The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-06-05


In the midst of the rancorous defamation poured ou
by the federal presses against the war OF our couny
Illustrated il has been by the patriotic vaIo and the splen
did successes OF arms, and waged as il in main
enance of the highest interests and the most sacred
rights OF American naonaityit is gratifying to observe
the effect which our victorious arms have produced upon
the public sentiment OF Europe
The letter on this subject from which we make the fol
lowing extract, comes from the pen of distinguished
American gentleman residing at Paris whose posi-
ton gives him Gas will be perceived from the letter ITSELF
unusual opportunity TO learn the opinions of the most in
uental circles of European society The calumnies of
the London press in reference 10 the progress of
IN Mexico are in this country well understood both in
their own character and in the motive which dictates
them. But these journals IN fact as they are in
spirit, aliens to and TO institutions. Federal cal
jimmy OF our cause government, and our country g
war; without even this wetched excuse II at once
calumny and treason
- PARIS, May le, is47.
To the Editor of the Union:
SIR; cannot allow the opportunity of the 9th instant
by the Liverpool steamer pass, without some lines on
single topic, which desire to notice for your inorma
ton. 1t is the impression which the victories rand
progress Of the American have made on this coun-
the whole European continent You will see that the
London press has abored to decry and stgmatze them
that the Times and the Standard, and the principal wing
papers, have pronounced the treatment and capture OF
Vera Cruz TO be atrocious, horrible-nay, p,lsaian
mos-hat extracts from letters dated board the Brit
sh squadron in the Gulf of Mexico have appeared in the
Daily News and other wing radical organs, in which the
conduct of noble troops is represented as daardy
Thus it when the Prince de Jonvilie reduced Tan
ger and Mogador that the French accused of coc
drd1ce in letters written in the British ships of observa
ton. We cannot be surprised that the London vilifers
have forgotten the commandments OF Toulon, Copelha-
gen. Beyou, St Jean dAcre, and the stormng in SPAIN
with regard to which the Duke of Wellington, in his
dispatches, acknowledged the extreme ungovernable fe
rocity and wanton excuses OF the sodiery under his
command Now, maugre all the oboquy and per-
versions OF the London journals and the slender nte-
gence OF those who furnish to the Paris press the articles
on American events, there is very little misudgment or
prejudice with the French public including the active
politicians of every denomination, the ter,, the Swans
the of the influential citizens and the court
and charlottesville they PROFESSIONALLY to re-
publican power and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT anywhere-have
conceived higher respect and stronger fears in
relation to the powess energies, resources, and destnes
of the American democracy. All perceive how formida-
BILE an enemy how valuable ally for France, the
United States might prove, and all, nearly, converted
to the expediency of Cancellation, by every mode What
write is in the nature of testimony, as have within
the week past conversed with of the most author-
tative character-some OF the ministerial ranks others of
the oppos,ion--who could give trustworthy opinions
of the sentiments OF both chambers, and the emotions
of the government, executive branch. They
derstand the British obloquy, the detracton, the de-
spite, the alarm, the jealousy. the vision of the
emancipation of British North America by republican
volunteers and of the indefinite expansion of rival
W. commerce. manifold manufactures, and all the ele
ments of national ascendency. The awful situation of
Great Britain and Ireland, aggravang naturally every
morbid influence, is, likewise, thoroughly comprehended
So far the Mexican operates here in the most sau
ary way; it works wonders with the European feeling
and vision; it is revelation of American strength, in in
stuons spirit, and means. II seems to relieve the
narchical governments, by teaching them the vanity OF
all projects single collective, of overweenng inter-
venton in our affairs, compulsory restraint ON the
maintenance of entirely independent position and the
lawful prosecution of whatever great national object by
the people and administration of Union The horizon
of this quarter of the globe worse every month
week Paupersm is 10 be more dlffusive, hideous
and dangerous than imagined by rulers or phoso-
piers or philanthropsts, any class, whether the OBJ
serving or the thoughtlessthe upper the mdde-ihe
prolktaires themselves. Another year OF scarcy-very
probable--may or will beget political and social reUolu
TONS sangunary popular riots multiply; three hundred
thousand troops scarcely suffice TO suppress mobanarchy
in this realm.