The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-08

exciting complaint in any quarter that Mexico herself
has regarded the advance to the Gnde a cause
of war any than the advance TO the Nueces that
Paroles had ordered the Mexican general to attack"
our army by "every which war permits" as
early the 4h Of April $780, before the arrival Of Gen.
eral Taylor at the Rio Grande could possibly have
been known at the city of Mexico; that the recon-
quest of Texas and not the repulse of our army
from the Rio Grande, was the ayowed and pledged
purpose of Paroles in this ORDER and, finally, thai
Dr. Webster himself t1ho comes toruard 10 make his
charge, that the march of General Taylor 10 he Rio
Gralds hs "lpasiOn Of Merean OF neutral terrific
ry" did orer has signature, Official despatch Of
The sh Of July 1912, distinctly declare that "te territory
betpeen the Sabine and the RIO Grande," pas. by the tea-
ty Of 1919, part Of e old Spanish pr ounce Of Isras,
re-eeded and confirmed to SPAN by The United States!
In our Judgment this last fact, brought out in the
message, will home to the mind OF the whole
Try with electric power not because OF its bearing the
general question of the true boundary of Texas or
amidst the great OF highest authorities by which
this question is settled the authority OF MIR. Webster
needs not be quoted but because OF its direct bearing
the question OF the sincerity and the spirit OF MIR. Web
sters recent very remarkable declarations He stands
before the country at this moment, having just de-
clared that the advance OF army to the Rio Grande
was l act OF war done Oeyonu the DOunudIy line Oh ls
Unon and that such, it was, in his judgment, gust
Of an Dedehmen against the President OF the Uni
ted States; and now here are his words written in
1872 and quoted in the message, showing that he himself
affirmed the Rio GJande to be the boundary OF that Texas
which is of the States OF this Union We wait
with impatient curiosity how the great lawyer will
plead to this avement Of staggering and overwhelming
sefcontradicon beforehand, in case where all official
| e n
mpeachments not to speak at ALL and especially to
guard well in such matter his character and his motives
from the shame OF open Inconsistency with himself.
Cd As to the return Of Santa Anna MeSiso How ut
ery puerle become the charges, and the suspicious.
and the conecmres Of the opposition press, and Of the
opposition leaders, upon this subject before the brief.
pointed simple statement OF the facts contained in the
message We will not undertake to restae them. Any
change of the language would weaken its force. 1t
will be read by the country with natural and rrepressbe
Indignation that any partisan, any partisan journals,
could be at shorsghed enough and false hearted
enough to defame and to malign, such petext,
administration aborng to uphold the rights and honor
of the country What becomes of that miserable tissue
of hypothesis and misrepresentation which the federal
presses have eabosatey woven, and pernaciousy
repeated viz that there understanding and bar
gain between the administration and Santa Anna that he
had been brbed TO sacrifice the interests Of Mexico to the
demands of the United States that he to make peace
on terms; and that, for this he TO receive
the whole, the greater part of the two millions OF dol
lars asked for by the President towards the close of the
last session of Congress- The proposed mode OF
ing for this fund, if in any degree employed all,
other public expenditures" accounted for, destroys
at once the idle and nsdious supposition.
3D. The expenses of the war The "half-a million-a-
day" panic is brought by the message to most un-
timely and udicrous end The great panc-maker, who
set this idea foot receives from the message on this
point another buffet, grievous that with which
Richard unsettled the centre of gravity of the Holy
Clerk of Copmanhurst The public debt incurred
during the months through which the war has
lasted, amounts, instead of half million of dollars a
day. to less than SIX MILLIONS AND A HALF in all =
To carry on the till the 3Oth of June, 1913, the
government estimates that under existing laws, an ad-
dtional loan-not exactly of half million of dollars
day, but of t,centy-three millions in all, will be re-
CURED But this estimate is made in view of the
fact that four millions to remain constantly on hand
in the treasury, and in view of the further fact that if the
Graduation of the Public Lands should take effect and
a temporary duty be imposed the principal arti-
ces OF the free list loan of eighteen or nineteen mil
lions will be amply sufficient for the vigorous prosecution
VI,
We have the Presidents assurance that the war .wll
be vigorously prosecuted in Mexico with view to OBJ.
tain an honorable peace" With nation like Mexico,
no other means is SO well calculated to compel peace
and to obtain justice. .i. " =. ,E-s4
1t is impossible for us, amid the great pressure upon
columns, to specify, much less TO expatate upon all
the important subjects to which the message refers
We must, however, make one brief remark upon the
great question of the tariff The views which the Pres
den develops upon the act of 1885, and the sound prn-
cples OF Revenue SYSTEM singularIy luminous and
profound He comes at last to important and sound
conclusion. He says: a~es @sss
"1t has but just commenced to operate; and 10 abandon
or modify p,toM gping far trial. aroud be ner-
pedcn and Should defects in any of its details
be ascertaned by actual experience exist these may be
hereafter corrected but until such defects shall become
manifest the act should be fairly tested II is submitted
for your consideration whether it may not be proper as
10 impose duties on some OF the ar
tices embraced in the free list"
But forbear for the present from any further com
ment upon this luminous exposition of the state of our
country, presented by its Chief Magistrate We doubt
not that it will be received by the country with degree
of satisfaction and favor at least equal to that which at
tended the publication of the previous annual message
II will present to the minds of the Democracy the
npregnabe strength of their cause and the wisdom and
justice OF those great measures which the Administration