The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-03

and of chance remarking only that chancethat is
causes above and incidents anticipated
long to the whole of human life whether in peace
war and that If the Courier say that if our
in Mexico the result of chance excluding
plan Judgment SKILL preparation science strategy, tactics,
courage endurance and whatever else enters into the idea
of weconducted war; then the phrase is grossly and
scandalousy unjust and caunnous towards the Congress
of the United States the President the Secretary War;
and the officers and of both the army and navy who
concurred in the preparation and prosecution of
war with Mexico. We defy the Courier to produce
the history of any other series Of military opera
tons in which appropriate means were more sys-
tematcaly adapted to proposed end, any in which
chance has played a less conspicuous part We pass
over also the phrases in which the Courier eraes its
depreciation of the Mexcans for the purpose of depreca
ting relatively the United States We propose, instead of
this to test the question by the very premises of the Cou
That journal argues through the whole of the
article which have commented it is the pervading
idea of that article that the United States had done moth
ing in that until had done every thing and after
long series of vicoriesaer conquerng half the republic
in preliminary operations-had effected the conquest of
the whole of it, and become enabled to dictate peace
in the city of Mexico viii the Allies in the period of IF
against Russia have SO far accomplished the complete
quest of that empire that being masters of Moscow they
SHALL from the Kremlin impose their terms the
Car We doubt it, If they do, but not until them
will admit that the Allies the of segrat-
uation as we have in view of with Mexico.
The Courier dss Eats Uais the course of this article
imputes the journalism of the United States peculiar
spirit of maevoen raery in reference to the movements
Of the Allies in the Baltic and the Black That is
just cannot cite from the journals of France
acrimonious comments" on the in the East mas
much any unhappy editor in Paris should presume to
crtcise what is going he would speedily be adoaishe
as even tho loyal Pays the other day. because the
correspondence of the Courier itself informs NJ De La
Guerronnere has dared the rascal his life to have
opinion and has not feared to say what he thinks about
Turkey And after admonition suppression; so
that the whole stock in trade Of the Chariud has
be stale and stupid iteration Of the most contempt
IDLY vapd paragraphs of imaginary wit and deliberately
manufactured humor about the Romanzos and Gorscha-
kofs and other horrd Cosaques But if we turn to
London find there quite another state of things
for, in Great Britain, the grandoquent Times had to
grow day after day the painful necessity under which
it labored of pilng up paragraph on paragraph about
what the Allies might could, would, or should have
DONE without being able to say what they had done
except that French army, not an English one had re-
duced three four Insignificant little outoftheway forts
at Bomarsund, while Sir Charles Napers great feet had
the satisfaction of looking to the fine rifle practice
the Chassers de Vincnnes. The News the Chronicle, and
the Standard did to know whether to be mos
angry at the spectacle of Lord Raglans army wasting
away with disease in six months of nglorous fnactor
amid the marshes of Roumelia and Bulgaria, mos
amused to Sir Charles Napier, returning to Eng
land after six months cruise in the Baltic in which ht
and his gallant officers and crews have done little OF
nothing except acquire considerable experience Of the
shoal waters of the Cults of Bohna and Finland, te
Brighten many noncombatant good people on the coas
of Finland as he did some years ago around the Chesa
peake, and burn half dozen little Finnish seaports for
apparent purpose but to do something lnaured by way
consoing themselves for their inability to attack Cronstadt
And for Punch there is end to the grinnng ecsace
in which he INDUCED cold Charley sleeping on hi
post like cockney watohman to suggest the query
whether his true be not Napier instead of Napier
insisting that Dundas who commands the Black sea
must be admiral of the slow, not Of the feet saying tina
the report Of the "Fury doing wonders in the Sound gives
apt idea of the whole expedition, which is call SOUND
and fury signying nothing and rejoicing over the fac
that six months had elapsed since the Allies took the field
because is refreshing to learn that they had taken
thing. Surely the Courier is strangely unobservan no
to be of the fact that if criticism of the military anC
naval operations of the Allies deserves to be characterized
as Comments every day less courteous too often ever
blndly acrimonious" this be 'maevolent raillery,"
Sarcasm "btter irony, then that Is matter to SETTLE
with the journals of Great Britain before complaining o
those Of the United States,
hat, Of
such subject after have the Queen of England
herself her speech from the throne congratuatng Par
lament the gaantry and the achievements of One
Pacha without having word of commentator to bestov
on the mighty forces land and which Britain hersel
had sent against Russia2 1t is possible find in Thu
whole range of the American press and scarcely POSSIBLE
conceive any expression of rony on what the Allie
had then done "ber the royal words themselve
which the British ministers placed in the mouth of Queer
Victoria And is it not almost sarcasm for the Empe
ror of the French to bestow the baton of marshal
paraguay dITilliers for having beaten 1000 Russian
: with $4,000 Frenchnen 1t not thus that Ney ant
Dayonst earned their grades Nor with force v
times greater taa met of Arisa Santa Anna that Tay
? lor and Scott achieved their victories in Mexico
! But all this, and the long inacton apparent nefi
cheney of the Allies which gave occasion to IT, has passe
away The French and English, tardly it true, but
length have attempted to strike decisive blow by land
ing in the Crnea One great battle has been fought there
with doubtful advantage; for though the Allies witt