The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-01
THE MEXICAN WAR AND THE EASTERN WAR.


passages the Courier DIES Flats Uns to say that most
of editorial articles merely brief and not partic-
uarly correct scraps of matter concerning the cur
rent news of the day. The editorial article which fol-
lows bearing in the original the above title and OF winch
we give faithful translation is example of the rare
bu occasional instances which the Courier rises to the
dignity of original discussion:
mThe American Union has in its annals a page when
shines with dazzling brghtnessit is that one ON which
inscribed the history and the results OF the war with
Mexico II il does take heed in the mean while this
page SO glorious threatens to become at length the cause
and the point of departure OF many errors and perhaps
of many msortunes To however high point the rapid
and easy victories of 84647 have carried the gran
deur and the prosperity of the United States they have
cored higher stilit is necessary observe 1t wehe
ah IN and the ideas of the nation The legitimate pride
which the country ought naturally to feel in consequence
of such success is hsraasr has rahs
10 have in ;s own no blinds il to the power OF other
countries 1t is developing in short both IN Tue people
and in the press and even in tie government. se ~
dency, every day more sensible 10 Ine'eu'e 'es o ~
the standard of the war with Mexico
0Tbis intatuaon to which it is moro than time 10 open
their eyes may one day another inyc|Ve the United
States in some adventure whose consequences may cruelty
deceive their too confident improvdenee AreaIy !. III
uences the public Judgment with regard 70 all wheh ~.
ates to foreign affairs and above ALL Mt the present mo
men in whatever has reference to the events wc hu
rope is the theatre. - ,.,.
ITO see our American brethren almost daily lavish their
racry the slowness of the operations on he BLACK s"
and the Baltic it easy perceive that In their opinions
the Eastern forms miserable contrast with that win
Mexico The idea which inspires their fancy ana sharpc
their sarcasm no. yet expressed in explicit terms but
is SO transparent that 1t is not in truth necessary 10 pe S
pressed in order to be understood behealn ne otei
irony with which it pursues AHgo-French admirals ana
generals easy read this mare expression OF VANITY
Which points the of every phrase would 40 things
otherwise
5a less courteous too often blindly acrimonious Of
which the allied fleets and armies become he ex on inc
arrival of each steamer let take the journal OF Inc war
with Mexico and if it really authorizes SO much ieig
ed surprise and maeyolent raery with regard to the
Eastern ,c
Mexico NAV be dated from the LIST of May 1876, although
in strict calculation of dates, it would not be unrea
sonable to run back the performances 10 1Fefa' hoh"'S
earlier. ~
place on the 9Th and 9th of May On the 18th OF the same
month the American army occupied Matamoros without
here for example it found itself detained for more than
three months for want of organization, OF lrinspofs
provisions and of munitions and At was not uhhi lne
10th of September that it arrived before Monerey sH
thousand strong The remaining force had not been able
TO follow. e,,
After the capture of Monterey cath of September)
now halt took place. which prolonged, in act until
month of February following; for we eanno. regard as
operation of war the occupations without sulNhe
blow at the village of Saltio. -
"At last on the 22d of February the battle of Buena
Vista was fought which closed the operations on ts line
and the only result of which to maintain the Amefi-
can army its positions for outstanding his victory
Taylor abandoned his intention OF advancing upon
San Luis Potosi.
@Thus then nine months and twenty-five days after the
opening of hosties there had been advance OF some
miles into country which had presented no serious
resistance except single point of the route Monterrey
With great difficulty there had been LED to that place an
army Insufficient by the confession OF al TO advance fur
ther at last they compelled to abandon the plan
of the campaign followed up with so many SACRIFICES and
icultes speak properly the was not commenced
for neither the occupation OF the me o ,he MO s r
nor the taking nomna possession OF some parts OF Call
frna and new Mexco be considered MS serious STEP
towards the conclusion of So long as the centre OF
the confederation not menaced or even occupied we
cannot consider that anything had been done and was
only on the 9th of March that General Scott made his dis
embarcation at Vera Cruz
end of ten months from the commencement of the war
And vet in what conditions with what forces had this
beginning taken placer 1t necessary to refer TO the Jour
mails of the day to form idea o. this There were
then many camors than nre now raised win regard
affairs of the East there were also very different
causes for them The dispatches Of the generals their
part are but long complaint of the INSURGENCY OF Inc
means placed their disposal In fact required all the
good which accompanies the nag 81 the unon II
reouired above ALL the enemy which the American army
had before that it not cant in pieces again ana AGAIN
We may say that during the fifteen months this war con
,;rned there was day when the invading forces
yero pt liable be caught between two fres and YET the
verv audaey their advance into this hostile country
was their only hope OF safety thanks 70 'e uhhela p
sition in which an eAuaorui"'y ""'' VI 's' '
placed them. u, ;,ov;ao,oo
would have been attended with the same resu's no mat
tor what country of Europe Hreat would be the error
We have example Of Spain, arresting inc Colossal PoMe
of Napoleon demonstrate to what eNSA wy must o' III
dabe invasion may lead if it encounters on ~ Foue o
resistance of national feeling The fortunate Issue - M
adventure with Mexico 1.-THE event has made IT ralhe M
adventure than wary cannot counterbaance this eHP
riencc still less that Of the disastrous campaign IN us
"That government would be guilty OF real crime IN 'e
ewes of history which should throw an army or hssi INTO
The territory or the of enemy without preVo y
nroydinp the OF retreat or OF ralyihH IN ease VI
defeat always possible England and France theh nave
bpt to obey the most elementary rules OF prudence anu m
first of their duties in deerring to engage IN aco o
which the time is Mt their choice up to the moment "heh
ehey shall have collected all their resources when may as
snre them success lessen the consequences Oh a'ue
Moreover we have seen above what point the war with
Weco had reached ten months after the commencement OF
opcratons let us what is the state OF the Eastern war
scarcely three months after the Official nothcaon OF nos
tilites. ,,,,,
aIn the Black sea all the Russian ports afe olochaueu
Odessa has been bobarded and its present existence
but to the will Of the ndmiras; the Russians nav pNr
constrained to eyacuate and destroy with their own
hands almost with which they had garnished
their coast camp established at Varna men nave
advanced Rouschouck ready to furnish aid to tue
Turks if they should have need of it in fine orlda
BILE body for dsembarcaton is the watch TO establish
Itself on the coast of Crime for the capture of Gala and
Anapa !, ,,
ain the Baltic as in the Black the Russian commences
ia sbut mn in its ports several of these last have been bonn
barc 600 men in progress OF tnkhg POSSESSION OF
Bomarsund and Aland islands besves those parts OF
these two seas which had been rendered move dangerous
by the suppression of the Russian lighthouses nave p
examined Cronsad and Sebastopo have been studh IN
such manner thoroughly instruct the chies o' he
expeditions with regard TO their resources ms wen ~ " ~
dangers of the attack.
In word than hundred thousand men nave
Al. % t..,nr md "a