The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-10

mirsd thai national injury 10 one cannot fail 10 be
: national svil 10 the other '. H.
; The inexperienced and short sighted Of both ma
tons talk OF war, and endeayoring TO excite il.
Of war between these two powers: Of war, word ia
this of fearful import. Can any foresee its
result, its appalling carnage, its termination No
mind is now equal TO this task. Is this elk of war
for any thing necessary now for either nation No;
but for point Of honor called in other words
| point Of irratonality. These two most advanced
and powerful nations, which ought now 10 become
wise examples 10 all other nations, cannot surely be
80 insane as TO arouse and put into furious activity
all the most inferior and demoralizing qualities and
passions OF humanity, and al period too when the
civilized world through its progress in science,
expected TO emerge from the lamentable ignorance
and superstition Of the past dark ages Of human his
tory.
And for what is this dreadful carnage to com
mence' For small territory distant from each gov
eminent, and at time too when both nations have
more land and means TO create wealth and power ten
times told than either has yet acquired common
sense TO direct and govern benefeisy for their re-
speetiye populations; have they yet discovered the
first rudlments of governing wisely. What will the
possession of the whole Of Oregon do for the popu-
alton Of either country IL will merely offer to the
unsettled IN mind more temptation TO colonse wide
ly from the centre of government when IL s the in
tsrea Of ali 10 eoloct and unite their means powers
and strength nearer TO civilization and TO the seat Of
| government.
/ A war between these two nations for such
cause under the existing circumstance of the civ
ilzed world, would exhibit total want OF rational
ny in the nsugators OF It, and madness IN the gov
eminent that would force IL into action.
i Common at declares that II the parties
while contending for country which neither has
any just claim, have advanced 10 such a position
that neither can reeede without what they deem
tional disgrace, although IL is national disgrace to
get into that position let the whole matter be refer
red TO visit heads, honest minds and good hearts TO
decide between them. Who doubts the physical
courage prowess Of either nationl No one; for
past facts than sufficient terminate these
notions Of young boyhood.
Although none will dispute the physical or brute
courage Of both nations, all deep thinking, far-see
ing, and sound-judgng men and women will doubt
their moral courage and their wisdom, should they
enter upon this mad physical and brute war, and
decline the far more difficult, artuous and import
ant war of this most eyentful period, which is about
| to commence, nay, which has commenced, between
the ignorance Of the past ages Of nexperienee and
the progress Of new knowledge derived from sci
ence based on facts unknown to change. Here is a
field for combat worthy the most powerful mental
and moral efforts Of the wise and strong Of both
J uons-a combat a thousand times, nay, beyond all
estimate, important for the wel-being and hap
piness Of the population of each nation and Of the
world, than the insane butcheres so long con-
tinued under the name Of the wars Of the and
the crescent
/, The latter were tremendous butcheries Of the
finest and nobes spirits of their times effected with
a view TO accomplish what simple unchangng facts
now demonstrate to be an impossibity-that is, to
change by force the errors taught TO and forced
upon minds born and educated in one latitude
and longitude, for opposite errors taught TO and
forced upon minds born and educated in other lat
itudes and longiiudes. IL is true, that this whole
sale physical or brute butchery Of by man
has ceased between the and the crescent, be-
cause the absurdity of attempting to force man to
believe, without previous conviction, when that
victon alone could form his belief became through
the accumulation Of facts, too glarng to be longer
maintained even by the irrational. made minds who
terminated those worse than insane contests.
The physical butcheries for imaginary notions OF
latitude and longitude gradually ceasing the
world, in conformity with the new public opinion
arising from a more accurate and extended knowl-
edge Of physical and mental facts--of facts which
have facilitated rapid increase to sciences which
teach man the incalculable difference between i'm
agnation created by basecss and wild conjectures,
and the sound and abiding knowledge derived from
a calm and patient investigation of unchangng facts.
Many of those who most boast of their physical
courage, Of their readiness brutaly butcher their
fellow-men, to make widows and orphans and de-
: stroy and waste and consume property which they
did not or could not create, are the most arrant
moral towards, and would shrink from, and be as
much afraid Of, encounter with plain straight
forward truth as a horse when he is suddenly met
by lion.
And yet the ascertaning Of that truth would be,
perhaps, as the ascertaning Of many truths are, of
more importance TO the permanent progress and
happiness of the human race than oil the human
butcheries, insaney called victories, which have
E been inflicted upon mankind through all the barba-
rous ages which have preceded the present.
| Here, young men of warm blood and strong en-
ergy, is a noble field for your valor-a between
common sense and irrationality-a war in which to
try the metal Of your moral courage; the courage Of
high humanity; the courage that will not fear to
openly meet error under whatever specious garb it
may appear; the courage that will boldly confront
: ignorance, however it may be entrenched behind
wealth, learning so called power Of high place, or
even the greatest of all terrors to and woman,
public opinion itself, even when protected by the
mad passions of the ignorant made multitude.
| If you are eager for field of daring courage-for
one in which victory would secure the weldoing,
the well-beng, the excellence and happiness of fii-
fure ages, and nightly and magnifcently benefit
the present, 60 forth AID proclaim to the world the
true cause Of poverty, of degradation, of crime,
and the misery which these now naic upon all; cx.
plain the causes why the multitude are nsanely
taught that man is bad by nature. And why? From
his birth he is forced to receive errors which COM
pei him to become, in thought and action, an IRA
tiona being Make it evident, as you now easily
might, why men have been hitherto compelled to
use the language Of fasehood, and act the conduct
of deception to their own deeply-njured feelings and
; the misery Of ALL and, above all, make known the
cause why these United States Boosting Of its equal
ty of rights, of its unlimited civil and religious
liberty, is at this day. in state of wretched mental
and religious bondage, when men and women
dare not, in word, look, or action, express the
TRUTH which, by the eternal and unerrng laws
of their nature they are compelled to feel and to
} know and say also, when, with the most am
pie TO maintain in high comfort and ndepen-
dence far more people than upon the earth, why
these United States are so governed that ignor
ance, poverty, crime, degradation, and disunion
superabound, when the population does not amount
to twenty millions' Here is field for the knight
Grants Of Oregon; let them first 60 the school Of
experience and real knowledge and learn these les
sons, and then teach them to the present benghted
nations Of the earth, who have yet to acquire the
commencement Of the alphabet Of the most valuable
knowledge for man to attain. Hitherto he has been
so miserably surrounded by inferior and untoward
circumstances from his birth, in all countries that
he has been forced to acquire fasehood instead Of
truth, and made to believe the most wild and contra
dictory imagnations in direct opposition TO the most
simple and obvious fass; a belief in errors which
are The only Of his language Of fslsehood and
conduct Of crime. Here, then, instead Of wasting