The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-08-18
WAR WITH MEXICO.

Whatever may be the result of our action, in
relation TO the annexation of Texas 10 our Union,
whether after all the buster and bravado of Mex
leo, she will cool off, still persevere to the
making an appeal TO the dernier resort, and pro-
claim hostties against the United States, we
know not and care not-our motto. and the motto
of ninety-nine ont of every hundred of our peo-
pie in this section, is that of Decatur: O,n
country, right or wrong. our country" We
have viewed with deep indignation the continued
assaults of some of the federal presses north, up
on the administration, and especially the Nation
al Intelligencer, with partisanship in favor of
Mexico, that would have done credit to journals
published in the heart of that nation. which. no
doubt, have tended, more than any thing else, to
drive Mexico to the point of desperation she now
occupies and let the crisis be what it NAV to her
they will have the honor or the shame that falls
upon Mexico-lhey are no friends of the United
States.
How degrading to themselves do the denuncia-
tons of these persons appear, when brought in
juxtaposition with the following patriotic para
graph of the Norfolk HeraS of Saturday morn
ing. The editor of that paper is a good and true
whig, and during the last election for President.
was. as in duty bound, boldly 60 opposed to annex
alton and in favor of Harry Clay"-but the end
was served, and now we find him on the side of
his country. We take pleasure in laying his pat
riotic remarks before our readers The editor
deprecates war with Mexico, as we will be the
sufferers by her "privateer commissioner which
will cripple our commerce, and she has none on
which we can retaliae-he says she will repudi-
ale her debt, and conliscate the property of our
citizens. With all due respect to these opinions.
we think, when the sword is once unsheathed bv
her orders, that the Anglo Saxon blood and Mile
sian spirit which is pretty plentiful in this conn
try, will find way to cure all these evils on the
part of Mexico. We now quote the Herald =
s. But the question is not for us to decide Mex
leo has left us no choice but the issue of arms,
and we must accept the very unpleasant aIterna
tive Her wisdom and policy in taking so haza-
dous step, is to be discovered hereafter. The
plea upon which she has taken that step is a most
unfortunate one: the annexation of Texas. which
she claims as her territory, to the United States.
and which she is pleased to regard as a violation
of her national honor, which nothing but war can
atone for !; and war, too, which cannot result
otherwise tnan in her discontinue Such a claim
is about as prepOseronS as can well be conceived
Texas, which was independent of her as any
other sovereign state in the world and the indie
pendence of which Mexico herself had offered to
recognize on condition that she would not annex
herself to the United States, she now claims as
part and parcel of her territory, and for that act
of annexation, she makes war upon the United
States Such in(atuation is as IamentabIe as it is
extraordinary. But Mexico must be made to
learn that it is thing to declare war, and ano-
Their to defend herself from its caamities. to do
which she is utterly powerless If she will have
war, let us give her enough of it,