The daily union., 1854-12-15

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produce Of plander' If Commander Hollins in imitation
of the great captain of the age had surrounded the
motley inhabitants of Greytown and driven them into the
gull at the point of the bayonet and his men fish
out and pundr the dead bodies he would have had fair
chance of being praised by the London Times for his ener
gy and sodiery qualities.
The quarter from which complaint in reference to the
Greytown matter comes with the least grace is England
We know of no nation whose annals offer more Instances
OF force used towards weaker powers Ever since the
policy of ruling the high suggested her by
the destruction of the nvncibe Armada and by the spirit
of enterprise following the Peru and Mexican of the
latter part of the sixteenth century her has been
of violence and injustice sea-wolves like Drake and
Randolph were long the types of the English commander
The French fleet first destroyed then the turn of
the Dutch The navigation act of Cromwell and the de-
vice Charles the Seconds medal The shall
were the expressions of settled plan which has been fol-
lowed with unparalleled perseverance Never has she lost
an opportunity Of crppng running foreign fleet by
seizng the colonies of the power owning it begin
ming war has she allowed scrupes of conscience
or of decency prevent her from sezng upon colonies
herself For than two hundred years her soldiers
and merchants have been swooping down upon India
numbering the feeble Hndoos and punderng their sub
stance for than half century has the tyranny Of
crafty and hearess traders in mace pepper nuegs and
ginger been solidy established almost countless mil
lions in the Orienta tyranny terrible because the
tyrans dead to glory only burn for gold" What nation
has she not plundered in her career of rapine? From
Denmark she has taken Acera the Cape Coast Castle and
the Golden Coast from the Knights of Malta Gozzo and
Malta; from Turkey, the Ionan islands, from Holland
Demarara, Berbice Essequbo and the Cape of Good
Hope from Spain, Jamaica, Campeachy, Honduras the
Bahama islands, Trinidad and the Falkland isles ; and
from France, the Canadas Nova Scotia Newfoundland
Grenada, St Vincent St Dominique St Christopher Toba-
60 St Lucen and the Isle of Mauritiu Unsuitable in
her lust of dominion she has respected neither nor
equity BY fraud force she has posted herself all
srable points of the earths surface From Gozzo Malta
and Corfu, she controls the Mediterranean while every
vessel that passes into that do homage flag
at Gibraltar From the Cape of Good Hope she
the Southern She occupies India and has her pos
sessions in the Chinese Her threaten France
from the Isle of Jersey Italy, Austria and Greece from
the lonian islands An advantage gained she
relinquishes Admitted to sell few boxes of opium
China, she will batter down Canton rather than surrender
the privileges suffered to put up rude Sockade in Africa
India, she builds hundred forts; called in to decide
dispute between two Indian princes she takes their king
doms the umpires iee not hndered from cutting dye
woods in Honduras, she claims the territory II this
government that finds fault with mild punishment Of
the Greyown outlaws is this government that always
takes position antagonist to ours whether the theatre
action be in the region of the fisheries in Mexico in Ore
gon, in Cuba, in the Sandwich islands, in Central
America. Though is the interest of England to live in
peace with America it would be the plan of her
government to keep up constant irritation between the
two countries
THE ELECTION OF DELEGATE IN KANSAS TERRI
TORY
The following letter from influential gentleman in
Kansas has just been received The opinions expressed
those of intimate friend OF Gen Whitfield and may be
relied as indicative of his in Congress Nothing
to excite prejudice in country the inter-
ference of mere demagogues in the affairs of the people
And when the abolitionis of the North organized
bands of into Kansas to the hardy settlers
from Iowa. Indiana, Missouri, and Illinois, they did more
to unsete to divide, and TO alarm public opinion in the
Territories than all their distant operations could have
eced for many years There is that in the western char
acter which recos from all interference in the affairs of the
people, and whether II in the shape of congress
siona dicaton whether it the attitude of abo-
ition propagandism it is be rebuked with ndg-
nation The newlyeleced delegate against this prn-
ciple of intervention He claims his election not as the
triumph of the South, Of section but triumph
the doctrine of nonnterventon laid down in the Bal
timore platform andreasserted in the Nebraska bill Let
I the following letter speak for himi
Il KANSAS TERRIroRy, Dec. 2, 1854
i Mr. EpToR The election for delegate to Congress came
off the goth November last The governors proclama-
ton had been anxiousy awaited both by citizens of
and those of the adjoining States In the exciting
campaigns of the East recoect any that
bore the least comparison to this Never before was the
Importance attached to the election delegate The
result of this contest regarded by every likely
to give lasting impress to the development of the Terri
toryas prestige for future battles support of consti
tuition and conederated rights You will be delighted
to hear you have heard before reaches you that
the friends of the administration planting themselves firmly
the Baltimore platform, and nscribng the Dougas pru-
ciple upon their banners fought the battle and riumphed
Your old friend j. W. Whitfield of Hickman county Ten
nesee, has been elected by majority that has astounded
both friends and foes His sangune supporters had
prepared themselves for close fight but was all on one
side. The Generals majority is said be over two thou
sandthe combined votes of both his competitors making
very poor show,
General Whitfield elected the advocate and cham
pion of the Nebraska bill he calls himself national
democrat and administration man. In all his various
speeches made during laborous campaign his text and
theme the Nicholson letter and the Nebraska bill ndyo
eating boldly and ably nonntervenon only just and
democratic principle which could be substituted for geo
graphical line unconstitutional interference of Con
gres 1t must be matter of congatulaton to every lover
of tho Union law and order that Notwithstanding the deep
excitement prevailing through the country the whole eec-
ton passed off in the most peaceabe and quiet
t,1 Ep,f,