The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-06-18
MEXICAN BRAVADO.


We commend the extracts given below from
late Mexican journals, most oblgingly furnished
to us by friend to the attention Of those who think,
with the n. Y. Courier and Enquirer that we ought
at every forward step ofour army to urge renewed
offers Of peace upon the Mexican government The
idea seems to US, we eonfess, equally strange IN IL
self and in the quarter from which il is now pre-
sented to us. Since when is it, that the Courier, Of
all journals, has learned to be peaceful How
long is it, pray since the dove of peace has taken up
lis new and perilous abode on the caves of that
Office, OF yOro and always so Pusnacious, and so
doughty of spirit Has the "tegular army" taken
to the trade of peace-begging' The transformation
is puzzlngly sudden. We are not satisfied with
the look Of We suspect trick. We remember
the fre-eatng Bobadilism Of the Courier that
has been, and VIC cannot trust these its present
"lhoughts" all "turned on peace" This its parade
of peace-scruples is ludcrously out Of character;
and W hen we sec ii, we cannot help saying with the
honest Welshman in the Merry Wives Of Windsor,
Eve spy blg beard under the muifier"-"wc like
not a woman with big beard" There is "big
beard" of truculent and ruthless habit and charac-
ter, under the CoTier'S lately donned "mufler" Of
femnige gentleness. But enough Of the Courier!
In its last article in reply to remarks of ours
upon the subject it has mustered up logic enough
to call us "mercenary," because we think that
Mexico should now be made to learn, once for all,
that we are no longer to be trAed with, and that
our merit messenger Of peace must not be nsultingy
and perfdlously turned back upon US. In heartily
abusing for this, the Courier has done and
our cause all the good in It's power; and we may
readily stand excused from any severity or harsh
ness in our reply Besides, there is really nothing
else in the Courier's article for reply TO. Logic
seems to have formed no part of the Courer's "reg
ular army" studies.
But really this matter Of again profering negotia-
lion and peace to Mexico just now, lies in a nut
shell. We see not how there can be two opinions
about it. Here is a nation Of something more than
million Of degenerate Spanards, lording it over
seven millions Of Indians and half-breeds The dom.
inant race, attempting enlightenment, has itself
fallen into the hands of such men as Santa Ana and
Paredes-men who have scarcely any more idea of
government than the virtue Of the sword which
carves the way to their usurpation, or who have
scarce any other respect for foreign governments
than their power is sufficient to insure. They
know nothing of good government and if they
knew it, all their history shows that they too
corrupt and ferocious 10 practice it. They
cannot keep the peace at home, and they rob
powers, just when they can get chance and when
they dare Not the people, but the government,
the authorities, do this-not to alone but TO 9TH
er nations. We alone have, since 1923, stood by
them as their friends, because they tried to be re-
public. just as was to be expected in so dealing
with nation whose only efectual restraint is fear,
we have Jared worse at their hands than any one
else. At last folled in our attempt-not TO agree on
terms of peace, could not get SO far as that-bus
in our attempt to persuade them to talk oper ich us
the erpedency Of haung peace some terms, we have
been forced into war with them by sudden, and
startling, and blood stained outrage. We have won
two battles; they run off to get men and more
money, if they can by any Of their usual modes of
con6scaton-now, by the way, taking the desperate
shape of substantial church robbery-meanwhile
shouting, as see in their manfcstoes and bulle-
tins, and through their leading journals, defiance
and scorn in our faces, ridicung our army and its
officers, proclaiming their defeat mere accident,
denonncing against us war to the end and war
to the knife;-and just at this moment, are told
by certain statesmen and journals, and among them
by the gentle Courier, that in the midst of our mill
tary operations at the beginning and at the end OF
every battle, we must again and again thrust for
ward to them new proffers of peace-each OF
our soldiers marching with his otpe bough held be-
I,,Q, rboI
wood to Dunsnane"
Why, the idea is preposterous. 1t is utterly alb.
surd Profers of peace to Mexico, and shower
of such proffers That is the wing recipe for ma
king permanent and honorable peace = Why, ifal.
that Paroles, and his satellites, and his journals,
have been saying and doing ever since he came into
power, be not one great shdm-if there be any sub
stance or meaning in it all-the Mexican govern
ment would now laugh at our proffers In Mexico
and out of Mexico they would be represented as
proofs that we were afraid The Mexican govern
ment could not comprehend such action on our part.
1t proved this when it sent back Mr.. Slldell Such
a course would, in the end, only proong the war,
by enabling the INSCRIPTIONS craft Of the Mexican
government to dupe the nation with false hopes.
There If not at present one particle ct proof ina
Paroles wants peace, that he toould accept peace
now on any terms short of the surrender Of Texas.
That as Almonte's ulimntum, when he leh
And the Mexican power is now in hands yet more
rash and violent
Not one solitary reason has been or can be given
Why we should hope to get a peace worth having
from Mexico, til she asks for peace. When she is
willing to stop fighting, she will say We did
not wish to.fght, and VIC said so. We said so,
when we instructed Mr. Black to ask if our
minister would be received We said 30 again
when VIC sent Mr.. Slidell. We said so in
the whole series Of orders to General Taylor.
And finally, when the war broke out and blood was
shed, the President, in his war message, proclaim
ed that he was willing 10 receive and to consider in