The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-28

ready dressing il, was mere act Of supereroeato
Lork John may aid in, but he cannot carry the alb
clifton of the corn. laws. Meanwhile the subscrip
tons TO the quarter million anti funC
are coming il most rapidly, and with il, and the re
turn Of Sir Robert e0ilsois, 10 spite Of the Pres
dents message, have improved fun two per cent.
| Here will pause moment,
Sir Robert Peel, returning 70 power, is much
stronger than be ever was. He has whipped in
the refractory members Of his own party, and ex
posed the weakness Of his opponents The former
must now no longer oppose his rule, The latter
must not endeavor to preciPiate events. He there
fore gains both power and time 70 act He is in
truth omnipotent. This Is IN truth practical whis
triumph, though Il in not the wing leaders who
share IT, And it is practical tory defeat; because
after all the grumblng and mpttered curses OF the
tories and their journals they cannot shake off their
commander, who they fear will lead them into a
swamp. II is for this reason that the wing and rad
zeal journals now practice self-denial in congrau-
lating the country the restoration Of Sir Robert
Peel and that the Journals Of Sir Robert Pee's own
party do not seem TO appreciates the eadess which
has so unexpectedly been made TO thtm. One par
ty seems 10 be as much embarrassed and mortified
by its victory as the other by lis defeat
The next question is, what will Sir Robert Peel
dol Beyond all doubt he will propose an atera.
ton In the conn-laws--perh-ps levy small fixed
duly-perbaps abolish the 1Sty altogether. The lat
ter Is exceedingly doubtful, bun still possible. To
operate any important change In the law Il Is quite
clear that the falling of in the revenue from the alb
clifton or modification ofthe com-laws must be COM
pensated in other quarter. Its further known
that Sir Robert Peel has taken very great affection
to the income-tax-to those important and most
grave seven ACKNOWLEDGMENT which have caused
so much nausea TO his party. We'll, in all proba-
biiy he will make the odd even, change the seven
nan IN Ter n n Founl shilling nd stand the
consequences. Should his party putter he will
show them the administration Of Lord John Rus
sell in perspective, and they will shut their eyes,
and suffer the bitter pill, to go gently down their
threats.
While the affairs Of England are in this crisis, il
is quite clear and warlike preparations have no
practical meaning. Accordingly the Presidents
message has been received much more meekly than
one might have expect ed from the threats following
Col Polk's first declaration not TO surrender the
Oregon territory. All the papers, with the excep-
tion Of the two blockheads Standard and the
Morning Herald--who are much incensed
against Sir Robert Peel against our President adj
NIT that the message is firm and SIMPLE and well
written, and that the urgency Of the requires
neutrality-suspicious. IL Is astonishing TO see
how practical and csnsderate those Engishmen are,
and how they feel their pockets--not to say their
stomachs--bcfore they grasp the sword. The Pres
ldents message struck them like thunderbolt; but
having seen the horizon for some time couded, they
have been prepared for it. They feel that in COM
mencing war with the United States, they make war
upon their own prosperity--their commerce and in
dustry-which the main props Of their existence
as a nation. AS Washington letter-writer in the
Augsburg Journal Of the 10th inst says: "The
powerful men Of the West, surrounded by gigantic
forests and rivers, will not rest content with being
squeezed into the old traditional forms Of Europe.
They will not form the eul de sac OF the United
States. As the stream seeks the oceans, and in its
and INF ain
so does the stream Of the American pioneers flow
westward, wave upon wave, to the Pacific. Eng
land and France may, as cautious goycrnesses,
stand by and cry out toyss sagesn or threaten
the wild boys with punishment; they will be laughed
at by the true Americans, who have long outgrown
their schoolmasters. At present England and Ire
land may still have larger population than the
United States; but the census of 1850 will show
different ratio. The population Of the United
States will then have outgrown the British; and by
the universal law Of graytston, England be obliged
TO move round the bigger body. BHtans COM
mercs will then be determined by the Amercan
British industry depend on the production of our
staples. Let the corn-laws be abandoned to-mor-
row. and the spirit Of scrv,tude which now distin-
cuisines the industrious classes OF England will
soon make room to different feeling, witch will be
less hostile to the United States. England" con-
cludes the correspondent "may make war for a
few heaps of snow in Oregon; but the United
States have their allies in Birmingham, Manches-
ter, Leeds, Beasley, Glasgow, Nottingham, Brad
ford, &c. These must first succomb before the
Americans can be attacked"
This mode Of reasoning seems to be adopted
also by the Times SINCE the publication Of the
Presidents message. The Times says in long
article:
"The terms of the message imply, then, the
alternative Of war or conclusive negotiation. War
is too mons,rous to be thought flor a moment ex-
cept after every effort Of compromise has been ex-
A kn,,n Han,, t11
BILE of their mutual benefits, mutual dependence, and
mutual RESPECT, to peril the substantial blessings
they now enjoy, and are daily multiplying, in the
relations of peace, for the bloody and precarious
glories of war. 1t is all but impossible that two
great and kindred nations, after healing 80 wide a
breach, and helping one anotherto great COM
mon prosperity, should becomeagan mutual and
unnatural destroyers, for mere point Of honor, for
remote wilderness, separated from both by jour
ney of several months, by stormy SEAS and almost
impossible rocks and deserts"
Now, this argument Of the Times is undoubtedly
very sensible and very considerable; and we are the
more glad of this show of reason on the part of that
Journal it was the Times which first declared
that WAR "would be the result of American stub
bornness." 1t was the Times which discovered the
''save shackles" on board Of the wreck Of the
American steam-frigate Missouri and it the
Times which, until very lately, has used all the
power which it is supposed to WELD, to foster the
prejudices against kindred nation, perlling there
by their great and common prosperity. Well, we
congratulate the Times it's return to good sense,
and the American President and his able Secre-
tary Of State, on having stood firm on the noble
and manly ground they they assumed. The
Presidents message has done more to raise our
character abroad than hundred such speeches as
Daniel Webs'er's; for in spite of all the eulogies
which Englishmen may bestow on those who
seem to be disposed to bow to their sway, at
heart they respect him most who puts their metal to
the proof ! am only glad that, in all my letters,
have uniformly maintained the opinion that Eng
land will not go to war, neither about Texas nor
about Oregon; for had the present administration
Of Sir Robert Peel dreamed of war about
Oregon, they would assuredly not have dis
missed excellent an opportunity" as Texas.
But England, to trivial figure, speaks from the
cards. Though holding the highest trumps, she
knows too we'll, that hold more of them; that,
after few rounds being plaid, we are, after ALL most
likely to bring in our long suit Col: Polk has