Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

would be sage conclusion, truly
We suppose the writer means that the
president has been saved from disgrace.
If the war, wicked as it is,) had not
| been successful, then,hepresiden would
have been disgraced; but success has
saved him Very consoling, that =
quite logical, too!
The U. STATES, ENGLAND AND
F'RANcE.-No intelligent American
citizen can view the political move
ments of these powers-the promulga-
ton of principles having for their OBJ
ject the maintenance of the balance
fpower, or, in other words, the SUI
premacy of monarchal Europe over the
republican institutions of America
without feeling that a crisis, frought
with momentous consequences,is about
to be Developed crisis which, how
ever tardily its consummation may be,
will unite against us, in one mighty
and combined struggle, all the crown
ed heads Of Europe, over whose thrones
republican America now casts pcrten-
tous shadow. 1t is not surprising that
the sagacious statesmen of England
and France should at this day manifest
so much solicitude for the maintenance
| of the immense influence which they
have hitherto exerted upon the desti.
MES of mankind. They but too well
anticipate the consequences when the
sceptre shall have departed from them,
and they shall no longer furnish a law
giver for the world.
The uneasiness of these powers is
now most stikingly manifested in their
course relative TO the existing difficult
ties between the United States and
Mexico. We are plainly told, that if
any attempt shall be made to take pos
session of any portion of the territory Of
Mexico, or to destroy her national ex-
istence, those powers would interfere
to prevent it. We could have no OBJ
lection to the interference of England
and France, if, through them, our diff
ficulty with Mexico shall be honorably
and satisfactorily settled; but we deny
their right TO dictate to the government
Of the U. S. what course it shall or
shall not pursue in conducting a war
with hostile power. What would
England have said, if, when she was
Staying the Silks by thousands, the
U. S. had interfered to prevent her
from taking possession oftheir country,
as she has done? 1t would nave been
looked upon and denounced by often
ded royalty, as an unwarrantable and
1mpudent assumption of power. We
claim for our government equal privi-
leges in levying war, concluding peace,
and in doing all acts that pertain to
free governments and we claim for it
that respect which France, or England,
or any other nation, may claim at the
hands Of others.
Entertaining these sentiments, we
should like TO see our government, as
we feel confident it will, pursue the ev-
en- tenor Of its way, unawed, unmoved,
by the menaces and threats of the pow
ers of Europe. The United States are
not waglng war for Mexican terrific
ry-she desires not to despoil her of
her wealth she makes war upon
Mexico to avcnge herself of grieyous
wrongs, which she could not longer en-
dure, the browning act of which was
the invasion of our soil.
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
We are informed by a gentleman
who lives in Hampshire county, that
large amount of property has been Ge-
stroyed on North River, and other
streams in that county, by the late hea-
Wy rains. In many instances, not on
ly have the crops of small grain and
corn been entirely destroyed, but the
soil has been totally swept away by
the resistless ilnpetuosiiy ofthe floods,
leaving in their train heaps of stones
and timber. The ruin thus brought
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