Daily American telegraph., 1852-04-07
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
From the Plough, Loom, and Anvil.
WarIike Tendencies OF. British Free
= Trade.

warIike Tendencies OF. British Free
Trade.
We have on various occasions called the atten
ton of our readers to the fact that British free
trade, wherever found, is promotive of discord
war; and waste, and destructive of the Happiness.
of those subjected to it. Ireland and India, AT
RIGA and America, at this moment bear witness
to the fact Southern Africa is now being desc
lated by the Caffre war, and the very existence
of the colony is now endangered. Upon the
causes and conduct of this war a controversy has
recently grown up between Mr.. Samuel Quincy,
an eminent Quaker merchant and philanthropist,
and General Sir William Napier; and the last
letter Just now published, confirms so fully the
views that we have been accustomed to offer in
reference to British policy, that we cannot omit
TO give it place in our ges-at the same time
desiring our readers to bear in mind that between
all nations there is a perfect harmony of inter-
ests or, in the words of Kossuth, Soitdari6; that
war anywhere tends to do injury to men every
where and that they are therefore all directly
interested in the adoption of measures tending
to the destruction of the commercial centraliza-
ton established by Great Britain, the cause of
more than half the wars of the world
"To Mr.. SAMUEL GuRNEY. = Respectable
Friend: If the reporter of thy discourse has put
words into thy mouth which were not uttered,
he is to be blamed, and far thou art exoner-
ated from the charge of injustice but thou dost
men, saying, They are far too liable to look to
the sword for the settlement of international
disputes
Il say unto thee, III reply, that since the days
of Marlborough, military men have never had
at all to the sword for the settlement of
international disputes and it is not becoming to
charge them with it as an offence
MARK, friend, political and commercial men
they are Who hare Arrays had recourse TO the sUord.
The soldier makes war, but he does not declare
it. The political men declare war, and generally
for commercial interests; but when the nation is
thus embroiled with its neighbors, the soldier
saves it from danger. He draws the sword al
the command OF his country; but he has nothing
to do with the SIM if it be one, of having recourse
to the sword for the settling Of international dis
putes' He fights sternly to save the nation from
the consequences of its own act, namely, deGlar
ing war; but he loves not war Why should be
What does he gain by it? Death, wounds, pain
disease, premature old age and poverty, and in
suit when his services are no longer in request
Is that justice friend? Is it credhable?
''Thou hast said, Military men are far too liza
BILE to look to the sword-meanng of course
more liable than politicians and commercial men
- Was George Granville, whose stamp act produced
the American War Of Independence, mltar,
man?
WAS Mr.. Pitt, who made the long wars will
France, a military man?
Was the Honorable Company of TraoerS, which
from factory on The Hooghly, crtended its bound
By pars 10 mighty empire, composed Of military d
commercial men?
Was Warren Hastings military governor
Was Lord Wellesley one? Was it military gov
crnor who declared rar against China, 10 cnabh
uonhedded old rats to smnggle opium, in defiance o
tic lars ofthat great state and Of morality?
We're they military governors who com
menced the Afghan war, the Punjaub war
Were those military or commercial men who
established and carried the slave trade, with
all its African wars that trade which has re-
Gently been declared by Lord Palmerston to be
unapproachable i'll atrocity, though all the other
crimes of all nations, in all times, we're heaped
together for the comparison
''And think not, friend, though have confined
my justification of military governors to Sir
George Napier, that he only can claim exemption
from thy censures. Inquire, and thou wilt find
it is not So Cease, therefore, if thou wouldst be
counted among the just, to Witty soldiers. And
friend, thou hast not yet answered my question
What manner Of men be heg rho supply he Cofrc
,cith arms and dmmuaiti0RP
Nv NArIEE, Lieutenant General
''Norsatber 81"