The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-19

ess induced for the safety of the national troops TO
render perpetuiy the powers OF irresponsible peace and
Now, accordingly, Mr. Polk must render an account
paigns he will be PEELED terminate, not without dis
| honor the war he has so recklessly prosecuted
Having taken lessons from the uohgs (must we not be-
eye that ,chig here tory there of this country,
and disappointed utterly in the certain destruction which
was TO follow our invasion of Mexico the British
tory press now require less of those whom it relies
here than the redoubng of their efforts that Mr. Polk
shall abe compelled to terminate, not without dishonor
the war he has so recklessly prosecuted ,"
The goes on, and the American arms still continue
most provokingy successful. The tory London Times
can bear the indgnity no longer The folowing-being
its last discharge of gauty and spleen upon this
try, now soaring above fear, and high above the re-
proaches of British writers or British ruers-s worthy
the readers attention:
From the London Times. January
The political condition the United States is at this time
quences OF the Ration of Texas prodgious, the
tent and duration of this Mexican incacuabe and
semblies of the Union equal that direct the
attention OF our readers 10 more curious pere King and
instructive spectacle The time is probably forever past
when certain political philosopher ola highly imaginative
school wont point the republican and democratic
government, which all thought be approx
mating The ancient States OF Europe could i'll adopt the
poah m new h o placed IN ine mos, la
such experiment; the which promised it
h an let ali %
bton military aggression, financial extravaganza, and
ona arrogance on me county h and its neghbo are alas
Of the United States are therefore, even more interesting
and reduce the matter from one Of speculate" to pas
cal necessity, may be added that other will find
they have later deal in America with all those
political excuses which the prudence and good faith Of
The older powers have happily banished for the last thirty
history resting slender and uncertain cause
its on directly variance as to he iae s re-,
ne and aevorng characer that even se sn Who
began IT, and are carrying on do not attempt to assign
any ,,i.s 10 us @ or ts objects YET the misshapen
and daring people dyers o ao he I. 1t yGus
lions the resources Of the state, and threatens eventually
free country these results Of Mr. PoIEs debsrste policy
have and r Ge e most energetic ks OF e
the %ss d the nnSeel es
Confident in the OF and the s
an excited populace Mr.. Webster Mr.. Clay and, still
more recently Mr. Albert Galan, have in speeches and
nence, assaled the whole policy of the war, and de-
to extremtles we should despair OF conveying 10 the
l.hg,isi PUBIC correct noon Oh lhe temper ana language
IN whlch these discussions are carried on IN the United
asu pu. py .e Wleas WON, oi waii1 Oh oe,le telm
we must cal our own contemporaries But the following
sPeci"iehs WIN speak LOT themselves. ne Ldtt0ndt ihe-
Hge"cer-a ieadnS why paper, printed III washington
addresses 10 MI roR the io'o"ih9 curious aposuephe
"Why the very savage Of the courtyard tmes-tha
brutal mankind the bully the bawck
an ear or nose cooped out with hump
eyewa humane was Generous Ia with TINS Tor he
h h hu us, h ne' ~ a h n m t nor
To- tho last and ready n, AZ Sooner than hitter he ravsr nr
would he have ever to the
by way of forcing him to confess himself
find
pockets No his hardened
would be manly pity because there courage he did not at
once raise up ms enemy WIN ne al as would not begin
10 su l a ms ai paris Anu wen oa MN" 100 .hs, ne would
mo- "f every righ se1tmsr, bx norv oit;ns
would not have suffered in the bully what now endres in the
President much the mecies and
r nsxna 20 hnchsr or .nsaya whole emne nf rsnnhc
So
To these assertions the principal organ of the American
c,bnet renIes in the 81 me heroic vein
ana noes .ne ,, d n ~ ' su as ~ u c,
MS naganb we tell hem in ali sobeness that thew
viii lust AZ soon persuade the people sustain party aying in
defence of the treason
patriotic aewil crush grind TO powder
between the and the neither miones the political life OF
party leader who shall ask them confess by their votes that this
jn @ W. g,orious, ard which ,hev are
n, my IN t nd Of nsacs and ustce ara
% he demon;ac work of savage bues and aougers and pick
whom they have high places
they forth Buena Vista and Chuubusco and
the National Palace OF Mexico"
From these accounts it NAV be inferred that the Ameri.
c,n most eminent for an cnphtened sense of the
70 the princnes of the American constitution are herein
nitted against the executive the
Of The democrats and the cold audacity of Mr. Polk We
ara told indeed that in Compress parties are so evenly
balanced that the decision of the nation still rembles
,ha ham, and we believe that more than hare aoritv of
"a