The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-15
PARIS, Jan. IT, 1s47.
To the Editor ofUe Union !:


SIR The world is certainly growing wiser if better
every day. though hardly as much can be said OF its rulers
and governors England, where there is practical
wisdom than in all the rest OF Europe after sliding about
from scale TO another for years, at last to the
sage conclusion that there is no surer means OF starving
people than to prevent them from receiving food She
repealed her corn lays and thereby set an
her blood, yet sufficiently enlightened TO fol-
low The good seed, too, has been here and there
upon the continent but fear that 9r the most part It
light Of experience, sufficiently shed abroad has had
time TIC to exd its many Inn innate FDysS Virtues listen
as to the echo Of an odious sound, which shall
never be heard again. and feel not the slightest sym
patty tor men amd ally az he ,he imaginary a hna
their true interests How then we harken with
any patience the clamor of their benghted disciples in
own land
Free trade is now in its swaddng clothes; but when
ever it shall have arrived the ful stature of the per-
feet man. dearth of food except for very limited pc
rod will be as impossible as an anlevel sheet OF water in
wide plain Honor then be to the man who dared, by
his casting vote to thrust himself between the protected
''few" and the unprotected many % and shame be the
portion Of his traducers who would for ages still have
aground the faces of the poor, with the hard dollars
wrung from the weary hand of daily toll
Europe, at the present moment Is ma perilous condi-
ton, and he's future to mans eye is pregnant with evil
ence; side tyranny on the other rebelion and, In
more quarters than one, absoutism and Liberalism are
armng brothers against brothers, Or actually dying the
earth with kindred blood. And whence comes all this
Is that is unfit for selfgovernment, and must by
some nalenable element of his nature be forever the
victim Of hereditary kings and princes whether they be
born idiots or bred knaves' No! will tell you whence
it comes Ii is from overegislaon and bad legislation
And if we had not lately had the wisdom to stop short in
monsrous tariff career, we too, to certain extent
should have found ourselves in the miserable pre-
dcament with of the nations of Europe But after the
signal overthrow which the delivers of COAL the forgers OF
ron and the snners OF cotton have sustained there is lit
IL If hnrk ha
protection, which the good sense of all parties will soon
teach them IS worse clog to national industry than is
the drag cham to wagon climbing the mountains side
Impeccabity, however, does not belong to the native
American any more than TO the inhabtant OF Europe
and as there one be he high low, who cannot be
taught by Others behooves us to have for our representa-
tives this side OF the water, men who equal 10 every
OCCASION will allow occasion for nstrqohng and ben
citing their country to the as-men, whose brains ma
ture took pains to frame, whose education they
themselves have not neglected, and whose manners
will not constantly put their countrymen to the blush
II is more than whispered that the nomination OF the
distinguished individual, accredited within q lew
months the Court of st James, Is likely to be reJecte.
by the Senate Let be done, and the disgrace of sucf
an ache disgrace of casting slight, for some paltrN
party grudge upon the first historian Of the day. who's
name Is Landed throughout Europe by thousands o
tongues will belong to that body and not rest on him.
sneak feelngy though have not the honor OF benz
acquainted with the gentleman IN question Tor speak
an American who would not see the most dignihed as
semby in his dearly cherished country dishonored in tn
| eyes of the world
Since the return to America OF our last repIesenatlv
at the Court of the Tuileres than whom there neye
was one more worthy or more worthily beloved, tn
States have found in his secretary our present charge
a gentleman who would do honor TO any admnistratlo
whatever, as its official organ. but as before man
months, there will probably be minister appointed to re
place him, trust in the Presidents sense OF what is d,l
10 our national responsibility and interests that one WI
be selected who is not entire stranger to the rudmehi
of diplomacy: who can at least speak his vernacular
no other tongue correctly and who has proved by fan
full services that his couns honor and welfare are M
Paris could easily point out He is among us Hi
reputation is familiar to every student of nternatonf