Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-11-15
THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. AND IT'S WASH
INGTON CORRESPONDENTS


The Washington correspondent Of the Journal of
Commerce affects to disclaim having access to
sources Of information here which are not open to
every careful observer of the events of the day
He is entirely too modest; and, whilst we must
not directly contradict what he says that head,
we may be allowed the remark that he has shown
himself too knowing to be understood literally in
making such disclaimer How does it happen
that, when we reprobate designs Of the Government
first disclosed by him, the wires set in motion
here, and the government paper comes down upon
us with discharge of all sorts Of offensive mis-
siles ! There is, indeed, such wonderful coinci-
cidence between the limitations of the correspon-
dent aforesaid and those of the government writers
as to justify some suspicion Of their identity.
The only passage, however, of the correspon-
dence of the !" Journal under date of November
7, which we propose at present to notice is the
following:
We are not aware that this Government ever,
as stated nrhe remarks Of the National Intelligent
Ger, offered, to Texas, to compensate Mexico
an money!
Who constitute the W. in this sentence? Is
such phraseology usual in correspondence between
single individual and another individual or firm
Or is not the Of this phrase almost proof posi-
tive that, when the article containing il penned,
the writer had not made up his mind whether to
send It to " the Union" or some other paper, as
Editorial, to the Journal of Commerce as Cor
respondence p
But let that pass. This correspondent Processes
to be g not aware y that this Government ever Of
fered, to Texas, compensate Mexico IN money
Indeed! What then was the meaning Of the De-
mocratic Chairman of the Committee Of Foreign
Relations necessarily well-informed Of every thing,
public or private, concerning this matter) when
he said, on the floor of the House Of Representa-
tives, on the Sd day Of January last, that he was
authorized by those who, he felt very sure, had
not deceived him, land he would assure the House
and the country that in this declaration he was not
deceiving Them, to declare here, in his place, and
on his responsibility, that, whatever angry feelings
might now prevail between us and Mexico, there
was no reason to believe that any rupture with
that Power would be the consequence of annexa-
stion. On this point he had asked for information
where he ought not to be, and where he believed
he was not, deceived. There was sinew of war,
and the best and strongest sinew of the meant
sMoNEY--sOhich sDonld heal all our breaches ia
+ that quarter 90
| This declaration alone, made when and how il
twas, sufciendy establishes the fact that money, as
compensation for the Texas territory,or boundary
the two terms having in this case te same meaning
has beenthe subject of communication, ofproposi-
ton and reply, between agents of the Governments
| Of the United States and Mexico
But what did our late distinguished Minister Mr.
SHANNON say, on this subject, in his final letter
to his excellency'' Mr.. REJoN, the Mexic an
Minister of Foreign Relations Has the reader
| forgotten 1t deserves to be remembered. He
said that should the Government of Mexico fail
hereafter to receive the compensation which the
Government of the United States, for the sake of
preserving those relations, woud wiHingiy hare
| gicen for territory over whieh Merico does
not now, and cannot hereafter, exercise j,tris-
diction, the Mexican people must charge the loss
which they wiH thus sustain, to his excellency
|. Mr.. Rejon and the Government by whose order
| his notes of the 3lst utmo and the 9th instant
| were written
We presume that the doubts of the Correspon-
dent of the Journal of Commerce, and of all who
place confidence in his statements, concerning the
proffer of money to Mexico, as compensation for
the territory Of Texas, are by this time dspeed.
There is some point, certainly, in the following
paragraph, which we copy from Democratic jour
nal of high character published in this city:
FROM CONSTITUTION OF TUESDAY EVENING
/" IMPRoBABLITY OF WAR.-The report that the
frigate United States is fitting out at Boston for
the Mediterranean seems to discountenance the
supposition that our Government anticipates any
serious difficulty with Great Britain. The Medi-
| terranean would be most awkward place for an
American squadron in of hostilities with that
i Power. complete cd de sac with Gibraltar
and her fleets commanding its mouth, our vessels
would remain quietly blockadcd in some of its
ports during the war, or be captured by the supe-
rior force Of the enemy
"FouLLr.-In leading article on Saturday on the
subject Of Oregon, wrote, England will submit
to have inch Of Oregon rcibiy taken from her. The
types made say 'touHy"
Having copied into this paper the article of the
New York Courier and Enquirer to which the pre-
ceding paragraph refers, il is due to that journal
that we should place the correction also before our
readers.
We take advantage Of this recurrence TO the arti-
Gle in question 10 confess nadvertence and sincere
regret in having given circulation to so much Of as
casts harsh reflections upon one Of our own citizens
whom it desgnates !" very prominent Wash
ington Broker" We were too intent ON the main
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