The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-18

sheer astonishment and wonder. What can the In
elgencer expect from il Grant that tina. journal
has so leaguod itself with foreign interests and SO
mbusd itself with foreign sympathies as not 10 sec
the turpitude of such language We know thai
some Of its friends make this apology for IT, Still
the question comes up, what end is to be
gained by such course BE 1t observed
that the article containing all these monstrous aega
tons does not pretend to put forward single
g,,u.sni to sustain them Be it observed, that these
assertions involve Congress, including the mass of
the wing members, together with the Executive, in
one sweeping and wholesale condemnation. Be II
observed, too, that the article appears at the very
moment when the intelligence of now she'd
ding Of American blood by the invader is on
the wing toward the Capitol. The whole
heart Of the country is reused and stirred, and
then the lntelligeneer sezes that Instant of patr-
otto ardor to utter words which shock all
patriotism, and which stain the honor, and imPeach
the wisdom Of all departments Of the government
and that without attempting to show even
shadow ofreason for its language. The only effect
which the "Intelligencer" can hope to produce is
to check the movement Of the volunteers. Can any
other purpose be imagined And is not this pur-
pose al this crisis so carrsd into effect by reckless
and random misrepresentation it not, we say,
in the view even Of moderation and forbearance,
substantial treason against the United States
One apology miserable one-can alone be
imagined for such course. IL is the party madness
ofthe moment. But this apology the "lnteligeneer"
sudiously rejects Igvss uttsrancs 10 lis atroeions
sentiments, oatraging at once wei.known facts,
the legislative action Of the government, and the
deepest feelings of the peoPs while loud pretensions
to moderation and forbearanee are at the very mo-
ment its lips. Protesting that for fear Of embar-
RAISING the administration in the conduct Of the war
it will now withhold an investigation into the con.
duct Of the government it yet hurts forward one ac-
cusaton after another without shame and without
stint, forgetting only to say one single word about
its proofs It thus thrusls into view an elaborate
hypocrisy Of calm ess, at the very instant when the
only possible palliaton that be Imagined for its
manifest folly is the Over-wrought excitement OF the
hour.
We pronounce this forbearance sheer ahectation
The Intelligence says nothing, because it has moth
ing to say. Ii proves nothing, because it has no
proofs To offer. We undertake to say for the adj
mnstration, that it challenges the most rigorous in
vestgation-not at any future time, but nOto--into
its whole conduct OF our Mexican relations. tick
poets and il asks justice at the hands Of the In
teligencer but it dehes in the strength Of its cause
all the misrepresentation which the malignant du
Plicity OF that journal can invent
There is nothing to be refuted in the statements
which have quoted above Unsustained by any pre-.
ence ofsrgument, and resting upon assertion wholly
at war with the settled CONVICTIONS and the impeuous
impulses of patriotic people, they present mate
rial for a sustained or elaborate attack. To state
them is enough; their exposure is their shame. We
will leave the lntegencer to settle with its own
party in Congress, whether they have sanctioned
violation Of the constitution by the Executive; and
we will leave to stand fall by ITSELF the assertion
that the President has "wickedly contrivedp this
war with Mexico, since we find the In,ehigencer
stating, in the continuation of the very same article,
that she Presidsni himself has proposed nsgotiaio,,
Shsnsvsr .MsricO shall b piig siAsr toe6 or to re-
eeips proportions Of peace" Glaring self-conradc-
ton is humiliaiing snoagh bat selecontadicion in
statements already oppressed with the odium Of
rocrcancy to ones country abyss Of humiliation
from which we would IL possible from very charity,
rescue even the Intelligencer.