The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-02-03

Iusuee was violated and might made 20 be The arbiter
% itshI we paid Tor California Bat that did
us lio the charge OF unpnncpled rapaclly from the
apsofDefs oil India from the eolonixers OF Algeria
VINO hau 10 keeping Abd-e-kader Abuse We had il
rom he hrsl they who had bombaFded Copenhagen,
anu uestosed the Danish heet without declaration oil
war ana on mere suspicion, they eried-he upon the
american general who. after fair warning and delay,
saved nus own troops in open by mode pracsed
~ al 1oueih warfare. Yet we did not sing when II
done Is Deum IN The churches. | will not stop 10 in
slnaaie maj all this malice might arise from envy, nor
direct you 10 lhe matter OF rayished California TO the
passage 10 Lsar where the rascal beade 10 told TO hold
ms oioody hand proceed. We paid for California,
atnough we had IL by night OF conquest Older nations
make the right found it full of the most precious
minerals aud we said 10 all The world Come and help
yourselves The world did come the world does help
l'sei me French government did not hesitate even 10
pioVide iof the immigration OF portion OF its people
mere whittier had no business TO send Them aud yet
both England and FnDceEngand especially. that in all
lhngs shows such lust Of money that she bury
one oil her great heroes but her people take advantage OF
ii 10 do what has never yet been done in America
(lhongh we have buried heroes, too se the places
Inc line oil lhe pocesson and in thousand ways convert
the mourning into festival and the parade into source
OF enjoyment and pecuaiary profit this England and
that France say, accuse OF avarce Well, the Uni
ted States citizens IN California found foreign robbers and
assassins 50 numerous that they obliged TO take the
law INTO Their own hands and the world, looking
viousy apon the gold, cried out at the arociy not hav
ing The decrncy 10 wait 10 II II not the violence
OF necessity that would subside Immediately with lis
occasion.
To return to the dishonest n,puation (t is
your own phrase) OF piracy Sir, am weak like other
men, and can better brook injury than an insult What
brought on the last whose incidents England am
daily taught, will never forget or forgive What but
such "aggressions as were actual piracy both on the
part of Fance and of Great Britain Despsed as weak
treated as France aud Great Britain very apt
10 treat weaker powers and ships unhestaling
" violated by both nations. France stopped !;
and if fought harder with Great Britain TO make her
forego her "patcal aggressons Great Britain has not
been generous enough TO remember that all our naval
tombats we were quite her equal in cbiyaons gallant
lry--iu all that cUnsQefed mark the gentleman and
the Christian characters that should be dentical,)
as well in courage and skill OF manplvre.
now to the final paragraph OF your essay.
What you there assert is nothing new. Every Of
sense in America must have been long aware, that il
Spain disposed TO part with her possession or
ould be permitted to part with it ii disposed, the
duct OF the fools and madmen (or while abominaling
their conduct believe they such much than
rogues who dreamed TO wIest il from her in the face OF
Europe by main force, quite enough 10 make her OBJ
slna,eo say nothing OF pride, which, weak in
Spanlad is least OF all weak in people that have lost
all actual importance.
You will say, all men will say that have written
warmly above, because am Americana and an Amer
lean is allowed to have moderation Unhappy in
that which makes our happiness. that we new Peo-
eases which make rotten Older bodies polite, even in
instances in vital parts have the jealous OF
all Europe upon Travel where will, Amer lean
finds but abuse OF his country, the most frivolous
grounds in all journals left II in England, TO fnd 1t
fresh where nconsderate not 10 expect IT,
the petty press OF Germany have come back, and The
first thing that gTeets is not welcome from those
still like, still esteem still love, though they do every
thing 10 make me dislike. d'sesieem, and hate them
not wecome-no, not welcome--wltness your
columns of this day have bad the self denial (and il
was such) to pass the Rierierence-which you in
your would call ''imperineni," but we Amer
leans qualify IT with any such discouIteous
ephelin The matter of internal affairs, OF which The
Stafford House meeting is sample-l had wished to
answer the Address" seeing did that your cores
pondens for the most part only misunderstood the
case but that they forgot what Englshmen always
forgetting. al least with regard 70 usihat you have no
business whatever with the matter tina, no cant OF
philosophy OF religion should authorize you 10 sci
aside the main precept OF both religion and philosophy
which is TO do you would be done by but knew
that should speak 10 you OF your white slavesiender
girls harnessed like CATTLE and dragging, their hands
and knees heavy burdens in the mines,t-of your hus
bands from their wives by mpressment, of the
most monsrous violations of natural liberty that ever
civilized nation committed the plea OF necessty-and
OF children taken from their parents not indeed 10 be
sold for money, but 10 lose with their actual liberty
those creature comforts. which, after all the stuff that
is uttered by such dirty birds" Mrs Beecher S,owe
aud such wholesale lbelers Mr.. Charles Dickens,
the main.sprogs not only of human happiness, but OF
human order and Of the commonest morality.
But hear beggar singing under my windows. Ex-
euse me- | must look out IL is 10 zee handsome
man. decenty and comfortably dressed and with every
appearance OF health walking in the middle OF the mud
OF the maeadamized street, and sing, rather droning
to have halfpence thrown ou 10 her from the houses
look al the two children at her sde also handsome,
plump, and well clothed and at The fat baby her
breast wrap, comfortably in wooen shawl hear her
tones that express scale OF intellect, rather mental
deve opment low that il would not be recognised IN
my accused country except among the rabblement
which Europe sends weekly to feed and to
up TO abuse us like their educated betters think then
upon the consequences OF this horrible degradation
The eyes OF my spirit 10 the Ice grounds OF
Carolina aad would fau direct my Lord Shaitesbury 10
look there there, not into the rice grounds OF Carolina,
nut the under my window, which but one OF
hundreds like il in London and where the spectacle
Fseen is repeated with different actors sometimes five
six times a day. would bid my lord Look THERE!
Blu, what would be the OF To aid in the enlght
enment Of beahen and TO clio the the backs OF
our Naked 10 feed the mouths OF out hungry are incul
Gated by the which speaks nwardy but her
voice is small and unheard, while the throat OF the mis-
soDay and the clamors OF the outdoor phanhropist
give the respite.
Venturing TO remind you that no such encomium as
that the gaanlry and generosity OF OF my
trymen, with whom neither quality is rare can make
pass the unreasonable abuse OF the whole nation which
precedes il in the sheet hanked one side by the
oouup,ions OF English election, and the other by
The frauds OF English uadesmen and that IL we do not
grow fonde OF the country OF and our
metclal competition we can point TO such writings this
latter and say she will not let MS conclude article
which, while il assails the injustice of your English
pausliiy yet call upoa your English love of fair deal
ing 10 give place 10 in your columns III have written
warnly-and do not deny it, for have felt warmly-
is from that Indignant, sense OF wrong which Americans
are everywhere made feel subjects that concern
their country, sometimes Gas in the OF young Caro-
lnian whom met with recenilyD without grain Of
that liking which, with me, where England is concern
ed must, despite myself always qualify its bitter