The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-19

The federal press is out in full chorus about Gen
era Kearny's proclamation, the annexation of New
Mexico, the instructions, &c, &c. The last mails
bring us angry and inaammatory articles from the
NASHVILLE Wing" the Nashville Orthopotan, y
the Cincinnati Gazette, the Lynchburg virsnian, ;,
&c, &c. The National Inteligencer" is of course
sparing no effort on its part to swell the tempest,
and to furnish the cue to the other wing papers,
which have not yet joined in the hue and cry. The
course of the National Intelligencer is singulary
amusing on this subject. With what grace can it
reproach others with disregard to the provisions
of the consttuton-with trampling the rights of the
States under foot, more especially when it has gra-
tuitously attributed measures to others which they
do not support. That paper is VIGOROUSLY ultra in
the support of all the old federal doctrines. Bank,
roads and canals, excessive tariff, distribution, &c,
&c. 1t is lattudnarian throughout in its construc-
ton of the constitution. 1t boggles at no implied
powers ofthe most unlimited character.
But that the National Intelligencer, or its col
leagues, should now attempt to turn the tables upon
the republican party, and charge them with pros
trating the strict principles of the constitution,
is really ridiculous enough. That it should
new territory to the Union by his own authority
alone, is almost too absurd to be contradicted.
Thatit should suspect us of change of the strict
State rights principles which we have professed,
scarcely requires any answer That it should cour-
teousy attribute this change of our opinion to mer-
cenary motives, and to subservience to power, is
an impeachment which we scorn to deny. The
Integencer is only seeking to raise clamor against
the administration by which it may hope to advance
new materials to the abotionsts We tell the
National Inteigencer and its affiliated presses, that
they are attempting to strike in the dark They
are assuming facts which are no, true. There is
no change in the principles Of the President Of the
United States; there is no change in our own.
The "Cncinnati Gazette" asserts what is not
true, when it charges the President with the design
of adding "with one dash of the pen," "a large
territory, with its hundreds of thousands of people,
rect in the position that "nobody doubts the right
Of military commander to take possession Of
territory whose government is at war with his ma
lion. General Kearny, in this respect, could seize
and hold New Mexico" But to go still further
and say (as the "Cincnnati Gazette does) that the
President means to annex any territory to the
Union by his own authority alone, is an assertion
as untrue as it is unjust
As the last Augusta Consttutonalist' says, "If
General Kearny had right to conquer the country,
he could take possession of it only in the name of
the United States," &c. "Is admission to the priv
ieges, protection, and guarantees Of the constitution
as State of the confederation, is quite another affair."
which could only be effected by application, pass
ing through the forms Of the constitution ITSELF and
becoming law of the land" &c. &c.