Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-11-08

a quarter usually well-inlormed, our Goyern'heh'
has no sooner ascerained that Mexico can AZ Hue
resist or resent invasion as annexation, man ~ 10
preparing 4 still worse form OF aggression. we
are now, il would seem, to revert 10 ofu ihuries'
and since Mexico cannot take redress for whole
regions wrune from her, 10 exact vengeance our
selves for comparatively petty wrongs to our indi
yidual citizens long since adjusted by treaty and in
fair progress Of liquidation, until by our own deli
berate acts we terminated the good understanding
between The two nations
The New York Journal Of Commerce of Satur-
day last contains the following disclosures from its
correspondent here, whose access TO the purposes
Of the Cabinet seems generally authentic:
WASHINGTON, OcroBER 80.
am happy to learn that the Executive has determined not
to send special agent Mexico demand payment Of in
IDENTITIES led TO believe, by various circumstances,
that such the to be taken did not deem the
proper but if the Government chose to adopt il did
not see how could do much harm, did clearly apPre
bend how could be well gotten to adhere
to the letter of the treaty. M
But I am glad to state, for tho information of Mexican
claimants and for the information Of all those who entertain
lust Of rational rights and dignity that the course
OF the Executive this subject will be that will fully
their expectations, and be far effective than the
feeble and formal that have referred to- and which has
been abandoned.
What this course to be will undertake but
refer oil who may be interested in the matter to The Pres-
DENIS Annual Message, which will be forthcoming about
four weeks.
The ground taken by the Executive probably u.s. that
Mexico has far violated the treaty herself that alb
soled from any adherence 10 a. She has taken the respon
bty of breaking of all diplomatic intercourse recalling
own Minister and disnissing. do see how this
Government could approach her. any way except The ay
The French took.
We might send messenger with the demand provided for
in the treaty. but would only expose Mexican insult
and would aggravate the existing difficulties Besides,
questions have ovsgrown and superseded extent the
questions contemplated in the treaty.
The italics, &c. in the above quotation are ours,
and intended to direct the readers attention to the
points which seem TO us to be particularly worthy
of it.
In our view, this Government committed wrong
towards its suffering citizens, when il prefer
red, the quiet execution of the stipulaons in their
favor, the interests Of desperate political gamblers
and of Texas spectators. That wrong it now
proposes, but too probably, to right by still more
cruel and bloody one upon Mexico, instead of pay
ing the poor claimants, it ought from the first to
have done, out of its own pocket-either in its own
engagements, collecting the money for itself Of
Mexico,) now out of the spoil that it has taken
and proposes to wrest from her. 4
We can imagine nothing more revolving to COM
mon sense, as well to any idea Of justice and
public faith, than what is now intimated TO be the
"probable " purpose of the Executive.
Is there 70 be no mercy, no shame Can this
country have the heart to trample any further on
Al a. Il
dered so pitiable spectacle Of public humiliation !?
Again and again have we VIGOROUSLY offered, as
to Texas, to compensate Mexico in money for the
injury we bent on committing. That such
was the sole purpose for which Mr.. THOMPSON was
dispatched thilher last year, while the Tyler treaty
was pending, is believed: that Mr.. SHANNON made,
under instructions, like overture, is too notori-
Gus to be denied by any body. On the floor Of
Congress, last spring, the Chairman of the House
Committee of Foreign Relations (Mr. C. ]. NIGER
soLL) went so far as to assure the nation in the
name of the Cabinet, that not only would we make
but that Mexico would accept, atonement in money
for her violated honor and rights
We have seized, without compensation, on what
we then offered to buy We have gone on to dis
possess her, in arms, Of what even annexation
meant not to take, unless by treaty. We have
stationed our squadrons upon her coast--itself an
insult If not an act of war, emitting a nation al
ways TO large amends, if any can be made in mo-
ney. At this instant talk familiarity Of Califor-
MIA as presently ours, of New Mexico as pear
nearly ripe 10 fall into our hands. Helpless, dis
tracted covered with the disgrace of suffering such
things, Mexico lies victim-people, at our mercy,
with nothing to hope but to see her provinces torn
from her, one by one, at the first pretexi, at our
first convenience. What Is annexation grown
too mild, too pacific, too righteous We can help
ourselves without resistance: is not that enough
Does the :" Anglo-Saxon spirit /" hunger no longer
Tor lands but thirst for blood? 1t is clear that we
can inhict upon Mexico with IMMUNITY what we
Pio"'o' buff wo arc to dismember her, piece by
piece, let us at least suffer the parts sliced off to
cohere by the first intention, little to unite with
our own flesh, before we trench off others. And
at any event, let us not ravage by war dominions
that we destne for own, and can take w;,bou,
carnage il we choose TO be unjust enough 70 seze
them.
The Criminal Court of the District of Columbia
met at Alexandra on Monday last. Present the
Hon. Il. HARTLEY CRAWFORD. The. commission
Of the newly appointed Judge was read and The
Court opened After the Grand Jury had been
o,uor, tho Iudro dalivered an annronriato cba.,,a