The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-07
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SPIRIT OF THE FOREIGN JOURNALS
The London press seems to find it a hopeless
task to take the part of Mexico. The Mexcans
are bad clients. Their conduct, in respect Of the
war seems to present not single point upon
which their advocates abroad can rally, to conciate
toward them the sympathies OF other nations We
gave yesterday the stern and contemptuous condem-
nation Of their whole course which the London
Times has seen ft to put forth. The following ar
ticle from the Globe is much in the same strain,
though that journal will have 1.-THE wish probably
being "father to the thought"-that the war is full
of peril to ourselves The Globe might at least
have learned, however, as a matter of fact that the
President did not ask the two millions ofdollars re-
ferred to secret-service money, hut on the con-
trary, expressly as funds to be accounted and
vouchcd for at the treasury in the usual form.
From the London Globe, Sept. 10.
If any confidence is to be placed in the prevalent
rumor in the United States that the administration
of that country is favorable to the pronsncianento
which has probably by this time again placed Santa
Anna instead Of Paroles, at the head of the disor
DERBY Preorans of Mexico, il is a new and curious
example of Franklin's old recommendation to bel
they wanted them, as a better bargain than fighting
for them The ancient exclamation Of Jugurtha
! regarding Rome, would, in the supposed, sug-
ges the only doubt still Clogging the trnnsaction and
the Mexican P5Ttorians may be assumed ready to
be bought, If they have found purchaser. But it
may be remembered that President Polk asked Con-
gress for 2000 600 dollars for secret service money
and did not get them. There appears to be more
uncertainty how the federal government intend to
raise the ten millions authorized for the avowed
mode of carrying the contest. Either Santa Anna
and his myrmIdons must be content with little for
"stoihlng' the war, President Polk must have
unknown ways and means Of satisfying the rapacty
said to distinguish the chief whom u military revo-
luton is now restoring. The garrison Of Vera
Cruz first signed the resolutions for Santa Anna,
AID the people of Vera Cruz then ratified them,
who had, only few years previously, according
to a contemporary correspondent from Phiade phia
dug up that generals buried leg, which had been
shot off in battle and kicked it about the cutters.
Paredes it is now reported, is deposcd and imprls-
oned in Mexico; and Santa Anna, may conclude,
| by this time has been struggled through the Amer
lean blockade.
These two republics, in their mode of carrying
on and administration, remind us Of the two
| Homeric heroes, the sIackenng pursuit, the
! other flight las in a DREAM round the walls of
| Troy. Such speedy recourse to the method Of
| purchase--whether confirmed or not--ilustrates,
even as rumor, the fact that the American pub
| lie getting tired Of the war. After the first
burst of enthusiasm at the Bowcry Theatre and else
where, it begins to be perceived that the glory is
| shadowy, the gain probIematical, and nothing as
sured but the cost. Tocqueviile has long ago pre-
dlcted that IT the Americans ever went to war,
| they would soon burden themselves heavily with
debt and taxes as any European people; and that
their administrative system, not well organized for
economy, even in peace-the object aimed at neing
to multiply petty places and patronage through all
| departing nts--would become expensive, under a
y ar establishment, beyond all old-worId precedent
Another consideration, which should dissuade the
American people from WarIlke policy, is that war
creates hierarchy of its own, apt to overtop all
others. This is danger more especially TO be
feared in the American commonwealth, since popu-
lar jealousy has prevented the growth of other than
! ephemeral powers in the State, which might keep
military power in check or infuse into the army
itself spirit accordant with that mbodied in the
political organization. But popular jealousy has
| forbidden that any organized bodies should exist,
beyond the dssolving power of annual or biennial
popular suffrage. A military power cannot be
formidable or respectable under such conditions as
those 10 which all other power is subjected in the
United States. Even the military school at West
Point, few years back, thought too solid and
permanent an establishment to be consistent with
popular government. We infer that democracy
will be too strong to permit the efficient organization
of military force or that military force, once Or
gained, may prove, in the end, too strong for de-
mocracy.
These republicans are playing with edge-tools,
and precisely the edge.toos which, in all ages have
abridged the duration Of republics.
From the London News Sept 10.
The intelligence received from Mexico by the last
arrival from the United States ia Of remarkable
| nature. The condition of affairs is complicated,
On the ore hand we have the nominal President, Pa
redes reused at last action and his way, it is
sald, though rather crcuitousy to confront the in
vadlng army of General Taylor at Monterey and,
| IN nih fhn % l.
ed for the shores from whence he recently ex.
Pelled and welcomed before his arrival by pronun-
cia,nsntos at Vera Cruz, and in the capital
II is no matter for surprise that this demonslra-
ton in favor Of the man whose military fame made
him all in all with his countrymen; should have taken
place; the coup, in fact was long meditsed, and rue
mer had for some time prepared us for the endeavor,
on the part Of Santa Anna, to regain the power
which he exercised so long. But viewed in relation
with the, ostensible movements Of Paroles, il pre-
sents an aspect Of some singuarity, though less sin
guar in a country like Mexico than in most others;