New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-24
econoucring Peace

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co,,s,e.. asserting the atrocious and unmiusated
f..ebood that our Army on the mo 0rande had
80, ot,acked BY the Mexicans our ocn soal, DC
kc and Congress was rushing through votes o'
r;nv Thousand Men and Ten Millions OF Money 70
,,osecute hostilities Mr. CALHOUN va!niy begged
.hs Senate at least TO act with calmness and olg
TO. became Sepate-to take time for delioera
o;,ing the Members his solemn assurance that
mot only should be but might be avoided He
IA ,ve ere not certain whether in public debate !
n, otherwise that with but one days delay he couid
,,svsn, the War. hedelay was not granted ana
tho oountry rushed into War short time alter
yard Mr. WEBSTER addressed the Senate on thc
<nbiact and went far beyond what we coutu nave
done in favor of prosecuting the War commenced
With such dcpforable rashness. He would vote any
amount OF men and money TOR the " ar OUT NC
.houeh.the President should proferth the Olive Branch
% Ne,;co as well as brandish the Sword-he |
.hongb. we should send her Mission OF Peace as
ysll a, visitation of War. But this idea was
.cou.ed by tho Presidents Organ and its echoes as
], BETRAYAL of pus lanimty worthy Of the Hartford
Convention. No Mission, no overtures. no state
.unent even Of the conditions on which we arc READY
10 end the war; let Mexico send embassies II she
wants Peace; but We will hurl Fifty Thousand
Men on her Capital and Conquer Peace. such
was the Organs response to Mr. Websters sug'
gestion.
Well, we have now been several months hard at
work conauering Peace. Our Government has had
every thing its own way-plenty OF cash against
the empty Mexican Treasury unsullied National
credit against utter Bankruptcy an ample and
gallant Navy against none at all; more gallant sol
diers thanit has wanted or could employ against
routed, disorganized, dispersed Army and teeoie
miserable People so distracted by intestine leuos
and the throes Of approaching Revolution as TO be
unable to oppose TO our own any positive tangio'e
resistance-and so we have gone headlonG on con
quering Peace.
We'll: what progressl We have conquered the
surplus in our Treasury; we have conquered the
aversion Of our Hard Money party to Government
Shinplasters; we have conquered and utterly dis
sipated all prospect of surplus Revenue or even
the extinction Of our National Debt for good many
wears TO come. But how near have we come u
conauoring Mexico or conquering Peace
Not very if we may judge from the fact that MI
Polk has ovcrruled the Organs patriotic horror Oh
Mr.. Wobster's proposition and sent secret einoas
sy to Mexico unnsked to treat for Peace not very
if we may Judge from the clamor raised by the POLK
journals at the failure Through opposition from their
own party of the effort to give the President Two
Million, OF Dollars whercwith to buy Peace we
claim balance due to us from Mexico; we Ger
tainy have vanquished her troops In the held we
have overrun some portion OF her territory and nave
three or four armies now advancing upon her soil =;
vet Mr. Folks journals fear he can't persuade
Mexico 70 come TO terms without Two Millions
from our Treasury to sweeten the bargain. Is not
this way to conquer Peace !
We have inflicted great injury upon and caused
~ much suffering to the Mexican People. We hav
blown of the legs and arms with cannonballs an
torn out the bowels with grape-shot OF some hun
drcds of them; we have carried mourning an
anguish into hundreds OF their villages. We hsv,
captured their towns and villages on tho lower hi'
Grande and will very soon have possession OF those
Of Santa Fe on tho upper waters of that stream
another month may our eagles borne triumph
mt through scenes of carnage and horror to Mon.
terey aud AlSuquerque-perhaps to chihuahua and
Salnlo And even then Judging OF the future from
the past, we will fall something short of having
conquered Peace.
We have made Mexico feel our power to do her
evil Our blockade of Vera Cruz, putting stop
10 all the business Of that port has subjected Its
People 10 untold horrors Peaceful laborers and
their families. including many innocent children.
have died by hundreds OF want and the pestllcnce
it begets, for lack of the employment aud food Of
which we have bereit them, but they do not seem
10 be conquered yct-we mean those not already
starved. We have enabled those on the Rio
Grande to mako a good deal Of money out OF us.
buying our goods cheap and selling their fresh pro
visions dear, and still they not conquered into
peaceful aud humble frame Of mind On the
contrary, all accounts concur in stating that the
Mexicans of the Rio Grandc hate us more intense
" than ever-that one of our men cannot so out OF
sight of his comrades without danger of the deadly
Spanish knife and it is so dangerous for an Ameri.
can to be drunk in or near Matamoros that Gen.
Taylor has sternly forbidden the sale OF liquors
there. Not even in Matamoros have conquer
ed Peace
o no! Peace comes not OF butchery and deadly
hate-of CHASTITY wounds by hundreds and torrents
of human sore-far otherwise, Mr., Polk seems at
last to have been convinced that conquest Is Ill
impracticable or at least too expensive mode OF
striving for Peace For our Nations sake we hope
he has made generous offer, and one that Will be
accepted. Let him prove to the Mexicans that we
deeply regret the wrongs we have done them and
would gladly make rsparaeion, asking them to man
ifess similar spirit Let our rulers do this, and
thoy VIII speedily make Peace in moment far bet,
ter than conqoerins it,
. Among the Members elect TO the North
Carolina House OF Commons are EDWARD SrASLf'
KENNETH RAYNEK and WILLIAM II. WASHING
TON, widely known and esteemed as WhiS Mem
bers of Congress in other days. Gen NJ T. HAw-
xlNs. Tor some years Loco NJ c, is Senator from
Warren. 1t is safe to say that the outrageous
Gerymander of the State whereby the Loco'Foco
minority of the People elect twothirds of the
Members of Congress will be upset at the aP-
preaching session.
81 Among the Wings elected TO the Kentucky
L i Lay NJ