on those who are
to come after us?
ga WING, AND NOTHING BUT A WHIen
Such is the strange language of this Boston
paper, in lS45. Let us place beside it the
language of another Boston paper, in 1918.
We were then at war with Great Britain, and
the paragraph in question reads as follows:
eff this war is to be supported by loans,
paper stock will breed as fast ans faster than
merinoes.--The f1eeces, if your pastures are
good, will yield the interest: but for your
interest of paper stock, you must yield
fleece Of loans annually from your own pock-
els. The admiral and the purser have in
formed the crew that they have but few shot
in the locker; they must be replenished, or
the war laurels must wither. In our old war,
when private men were public creditors, and
became somewhat impatient of public delay,
the administration would promise them one
new dollar for two hundred old ones, and
try their patience again. My brother far
mer's, if you hare money to let, let it lay
If the ,oar continues, you uiU purchase your
stock at four gears old, cheaper than you can
raise it. So unjust is this offensive war, in
which our rulers have plunged us, in the So
Der consideration of millions, that they can
not conscientiously approach the God of ar
mics for his blessing upon It,"
Has not Boston seen enough Of this, in by
gone days, without renewing it again, now?
We might reasonably, enough infer, perhaps,
that both the above articles are from the
same pen--although thirty-two years elapsed
between their production--were it not that
the cant phrase "plunged into war;" which
figures in both articles, is just now favorite
one with certain editors who are too young
to have employed it in 1913.