Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-11-14
THE MEXICAN WAR.


ly had from its official organ and indeed from every
other source, OF the purposes of the Administration
in regard to the war with Mexico, have been that
the armistice concluded between the Military Com
manders on each side was to be terminated, and
to be succeeded by vigorous renewal of the war,
and an immediate advance of our army further into
the interior Of Mexico.
"The Union'' of the 18th Of last month, for ex-
ample, speaking as by authority used the following
language:
1--WE understand that Lieut.. Armistead, the bearer
of dispatches from our Government to Gen. Tay-
lor communicating the failure of our offer Of ne
gotiatlon, and enjomiag reneDed Uig0r IN the
prosecution Of The eoar, had arrived in New Or
leans on the lst instant, and is said at once to
have chartered the steamboat Galveston to convey
him to Brasos ST. Jago. He will probably reach
Gen. Taylor's camp to-day or tomorrow, if he be
not already there. These dispatches will doubt
less induce Gen. Taylor concentrate his troops,
and collect his resources as rapidly as possible,
with the uiew of resstnling his operations vigor-
ously, as he shall receive orders to termi-
nate the ar9nistice These orders, to terminate
the armistice, we have no doubt will promptly
be issued from Washiagton."
On the 18th, two days later, when stating that
Major JAMES GRAHAM had left Washington the same,
morning with instructions to General TAYLOR for
terminating the temporary suspension Of hostili-
ties" these limitations were reiterated in " the
Union,'' as follows:
Mexico has as yet indicated too slow desire
Tor peace to encourage us in any mastery mac
tivity.' We must hasten her movements--ace
must strike bloao after biow. The papers have
been specializing upon an expedition to Tampico.
We see no good reason why it should not be I'M
dertaken. We have still at least 20 900 troops in
the army of the Rio Grande. Allowing General
Taylor's camp at Monterey to have one-half of
them, we have about 10000 more in that wing of
the army to furnish troops sufficient for new
expeditions besides guarding the points occupy
on the river, and maintaining the connexion be-
tween our different depots' g We hope. by the
time that the armistice aoosad haze erpircd of
Itself, Ue shall see our triumphant flag Eyng at
chihuahua, at Saltilio, and, if the newspaper
speculations are to be believed perhaps at TiHo-
ria the capital of Tamaulipas) and at Tampco."
And, week afterwards, ION the 22d,) SO far from
retraciing these official indications the government,
paper again sounded the charge, as follows
STE cannot be mistaken IN stating that VI
GoRous PROSECUTION OF THE WAR is THE ORDER
OF THE But we viii not undertake to deve-
lop the plan of The campaign The events will
duly deUelop themselves"
Up to yesterday, such has, so far as we know,
been the uncontradiced tenor of official ougivings
on this subject; and the public journals have con-
sequendy abounded in exhibitions of fact and argu-
ment going to demonstrate the error and the danger
of any attempt with the means and materiel then
at the disposal of the Commander of the Army in
Mexico, to force march further into the interior of
that country. Our readers will therefore learn with
surprise, and we suppose for the most part with
sincere satisfaction, that if such peremptory orders
were issued to Gen. TAYLOR as has been represent
ed by the government paper, and repeated by other
papers in the confidence of the Government, they
have been reUoked So it appears from the follow
ing paragraph in " the Union of yesterday:
"The Galveston News undertakes to show to
~ ,oiat points Gen. Taylor is about to march, and
oiat troops he will have with him. Is the
- News sure that his orders are so perempfory !?
and that Gen. Taylor-being upon the spot, upon
the immediate theatre of action with the full
knowledge Of his locations and his resources, and
the objects within his reach-s not permitted, an
some degree, TO consult has otcn discretion 20
That permission, we do not doubt, from the pre-
sent language of the Unon," has no,o been given;
but it is not less certain that, on the 18th of last
month, the "points" to which Gen. TAYLOR was to
march were plainly enough intimated by " the
Union," so as to leave no doubt on any mind that
the dispatches" mentioned in the same paper
conveyed peremptory orders to General TAYLOR to
march TO those points, and, to the language Of
the official editor, to strike blow after blow at
Mexico, to " hasten her movements"
The we-advised Washington Correspondent of
the Journal Of Commerce-the same to whom we
were indebted last autumn for the first intimation
of the hostile intentions of the Executive towards
Mexico-in his letter Of November 18th last Satur-
day. confirms what the government editor said in
substance month ago, to the nature Of the or
ders to Gen. TAYLOR. For thus says this nelli-
gent correspondent:
Some doubt has lately been expressed in the
papers whether Gen. Taylor was ordered pere,np-
forty, IN the communication made to him through
Major Graham, to march on towards Satillo or
not. But ! learn that The orders ,cere positive
: and direct 10 that eject"
We have no doubt of it.
From the same reliable source we have, however.
under the same date, the following information,
which we trust will prove acceptable to the great
majority Of our readers:
:" repeat what have stated before, that few
weeks ago the Government did intend 10 call
out large force Of poluafeers, and chiefly from
{ he Soufb nni L., L.o II.