New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-05-26

happiness IN a universe from which SIN and suffer
! ise we're excluded.
With these characteristic traits the author has
man, advantages that contribute 10 the production
Of uopular success. He Will always ind con-
| e-able class of sdmiring readers. He vii make
| a deep impression on many soft and susceptible
minds Whether his influence viii tend to en-
srqe the boundaries OF acknowledged truth-to
Az ken love OF inquiry aud progress-to stimn-
late men to selfsacrifcine efforts for the improve
nent If our social insttutions-to bind them closer
together IN the sweet and genial charities OF life
~ ate snd refine the taste OF the youthful
reader--to inspire the sentiment Of generous Tor
brarance AID kindness to difuse more widely
the pure, lovely and angelic spirit Of true Christi
anity-we may be psrdoned for cherishing a
painful doubt. K.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE SECOND WAR
plTNFEN TIE UNITED STATES or AMERI
"a AND GREAT BRITAIN, BY CHARLEs J. Is
cFRsoLL. Philadelphia; Lea a Blanchard
The author Of this work is poorly qualified either
by temperament or cultivation, for the function Of
dignifed and impartial historian. Relying on
the newspapers Of the day as his principal author
ties be adopts their partisan tone his luminosity
toward England is implacable; he speaks OF her
statesmen and her Institutions with contempt and
defiance nor does he regard the opponents Of the
war of -l2 as any better than Englishmen. The
opinions of a minority find neither favor nor JUS
tee at his hands and the doubts of honest citizens
as to the policy OF the Administration are stigma
tzed as rank treason. With the arts OF peace he
has little sympathy, but like the old war horse
"he smceth the battle afar Off the thunder Of the
captains aud the shouting, and deliehteth in the
scent Of blood. His style indicates neither clear
ness of couce ption nor practice in composition In
deed many of his Fentences are absolutely unin
telhgible, and others after you have grown breath
| less with toll in search OF their meaning, repay
| you with an infinite deal OF nothing We will
give few choice specimens OF his skill IN charac
ter-drawing. Here is his portrait Of Mr.. Canning
Brightest -ar ofthe rotten borough orb which shed
select influences the Commons House. ana elected
him by constituency Of thirty sN votes man OIL 'et
ter vii poet epigrmnmetist elegant upstart II born
Of sheridan and actress, both father and son from
lum le gin rising 10 fashionable, literary and puui
cal Distinction p<acucally rciuted The dogma oi Aleh
life which they battered that manners depend On Ul
wealth. or other ari-tocratlc tuition
.Star" Of a " rotten borough is rather strong,
but star OF an "orb, and that a rotten bor-
ourh orb positively dazzles US with its briIliancy
We have next discriminating picture Of Daniel
W ebster:
with provincial antiQuatcd pronunciation scholastic
dcion sarcastic logic SET free from personality acod
manner profound reverence for the most tnsAsh pIlh
cp.cs Of American institutions, ana satufmhr appic
h,nson of French influence 10 which he ascroed Jti
fr.on and Madisons politics and the war by powerful
speeches Mr.. Webster then commenced his eminent
career. more cminenily forensic than parliamentary
and much more oratorical than staiesmanAke'
The character of John Quincy Adams is HIT OIL
in the following paragraph, which we may recon-
mend as a model OF pregnant brevity.
The most extraordinary man OF New England, me
only American with talents good fortune and iudeiaii
Fable labor enough TO succeed his father III the resi
dcncy. bred mostly in Europe, where long residence
confirmed youthful predictions, few OF Whose Ainei
lean sentiments could be imoioed 10 Ne" fhslAnu
where little OF his life spent, while senator ifuIn
Massachusetts, representing IN Congress the unquitt
Eastern discomfort. John Quincy Adams ihc response
blc author accused New England Of breeding That
caukcr al the root OF the American nlon "hcn cor
r9d,f l Il consulsed the national trunk. but dlsap
pcsred IN the victorious pacincauon which from Lou
isana and Client proydenually met AZ Washinston 10
bind the most distant parts OF the United states To-
gcthcr in one great national cOFLaAIy
The trunk OF a tree in convulsion tit would be
sight Tor sair en- but how could they bear
the disappearance of canker in the battle Of
New O rlesns and the diplomacy OF Client
By-the.by, the author draws largely on medicine
aud histology for bis rhetorical figures We are
often RECALLED with such flowers as the following
The pampered entrails OF Great Britain, /" the
unconstitutional sores OF the constituted suthorI-
ties were corrodng 70 the rottenness IN which they
exfoliated next year" born from the bloody
bowels of a revolution with a plenty OF others
equally dainty
Where the choice is so abundant, we are at a
loss what to select as specimens OF the author :
ess ambitious style. Here are one or two SEN
fences with which we gladly wind up our notice
of Mr.. Incersol and his History. They remind Us
Of the loug-drawn involutlons OF Milton or Hooker
excepting the profoundness and significance Of
their matter.
Wantonlv enforced by iiegunate hostiliues pro
claimed the rule and the rght Of British warfare
assinst America, Lnea offspring OF the maritme
wrong by which al sea they provoked the long
red and reluctant American appeal 10 arms, these
naughty vndicye and lnsuppOrtable expectations "a
pidly disappeared under their continual dscomhilfes
during the summer. and were abandoned before the
British reverses II Louisiana were known Al Dhtht
when their Canadian failures sufficiently established ihe
mp0sslblI,y OF peaca any such terms while Amer
lean population manufactures, military service, dsc
pine and power union. nationality and strength we're
ia constant development under the same
policy and state Of parties which declared and prose
cuted the war.
Here is the touching narrative OF the life and
death of the United States Bank
Beginning with ruined circulation 20 rectfy ~ out
set disordcrcd by disgraccfu spccuauons OF - own
officers after years OF prccarou- subsistence
fuctusiins even when well established between expan-
zion and contraction. delrols decline and fEencn
ious in dissolution with too much capital for the MON
controlling the state banks tn driven from u and con
strained fo become of them. with that unVleldy
.onsral then proiractng caducify by unwarrantable
rrivances the great mistress OF banks broke 40 last
Win catastrophe not confined 10 America but felt IN
-. sns N Asia" T.
TgE SARATOGA RAILROAD AcciDESr-We an
rounced BY telegraph Thursday morning that a IA
~ sciSsn, had occurred on the Rensselaer, and sara
80 Railroad near Bst0n. We learn farther nat a.
tb ,rse Of the accident the tram was nder ~ nea
,sv The locomotive ran some siN rods up bank tx
~, heh when II upset beng smashed IN pieces crush
inc The engineer VIM Dodge, and the brennan, yoIh
Frsnk under IT, The baggage tram was thrown up the
.r,,.i-s hank The passenger cars were unnl lred
Inc accident seems 70 have been oeeaon'd p sole
-. b.v uiSfrIctel the road With large