The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-14

We have received the Boston Pilot" Of the 7th
inst, which contains, among other articles, long
letter from ct d. Meg, IT," at Dublin, January Sd,
touching the relations between the United States
and Great Britain. The following extract will
show the spirit Of the letter These speculatons, if
not instructive, are at least curious and amusing.
"oREGoN-IRIsH OPINIONS ON PEACE AND WAR
"Wel informed men here do not believe in the
probability of third American war. They think
whatever the United States may have to fear would
be from naval attacks. IL is worth observing,
that the constitution of the British army is now
very different from what It was in the campaigns OF
the peninsula. There are no longer any German
regiments in the service, to keep the lines and to
prevent desertion. The erection Of Hanover into a
kingdom has KEEP, them at home under the eye of
King Earnest, instead OF sending them as formerly
to bear the orders and wear the bresches Of the
horse guards IL IS reported here that 80 900 troops
to be sent to assert the English claims to Ore
gon. You may count on 10000 Of them, at least,
as settlers There is hardly mothers son Of them
that would not desert to the stripes and stars, and
If our commander-in-chef is wise, he ought 10
know it. IL he should not find it out before they
sail, he will hear of IT very soon after they land
repeat again, America has nothing to fear if she is
able to defend her sea-coasts.
"As to the chimera Of raising negro insurrecton,
no one but a mailman or professed philanthropist
ever dreams of such thing. On the contrary, there
is strong conviction here that the whites of the
South are quite able to manage the colored popula-
ton, and that if 1t came to an instruction, they
would not want aid from the North.
1.-THE message of President Polk is regarded in Ire
land with no i'll will. Our press-which is, what
ever its wants, most faithful mirror Of the Irish
mind-regnrds it national defiance to England
We are inclined to think England will not take up
the gauntlet. But if she does, there will be other
| questions to settle well the Oregon question
We consider our tite perfectly clear to every inch OF
ireland; while you cry America for. the Americans
we cry ireland for the Irish; we will give years
notice to quit the joint occupancy of the Union
simultaneously with yours to terminate the copart
nership in Oregon"
The same number of "the Pilot presents the fol-
lowing bold and racy editorial:
THE POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE UNION
"The fortune Of nations, like the constitution o.
individuals, passes through periods OF eifmacteric
which politicians call crises. On these critical peri
DDS depend empire or slavery, prosperity or ruin
and through one Of these the American Union i:
passing now. The period foreshadowed by ole
statesmen when they provided maxims for times tc
| come, when Washington admonished the chidren'
| children Of his people to beware of foreign inhu
ence, when Monroe expressed his far-reachng views
| against European coonizaton--that period hai
arrived. The Union, by her liberal encouragement
Of emigration, has beaten her European rivals ir
the art of colonzipg, and sweed into sufficient size
ana strength 10 take ncT pace among
the world. Will the great powers Of Europe per
nit her quietly to take her position the leading
nation of America, the moderator Of those fierce de
| mocracies W hose chaotic revolutions have become
pro verbal i-or will they employ their wealth, and
art and hostile power, to sustain their imperfect in
fuence over this continent, and force the stuntec
growth Of their colonial systems, and thus keep W
the struggle Of the Old World with the New for fifty
| or one hundred years longerl Wherever nations
in contguity would preserve their independence
and their civilization, they require some arb
trating authority whose decisions may command
respect, and preserve a sort of justice in thu
law of nations The want of such an au
thority has engendered most Of the wars II
| the history Of the world. In Europe, thu
deadly hostility Of the two creeds, Christian anC
| Moslem, precluded all arbitration; hence the Ion!
warfare that ravsged the south, and barbarzed tn,
| cast Of Europe. But the moral influence Of thu
| Papacy preserved in some degree the peace Of Chris
tendon, and fostered the revival Of art and science
| Afterwards the Empire, Spain, France, England
the Ave powers, have managed, by a mixture o
policy and Justice TO avert wars, and restrain tn
stormy elements Of the political world. This cont
men, wants an influence OF that kind. Most of tn
wars Of Europe in the last century originated in tn
| want of an arbitration which couhi regulate thet
| moyements and modify their conflicting claims II
| America; and the continued want among the indie
pendent Suites Of the southern continent keeps thos
States in their unsettled and unhappy state. Euro
| pcan nations cannot exercise this function, thel
| power their old pretensions, and the disrust wit
which they are regarded forbid it, while their DIS
lance justifes that distrust, by making every mo
tive on their part for interference, except ambition
improbable. The Union alone, a nation wit
power enough to render her decisions respectable
furnished with motives sufficiently strong and justin
able for preserving the peace of the continent, na
ton which receives no accession of territory ont
after long and warm debates, and, if it be settle
district upon the esger and reiterated solicitation
its inhsbitants--the Union alone can take up tho 20
sition Of srbiter on the American continent The tim
has come for her to do so she must either ODE,
her call, and hll her place now, or be cheeke
and controlled by the maritime powers Of tn
Old World for years 10 come. Let ths matte
be decided nnur and fntnra sfatesmen will bull