New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-26
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Correspondence Of Tho Tribune
WASHINGTON Feb. 81, lsf7
To-day is the Sabbath. No flags fly from the
Capitol and the City is hushed into comparative
repose Ii is the day on which the King OF Peace
rose from the grave to warm the world IN the light
Of Love Only another Sabbath more shall rise
upon us till this Congress OF Discord shall pass
away, to be remembered only as the worst that has
assembled since the Inauguration OF him whose
birthday anniversary returns to morrow
This Congress will be long remembered as
Congress of Strife, Disunion and War 1t found
the world in a happy repose. 1t broke down the
barriers of Peace aud opened the kennel from
which the war hounds rushed forth to lap the
blood Of our fellow men. Almost ever since its IN
auspicous opening, it has been engaged in study
iog the best means for perpetuating carnage and
blood Peaceful pursuits have been abandoned
Commerce is left to neglect and decay Thou
sands upon thousands are called away from the
peaceful pursuits OF life, to study the accursed
arts Of War. The busy hum OF contented Indus
try is hushed amid the groans OF the dying and
the Congress of O great People is wholly occupied,
from day TO day, IN perpetual sound OF war
speeches as if War were the chief end of Man
How long oh Spirit Of Love and Civilization
shall this reign OF blood and cruelty endure :
In connection with these reflections a thought
occurs to me now. which impressed itself strongly
ON my mind at the time Mr. BENTON made his al.
dress ON the Lieut. Generaship. The concluding
s,ntence~as if | recolect night, that he would
have so conducted this War that the soldier would
have had the batte.storm for his embrace, the
field OF honor for his bed, and the lofty cordiileras
In n.
then as II the Devil, who sometimes appears
clothed as an angel of light, lent his stolen gar
ments to ornament his own principles Against
such high authority, and such lofty peroratIon, /
would humbly suggest that the battle storm is
hut door substitute for the kinder embrace OF a
wife and children, around the cottage hreside
The field OF honor is a poor bed, worse than the
meanest pallet of straw. particularly when we re-
lect that the blanket is clotted blood
Rider and horse friend and foe in red burr blent
that the pillow is the bodies of dying men, groan
ms for want of burial !" and as for the Corderas
monument, the grass shall not grow green on its
top. once the lonely soldiers grave, TILL his memory
rots or melts among the pameless thousands,
whose bones make the rounds OF the ladder, by
which mad Ambition would climb 10 the Presi'
dency
makers How different shall he feel on the bed
of Death who has gone about doing good, healing
the wounds of broken hearts. and pouring on the
breast of mourning Humanity the oil OF consolation,
from him who has spent his feeting moments of
life in scattering premature death and unnecessary
misery over a world already too far fallen from the
happiness OF its pristine state
do not deny that sometimes II may be necessa-
~ 10 repe an attack to vndcate truth and TO lower
the proad crest OF lordly usurpation but wo unto
HIM or those by whose avarice and ambition the
hearths and houses of another people are invaded
and such scenes enacted as would make even an
gels weep.
Look Mt our Nation now. We are involved in an
unnecessary war TWAS caused by the unneces
ssry marching Of our troops trom the banks of tie
Naeces TO the Rio Grande where there was not
Texan man woman, child, chattel, shrub nor flower,
and all done to up the ignomnious dnobasis
OF Polkism from - 40, where the stsrspangled
banner was trsmpled upon by the British hon--a
disgrace which IL is now attempted To cover over
with the blood OF Mexican women and children,
The city of Boston presented strange spectacle
on Thursday evening last Perhaps the occurrence
did not strike others minds o. torcibly as It did
mine and therefore notice IT, Two great meet.
lngs were held ON that evening see by the papers
one was 70 put the mplement Of death ia sword
INTO the hands OF embryo Colonel who was 10
80 forth into a strange country 20 kill and plumber
those who had never done him harm, who had IN
fact never hesrdhis name. The other meeting wss
held 10 I'll the hands Of Charity with gifts OF benev.
o.encs TO save the poor starving Irish trom hor.
rible death and a cohness grave The meeting
called for the purpose OF carrying war and Its con.
seQusnt enormites into the heart OF a sister re.
public was held at the Malois6R ~ and at.
tended and addressed mostly by loco Focos lhyN.
SHAW RASrovL n CO.. The meeting for sending
meek eyed Charity ON errand of mercy, TO stay
starvation and feed the ismishins was held in old
Fsneuil Hall the Cradle OF American Liberty. and
was addressed mostly by Wings, JOSIAH QUINCY,
Js EDWARD EvERKrr, Sc The Lccofoco or.
gan oithe city Of Boston devotes over three Col.
amns to the proceedings Of the. meeting dedicated
tot the Moloch Of War and only about quarter OF
aoolamn to the grsatmeeting in favor of Nation :
Charity ~ the starving millions OF a suffering Ire.
land Friends of Humanity. Charity, and Good
Will 10 mem look at this fact Does il no, speak
volumes
There are reflections suggesting themselves up
ON tins occurrence which refrain from publishing
will not discuss the matter whether 1t Is more an
object Of ambition 10 secure the murder Of Mex.
can than 10 save the life Of an lrishmsn Nor do p
notice il Tor any party purpose. want to hold il
nm as one aspect OF the spirit OF the age. The
roset,ns 10 encourage National strife and carnage
u thought worthy Of more than half of the whole
reading matter OF pebie journal, patronized and
read by the city OF Boston-the meeting where the
Nations heart beats in generous syspsthy for SIS
ter Nation, is found worthy OF only passing para
graph When the baser passions are to be excit
ed and Earth assmilated to Hell 10 the cultivation
Of fendish feelings long reports and rounded Psrs.