State journal & flag., 1846-10-23
The Armlislice.

The armistice entered into by Gen
Taylor, and Gen. Ampudia, does not NEE
the approval of the President. We copy
below an extract from an article in the
Union, of 18th October, which indicates
very clearly, the intention of the President
TO prosecute the war with redoubed energy.
In noticing the conditions of the armis,ice
last week, we remarked" There is, nc
doubt, more in the act than meets the public
eye. 1t may be possible that it grew out OIL
a desire on the part of Santa Anna, &c
show his coantrymen the utility of con,
tending against our arms"
1t will be noticed that Gen Taylor, in his
official dispatches, in another column, says,
that he was in part influenced in granting
So favorable terms 10 the Mexicans, by the
recent caange of government in Mexico.
The Union, also, says" The Mexican
General may very probably have held ou1
to Gen. Taylor prospects of paciGcatian
between the two countries, which in fact do
not exist We infer from all this, that
we were right in our surmises and if ii
should hereafter appear, that Gen. Ampu.
dia has overeached Gen. Taylor, it will
prove that the latter is more at home in
fighting, than in diplomacy:
"The terms of the capitulation at Monterey
all important as the possession ofthat post is
to the further successful prosecution of the war
will arrest the attention of the public mind.
The surrender by the Mexican army of the mil
itary stores, provisions, and cannon collected in
the city, will add very considerably TO the re-
sources Of our troops, and weaken, in greater
proportion, .he means ofthe enemy. 1 he des-
patches of Gen. Taylor do not inform us fully
of the representations and views upon which he
acted, in granting the enemy-subjeci, ho,0erer,
10 instructions and orders from both !gorern-
msnts-an armistlce of eight aceeks, during
which time, in the absence of such orders, neth-
er army is to advance beyond specified line,
about thirty miles in advance of Monterey. 1t
must be borne in mind, however, that, in de-
handing such suspension of hostilites in one
of our lines of ope ration, the Mexican general
may very probably have held out to Gen. lay
lor prospects of a pacfcation between the two
countries, which, in fact, do not exist.
Be this as it may, however, we understand
that Lieut.. Armistead, the bearer of dispatches
from our government to Gen. Taylor, commu-
nicating the failure of our offer of negotiation,
AMI enjoining renewed vgor in the prosecution
of the war, had arrived in New Orleans on the
LIST instant, and is said at once to have charter
ed the steamboat Galveston tc convey him to
Brazos 81. Jago. He will probably reach Gen
eral Tay lor's camp to-day or tomorrow, if he
be not already there. These dispatches will
doubtless induce Gen. Taylor to concentrate
his troops, and collect his resources as rapidly
as possible, with the view of resumng his oper.
atoms vigorously SO soon he shall receive
orders to terminate Tie arn,istice. These or,
ders we have no doubt, will promptly be issued
from Washington. We trust they may reach
General Taylor in sirteen days. the time IN
which Capt. Eaton performed the route to
Washington. In such an event, little delay "a,
the worst) can be occasioned and even that lit
tie time can be usefuly spent in securing more
complete and effective preparation. At all
events, there can. as we conceive, be no doubt
whatever than an armistce which was thus
agreed TO by General Taylor, subject to the or
ders of the two governments, should be at once
terminated"