Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-07-22
DEs,sns OF THE ADmINIsrRA rIor.-From the INC

DEsIGNs OF THE ADMINIsrR ArIoN.-From the mo-
ment that the determination of Mr.. Polk, to bring
actual hostilities with Mexico became evident by
his ordering the army of occupation forward from the
Nueces to the Rio Grande, we have never doubted
that his aim was the conquest of large part of the
Mexican territory either for the purpose of securing
southern prepondcrance in the present Union, or of
carving out a Republic of the Rio Grande,' to which
southwestern States and territories might be an
nexed These plans our readers will readily per-
ceiye, nearly identical with those of the old
Burr conspiracy, in which Old Hickory was steep
ed to the lys, the altered circumstances of the
tors will allow and surely, if there is any thing
pabIe OF administering qualification to unbrided am
bition, it must be complete success in holding for
years steadily to its plans, and finally, gaining two
fold conquest by using the same power which once
defeated it, to effect thela. This qualification the
Executive is about to enjoy. With his title of the
young Hickory events are renlerirg it apparent
that he has inherited the ambitious AMI reasonable
projects of his prototype.
This supposed plan OF the ACKNOWLEDGMENT, at once,
of Mexico and the United States, is not the mere
surmising of groundess suspicion it is the distinct
shadow of past events and present occurrences-the
needless provocation of hostilites while Congress
in session without consulting that body--the occu-
patton of the enemy's country professedy to Soon
quer peace while not pacific step is taken-the
tone of governmental organs, proclalmng, GIVE shall
60 on conquering and to conquer, from stronghold
to stronghold, even if necessary to her Capital it.
selI--the permission, and doubtless countenance Of
publications appealing to the citizens o the provinces
occupied by our troops to separate themselves from
their government-the sudden, acquiescence of the
President in the Oregon settlement, unaccountable
unless to secure peace in one quarter to insure
cessfu conquest in another-his studious silence in
regard to his purposes-and above all, the nsduous,
and deadly attacks upon veteran Generals, whose en-
inent services to their country secure their attach
ment with view to supply their places with crea-
lures of the Presidents choice, all, all these things
and more, point directly to dark design, which
will not yet bear the light in the counseIs of the Ad
minstratlon. A Correspondent of the Baltimore
american even gives the extent of the territory
of which Mexico is to be dispoiled-viz gall of
California from the head to the cape and not alone
the provinces bordering on the Rio Grande. Parts
of Jalisco, Guadalaxara, and Zacatecas, and all of
Sonora, Durango, San Luis Potosl, New Leon, Chi |
huahua, Coahuila and Tamaupas to be the fruits
of this conquest "The government here,' he |
continues, ready to settle the question now, if
Mexico will yield up the country have named, or
consent to run line from the Gulf of Mexico to the
Pacific upon the line l have named. All this is in
contemplation now, secretly, but seriously, and the
regiment raised for California, of which gave you
the first notice time ago, is the first fruits of
this expedition" Have the people of the United
States forgotten that the price of Liberty
eternal vigilance?