Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-26
PROBABLE CONTINUANCE OF THE WAR.

From the London Times, 4th.
Let our younger readers, especially those OF the
uopos carefully note the visible signs and
OF war Let them enter in their daries the regiments
they saw IN route Tor the East the day they bade good
bye to the uncle brother they never to be see
again. when they first heard of the Cars bluff answer
to our summons the Queens Message to Parliament the
addresses in reply and if they chanced to witness it. the
procession yesterday the Palace present those ad
dresses nor omit the FIRST Sunday when they heard
The prayer for time Of used in our churches LIE,
the store these things in their memorie and ponder
over over them, for though it may be only few years
IN all human probability it may il will be many, before
they will the end of which this the beginning S1tv
years ago. with great ardor aud temery rushed into
war with people whom had learned to hate and des-
pise, standing at that along among nations beaten by
Us out of their colonies and dependencies, pent up
within mountains and seas and under the perpetual sur
veance ofour fleets Nevertheless that war; so begun
with much enthusiasm, and with such confidence OF
right on part that hardly pulpit but what
the alarum, lasted quarter of century, filling Eu.
rope with disaster, and convusng the whole haba BILE
world. We have now TO deal with a continent rather
than a State, and with large section of the human
| rather than people. With our own numbers
than finite, and with material labor and man
himself yearly appreciated contend with cheap
and inc 1hausible multitude. We wage war with a go
foreign policy conquest 10 the former il has refused
improve in the latter il has scarcely known check
Sixty ago il imagined that the indignation and
selfhues OF a Europe would concentrate all her armies
sgains devoted France, the foe. Now there
thousands OF miles Of frontier and uDapproachabe and
unknown interior be attached Our foe contains within
her bosom the seed plot OF nations and still hsrbors the
originals Of the tribes that used and
quer the civilized world. When some one observed the
other day that had been long oreseen that must
to this and that We were ony accepting task that 9TH
erwise would have fallen successors and proved
above their strength that implies merely the great
Of the efforts required OF US but the length OF time
during which they will probably have to be sustained
lew great blows aided by fortune and by some return 70
sanity in the councils of Russia perhaps bring the
early termination That il no uncommon reso-
luton o the difficulties which despotic violence is apt TO
bring the world. But it be disguised that the
vastDess OF the Powers involved in the present
depth OF the which have provoked it. and the i'm
portance Of the principles issue all portend contest as
long and cbangefu any that have darkened the
| nails OF the world.
As usual, and be the fate Of this country
will be much the painful endurance as the
costly maintenance Of active hostties We take pub.
lie and active part n the affairs Of the world at large aud
We hold il vocation to do Relying on our POI CT
and comparative immunity, befrend the Injured and
chssse the oppresor Once engaged in these generous
though sometimes gratuous intererences, honor for
bids US TO recede and We find ourselves pledged cru
sades in support Of the common liberty and justice and
our national honor. That is our There is lit
tie likelihood OF our shores being evaded or oul
distant with caution skill, aud with every appliance
that modern art and Treasury supply
The courage and discipline ofour soldiers and the ST. adj
judgment Of our commanding officers, probably save
us from painful reverses We have little fear that moth
and sisters aud those still dearer, who have jus
suffered the pangs OF separation, will hear of such unqual
fled and unredeemed disaster that Of Cabu and SONS
incidents in the continental VI hna victory viii
allow no doubt Bot what We have to expect is a pro-
tracted difficult, costly war; costing large nortait,
rather than much blood, and entaing the nation
1arn atprra ~ ttEs.ra
that long OF social improvement in Which we 81
confidently believed ourselves to be remarked
Much, then, as there in Lord Derby's speech or
Friday unsuitable to occasion when sII should bs
united in a cause he certainly did public seryic,
in dwelling the serious character Of the war; and in
ytng Parliament TO look failures aud national disasters IL
the face We cannot quite go along with him in deemnl
our hnances uuprepared for IT, seeing that nothing vii
be 40 easy to reimpose, when necessary the a1e.
which wehaye repealed We shall be lees able 70
any single tar direct or indirect for having escoptnued
IL during happier times As question between repeating
taxes and paying of debt il might have been better
TO make some more perceptbe impression the huge
bulk OF the latter at the cost Of retaining ncouve-
nient burdens That Is course, indeed, which have
frequently advocated; aud in doing, have had tc
encounter the special opposition Of the country party whC
NhateSer they might think Of the Customs alwayi
Tor tamperng With the Excise But IL cannot DO said tha
In repeating tax have lost On the con-
trary, will the imposition Of taxes all the NOR,
cheeriully from the kuosedgc that they have been de
msuded only long they wanted. At the present
moment the financial condition Of the country Is better
that Il ever vas iuasmuch never had so decided
surplus Of income ordinary expenditure or so grea
capacity ior bearing new dates Nor, again, can w
sgrec with Lord Derby in holding tha, We have disabled
ourselves from having extended paper cur
rency " that should necessary by having
20 cash payments at the earliest opportunity after the
late Il mistake not creditors will reason
by different logic With those exceptions, how
ever sgree with him that We are no, to except ,
mere six months excursion TO the Levaut followet
by the Of the Guards little more sunburut thar
when they len 81. James, Park or Trafslsga
square Unquesiionably this a war Of that sort
for It is real aud great var, and Il will have IN
tribute. For that IL is quite well We should ell be pre-
pared
FROM the London Times, March T.
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duced in the Ottoman empire by the influence Of th'