The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-22

word, such suspension Of our operations has al
ready been declared by our governmental bepainly
inadmissible. There can be, as the President de-
elared IN his message, no suspension OF hosulities
ill treaty has been "made and ratified"
The article in the London Times, which will be
found below, pictures to the life the wretchedness
and the infatuaton Of the Mexican government.
Yet with pertinsci,y which has now become fair
ly hdierous, the "leadng journal" continues TO
pirate about "the enormous wrong done 10 Mexico
by the aggression of the United States" IL is need
less now to repeat the story of the Independence and
the subsequent annexation Of Texas. That indie
pendenee (recognised by tho leading powers Of the
world and by England HERSELF was the rescue Of a
fair realm from feeble and vicious misgovernment,
which had no one element Of legitimacy. The sub
sequent annexation was in its nature an elemental
Of two popular soyereigntes, with whose action
no foreign had the slightest claim TO interfere
The result Of that annexation is the extension, In
accordance with the will Of the people, Of fed
eral, in place of diplomatic, relations over
new region of the American continent-the full
liberty of the citizen being meantime most SOL
EMMY guaranteed by local constitution. What
the Times calls American intrigue" in the affair Of
Texas, is the irresistible impulse of the Anglo-Sax
on on this continent to govern himself What the
Times calls American invasion of Mexico" is the
iue ehastisemcnt, long forborne, Of the feeble and
desperate reckessness ola seml-barbarous military
iespotism. lfby this "invasion" the Times means
he occupation Of Texas up TO the RIO Grande-
which Lord George Bentinck, in his plentiful igno-
rance of the subject, has attempted to censure-the
tDswer is, that Texas clearly extended to the Rio
Grande, and that we have the clear right to protect
and occupy our own soil. Ifby the "invasion" is
meant our crossing Of the Rio Grande into the pro-
yinces Of Mexico-the answer il, that such an in
Vasion is just and necessary act Of war on our
part, in war brought on and declared by the acts
If Mexico herself "The odious character Of the
equal conflict on the Rio Grande, ;" is the struggle,
On the one hand, between conscious power, seek
Jog no ends but peace and justice, and national
impotence, on the other, blinded by vanity and
gwen over to be the prey of successive and
selfish factions. The Times tells us that "itle
credit is to be won" by the United States in the
Mexican war. Not so. II will be great credit to
our country to have Weakened Mexico to sense Of
What is due to the rights Of other nations to the
peace Of the world, and to the civilization of the
age. Il is great credit to our institutions,
that thousands and hundreds of thousands Of our
citizen soldiers have everywhere rushed at once, and
with most patriotic nlacrty, TO arms at the first call
Of their country and to the ends Of justice 1t
d great credit to arms-European soldiers con-
Tess this-to have won, against Overwhelming odds,
the brilliant days of Pao Alto and Resaca de la
Palma.
The Times is correct in its opinion, that our war
With Mexico threatens no injury to neutral British
property there. IL is a fact, which should not be
forgotten, that in those provinces through which
The American army passes, driving before it the
wretched forms of Mexican sway, anarchy disap.
pears, and the people respire a better and more
healthful political atmosphere. IL is worthy of
note, that even the London Times-the arch enemy
If America--confesses, in the very article which
stigmazes "American aggression" shat many Of
the principal land and proistors in northern
yM.rieo, are better affected TO The United States Than 10
heir government, on the express ground Qfhs aipe-
r0r protection to private property, and The immediate
increase in The val land, and the transactions o)tor-
eign trade"
After such an admission, the Times may well
add: "No for the interference Of England, either
lions, in conjunction ,oih The other European
pOtoes, has been made out has not been soeiiedin
any definite form by Merieo. has mol been curanf-
ed by any act of the United States"
From the London Times, Aug 20.
No one can be surprised that the precarious con.
dtion of Mexico and of British interests in Mexico
should have excited amongst portion of our mer
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naturally and forcibly expressed on Monday night
by Lord George Bentinck in the House Of Com
mons. We ourselves have been repeatedly solicit
cd by anxious and injured correspondents to en-
deavor to rouse the public opinion of the country
against the enormous wrong done to Mexico by
this aggression of the United States, and the proba
Bile consequences of that wrong to British interests
IN the invaded country. But neither the English
government the English press postponed to the
extreme hour Of danger those warning counsels
which the occasion required. Mexico urged
to recognise the independence Of Texas upon con-
ditIons which would have secured the existence
Of that State a barrier between herself and the
United States. Mexico told that she must
openly and resolutey decide between a closer con-
nexion with the European powers or the prospect
Of subjugation and dissolution by American inva-
sion and American intrigues She would do neither |
but seemed to view both alternatives with tho same
stupid and inert suspicion alike incapable Of grasp
ing the hand of friend or parrying the attacks
Of foe. Last autumn, when the incessant changes
Of the Mexican government under the republic
can form had demonstrated that such republic
was condemned to perpetual anarchy, sugges
ton was thrown out in Europe that return to the
monarchcal form of government would most pro-
badly be found the only eecual means Of restoring
stability and dignity to the State of Mexico. This
idea was not unfavorably entertained by several of
the leading statesmen in Europe, provided it should
appear that the Mexcans themselves disposed
to adopt it, for there is certainly motive en-
enlargement for any European power to contribute
to the restoration Of government which would not
possess the essential condition of the respect and at
tachment of the Mexican nation. Shortly after
wards revolution was effected by man to whom
these monarchical views were not new or unwel-
come, and who had directly adverted 10 them in his
proclamation. A convention was called TO regene-
rate the institutions Of the country. Every species
of calamity, from internal bankruptcy and dissou
ton to foreign conquest, were impending over Mex
leo; but in the midst Of this crisis, General Pa
redes seems TO have, not good policy or bad pol
icy, but no policy whatever; and we do not believe
that an attempt has been seriously made by the
Mexican government to improve their amenable