The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-10-11
ATTEMPT of the Administration to get up
War.
Special Correspondence N. Y. Daily Times.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. l, 1855.

WASHlNGiONi IuoHuoy1
is iDcontestable that the Admins
tration has a covert motive IN the potn-
er which it is making over the Danish
Sound Dues. All agree that the imposl.
ton of those tolls is a grievance OF
which the commerce Of the world may
Justly complain; but it is noteworthy
fact that our merchants have not COM
plained of them. For three-quarters OF
a century they have submitted to to ezac-
ton as an item in the ordinary expenc-
es Of their voyages to the North OF Eu-
rope, without dreaming that it was an
outrage calling for resentment or pro-
test. The entrance fee into the Baltic is
the only one they pay, and that they take
care to extract that from their customers.
They submit in like manner to the light
house tax levied on their ships by Great
Britain, and perhaps by all other Eu'
ropean countries, although our Govern
ment makes no such charge upon Tor
eign commerce. In the treaty of 1896
there is an implied recognition Of the
right to collect these dues, and as ev-
cry other nation quietly tolerates the
same regulation, we have not felt it to
be a degradation or a serious injury
to share the burden with them during
this long period of twenty-nine years
There is no doubt that the requirement
Of this tribute is now wholly indefensi
bic, although it was probably original
Ily imposedas an equivalent for the pro
lection construction extended by the
Danes to trading vessels against piracy
that being scandinavian weakness re
markably prevalent in the times of Reg
ner Lodbrog, aud subsequently; but tn
remedy by retaliatory restrictions OF
Danish commerce is obvious, and woult
be effectual.
Is not the Danish quarrel cultivate'
as the germ of a convenient foreign war
That is the view which a great many sen
sible persons take of it. A little war
and especially naval war, may in tn
end be found essential to complete tb
process of "crushing out Free. Soilism,
which Gen. Cushing announced some tw
years ago. 1t is common expression a
mong the supporters of the ultra South
ern policy of the Administration; tha
they "hope to see hundred thousan
Abolitionists shot and hanged;" that tn
only remedy for Free-soil is to drenc
with blood the soil of the States whic
tolerate it, and so on. | am far from i'm
putting any such sanguinary purposes
, the President and Cabinet, though the
have certainly taken course well calcu
lated to bring on an armed collision i
Kansas. But they are conscious that tn
renewal of the slavery agitation, whic
their measures have produced, has ez
cited the passions of the people to fury
, and that civil discord in its worst forr
must follow unless extraordinary mean
be adopted to break the force of the temp
est. A war with Denmark would answe
this purpose, and might result in the ac
QUESTION of her desirable West India pos
sessions. In fact, this would be a certai
consequence Of the rupture unless the 9th
er naval powers interfercd. The paltr
tonnage duties, which Denmark leyies up
on our few ships, passing her coasts, ar
considered sufficient cause of war b
Gen. Pierce and Mr.. Marcy, is an impu
tation upon their intelligence which the
do not deserve.
The President will probably omit t
furnish the correspondence on this subjec
with his annual message, but it will b
called for, and the representatives ofth
commercial States will take care that thei
interests are not made the pivot for an in
trigue which can only result to their det
riment. The North wants no foreign wal
and certainly will not provoke domesti
feuds. And the South could derive n
permanent advantage from either, thong
her policy would indicate different opin
ion among her leading men.
Don't Like Popery.
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