The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-19
THE LESSONS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR.

of battle and OF death employed either side, the skill
and the courage troops engaged the science and the
labor OF the eonendng leaders, be regarded as the best
evidence that could be furnished of the advancement OF
the present age the science Of And when con-
ast the confident the allies with the snbbornness
and the energy and the resources of the Rus
SLAMS the evidences that the latter an
overmach the three great powers the resort to the ter
ribIs alternative which involves much loss of life and
such continued ordinations and cruees is certain to be
long postponed in the arbitramen OF the future disputes
between civilized governments Hence, that which has
grown into great facility Of destroying human
fe-has also become admonon to rulers and to ruled
tits notorious for instance that before the the cr
mea by which capacity dece the nobest work of
God has exhibited in the of his warlke in
ventions, Of the great powers conending
against Russia contemplated offensive interference in the
concerns Of the American people Now however that
power has in respects caught Tartar the Gar
may anticipate the operation counsels The English
people have already sckened of the in the Crmea
Thousands of mourning families weeping in anguish
and In the harvest Of the sword and every
where there seems to be spirit of indignant protest
against the repetition of the horrors OF this unnatural
contest But fearful such retrospect must be, and is
it easy perceive that the caamites that have followed
in tho train Of the eastern war would be reoubed in the
Of collision with the free power that has built
up great republic in this hemisphere conflict between
brothers and iendsa of the descendants in many
respects Of the ancestowoud be accompanied by
the destruction of those commercial and those moral rea
tions in which the mutsa happiness and welfare not only
Of England and the United States but of both these
tons and other civilized powers indssouby and in
extricably intsrtwined.
But this is the only lesson taught the human race
and to ambitious princess by the the Crimea Men
only startled by this expenditure of blood and Of
urer-n age too when the improvement of kind is
Of the boasted advantages of lot compared with
past generaons--but they made sensible Of the ho
low pretences that too often inaugurate and maintain
these awful sacrifices of human life If the that
impeled England and France to declare war against
Russia is at all understood by the world at large, it
that of protecting Turkey in the possession of her
independence and her integrity 1t this which at first
called the synpathes Of the American people They
behed in these two nations two great champions of civil
liberty, and they in the auocrat only overreach
ing and aggrandzng ruler, who sought to urge to
cmes the aggressive dreams of his ancestors and to drive
the of oppression the necks enervated and
defenceess people This impression deeply made and
generally entertained by the most enlightened people
the face Of the globe rudey disturbed and finally
oberaed by the mprudent threats of the leaders of pub
lie opinion in England and France and the scales fell
from eyes, exposing the motives of the French and
English in reference to American politics. so, ALSO
vision enlarged and cleared to the ultimate purpose
both upon Turkey AS time passed on and the military
of Russia began establish the fact that the An
go-French combination capable of extortng
from her nced weakness the purpose of falling back upon
Turkey and seeking compensation for their losses in that
quarter neither concealed denied At last, and
finally, the game is boldly revealed The great pow
ers desparng Of conquest the Russians begin to
the very wrongs they earnest in procaming
to be their mission to resist What they attributed Rus
sia worthy of their avengng rod they bold
y avowing 10 be their purpose The organs of the
courts of St James and ST. Cloud longer disown but
freely avow this shameful plot Those who have been
free hold the United States accountable the public
opinion of the world for alleged aggressons upon neigh
boring nations and have steadily persisted in this false
and injurious accusaon openly declare their inten-
ton Of committing gross and cruel outrage upon fec
BILE and eeminae people, to protect whose soil from the
power Of Russia their for precipatng the
listing Turkey is become the Poland to rapa-
cious and ambitious rulers Her protectors divide
her fair domains between themselves; and when she is
finally blotted from the map of the world, presume
Lord Pamerston will rise in future British
Parliament to outrage which has parallel in
modern times
From the National ntellgencer.
Perhaps the editor of the Union will object to
adopting his Socratic mode of argument in replying