The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-09


graceful and disastrous than the defeat and chargeabe
delay of negotiations 1t success which made
naval power hateful and alarming to all Europe which
gave the hearts the American people to who
might rise against Engand-an enterprise ehich most
appended opeors aud east saksned government Of any
corded in the annals Of war.
For every justiable purpose OF present warfare it was
almost impotent To every wise object otprospecse policy
hostile attack not against the strength the
State but against the national honor and pub
lie affections of people After twenty-five years OF the
warfare which great capital of Europe had
been spared almost respected by enemies 1t was reserved Tor
England violate all that decent courtesy towards the seats
of national dignity which, the midst of enmity manests
the respect for each other by expedition de-
beratey and principally directed against palaces of govern
ment halls of legislation tribunals of justice repositories OF
the mumsns of property and OF the records OF
ec among civilized nations exempted from the rayages oil
war; secured far possible, from its accidental
operation because they contribute nothing to the means of
hostility consecrated purposes of peace and min
lister the and perpetual interest OF human society
at seemed aggrav of this atrocous that
ministers had attempted to justify the destruction of dn-
gushed capital retaliation for some vioences OF impe
rous American officers and dsayowed by their
government against unknown village OF Canada. To
make such retaliation just there must always be clear proof
Of the outrage in general also sufficient evidence that the
refused make due PREPARATION for it, and
least proportion Of the punishment to the offence
there very imperfect evidence of the outrage no
proof Of refusal repair and demonstration of the excessive
niquity of what falsely called retaliation
The value of capital not to be estimated by its houses and
and shops 1t consisted chiefly in what could be
neither numbered weighed 1t not even by the eo
grandeur of its that it most dear to
generous people They looked it with affection and
pride the Of legislation, the sanctuary OF pub
lie usticeoten linked with the memory of past times
sometimes still connected with their ondes and
proudcs hopes of greatness to To put all these
spectacle feelings of great people, sanctied by the Illus
rious of Washington, level with half dozen
wooden sheds in the temporary seat of provincial govern
ment, of intolerabe nsoence, and implied as
much contempt for the feelings Of America for the
mon of mankind
We might copy columns of details showing the cru
elites of the British troops upon persons and property
At Washington the people fled before the English forces,
terrified the recollecons of the river Rasn of Hamp
ton, and of Craney Island and the cry of Save the
and children the rufans coming showed how
we'll the British character understood by the popua-
ton.
Since the just described England and the United
States have each been engaged in wars with other ma
tonshe latter with the republic of Mexico the former
with the desposm of Russia In respects the peo-
pie of Mexico and of Russia not dissimar they
about equally semi-civzed and equally disposed to
tal life The rules that would apply to Eng
land and to the United States in the of war; would
long and distinguished campaign in Mexico They
severely tried. They their dead horribly mutlated
by the Mexicans, and their wounded unhesitangly
dered on the battlefield and it is going far say
that the chicanery and Misrepresentation of the Mexican
authorities and leaders great provocatves to
publican equanimity But the fact Of American human
y in Mexico has been attesed by the voice of civilized
nations. Even recent enemies do not deny it. Sare
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unnecessary shedding of bloodwere the watchwords
Captains both the great lines of operations in that
war-a war which might have been terminated much
had policy been less humane and consdeate
than it
How has it been let ask with Great Britain in Russia
The London News grevousy offended at statement ofDr
Cottman of louisiana who gives very defnve and cir
cumstanisl of English descent upon unpro
ected Russian settlement and other authorities confirm his
testimony. The Russians are doubtless not very parcu
lar as their mode of warfare the Turks, the
other hand if we recall certain exploits of theirs
in Greece; and it is not at all violent presumption that
Dr. Cottmans account of the relaxation of the British
troops in their complimentary visit to the Russian town
is substantially The example of Proctor with the
American Indians, shows how well English troops
initiate their faithful allies and the romantic passage of
the British fleet from the Chesapeake to the Potomac, in
Guiding the advance of the British army into Washington
shows how soon Christian nation forget the
ties of consanguinity in wagng hoses upon each other
The Greytown affair may have bcen the London
Times suppose very shocking event. but no lives We're
lost The inhabitants warned away and they went
and they punished just any nation would punish
nest of pirates whose trade plumber Let go before
the tribunal of civilized nations We content Let
England be We could have eminent
adversary And when she makes up her against us,
and conesses that it is business of hesas she must
coness-we shall then her charge by laying bare
before the nations few pages only of the history that de-
scrbes her upon the American people first of the thr
teen colonies and afterwards of the United States
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
H. s. Cumnager esq.,, of Toledo has been nominated to
succeed Mr. Edgerton the Lucas district He strong
man and good man. and will be elected without doubt He
was nominated nearly unanimously.
GCisreiond CO., Ptoindeo'er.
David Barclay esq. Of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania,
has been nominated by the democracy of the Gath con-
gressiona district in that State represented by Hon
Carlton b. Curtis whose viii have expired with
the present Congress Mr. Barclays election is sure The
Jeffersonian says:
Tbough apparently young in years. be many of
the requisites for representative in the councils of the