Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-04-12

neced with her previous history than any other Stale Inc
Federal Government would be bound to oow upon sue.
subjects the previously pursued b ieha pu' az
consider each question upon its own merits II we .ooA ~
same course which had before been taken by Texas ~ wue
not he for that but her course appeared To- %
the true and proper ONE If the course taken BY Texas
particular question should appear to us not 70 nave ~ m
proper one another would now be pursued me very JUGS
on Of the claim of Me co jurisdiction over e .e Dry
exa would now be open for the consideration OF the over
ment of the United States upon Its meIl's ha VI eAes
should think proper to present It, In ina, case e
men of the United States would be bound resw e wnoe
subject under the double aspect OF nsn az. ~, - he
should be satisfied upon such review Of tue justice Of the
claim oC MEXICO (which hardly supposabe would be bound
10 knowledee IL and to permit the territory TO go back TO
that Power. H
/ This. we confess, could we so manage things in
all our foreign relations, would be dong what IS
called in trade safe business and, IN betting the
oame of ..heads, win; tails, you lose" We
sbould thus have the very convenient right in any
war between two other Powers, to seize upon the
object of that war, the defeat Of the claims oil one
of the parties, leaving it without any remedy; and
no sooner has the other permitted this, apparently
for her benefit than we may transfer the entire
thing in dispute to the first party, leaving the So
cond no remedy, or rather leaving no second party
al all! We, it must be acknowledged, have no title
in the thing disputed if we have, then we should
be parties to the war, but no--fhat, nobody has
pretended even in all the ridiculous arguments about
Remuneration. If these had been worth any thing,
the only legitimate and logical consequence was,
that 8erico aDas at sCar aoih as, not Texas, since
she acas attempting 10 satbdus our territory. We,
then, have no right in the thing disputed, no power
over those disputng il ). for both 1--WE say are inde
pendent nations. And yet, strange to say, we neu-
trails can at our pleasure alone put an end to the
war, and dispose Of all the rights Of both parties
Just as we please giving them to either or keeping
them for ourselves, as may to US seem good; and
for all this nobody has any righful remedy against
us We can acquire, it seems, at our own mere
motion, all the rights of every body else and as
we consult nobody, of course no conditions attach
10 the acquisitions we make, no penalty to any
thing we may do with it! In word, the Globe
says that peace is the rightful consequence Of an
nexation and, if that be 50, there can be nothing
to go to war about afterwards. Mexiso cannot
make, subsequently, cause Of war of that which
originally formed fact of peace, whether she and
Texas chose or not and Texas can still less do
any thing, however displeased. If we keep one
half of her for ourselves and give the rest up to
Mexico, neither half viii have any remedy Against
Mexico or us.
Now, as we have said, this is very good game
to play at; and is any game, where all the cut
ting Shifting, dealing keeping count, and holding
the stakes is allowed to be done by single player.
But unfortunately, on these terms, every body would
claim 10 be dealer and each one would have just
the same right TO deal as we.
Suppose, for instance, the "ipdomitable democrat
cy" should next winter suceesd in what it was this
winter so violently bent on doing, and rush into
war with England about Oregon! Then why should
not France or Russia deliberately and peacefully
step in; annex Oregon to herself; put an end to
i tlne war. whether Ys will no keep it, If she
likes give it TO England, i thar spits her better
or give us tu Rocky Mountains and desert OF
two, and help herself and England to the rest
Why mott The case is precisely the same as the
Globes, in every particular but one, namely, that
herr we would be the pundered, not the plundering
party.
As TO what the Globe s2ys of Mexico being
bound, by the clause cited from the treaty, not to
go to war until she shall have stated her wrong and
we refused amends, the answer is easily drawn from
the principles that we have already stated But we
will give the answer sti more distinctly: Her first
protest discharged her from all further obligation
under that clause of the treaty. She then told Us
almost in the high official words of our own Chief
Magistrate) that our incorporation of Texas while
at war With Der was declaration of war against
her. and thai she would 50 copsiderit, That effect
was the real one Of our act We, with thai solemn
notice before us, have still gone on and done the
act the war; then, is of our making, not hers, IT
needs no further notice her part she has but to
90 forward and execute the notice she has already
given US.
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