The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-04-21
shudder to contemplate Russia has no
compassion for the conquered.

I snudQef 10 contenPiap9- RaSsta Has no
compassion for the conquered.
| War has thus begun in Europe-will
lit be the signal for the disconnected on
towards the bank Of the far celebrated
Rhine! We know not yet--we cannot
stay to speculate. We trust IN Proyi-
dence that nations less oppressed and
better taught in the arts of peaceful victo-
ry, viii wait and shun the last resort to
which the Polish exiles are coereed. Ii
they would copy US, they could prevail.
But will be forgotten if the frenzy once
falls upon them. We are far away from
their minds--as, happily, we are isolated
! from all connection with their contentious.
1t is not what is passing or viii pass in
northern or more central Europe, that we
have SO much TO regard as what is about
to happen far away. Our anxiety is
centred in America, and there and hers
much has transpired to redouble our ap-
prehensions. For, come what will, we
abominate that war. We have brethren
and relatives in that free land, and much
we fear they may be involved in the i'm.
pending collision. Peace or war hangs
on the will of one determined man, the
head of the republic. 1t is, after all, to
the reason of the merchants that reference
must be made. He spurs rather than
curbs the steed. He claps on the steam,
pokes up, the Goals, pushes on when 9TH
ers would draw back. He is more the
instigator than the moderator. He will
not yield bodkin's breath in terms of
territory. He cares not how many will
be hurled into eternity, how many cities
blaze, and townships are made desolate.
What is it to him though hundreds are
engulphed whith burning or shattered
ships in the all covering deep! Is it not
wretched thing if he. the guardian of
the Republic, shond force two great in
dustrious states to grapple each other for
prize not worth their animosity! Am
bition, they say, and love of disticton
urge him on. Alas, for human folly -
The column erected to one far greater
than he can become-his own Washing
ton-that memorial is encompassed with
weeds and nastiness.
The crisis is coming on. The Presi-
dent has paltered with England's repre-
sentative, and she is tired of trifling.-
She is becoming serious. She has pa
cihed Canada, not by aeoercion bill. She
pordoned the most obnoxious of her SUBJ
jects fully and in time. Her posts along
the frontier are doubly fortified; and, at
home, not for day are the preparations
relinquished or relaxed. The largest ma
val armament that ever left her shores
will be put to sea if the Congress ratify |
the Presidents advice. She now holds |
out threats and delivers herself in terms
of defiance; and Polk must fight for it or
compromise on the footing which he re-
peatedly refused. Will he persist
does he really resolve to have a war? He
must be insane, if he is so determined
Peace would inevitably aggrandise Ameri-
ca-war may be her destruction. She |
has not resources or wealth for protract-
ed contest. Men she has, will they adj
eere through long campaigns to their Of
fcers We suspect them. Volunteers
are not secure dependence. In the war
Of independence they were precarious
force. They went and came as suited
their caprice, and often left Washington
on the point of ruin. Howe's incapacity
three. times was his safety, and French
succor only prevented the American
heroes annihilation. His funds ran
short, his bills were but waste pa
per. His own letters tell his difficult
ties-his frequent hopelessness and forti-
tude. For none but he would have pre-
served. What is there to prevent the
same dangers, embaarrassments, and
hair breadth escapes again? We cannot
surmise. The population has multiplied
It's true, since then; but either of the
confederated States may still refuse con-
tingent, be unprovided with money, be
asSailed from within; and all are not now
soldiers and sharp shooters. as they were
when the western world was rising into
strength.
There ore martial indications elswhere.
But we must pause here, and postpone
our observations on the rest to another
number.
INSURRECTION IN POLAND.
The insurrection in Poland still forms
the principal feature in the Paris papers.
Many of the refugee Poles now residing
In Paris, to the number, it is said, of three
hundred, assembled at the house of
P rince Czartorski, on Saturday, and pre-
sented 10 the PrInca an address in the
name Of more than one thousand Poles,
in which they offered to that Chief the
warmest cooperation, and rigorous obe-
dience to his commands, convinced that
this cooperation is, above all things ne
cessary, in order that the emigration
may, by its representative, the more ef-
ficaclously associate itself with the heroic
stuggle which has recommended in Po-
land. The address terminates with a