Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-10-30

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cause. may have sympaibised with what he
| said
The Secretary thus gave vent to the emo
/ tons that agii1te his patriotic breast:
| In the mean time. General Taylor's cleo
| lion will encourage a spirit throughout the
| land hostile 70 The pursuits OF peaceful indus
/ try aud commerce. Our aspiring youth. hni-
/ iug that t.e path of military glory i the road
I io aIgh civil distinction. will b. ever ready
aal aaXious 10 involve the county ia foreign
wars.
/ On which the In;ellgenrer remarks:
Gen. laylofs election will encourage spi-
rit "hosule 20 the pursuits of peaceful indus
/ toy On hat event "our aspiring youth"
'wili ever be resjy and anxious tu involve the
country IN foreign wars y These diAstcTsare
tu follow from he election ol Gen. Taylor,
who, glorious as be Is IN war. re- pendent ss
l. his tame with military achievements which
have fixed on him the gaze OF an admiung
world, Is emphaticaliy the FRIEND or PEACE.
Tie has said, before his country;
That the joy and exuliation OF the great;
| est victories were always, after the heat end
excitement OF the battle, succeeded by feel
ing, OF poignant sorrow aud pain, aud that
( war, after all. was great calamity, and his
/ the greatest glory who could terminate it,
Il need hardly reply to YOUR concluding
inquiry, that AN a PEACE MAN, aud that
deem a state OF peace 10 be absolutely neces-
say 20 the proper and hedltniu action OF our
republican institutions. Ga this important
question freely confess mys II to be the un-
qualified advocate oi the principles so often
laid down by the Father OF his Country, aud
50 urgently recommended by him III his Fare
) well Address to the American people. lu-
: deed, | think NAV safely say that no nan
can put more i'm piicit faith than do in The
# .,lsfa. II a
= the propncty OF always standing upon our
! own soil.
My lie has been devoted to arms, yet |
Z look upon war, at all times and under all CIR
! cumstances, As A NATioSAL CALAMITY, to be
I avoided il comustlble with national honor.
e he principles OF our Government, as well as
It's true policy are opposed to the suhlugatioh
O OF other nations and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
i other countries by conquest
o The prediction that the election OF man
q entertaining these principle viii be "husue
q TO the pursuits OF peaceful industry, &c. aud
TEN Jt aspiring youth 10 set about involving
L 1.-THE country in foreign wars, would be, un-
= der any circumstances, quite cool. But, con-
e siderng VINO is the that makes the pre-
e dietion, aud for whose benefit it is made. it is
:, cool enough to refresh one even N the dog
D DAYS. While Gen Taylor is, phatleally aud
} avowedly, friend oil peace, Gen Cass. III
u whose behalf the Secretary OF State brings
e ''the patronage OF the Federal Government
= into conflict with the freedom oil elections,
Il deiying the angry ghosts OF the enlisted sol
II diersn &c.-Gen Cdss we say, is no less EN-
:. pha ucally and avowedly the friend OF war.-
r tie is the aspiring youth who, as he has be-
: fore been ready and ANXIOUS, may be expect
ed to be again ready aud anxious 10 Involve
: the country in foreign wars" Look at his
II IL.
y which we would refer our readers to some no.
tees OF it in our paper OF the 29h OF July
: last. In what light il was viewed By one OF
tie ablest, most Distinguished AMI most deci-
+ ded members oil his own party, will be seen Ia
Senator Benton's speech OIL Jane 1916, c. <.
. the following passages:
'Mr. Il said that it was case TO try The
irailty of poor nature. The great organ. and
l. i've hundred small ones folio log lis notes,
{ and many ten thousand tongues, had pro-
claimed the 81 40 line, and our night up To it;
aud, thus acting upon the patriotic feelings
OF the people. had prepared them for war
with Great Britain tr that line, W hen there
was no such thing; and for Fr9zier's river on
this side ol it, without knowing il was there.
The people had been ted into error; inhdmed
: to the war point upon mistake; and now,
. when The mistake Was shown, the tug OF an-
other war came upon poor human nature.-
TO admit the error, and ASK pardon OF God
} and mau, was the part OF justice and candor;
but this was Nominating to vanity and self
love aud the pride OF consistency. TO pre-
severe IN this error, after II was detected. WIS
J the part OF human lrailiy; and the Senator
. from Michigan, on the part OF his party, has,
9beyed the law OF lrdiity: he has persevered
in error he converts intu design what was IN
the beginning mistake! We NOW 10
: have war, al - as the Senator aud his party
can make il UPON DESIGN, AND WITHOUT PRE-
p TEXT; Tor be could not name Frdzlers river,
> which is the sole ob.et and would BE- the
instant cause OF war.
The Senator aud his party-the big organ
aud those which have follow its notes
! have been leading Tie country TO war vita
Great Britain upon mistake, upon blunder,
( upon an norance oil treaties and ply.
y The mistake has been exposed by reading the
: Treaties aud producing the geography. Instead
= OF admitting the error. the Senator from Mica
/ igan, for himself and friends, perseverrs In it;
e and thus wha, was mistake in the beginning
becomes desgn--a design TO have war. with
/ Great Britain, without daring TO name the
, prcteXt."
{, ~ are the American Senate, acting in
!, the eyes OF the present age and OF posierity,
ID aud upon great responsibility. BY our acts
war may be made, and we are bound by
cry sacred aud every human obligation 10
make 40 mistake III bringing about so great
f calamity. War is calamity IN ITSELF a war
upon mistake is double calamity; buta WAR
UPON DESIGN after the mistake is detected, Is
a calamity Tor which there is no nams. 1t
Is rises TO the magnitude OF the greatest crime
WAS there ever anything 80 ridiculous?
y ever anything 80 iarcicuR ever any hing 50
Y neriting the rebuke OF the people, thus
= misled aud deceived, at first by ignorance,
K and now BY desiga?'
. "The people have been misled-grossLy
ID aud Wideiy Histed, iguonntly, at first, as we
were bound to believe -deSigHediy now as
- we painfully see. The fifty Tour forty line
n never existed The treaty proves il; yetits
u existence is still affirmed, to nisledd the un
inormed, and to save the,mlsIeuders rom the
= modification OF exposure
!, And when The treaty and the river was
y produced, and the mistake sho II, instead OF
: confession and repentance, resentment and
> attack upon him who exposes the error. and
q saves the country from sENseLEss, IGNORANT,
- UNJUsTIFIABLE WAR.
y This day has been the most humiliating
! Of my Senatorial lie. have ielt Tor The
- American Senate when | have seen member
+ ciuging to error. aad endeaSoring TO keep the
y people la error, event al the risk o. war, by
q endeavoring TO do away the PLAIN words OF
. treaty, by garDling and muuating scraps OF
speeches TO deprecIa,e another Senator WHEN
$ the great question was one OF the peace and
= honorot the couutry, IN the presence OF which
every selfish feeling should have stood aboshed