Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-14
SATURDAY, JUNE IA, ls45.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS WITH REFERENCE
TO HOME INTERESTS.

TO HOME INTERESTS.
The article from the New Y ork /" Evening Post"
which occupies the preceding column, characterized
by national and elevated spirit, presents body
Of reflections which, coming directly home to the
business and bosoms Of all its intelligent readers,
cannot fail to make deep impression upon Them
The Epening Post is, as our readers generally
are well aware, paper Of long standing its poll
ties like those of several OF the particularly eminent
members Of the party now ascendant IN the Hene-
raj Government, originally high-toned Federal,
have in the course Of time, without any material
change of position, become heightened Democratic ;
whereby the Post, with the distinguished men
referred to, have become the habtual supporters
Of party, some Of whose principles they con-
denim no less than we, who have never been
otherwise than opposed to uItraism of all sorts.
Il is feature i'm the character of the Posi-, how
ever that it will not lend itself to every wild pro-
ject that may present itself in the name of g the
party" or, being presented by others, may be adopt
ed by it. The " Post y has been, therefore, the
consistent opponent of the scheme for the
alton - of Texas, which it denounced as mercenary
in its origin, corrupt in its progress, International
in its motives, and portentous in its probable con-
sequences The warnings of the " Post were az
we all know disregarded by its political friends and
associates, who, leaping at one bound the bar
riers of the Constitution and resolutey turning their
back on all their former doctrines and professions on
the same subject succeeded, by the power of party
and by the employment of every means OF persuasion
purchase and seduction, in obtaining majority of
one vote in the Senate of the United States in favor
of the measure of !" annexation" The now appre-
hended consequence of that l-omened action of the
Senate is the subject of the article which copy to-
day from the Post" and which we were the more
gratifed to find there, from having in some late
artcles--admtted, as we now perceive, inadvert-
emily into its columns-reason to apprehend that
the Post had sacrificed its own sound Judgment,
upon the annexation question: to mere senseess
party camor, or the still more senseless love of ex-
element and rage of acquisition, which the Post,
we are sorry to say, too truly desgnates as |" in
stincts natural to the human heart and not foreign
to the Anglo-Saxon race"
Right manfully has the Post come forth, at this
juncture to speak plain truth to its readers to
point out to them th, danger at hand, which it had,
when at distance, prophetically announced; and
to exhort them to brace up their courage TO meet
the worst that can befal them This indulgence
of passion for territorial aggrandizement; this
laundering after the property Of our neighbors this
'instincf' of the Ango-Saxons, who areas General
HAMnroN once said in much-applauded speech
at Texan festival" the greatest land robbers
in existence !" this "quitting our own to stand
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1 by WASHINGTON, whose admonition on this sub
ject became, twenty years ago, the keynote O
the Democracy with General JACKSON at theil
hcad-the Post shows clearly enough to its readers
is not likely, some seem to suppose, to end in a
sort of peasure-party to the Halls of the Monte
zumas," nor yet in great lottery for the distribu-
ton of the brilliant spoils of their descendants.
day of reckoning must come. A war-debt of hun
dreds of millions is to be created and the General
Government cannot, as some other Government Is
have done, contract debts which they do not mean
to pay. This debt, when created, must be paid
and can only be paid by taxes upon the People
and indeed, before it can be created money mus
be raised in the way to pay the interest upon
| it, to the amount of tens of millions annually
This war with Mexico, supposing it to begin and
end with her, may, as the Post shrewdly hints
serve to fill the pockets of or two of con-
tractors and hangers-on upon the Government but
to carry il on will grind the face of the people
and involve in ruin many important interests Of
the country.
| The knowledge that such will be the effect to a
greater or less extent Of war with ana foreign
Power, makes its due impression on the mind OF
the POST as it must do on the mind of every
man who is at once intelligent and honestly which
we mean who is uncorrupt, unbiased by direct
personal interest in war, or in the particular object
for which war is to be waged In the maintenance
of essential rights and interests we know that such
considerations as these, however powerful must
sometimes be disregarded. There is necessity
which has no law There are cases of collision
with foreign Power in which there is no alterna-
tive. One OF the great vices OF the Texan scheme,
the iniquity and false pretences of which, however
doubted before, are now undergoing daily develop
ment and shameful confirmation, is, that il has put
the choice OF the alternatives of peace war be-
yond our control. II is in the hands OF MEXICO
The destinies of this country have been fearfuly
put at hazard, by heartless combination OF ambi-
tous politicians and interested speculators and the
great body Of the respectable, and orderly, and con-
tented population, are to bear the consequences,
whatever they may be, of this rash experiment upon
4 the public Drosneritv