Mobile register and journal., 1846-12-17

The largest, as the most important part oi me message of the President is occupied with review ofthe relations of eur country with Mexico If fur nshes condensed history of the various and gre vous causes ofcompaint against that perfidous peo- pie which nine years ago were considered by men oi all parties sufficient cause of war on our part-and for which declaration of war would have been then sustained by our people, and been justified Tn the eyes flfe world. IL traces them through all their agRravations and accumuatons of outrage and bad faith down the last acts of intolerabe lnso lence. when with the declared purpose of reconqusr- ing Texas 10 the Sabine ii proclaimed war, prepared armies, and sent them over the Rio Grande- slauphtering our soldiers from ambuscades, and un- tl driven back by the victorious Taylor, contest ed with the United Saes the sovereignty of Texas The narrative s clear, forcble, compact and strong ly expressed. It is powerful manifesto to be sent abroad, on the part of the Executive of the United States vindicaling trumphantly to the nations of the world thejusuce and forbearance ofour dealings with Mexico; and, by irrefutable demonstration, places upon her pcrfdy, her arrogance and her in- solen aggressons all the responsibility of this war
 We have no fears that the judgment of enlighten- ed governments will be against us on this question. The facts and the law clear, for even the mo- narchical spirit which looks with jealousy ana ha- tired upon popular governments and which looks upon ours with especial enmity as the champion of republican progress, 10 take sides against the United States on lhe public questions in this quarrel
 If the cause of the country suffer any reproach abroad if it's honor and is justice be assaIed Will be merely an echo of domestic faction. The mad ness of partv-as it did once before in the midst ot war perverting and caumnaling for personal ob- ieets the acts of our own government-dlstorung the true aspects of the rational issue in order to deiamo an opponent or defeat rival-fghting selfish bat tie to put down men that others may rise, not caring how much the honor of the country is soled m the strife offaction will make our legislative halls the theatre ofangry con'enton, and plead publicly the cause olthe public enemy by denounclng the origin, the conduct and the motives of the war For months this systnm of deraction has been pursued among many of the organs of the opposition, and at the public meetings and declarations ofa party in the north MT Webster skilled in the tactics of such a political campaign from his experience in opposing the last war; placed himselfa at the head ofthls move ment by his speech at Faneuil Hall before tine Mas sachusetts convention; and at Philadelphia on the End, proclaimed and developed at great length the plan ofalack upon he administration at the coming sesson-in which, by Mexican aid, he expects to obtain victory for the whig party.
 Aided by his great abilities and notorious unscru- pulousness the whgs who follow his leadership may furnish British torysm with material for abuse of the American character and impeachment of the na- tional cause. They may misead excite and exas- perate portion of he people at home; but they will never rise above the dignity of faconi they will never carry with them the sound heart of the honest masses but are doomed the fate of their predeces- sors Tn sprit-the men who forgot their country be- fore in their hatred of James Madison, and who ar pued for England ia 1912 not strongly nor so perversely as some of them now argue for Mexico.
 As democrats we want no better issue for victo- " than that the whgs shall denounce the message and follow Webster. Independent of party, as Anne ricans, who desire to sustain rehecngly and on con yiction what We believe right in our own country and s government we are willing to present and stand by, the Presidents message against the part- gan rancor and pelliogg ng injustice, and studied an,i.American pervelsons of the pro-Mexican man. ifesto of Mir Webster