New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-29
Where isit 70 Rnds

When we are exhorted to Support the Gov
eminent or Stand by the Country in prescott
ing War with Mexico we AJAX, To what end
II is 10 be prosecuted Where is it 70 stop 7-and
no definite answer can, be had IF Mr. Polk viii
now oct forth what he requires of Mexico condi-
tions Of Peace. we will consider them fairly. and
approve Them ii they seem just. But this is not
vouchsafed Us. We are asked TO believe that the
Administration desires speedy and honorable
peace on jus, terms bat what would be considered
just terms we are left to make out as we can The
Indicators are by no means favorable Even the
Courier & Enquirer, while admitting that we are
the original and greater aggressors, maintains that
we should make Mexico satisfy all our demands
upon her, surrender all Texas, and all that never
was Texas this side Of the Rio Grande, and in addi-
ton 20 this all her territory the otter side of the Rio
Grande stretching from that River TO the Pacific
a strip 1900 miles in length and $50 in width, en-
braciog good part Of her best soil and richest
mines But, cruelty unjust as we feel that such
requislion would be, we doubt whether this will
satisfy HE Progressive Democracy genuine
so 4Os We find in Samms last GLOBE the fol-
lowing signifcan, programme
TPor the Daily Globe
THE MARCH or Qua REPUBLIC First Texan, then
Oregon then Mexico-or, after the successful battle on
the 7rh lost doubt all sides il IL believed that
our army when the great number Of troops arrive that
are levyipg will stop shor Of the City Oh Mexi.
CO. and that their march thereto will not be as march OF
contest but as d triumphant 70 the Halls OF the
Monteznmas.' Mexico gained where shal we stop =
Il 10 true take Canada. our them that will only
occupy the North and what will the South 90 Tor Is
,c,ed that both parts Of the country must have their
thirst for contest annexation and territory constantly
gratined where to stop Yes, where, short OF the
i,,nnus OF Panama and then must tnke Cuba -
Florida ours shall have Oregon What trifing
characters those who call only tor 81 ~ Shame
on such want of energy. Soon our steam cars will whz
over the Railroads that land from Newly ork TO
Astoria from Philadelphia TO Santa Fe Mexico. Vera
Cruz Soon the Rocky Mountains will be tunneled, the
plains Of Mexico Macadamzed the college and school
house do,t.ng every field 10 North America. What a
People What Country Indeed great country. a
mighty commonwealth. Rome in her march to the
British seas hand TO lntus on the other, could
reach US could not be circumstance TO us. We
are unsurpassed aud indispensable.
Vounteers strike for your affairs and your hres ne
next gale that sweeps the South will bring 10 our ears
crash Of resoundng arms Our brethren are already
In the field why stand sc here idle I Think oil tnose
glorious principles that animated our fathers and oil those
mighty prospects opened for our boundei. country
which you may sgnally aid TO achieve and OF which
you may renp the the rewards PREDECESSOR
Do you say this is absurdty and gross carl
cature7 Alas the drunken rawlings OF one year be-
come the sober reason Of the next with our Pro-
gressives' This is not wilder nor wickeder than
Annexation seemed a few years ago. and the pre-
tence of extending Texas 10 the Rio Grande did at
a still Inter period. We have progressed already
far enough to talk cooly of i6erating the Mexican
People from their rulers, and planting our instu-
lions on their territory. The Courier calls on the
Government to call out the $4,000 Volunteers at
once. march them from their several States to the
head waters Of the Trinity in Texas drive the Mex
leans from the Rio Grande, and recall our Army to
the same point there drill The Volunteers, with the
Regulars for exemplars, till November; when the
whole force is to be marched TO the coast transport
ed to Vera Cruz. THE Castle being meantime bomb
arded by our feet) there landed with abundance
of stores and provisions and pushed direct TO the City
of Mexico.
We do not hesitate to say that, aside from all
ideas of the wickedness and cruelty of offensive
War, which this enlightened age rejects as Puri
tanical and old maidish. this project would, if sue
cessful entail on US National Debt of at least Fifty
Millions and doom to inevitable death not less than
Twenty. FIVE Thousand of our own countrymen.
with four times as many Mexicans. That it would
ultimately involve US in q more general and calam
ilous War, is VIGOROUSLY probable Shall we not
pause and consderl