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which might precede so desirable an event. That man might be dead to every feeling of national honor, and national right, who can deny that we have accumulated causes of war both against France and Great Britain. But because we have cause of war against both nations, it does not necessarily follow, that we must go to war. If war is now to be engaged in, it is unfortunate for the nation that it was not commenced at least 18 months ago. At this moment our treasury is empty-- millions of our property is now afloat on the ocean in every bay, inlet, and river in the commercial world-- the same divisions which then existed among us, prevail now with as much rancour as at any former period. The present unsettled, forced and unprecedented state of the old world admonishes us in deep and solemn tones, to stand aloof from the European world until the whirlwind and the storm shall have passed by-- until this great