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

wal, drought upon us oy such small lntTlgues Brtsf
meddlers have instgated. been ready to nsgae Il
arrest American progress and American prosperity p
when we repeat, this nation yer more healthy" thar
IN that year which preserved millions of British subjects
from starvation with surplus while we were carry
ing on the war in Mexico aboveboard paying for every
thing in our enemy's country in hard money Well may
the tory writer now say "the ancient States of Europe
could Ill adopt (ouD pecuarties they never had the
power, A they had the disposition, TO do it.
Ill does IT become the pethorc Englshman, stagger
ing under dropsca obesity, to talk about Our war reS
ing on slender and uncertain cause" now that h,
finds none of his predictions of evil to have been ver
fed In the of lsl2-that war in which the British
Naval Chronicle raised the motto which once terrified
all the crowned heads of Europe, and even compelled
Napoleon in the heyday of his prosperity TO withdraw
his ships from the ocean
''rhe winds and seas are Britain's wide domain
And not a sail but by permission spreads;"-
in that war, the British writers used and then to
break out with inpatient petulance because their friends
in this country repeatedly deceived them in their croak
ing predictions relative to our weakness, and the
with which we might be conquered or made to submit
Federasts in Congress- who then took the side of Britain
they have that of the foreign enemy in every national
sciences sometimes had to encounter the sneers of the
masters to whom they paid spaniel obeisance The Brit
sh tory Times must be ironcal now when it holds forth
that in this country ga violent contest has begun the
subject OF the American war, between the whgs led by
the most eminent statesmen and orators of the Unon and
the democrats" "Mr. Webster and Mr. Clay, and still
recently, Mr.. Albert Gaatin" are named by the
Times leading in this contest of "mos eminent" war
fare Was the writer that the strength of these
eminent men" had become weakness not only because
the contradcted the other in his foundation argu-
ment against the war, but because all of them, with the
party in the legislature under their lead, had stuied
themselves by their contradictions of themselves If the
British tory writer had consulted the facts connected
with all the struggles of the great republic OF the
west in its progress from infancy to early maturity, he
might have read the certain fate which must follow the
transatlantic prolixity and vehemence" which is now
Illuminating wrath and curses upon the American
and administration in the legislative halls and through
the wing presses of the country
1t has been not the less prominent of the Characters
tics of the organ OF the British tory party the London
Times that in the progress of the war with Mexico it
makes, at every step, the last condition of this country
the worst successive anticipated disasters have all been
mpend from the more complete success in the latest con-
tct must be driven 10 great stress of argument when
obliged to involve its best friends "the Amer
lean statesmen Most eminent for enlightened sense
of the duties and the interests of the country as coming
in for their share in contributing to the ruin
The which has ''le loose all the evils of ambition
military aggression financial extravaganza and national
arrogance the country of its neighbors"-he ennis
shapen mmor," which has become to these British a
most "curious, perpexing, and instructive spectacle
threatening evil to 'oher nations who have sooner or
later to deal with America in all its political excesses-
is represented to be anomalous, and "withou example
in the modern history of war, resting so slender and
uncertain cause, that the principal authorities of
the country, by which it carried on, directly
variance to the fact relied on TO justify it," can
surely be strange event. that the opponents OF the
should disagree with its friends as to the which
have produced and with bad grace that the Times
this time, offer that disagreement evidence that
the cause pursuing it by the American government
was 'slender and uncertain"
Since good and not evil, has resulted to the Ameri-
cans every battle ought-snce all the predictions of
the "mutual admiration" wings here, backed by the
prophecies of the mutual admiration" tories on the
other side of the Atlantic have failed in relation to the war
with Mexco-t is most cruel destiny to these adverse
parties the American cause that recommending peace
on any terms they shave not the to carry such
resolution into immediate eect'that they have no sum-
mary process in this government they have under the
crowned heads OF Europe, for changing by
change of ministers. "Nr Folks of office cannot
be abridged; and to compel him to make peace on any
terms, "would be ridiculous undertaking" Such is
their dilemma More fighting would be likely to end in
victories, and more complete subjug alton of the
Mexicans and the best that the British tory press can
do is to insist that such war; when the victories are
all sde is without precedent that conquest can
not be legitimate, of the party which prov okes ag
gresson by commencing the attack where such party
has had chance TO claim the advantage in single
bate and that we, the victors, held and bound
before we fight again. TO repair all the damages have
done, and renstate our enemy in good position,
men and MEANS as his attacking forces first found us
SO much in duty bound do monarchical preteniers
claim of plain republicans!
The present war was forced upon us by Mexico i
has been prosecuted with unparalleled glory We can
not doubt that 1t will terminate in triumph Suppose the
war were to end, so as to give us "indemnity fol-
the past and security for the future" what bran
achievement would it be in annals! Our country en-
laged to the Pacifc-the of our arms extended
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