Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1848-11-07
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Of our oPponeats. never ceas;ng and never changed.
It IS the shout they raise in the silent HiIdeEScss of
reason, to reassure themselves and revive their cOur-
ase by the sound Of thpir owa voiee.
We will show that our candidate, though lis milf
tarY career consisted hut of a few months service in
front Of a British army, a sfotof blood Bought fame
almost u~nnotIced in the Icing list Of his civic glories !;
though he has never redeemed the ldieress Of an OBJ
scure life By two or three days spent IN crushing with
grape shot platoon after platoon OF miserable Span
ish Indians, has jet won victories as important upoa
a field as grand And they. were t~riumphs as much
above these of is pluTaei conPetilar in true sliblinl-
ity as peace is ABOVE war. On the sams ground
among Others much stronger, they wers'more wor-
thy the gratitude of a peacefIi rePubse. lad of a
nation Iooksi p taiasfhe last hope Of national IS-
efty By The woG3. can roirttohisB 1ena Vista,
wHerS4ae-f5sadacrnTelaa nsGaaAs
readily if not as roughly. and WIFiTas litts GhEiak.
ing from responsibility IS tie lucky so.1.sr whose
whole fame is built u2oacne slch trial
Our attention az a people has been always directed.
when we looked round Us for oar natural and really
dangerous enemies. not 10 the mock republics Of cur
own continent. ,shose grcntest pride has always been
to initiate ourselves but across the Atlantic to the
powers of monarchy, There are the champions of
wrong who hale US, because our peaceful progress is
destruction 10 them. They arc cur real fees, and
eli Of them who have been brought into d!rec: con-
tact with US have used against us the weapon most
wie!dy to them aad most effective against us Com
mercial rivalry brings US into contact, and their po-
tent weapon is maritime invassa. England and
France, the former esTeciallS. taolgt the two free
est nations Of Europe. are yet tie cn!y t~o vita
whom we have been engaged IN war. The cause is
TINT ommerCe has produced a rivalry which over
powers political sympathy, and they alone hare had
the direct cause aad the means of hostility. That
the Eo-oa nps,i4r p,S=e=ssS Ito VSo-o 6esy,1ffc p11v-
ers further east, with whom we have little or no
communication, requires no proof, OF ratIcr we have
had proof whenever occasion offered. The two
powers, England and France combined could of
themselves almost crush US, at least our
on which cur whole hopes Of healthy progress de-
pend and bat for their own rivalry would long
since have attempted it. How terrible then would
DC our danger could the FIVE great powcrs, /. c. the
whole civilized world be joined against US There
has been as yet but one such occasion. IS tie two
continents rise to an equality and gain more distinct
interests, there viii be more. Eut that one crisis
short and sudden as i. was came upon Us Ike Z tl!un-
dercIap. We scarcely saw the danger before it had
made the onset aud was warded Of. The plot was
~deepIaid, but there was one to meet it. Cur arch
foe dug her mine well aud sprung il at tie right in
slant but there was one II face and beat back sin
sic handed the tide CT cxult;a5 hate TIA: poured
through the breach.
Need we sey that enc was Lewis Cas-: lis posi-
ton threw him into the very centre of the intrigue.
rone'of our other representatives in Europe and
much less our home government. were within reach,
or available in the emergency. He watched his time,
took She sole responsibility, and threw himself at
tae decisive moment into the melee. England thought
She had US in The tolls. Her itching pain already
grasred, as it were. the prize of unchecked rule to
EcF and abascmentt 10 US, she had sought through rnEr-
ty years of brutal and obstinate insult, outrage, and
defiance. And Europe was FOG once unanimous or
Indifferent, at her side.
Ils sae &: III ,1S :. & l. Ink, sN' A''isF'
But they vera foiled. Our sole trust was in Lewis
Cass ; and it was a sound one. The struggle was
short and sharp. Gafied rage poured contaneiy up
on him where he was, and official self suGiciency at
home scarce deigncd him a cold approval. He had
but the prompt and enthusiastic gratitude ofhis coun-
tryn1en fer reward.
Tic had saved them from a danger they lad never
before seen save in their fears. lie lad onf8ed, and
driven back chafcd and helpless foes who had in the
long course of their expressions inflicted far grosser
and moro CALLING wrongs upon a number CT our citi-
gems twenty times greater, and plunderGd them of
property as much greater in amount. than all We
have had to avenge upon Mexico. all the blood and
treasure for which Taylor made her atone at Buena
Vista. He had saved US from a struggle which ten.
ten times the force of both armies on that field would
AN nave " TIC tGsA%i@ - N'FSAaS
time she blood there she'd. That struggle would not
have, been on foreign soil a thousand miles off. but
on our own frontiers, at cur own doors. And he pre-
served us from its horrors not b. generalship with
four thousand men at his heels, but b. the unaided
cxertion of a strong mird and a strong hcar:, equal
to its solitary task and true 10 those who had ua@it-
ting!y imposed it upon him.
Ali honor then to him ~ho sarcd cur own wao
saved us not from a border defeat By a horde Of 5zcx-
leans. but from a~struggle with all Europe and who
did this not as the sole and distinctive exploit of a
life, but as tie crowning act of a loog career OF
public services supported by the approval of every
great man the people have delighted to honor, and
now reflected for their results in the prosperity of one
third of our teemipg domain !-yugtnizn.
Th,rs's Many a Slip tween ihc Cap and its Lip
New York has been accorded to the wings in near
| " all the estimates OF the rssalt-.we have seen