The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-09
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
From our Paris Cosnvspessdewt.


Senator wsbster's Boston spscsl..
PARis, Dec. "a. 1876.
IT as perhaps, An.erea" habit consider the ma.
tu'oi justice Of ~ar, b"t it is Americans haiti 10
consider fhe cost.-Webs,er's Boston speech.
Now i we had said that, might have been thought
mcivil. We have sometimes bordered upon some such
make parphrases Mr. Webster says siick on, what we
have said with crcumbendibus and wha, certainly
would not be heard of ourselves in England patienoe
Globe, Dec. 4.
1T is not perfectly pleasant oeam, the high authority
20 consider the natural Justice Of ear but an Amsrr-
ean habit to count the cost This nbodinson Of
nmabe noble feature in the character of people
SUI is agreeable that the and the pecunary
ming in different nes converge to one and the same pao
teal conclusion The dollar patriotism tho highest
There sort of virtue in dislkng be glory
and mixing vic.ories cooy i I; always pleasantly
ightened 'sellntes doing the work OF virtue and phn
thropy = London lhoraisg CAro.icls, Dec, 4.
Mr. WebsterssPeechs,o the Boston wings exhibits in
British and American politics. Had the speaker, like his
could not have 70 the wnes.es Of his w
aee NOR, aagable figure than he must do
%t somewhere Of dog returning hi. vosn Mr..
Websers style OF politics. cous and fictitious long
assa sea% sa.o. OF Wss ess
our own language spoken and upplanded by own ki
be reminded OF the dog in question.
T5ash loans must be be sSnsted and
serves is peculiarly adapted the capacity Of his hearers
1t Is an American habit to ts cost and the
am for taking the constitution says Mr. Webster,
wiz % TO 100 per cent on English inanufactues) our
defence CALICO az and S1s Hy'nf Po
lessor sehonbein What is explosive cotton to the patriot
ism OF New England P'-Londom Times, Dec. 4.
Yes 'what is explosive cotton to the patriosm of New
England" l1ied In, tl,a ,r
Fnnueil Hall orator! Like the courage of Bob Acres 't
and goes according tho amount Of "costs" with
which 1t is taxed for national purpose the chances
for and against clanestine system raising revenue by
ninin,nnrs and specifics now in 1872 patriotism
upon which the slightest reliance be placed during
moments OF peril is emphatically ''costs" consider
ing patrotism--a froGt-cacuating patriosn--a dollar
and patriotism. il is less selfish and sorlid in
peace, than it is false and reacherous With pu
rianical snncty, when in a state OF hoslitiex
with Great Britain it issued the hypocrtica edct that it
was "unbecoming religious and moral people to rejoice
the OF arms" During the same evcnu pc
od it got up conventions, which tsparaged our cause
gave comfort to enemies and recommended the inn
parchment of Mr. Madison The leaven of unrghteous.
ness which the patriotism Of New England" lederaiss
displayed at that momentous crisis, be distinctly seen
in its extended dimensions in the recent proceed
ings at Boston. Among all the abusive ephcts which
applied to the supporters of the last war, do not
remember solitary one, derogaorY national
character than that which stands the head OF letter
has gone the rounds of the European press and has been
more injurious TO character people, and po
litical institutions than the malignant sentiment ever
uttered by most malignant foreign enemy The propa
gator of 1t, although better understood than he
years since, when fawned upon and fonded in the
British metropolis for his learned opinions relative
securities nevertheless has still undue weight attached
his expressions particularly when they adverse tho
honor OF the country to which he allegiance He Is
regarded good authority convict the United States
in the estimation Of soveeigns and their spendia
ries in case where republican principles likely to DO
progressive by the acquisition Of valuable territory. In
plain words, he araigns his countrynen before tbs
tribunal OF all Chrsendo, incapable at apprsoating
(" natural JUSTICE, too unprncpled to respect IL
and that they only be restrained from lawles
rapne, by the costs" which will accrue from cal rying
them into execution. This the and substance ohs
and it is understood and commented upon
by the press, and by the public Of Europe All that
has been said against by the "Times" and Sidney
Smith-N1rs Troop and Dickens, and most of tour
lists who have wandered through the United States, in
search of our oibes and mperfectons make salcabe
instead of readable book is harmless contrnsed with the
wholesale denunciaon of the recognised federal champion
ut is perhaps American habit consider the nat,,-
raj justice of war;. Asuedy not man OF Marsl.-
field is TO be the umpire by which the question to be de-
ermined The word habit necessarily includes all our
wars from that of the revolution down the present
We know that each have been violently opposed on the
of na,ral JUSTICE The tories of l776 considered
that there "naturnl justice" in separation from
England the New England federalsts considered that
there no natural justice in resenting the oft
the identical spirit is again exclamng at the top of its
voice, there is natura justice" in the Of 1886!
To that it is American habit consider the
natural justice of war, SANDER the memory WASH
ngton and his contemporaries of Jackson and his con-
and to charge criminal purposes upon all who
have contributed directly indirectly repuse the Mex
from the Texan frontier Stronger American
International language could have been used
yet the sentence seems to have been delibe-
rate, pillow-conned one, for defamatory 1t Is
The senator took occasion to state, with the most
profound soemnity, that he should not make remark
hat he would be unwilling to repeat in his place in the
Senate chamber But for this declaration, the shocking
sentiment might possibly have been explained away by
hestute satellites of the federalxed of the north
The door has been closed however, for solitary word be-
ing plead in extenuaton Of it. Whatever the ederasts
throughout the Unionother than New England federal
snay and feel upon the subject, Americans abroad,
and many OF whom abroad fetlerass denounce
The speech murder foul and unnatural !"
umny wilfu airocious, and tratorous. The ardent
admirers of the talents of the SENATOR except
hose belonging his school OF politics, who hail from New
England completely dunbfouned In wclbon heart,
the love of country rules strong, when that
country is wantonly traduced in foreign quarter of the
globe where ,ey may be sooumng All the agreeable
'ocations from schoolboy enjoynents to enghten-
I'd and matured manhood, rush upon the memo
ry, and reverenal regard fal gratitude-is en-
lerained for the institutions under which have been
reared, amid family and friends In the retrospect "Amer
cans particularly than the people of any other
on because each individual has voice IN the manage
public aairsrealize the value and the superiority
all others, of own, native land" Whom parr
cides gazetted, the reading world stands ahgnst
demons deed committed through tho 'human form di-
vine" 1t shnddcrs behods proof thar it's own species
r., I.x ~, e l.