The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-22

tanned and every dangerous crisis they encounter only
increases the consciousness Of their strength and their
powers Of endurance But there is universal analogy
all created things animal and vegetable rational and ir
RATIONAL which applies to nations well individuals
The young buds succeed the old dry leaves; the thrifty
sapng the old decayed trunk the lusty child his gray
haired sire and the nation advancing TO maturity, with
all its primitive energies unmpaired by the sappng Of age
luxurious indulgence Fictitious etfeminacy, squad
poverty will overtake and leave behind its exhausted or
enervated contemporaries surely the young bud sue
ceeds the dry leaf the thrifty sapling the decayed tree
or the lusty son his aged father There is dreaming in
all this The practical application OF this theory recorded
in the history Of the world from the Asran through every
successive empire down the latest period Even China
the Methuselah Of empress tottering the verge
not probably Of regeneration but of ncurabe anarchy,
the end of which will probably be relapse into utter bar
barsm rather than approach to rational liberty Ma
oRs wear out they get the dry rot and there is nothing
of the inner substance left which TO engrat the fruit
of renovation In system of long-connued abuses the
abuses become in fact the government and the attempt to
them destroys the whole fabric 1t is like under
taking to wash the dirt out of mud wall
With these examples before us venture to predict
thai the Eastern war will result in Strengthening either
with new aurels is, we think, quite questionable That
the allied armies have fought calamity we have dspo-
sion to deny But SO have the Russians. As yet the
former have gained nothing but glory and great har-
vest of that AT the Of hundred thousand
men, and some two hundred millions of money, they have
captured the south side Of Sebastopo burnt and rvaged
few Tartar towns the of Azof and the Zimmerman
Besphorus Thus far nothing decisive has taken place. and
the Car is not yet humbled That supendous naval
10 the Baltic which, stated costs Great Britain
thirty thousand pounds sterling day, after having bonn
barded Sweaborg leaving the Russians in possession has
retired for the winter without retaining foot of
quered territory the shores of the Gulf of Bonia
The glory acquired by the allies in the present war; what
ever it may be- has, think, been dearly purchased
They have paid great price for their whistle but have
made themselves amends by blowing it furiousy.
In the time the and money of France and the
money of England alike-we will not say wasted, but
expended with reckless prodgay. The war is producing
its fruits additions of hundreds of millions the public
debt and public burdens; in commercial difficulties,
bank in disguise serious arrangement of the inan-
cal system and probable revival of the shnpaser
ency in both countries On the latter it becomes to be
silent as Brother Jonathan has them such glorious
example. The Times may be possibly right in its antici
paons that the present state of things will be but tempo
rary though believe just the contrary The slightest
apprehensions of the commercial world prone to
become panics, and the anticipation of pecuniary
crisis generally the precursor Of the reality In those
cases when the tide turns it is seldom arrested till it has
thoroughly ebbed 1t must have its way and work its
cure; or If artificial remedies resorted TO- they
generally than the disease which, rehoved at
ALL il is only TO prepare the way for still more neurabe
,naly, AT all eventsand this is the moral Of story
would caution the merchants of the United States to
be prepared for crisis in financial and commercial affairs
The commercial world is body with pulse and
heart Like the electric wire if struck at end the
impulse is felt almost at the instant at the other
remity and it is among the boosted blessings Of that
great system Of which is the golden calf of
modern idoltry that it has been the Of
ting in great foreign institution the power Of expand
ing and contracting the commerce Of the world. Again
caution the mercantile community of the United States
to be wary watchfu and apprehensve not of each
other but of those whose proceedings they have
control and who unfortunately exercise great control over
them. Let them not be alarmed but cautious for ground
less fear is often than real danger