Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-17
azs. CHANDELIERS I.EsOTUTIoS,

The '.joint resolution just offered in the
United States Senate by Mr.. Chandler, pro
posing to withdraw our Minister from London
and declare non-intercourse with Great Britain.
is one Of those sensation movements, which
made in advance of any suggestion from the
President or the Secretary Of State. will be
recognized as merely the ebulition of indi-
vldual excitement, or desire for notoriety
because the thought cannot be entertained for
a moment, that in the present condition Of our
affairs, such a movement will carry with
body as discreet and deliberate as the Senate
of the United States. And it is good evidence
of the discernment Of the people, of a for
bearance which should be rebuke to many
of their public servants, when such move
ments as this, create not the slightest excite
ment are taken precisely for wAat they are
north. Every few weeks some belligerent
legislator works off his extra steam in this or
some similar manner; yet who thinks of or
prepares for war with the nation threatened;
who does not feel perfectly assured that should
war be deemed national necessity, We shall
learn it by modes more fitting and definite.
and such as cannot be mistaken?
In this connection, we are heartily glad 10
find the Legislature of Maryland, by joint rcso-
lutions introduced by the Speaker of the House
of Delegates-Mr. Frazier-expressing the
entire confidence felt in the ability and patriot
ism of Mr. Seward in his responsible position.
1t is eminently proper and timely, and is well
calculated to aid him in withstanding that
pressure which would, could it succeed, force
him to assume at an inopportune moment, an
attitude of hostility toward Great Britain.
Remembering that we have heavy national
debt which is not yet placed in that shape
which a little time granted might enable us to
do it, and that there are many other reasons
for postponing hostile demonstrations, amongst
others that our quarrel with England, like that
with Louis Napoleon on account of Mexico,
will not spoil by keeping, and why make haste
to plunge into new difficulties? why, in order
that few politicians may not be lost sight of.
think of INDUCING in a pastime so costly, Just
at present, to ourselves?
There is comfort in the reflection quantity
expressed by an old adage-''one man may
lead horse to water, but twenty cannot make
him drink and whilst Mr.. Chandler NAV
offer his resolution it is another thing to
make the Senate act upon it. Taking note
how much valuable time has been spent by
Congress already, in debating mere political
movements; in measuring the strength of
parties, to the neglect of matters of the most
vital import, we trust that the people at large
will i'll every way possible frown upon such
chronic misdomg. Had Congress taken as
much pains to insure a full cotton crop the
coming season; had that body been duly i'm
pressed with the fact that as set forth in the
old Greek fable, you cannot starye one por-
ton OF the body without making the whole
suffer,-measures would ere this have been
taken to set the beaten down South upon its
feet, to the end that it be able to bear its share
OF the public burdens in the shortest possible
time. We should be glad if for the remainder
of the session, sensationists of the school of
Mr.. Chandler would subside.