Alexandria Gazette

THE BLESSINGS OF PEACE!

With the following sentiments, which we find expressed in an article in the Union of Saturday night, we most cordially concur. Most true is it, that "to the policy of peace all the great interests of our land are deeply committed"

What a rebuke, then, does the official editor in the expression of such sentiments, convey to Mr. Polk, for having needlessly and unjustifiably plunged the country into a war, the end whereof no man knoweth, and which has already cost the nation millions of treasure, and what, a far greater sacrifice, the lives—blood of thousands of her best and bravest sons

"To this policy of peace all the great interests of our land are deeply committed. The tiller of our country finds his true prosperity not in the ranks of our army, but in the cultivation of his fields at home, and in that wide market and free exchange for his products both in the eastern and in the western continents, which stable peace alone can fully open and secure

Peace, too, is the great element in which commercial prosperity and wealth expand. To plough the land and to plough the sea and to gather the harvests of both successfully, is the work of peace; and in this great work the substantial welfare of our whole nation is bound up."