The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-06
OUR LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENCE.
LIvERrooL, Dec. l8, 1857.

.a#HH Er lLvERrOOL, Dec. 10, 1891.
DEAR SIR There would seem to be no peace for the
mind of American abroad In these troublesome times
No sooner have the commercial relations of our country
a promising appearance than the come sounds
of an approaching political struggle which bids fair
upu land with unprecedented strife and engross
the minds every individual legislator to the exclusion
of all minor questions. All who have the slightest in
terest in the western continent looking with anxious
eyes the result of the Kansas imbroglio Never be-
fore has it appeared in threatening form to those
mote from the scene seemed to demand 80 much ex
ecutye and legislative patriotism to insure the safe
duct Of the great vessel Of rcpubcanism through the
storms and breakers. Eyentful times have produced
great in far-off India perhaps the same happy
suit may be attained in own country, and that VIC
again may boast such pilots Clay, Calhoun, and Web
ster. We are peering into the dark clouds of the
west for some great human Eddystone of light. Sepa-
rated from their homes by broad ocean, there to
be community of feeling among Americans whether
they hail from the sunny South boast descent from
the heroes of Bunker Hill Political questions dis
cusscd with less asperty and all to be actuated by
a common love of country. Notwithstanding this spirit
of concession, which scarcely be hoped for the
battle ground of parties at home there exists dread
of the immediate future, and fear lest the croakings of
those inmical to form of government should be
in part fulfilled If however, there be virtae In the
heartfelt lew ioac away
the councils the nation will be conducted in wisdom
and tempered with moderation The eyes of the world
will be fixed upon the Capitol at Washington for weeks
come and to be hoped that each legislator who rises
in his place may speak If in presence of assembled
world not forgetting his home his State his domestic
and political relations but remembering the great confede
ration his ancestors goricd in making concessions to
atethat country at the envy and the dread of the
civilized world and let him speak and act to pre-
serve intact elevate it in the scale of nations, and
der the words ~ American, the proudest boast
Of man.
Let him not mistake notoriety for cminence, and let
us return to those pamy days of the republic when Off
ces sought the Crush out the hydra headed mon
ser whose open mouths appear in every political ques
ton craving for office to seek which stamps the
seeking as unfit to fill it. Where are the men who
thought who spoke who fought for us in other days
We want them "a. "
The arrivals from the United States serve TO strength
en- the confidence of commercial in England. We
are not yet entirely out Of the wood But the
heavens have smiled upon the poor here and
he must be heartcss indeed who can wander out amid
the green lawns if in spring, and hear the chrping
of birds and ''busy hum of men, and not feel
thankful that the wind has been tempered to the inn
provident and needy Masses whose suerngs in ordinary
winters boggar description We have been comparatively
free from fogs and rain the operations of the farmers
have been hitherto unimpedcd, the English coast has
been free of shpwrecks and although homes have been
sadened by the loss Of fotune and despair has taken
his sulen seat at many HEARTH and unfoded his brief
message from the Ganges there are still joyous hearts
and bright faces to welcome Christmas and bid old father
Time his glass OF sand again The holly bush
and mstletoe will do accustomed duty in lory halls and
peasants huts and genial spring will find us brushing
away manly tear for the past but ready for the contest
in the great battle of life s,.s
The news from London to-day is favorable, the Eng
fish funds having improved in consequence of the
per Atlantic Consos advanced TO 90 Bank stock 2l7
to 2ls Railroad shares also advanced The Bank Of
France reduced their rate of interest to per cent for all
descriptions of bills. aI 4Ea.% at