The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-04
LAST NEWS FROM MEXICO.

war with the United States, posslDle even al the
risk of bringing popular odium upon themselves;
and they are, no doubt, induced to adopt this
policy by full consciousness of the destituton
of the country, both of the personel and mate
rel of war, whether by sea or by land. The
writer's friendly to the administration have, there
fore, employed all their eloquence in depicting the
blessings of peace, the horrors Of war, and the
nous burdens and sacrifices which war would en-
tail upon the country. This has been done for the
purpose of rendering palatable to the nation the offer
that was made by the government to treat with
Texas and their arguments remain in full force,
that the project of treaty has been rendered hope
less.
As to public opinion in Mexico, those who re-
feet on the character of the population Of that
uy-composed Of cases four-ffihs of which are de-
graded, and the rest distinguished rather by wealth
and conventional rank than superior intelligence or
vrue-will perceive the difficulty of determining
phat should be called their public opinion. Their pc.
itica leaders and writers are men sufficiently well
educated but their political education is that of the
closet rather than of practical acquaintance with
the interests and wishes capabilities of the mass
| no sympathies. The only class which understands
or could influence the mass of the people, is the
prieshood and their influence would probably not be
earnestly exerted in favor Of war, unless their own
interests placed in jeopardy by the actual in
vason of the thickly settled and wealthy parts of
| the country.
The few well-written articles in the Mexican pa
pers the Texas question show that, if the gov
eminent really intends war it has involved itself in
more than difficulty by its offer to negotiate
with Texas; for their writers and editors in the
opposition assert, that offer was not only reIin-
quishment of their main argument against the right
Of the United States to enter into treaty of annex
alton, but, in order to reconcile the people of Mex
leo to the proposal of negotiating with Texas the
writers in support of the administration undertook
todemonstrate the utter hopeessness ofsuccess in any
war; and used their utmost efforts to allay any war
like spirit The same party could not, therefore,
very consistently effectualy 60 work to refute
their own arguments The following article, trans
lated from Mexican paper Of the 26lh Of June,
shows the efforts which have been made to repress
any popular inclination for warlike measures; and
it also shows that even those who are now urging
,hem instead of expecting foreign assistance in the
event of war, are looking forward to partition of
their unhappy country among other more powerful
bellgerents.
None of the Mexican papers sent are Of late date,
except the one from which the accompanying arts
Gle is translated. They contain no intelligence but
what has been already published.
Translated from Ell Amigo del Pueblo of June 26.
We DESIRE in this number, to speak of the all
important Texas question; for we perceive with
grief, that the occurrence Of the events connected
with 1t IS FASTENED with the progress of the meas
mes adopted by the United States to consummate
the annexation while Mexico remains, as it were,
asleep, instead of rousng all its energies in order to
confront, with dignity, the awful crisis with which
It's threatened by the enemies of its nationality and
independence.
We could wish that it were not certain-and we
speak this with the good faith Of Mexcans, who at
this moment, think only of the common danger
with which the country is threatened from that
qnesbon--wc could wish, we say, that it were not
SO certain, in our mode of viewing things (perhaps
too gloomy,) that the present administration of the
country has made Intellectual advances, in order to
avert war from the republic, which, in the case of
any untoward event, will prevent it from appearing
10 vlndicate the honor of the nation, while demand
ing satisfaction for the outrages committed by the
United States in their conduct with respect to
Texas.
The news is now circulating through the universe,
Of the disgraceful weakness of Mexico. The press in
every country is announcing that the republic,
though mlsrepresented in its opinions by the adj
mnlstration, has made propositions, through the
medium of foreign power, for acknowledging the
independence of Texas, III order to avert war to
which it was mperiously urged by its honor, its
safety, and the credit which it should have earned
lorlSelf, by defending its most sacred rights.
The most insignificant nation on earth--fhaf in
which the most powerful elements of discord, or the
influence OF an iron despotism, may have destroyed
all virtue and degraded its exstence-even for such
nation, the awful hour comes when ii must save
se or perish, and the striking Of that hour rouses
'rom It's sleep; its first and only cry is, We piHbe
RE- and those who deceived by that sleep fancied
mat they were about to triumph over it, and TO de-
sToy, in day, the titles to glory which it may
nave acquired, may receive new lesson, the more
Troe and effective, in proportion TO the degree Of
neH iorgetfulness of the uncertainty of human for
unes In war from the earliest times. Every man
whoss heart is reached by the cry danger 70 his
eountry can understand, without consulting the an
as OF the world, how it is that heroism has shown
aAen equally invhcibe among all nations, in oppos-
ig lhose who wished to deprive a people of the
liberty which they had achieved for themselves.
fuslanimous spirits have dared to speak in the
ame OF the nation and to represent its debility and
| ~ ,~"NS w cNtn StTOngtf Terms IMAM mas Deen
uone oy some foreign pens, in order to prove that it
impossible for the nation to sustain foreign war
defence OF part of its territory, and that it would
e more expedient for it to renounce its rights and
70 70 acquiesce In the alienation or Independence of
ieAas. IN order to deceive the unthinking, they
nave made ridiculous statements of the num-
ger oisolders which the nation would find il neces-
ary to employ in the war; the millions that must be
added to the taxes already imposed ON the people,
with multitude of other contemplate and irrele-
want calculations in order to mislead the judgments
OF those who, not understanding the character and
grave Importance Of the Texas question, NAV re-
main tranquil in the belief that If the INDEPENDENCE
o. Texas is acknowledged, the affair is at an end ond
Mexico remains at peace, and relieved from the una
alng sacrifices which the rebellion Of that depart
ment has caused II.
The situation in which the republic finds itself
placed by the Texas question, is not one in which
We strength Of nation is to be estimated by the
number of soldiers which il may despatch to the
= aronuer to maintain its rights; but by the public
splnt Of Its sons, in contendng against the infa-
nous usurpaton Of part ofis territory by neigh