New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-08

maiden. boy aud babe, in a winding sheet o.
smoke snd fame the dying agony and shrek
Of despair--the bursting Of shells dealing dean
and d ISOLATION aTound-the public appetite was
dissatisfied Taylor had given it hundreds a9d
required thousands Of Scott
We disagree entirely with the author IN DIS
opinion that this war in its triumphant progress
is going 70 become generally popular we see IN
dications everywhere to the contrary. The blec'
,iops the .urer test Of public opinion on the sub
iec,. have resulted in the general discontinue Of
tbs Administration not in any place but
everywhere: discontinue fully demonstrative Of
the public sense since the War was made BY the
party IN power the test Of It's own popularity Inc
three Leading men Of the country, now remaining IA
public life each Of talent sufficient to be the oohoer
OF an Empire. have denounced the origin % 'uo
War and made indignant exclamation against rs
farther prosecution. Tbey-sre. TOO each Of tnem'
leaders of a large class Of potent thinkers-"ES-
.rrs c,IaorS CoRwrS. Their adherenis we
are sure constitute a large majority OF the con
stitueRcy Ct the United States
We think too, that this opinion oil the sutho' Is
10 somewhat violent collision with another that ioi
lows in too near proximity 10 release MIN rom 'ne
charge Of TOO much carelessness Of composition or
confusion in idea for on an early page aiterwaro'
he saws: The Gospel is now, more than ever De-
fore. preached in its primitive sPint Onnstlans
are fast Learning what they had forgotten Tor hteen
centuries. that meekness and mercy are the disci'
nle'. only srmor" And if they be learning such
Lessons. then why do not wars cease entirely, or
lose some of their ancient ferocityl Over three
quarters of the Globe, war is at this present mo-
meat raging war, undistnguished by any chival-
rc courtesy or characterized even by the generally
received rules of civilized hostiities War II not Of
determination of undisguised ferocity France
exhaust, its savage energy upon the nomadic
Arab: inAicts. and retaiates outrages Russia pre-
ciptates the bearded and barbarian Cossack upon
the equally barbarous Caucasian, and thus saves iu
own territory from the pollution OF its own soldlery
England at the present moment is in comparative
,.sce lint il is a peace not Of inclination, but Of
n.ce,sity while we the most enlightened most
humane, most Christianized nation under the sun
we. of superlstive morality and purest religion,
are engaged in a contest with sister Republic
whose only crime is her weakness and proximity
and carelessly inhictng upon her all the horrors
of conquestl-s conquest no more rePulsive TO the
honest mind for the nquity Of its conception, than
the manner of its attainment
Nowhere, then but in the imaginations oil the
least skeptics most enthusiastic do We find the
progress of the doctrines of Nazareth. Barren
reality teaches the reverse. How much OF this
melancholy state of things is attributable to the
fact, that the Gospels not preached in its print
tive spirit" it becomes us not now to discuss
II we looked only at the action Of Courts and Ca
binets and Of the classes whose average sentl-
ment is generally regarded as Public Opinion we
might well apprehend that at no era since the Ad
vent OF the Prince of Peace was a messenger OF
the Absolute and Universal Truth more needed
than now-no period when he would be less heed
ed, or, if listened to, believed