The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-08
,,pxIco AND HER ORGAN.

,obably have occaAioh W "o"Ne - e 1880
80. .Na,onal Iniellgencer" Of Thursday last, IN
&C. 10 our relations with Mexico. We can
,inle divine the purpose, as we can symPathise
h N, feelings ofthat journal, in the course which
,n,suing in regard to the foreign policy OF our
..osot and of our people We say OF our
s..,omeut and of our people--for that the foreign
cy Of the present administration, SO far as Il has
;,se,f known, has been, and Is, IN strict ooedi-
80. 10 the plainy-spoken popular mandate, the
Ie..,,;.oncer, does not and cannot deny What,
AZ ia editors seek to accomplish What Is
s.;r din in coming boldly out again and again as
!. .bompions and the defenders OF every foreign
,,;,b which our country is involved, or seems
~, ), h, involved, in controversy Is the gov
.,.0, Of the United States, in their judgment, al
.r. and evermore incapable Of rectitude in Its
- towards foreign nationsi Is it, in their
;.w ahrns their duty, as public journalists, and
,';vso, Of the United States, to hold up this
Fr,.,o a, the one great and hardened nation
.asressor among all the nationsi Do they
=. this tone as party men' How It sub
80. Marty ourposes--how it works as the war
!. of party---they should, by this time, have
armed from experience. Is il for the pleasure Of
\. h;ng then, if not for its good policy, that they
N dawn shame, and wrath, and scorn on the heads
: ~. constitutional authorities Of their own coun-
,s 80 soon as any single foreign interest, no
.,sr how weak or wicked, can be trumpet set
.ho.. authorities at defancel We do not ask these
questions at random. Far from it. We weigh our
words. And we put the fact distinctly to the mind
.v.rv American, be he democrat or whig-nay,
more we urge especially on the consideration of
be wbg party of the country, the fact, that most
leading national organ of that party, published at
The seat of the national government, Is no,c, and has
A,,r r no short time past, consistently, ardeniiy and
.,r,,r,r,gv ANTI AMERICAN in all its leading views
n our relations with foreign states. Bear us witness
The In,ellgencer upon Texas. Texas was colo
nv and the Intelligencer had nothing to say
.eans, her. Texas became independent, and
sl for eight years, the lntelligencer reviled her
mol. Texas proposed TO join herself to as /;
and then, from day to day, and from year to
wear, the Inielligencer poured out upon her, and
upon her purpose all the walls of its indignation.
Bear Us witness the Inteligencer the affairs Of
South America, England, in alliance with France,
grasps and ,hrottes, with an iron hand, the bell-
gsren. rights of the Argentine republic and the In
ellisencer quietly notes the fact in detail, without
peakng the first solitary word of protest or remon-
trance. Bear us witness the Intelligencer upon
Oregon. England, stretching out her armed hand
rs over three thousand miles Of sea, AMI then over
hree thousand miles more Of land, grasps our land
bfOregon-ours by discovery-ours by settlement
bun by treaty-ours by contiguity-ours by the
lxed decree Of Providence, made manifest in the
reaiion, her. alone, of that heaving tide of popula-
ion which must, ere long, pour through the georges
the Rocky mountains, and fill up, as alone it can
filed up, the broad basin Of the Columbia;- Eng
md, we say, against all law of nations and of ma
pre claims this land ofours-clans Il BY diplomacy
br she has no other claim; and the Intelligencer,
hen all mems minds are turned TO the topic, finds
ot one manly word to speak against this British
ggression, but quotes as "grave and timely" the
sertion, that in part at least "the claim of England
better than ours;" and then parades before its
eaders, with doleful forebodings, the whole exag-
Grated array of British arsenals and dockyards
warming with the artifcers, and sounding with the
(ote Of preparation for war
And last and worst of all, and most to be won
Tered at and lamented and censured, let the whole
curse Of the nelligencer in relation to Merico bear
IS witness to the want in that leading metropolitan
purna Whose position here and in Europe makes
p course Of no small concemment to this nation)
any rightfal regard, and Of any true sympathy,
pr the good name and the most sacred interests Of
De government of the United States in its contro-
ersies with foreign powers.
II suits the present sinister views Of but too ma
Of our transatlantic rivals to hold us up to all
/ hristendom as ptess nggressors on our weak and
nhaPpy and distracted neighbor republic, of whom
E yet want nothing but peace and justice; and to
Us malignant British charge, which the whole
ess Of England is laundering in the ears of all
world, the National Intelligencer--from motives
hlch it alone can explain--has long since
nt and is now lending, its steadfast and unAinch-
and unblushing countenance and support. And
the lntelligencer knows just as well as we know,
at II there be on the face of the earth one govern
which owes all gratitude and respcctto another
|vernment, that great debt is at this moment richly
from Mexico to the United States. Who has for
aen the events and the policy Of 1922 Who
e' not know and acknowledge, that when Mex-
nationality lay weak and helpless in its cradle,
when more than two serpents Of European
&c and fraud were sent forth TO srangle il there,
United States stood boldly up as its defender,
crushed the coming and sure destruction
no does not know that when the radiant and
pe'ul dadem Of Independence was placed upon
baby brow" the United States still stood by,
p0aors, to do its battle, il need be- against the
,na' and so turned into hollow, and suppressed,
Instant murmurs, the open-mouthed and fell
precautions Of the "Holy Alliances" in Europe'
men, when independence was gained, who
mol Know that the Mexican government, indie
uen'' but impoverished, stretched out its hands
Us TOT population which might make her untitled
'''es bloom into State' On urgent Mexican
'a'y and under solemn Mexican stipulation,
men Of Texas (then our men) became her
'pie' and sowed and reaped for her upon
ianosf And then, when her constitution
!" down, and her freedom died, md a weak,