New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-08
The Way TO Stop the ynr.

Correspondence OF Inc tribune
'WAsHuNGToS Dec. 18th lci6.
Let Congress before they vote another or
dollar call on the President and demand to know
what his Interior expectations--what he means
TO demand.-For instance do you mean not to make
peace until the Mexican government grants the
CALIFORNIA; and do you expect Slavery to be ex
tended over them The answer will stop the
war, Have we not sufficiently indicated and made
manifest the power OF the country and the superior
skill and raor of our troops? Is not the point of
honor satisfied We have already conquered as
much more territory than the Senate will consent
to keep unless Slavery be excluded as lies beyond
the undisputed limits ofTcxas
Does any one believe that the American people
will consent TO maintain an army in Mexico as the
French government is maintaining one in Algeria
Let Congress and the President come to an un,
derstanding, and if they can CONCUR IN, their judg.
mem as to what the nation must demand as a
sine qua non Of peace, then let vote more money
and more blood but let us not exhibit to the world
the cursed example OF people animated by
blood thirsty spirit fighting for the love OF blood
and carnage and yet ready to cut each others
Threats about the spoils OF victory when they
wont The wonder is that ministers of tho Gospel
whose great province it is to preach peace and
good will among men do not denounce this odious,
unchristian war upon Il degraded besotted people,
at the expense OF the lives Of so many OF our gal
liant countrymen, Why do they not bring home to
their own tircsides the view of m<he,s and chd
dren, with their limbs torn of and their brains
dashed out as they were al Monterey and at Ia
basco by hundreds,
They say il WINS shcrlin, al,
Aitcr the field won
tcr many Thousand bodies here
Lay rotting IN the sun;
But things like that, you know must be
Al every famous victory.
Great praise the Duke of Marlboro won
And our good prncc'E Eugene
Why, twas very wicked thing
Said little Wilhelmirs.
Nay. nay my little girl quoth he.
IL Was n famous victory.
And everybody praised the Duke.
Who such fight did win
But what good came OF il at last
0uoth little Petrikn.
Why, that cannot TELL said he,
But-twss \ famous victory.
This story is current here, and l believe well
founded that receipt of the news OF the death OF
Lieut.. & in the bloody assault upon Monterey.
Mira. P, OF the White House ordered her coach and
went doubtless IN spirit OF aniahe sympathy. 10
condole with the heart broken mother on the I'M
timely and savage death OF her saau, aud darling
soma son to whom she looked as the pride and
hope OF her few remaining years, Time had not We,
Sufficiently assussed her parental suffering to ad
mt reason 10 resume its empire and the distracted
Mother replied" Tell me no, OF rcsisnation-tel
me- Madam. ii YOU can, for no one seems able TO an
swer me-.cr what was thus wicked war brought
upon cur country Why was my noble son the IN
haitor OF his father virtues snd the pride OF my
old age, sent to be murdered in that barbarous
country !" When this inquiry was reported to tho
author OF the war--to ''iounS Hickory, safely Ell
sconced in the White House, what could he reply
but