The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1846-08-26
sCONQUERING PEACE,

TO Congress, asserting the atrocious and unmi7;
gated falsehood that our Army on the Rio Grande
haa been attacked by the Mexicans on our o,v0
e0tt' &C, &c, and Congress was rushing through
pot tT 81 Futy Thousand Men and Ten Millions
VI money TO prosecute hostilities Mr. CaIhonn
Valnly begged the Senate at least TO act with
calmhess and dignity as became Senate-to take
uine Tor elaboration, giving the Members his
solemn assurance that War not only shouId he
put might be avoided. He said, we are not Ger.
tam whether in public debate or otherwise. that
WIN out one days delay he could prevent the
ar Inc delay was not granted, and the coun-
try rushed irto War. A short time afterward
Mr.. Webster addressed the Senate on the suh;act
and went far beyond what we could have done in
FAVOR OF prosecuting the War commenced with
such deplorable rashness. He would vote anv
amount OF men and money for the War. but he
tnought the President should proffer the Olive
Branch to Mexico as we'll as brandish the Sword
me thought we should send her Mission of
feace as well as a visitation of War. But this
IDEA was secuted by the Presidents organ and
Its echoes as betrayal of pusllanimity worthy
OF the Hartford Convention. No Mission, no
overtures no statement even of the conditions on
"hlch we are ready to end the War; let Mexico
send embassies if she wants Peace but we will
hurI Fifty Thousand Men on her Capital and
Conquer Peace Such was the organs res
ponse to Mr.. Webster's suggestion
Wen, we have now been several months hard
al work conquering Peace. Our Government
mas had every thing its own way-plenty of cash
against the empty Mexican Treasury; unsullied
National credit against utter Bankruptcy: an am
pie and gallant Navy against none at all; more
gallant soldiers than it has wanted or could EN-.
ploy against routed, disorganized, dispersed Ar
my, and feeble, miserable People, so distracted
by intestine euds and the throes of approaching
revolution as to be unable to oppose to our own
any positive, tangible resistance-and so we have
gone heddlong on conquering Peace.
Well; what progress? We have conquered
the surplus in our Treasury; we have CONQUER
ed the aversion OF our Hard Money party to Gov
eminent Shinplasters; we have conquered and
utterly dissipated all prospect of surplus Rev.
enue or even the extinction of our National Debt
ior good many years to come But how near
nave we come TO conquerng Mexico or conquer
ing Peace
Not very, il we may Judge from the fact that
Mr.. POLK has overruled the organs patriotic hor-
rer OF Mr Webster's proposition, and sent secret
embassy to Mexico unasked to treat for Peace
not very, II we may judge from the clamor raised
Oy the Folk Journals at the failure Through op-
position from their own party OF the effort to give
the PRESIDENT two millions Of dollars where
with to 6uy peace. We claim balance due to
US from Mexico; we certainly have vanquished
her troops in the field; we have overrun some
portion OF her territory and have three or four
armies now advancing upon her soil yet Mr.
POLK Journals fear he can't persuade Mexico to
come to terms without two millions from our
treasury to sweeten the bargain. Is not this
new way to conquer peace
we have inflicted great injury upon and caus.
ed much suffering to the Mexic an people. We
nave blown oil the legs and arms with cannon
balls and torn out the bowels with grape shot of
some hundreds of them we have carried mourn
ing ana anguish into hundreds of their villages
we nave captured their towns and villages on
the lower Rio Grande, and will very soon have
possession OF those OF Santa Fee on the upper wa
tiers of that stream /; another month NAV see our
eagles borne triumphant through scenes of car
mage and horror to Monterey and Albuquerque
perhaps to chihuahua and Saltillo. And even
then, Judging OF the future from the past, we
VIII iall 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 an the business of that port. has subjected
It's people TO untold horrors Peaceful laborers
and their families, including many innocent chill
dren, have died by hundreds of want and the
Pestllence it begets, for lack of the employment
ana 1000 OF which we have bereft them, but thew
40 not seem to be conquered yet--we mean those
not already starved. We have enabled thos. on
the Rlo Grande to make good deal of money out
vi US, puylhg our goods cheap and selling their
fresh provisions dear, and still they are not con-
quered into peaceful and humble frame of mind.
On the contrary, all accounts concur in stating
that the Mexicans of the Rio GTande hate MS
more intensely than ever-that one of our men
cannot go out of sight of his comrades without
danger OF the deadly Spanish knife and it is so
dangerous for an American to be drunk in or
near Matamoras that Gen. Taylor has sterny for
hidden the sale of liquors there. Not even in
Matamoras have we conquered peace.
0 no Peace comes not Of butchery and dead
Iy hate-of CHASTITY wounds by hundreds and tor.
rents OF human gore-far otherwise. Mr.. Polk
seems at last to have been convinced that con.
quest is an impracticable or at least too expensive
mode of striving for peace. For our nations sake
we hope ne has made generous offer, and one
that will be accepted. Let him prove to tbe
Mexicans that we deeply regret the wrongs we
have done them and would gladly make repara-
tion asking them to manifest similar spirit Let
our rulers do this, and they will speedily make
peace in manner far better than conquerinp il.
". Y. Tribune
A BOLD PUSH. A few days after White
house, one Of the escaped State Prison convicts
had been arrested and committed to Jail in tbis
own, well-dressed man called on the keener
Mr.. Day, and represented himself as a messen'
ger from the State Prison sent to take witt
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