Litchfield enquirer., 1845-08-21
From the .n: Y Tribune of Saturday.

The most obstinate incredulity is well nigh O. Vercome Those who had determined not to cred it the assumptions of Messrs. Forsyth, Clay, Van Buren, etc. that the Annexation of Texas necessa- rily involved US in war with Mexico, will soon be compelled to admit the truth. Mexico is about to appeal from rapacity and injustice to the bar barous and bloody arbitrament of the sword. In this resort she is madly blind and misguided, but for the blood which shall be shed in the contest she will be far less guilty than those of us who have not resisted with all our might the perfdious act of rapne which is the cause of this most nnnatur- al drama of murder.
 It is too late now to avert the guilty business The issue of the War is not doubtful Mexico IS pitiably the weaker party, and must go to the wall. Soon our army will be on the Rio Grande del Norte, with the flag of freedom at their head, and an end less procession of Slaves in their rear. The army will dspossess the Mexican authorities; and the chained and cofled procession behind will subdue and cultivate the soil, dancing to :he music of the Overseer's whip. We shall ultimately annex Mex ico down the Sierra Madre, and then appropriate New Mexico, Sonora, and California to pay the ca. penses of the scar! These will be conquered by our arms and treasure: they will be monopolzed by the land spectators and slave.drvers, and the real expenses of the war will be wrung from the sweat and tol of our honest, hard working millions. And they Ca good part of them) will shout and hug ga over picfories which will fill the land with few vast, unearned fortunes, and send their own children hungry and hopeless to miserable lars.- Such is the way of the world.
 Our Commerce, especially our Whale Fishery should have been warned and shielded against the storm now preparing to burst upon them. The Government and its organ have been culpably re- miss in preparing the People for this issue, which was morally certain from the outset. Mexico is not formidable foe, far she may attempt the offensive, but she is difficult of access, and may protract the war for years. If so, wo to our un- needing. defenceless Commerce! We are as yet but at the beginning of the end.'
 Mr. Polk and the .4rmy.-We understand that President Polk has recently appointed MT. Quinn by, private citizen of Tennessee, Lieutenant in the U. States Army, over the heads of some seven. or eighty passed graduates with rank of Brevet Second Lieutenants, who are waiting for vacancies to receive promotion. We are not aware that this power of the President has ever been exercised by any of his predecessors It strikes at the very foundation of the hopes and prospects of the young men composing the army. During the Florida War MT. Van Buren made repeated army appointments from among private citizens, but always took care to exhaus. the list of army candidates before mak ing any such appointment. This act of Mir. Polk has given great offence to the officers of the Army.
 DrougM.-An almost unaparalled drought con. tinues to scourge Virginia. Letters say that the "oidest inhabitant" scarcely recollects such one
 
 one or two hundred miles, are now sending to Rich mond for meal" So says one of the letters befor, us. Some of the farms on the lower James rive will scarcely yield half crop of corn. even if the have now the advantage of copious showers
 The neighborhood of Washington has also severe ly suffered. The grass in her beautiful publi squares is nearly wiihered np. The gardener il the vegetable garden attached to the White Hous says he does not recollect such spell of weathe since the days of John Quincy Adams adminisra tion. ....'
 This smorning's "Richnond Times and Compiler gives an appalling picture of the effects of tht drought in Virginia and North Carolina. We dt not understand that it has extended very far to tht west. Washington Uai0n.
 Discharged by Drought The Waterbury Amer ican, says-"A procession of about twenty work men. attached to Brown & Elton's pin sho3, wtl return luncheon in hand, entered our sanctum yes terday. and reported lhemsels discharged by th, Clerk of the weather"-until it shall please Proyi dence to open the fountains from above.
 The abolition papers state that several coloVe, students. rejected at Mddiebury College, by advic of Gov. Slade, have been admitted to DartmUutI College in New HamPshirs,