Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-17


cant feature Of democratic form Of government"
There is evidently no hope in Albany for those
:" lost rights Of the States,'' those pure consttu-
tionalites, which Mr.. VAN buren, once so knowingly
depored.
But we turn from this barren waste, where no
salutary plant takes root no verdure quickens, as
Junius says to last green spot, one oasis in the
desert la sort of Atlantis of the heroic where walk,
in everdurng youth and vigor, the shades Of those
stern patriots and stiff Strict Consructonists that
stood out upon clause, invited the Jacksonan hal
ter, and so vaiantly denounced g party of rogues
and royalsts," held together only by the cohesive
power Of public punder" What saith the Pal
meto State! How speakelh its clarion Of freedom
and of honor, the Charleston Mercury2 Listen !
mot long ago of serious uneasiness to the
tehgencer that the invasion of Mexico by armies
positive benefit TO the invaded districts Our troops took
thing without paying double price, and only exaced of the
Inhabitants that they should stay quiet and make their fortunes
The longer the lasted it argued the better for them
But when was understood that change of tactics de-
temned and that hencefoth the army feed at the
cost OF the enemy the LeHgences alarm is redoubed 1t
will exasperae the Mexcans, and they will fight forever,
thinks the tegencer So it is all wrong, whether they
fed by their country by Mexico But the Intelligent
Ger has found grief greater than any that have gone
before And this is the overwhelmingly audacous
sttuona and positively shocking proceedings of Gen. Kear
ney at Santa Fe."
'tien Kearney's proclamation the people of all
New Mexico that he has taken possession of them and their
country that he shall hold them subject to the laws and
jurisdiction of the United States shall provide for their
semhling free Territorial Legislature absolves them from
allegiance to Mexico and himself for the present
Governor of the country The hteAgencer petrifed.
The President of the United States annexing territories,
and establishing provisional governments and playing the alb
solute monarch
Wall tayip If tho
country and establishing such system of authority is most
likely its quiet Submissions and make most suber
Went to the support OF the army during the war; II I'M
doubtedy the expectation that this region will De retained by
the United States the price of peace but all that even the
tegencer must know, depends Congress. Santa Re,
Tor whose benefit the proclamation especially intended,
in Texas and has been long ago annexed As for the Ian
guage Of the proclamation, it addressed to Mexcans
little in their stye and meant to affect them IN the
way it has the huehigencero overwhelm them with
amazement."
Alas for /" limited government" when Carolina
herself can thus mock at il Alas for chivalry,
when Don Quxote himself derides it!
If we objected TO the first Government plan of
feeding our army, it was because it afforded no re-
source that should be relied on by invaders. Its
eXpensiveness was of course but secondary OBJ
lection. We only thought of it, as we still think,
that war which was to get It's supplies IN that
way and so precariously had better be let alone.
We count, in Legitimate enterprises the object and
the cost is it only in rapine and public calamity
that we may not consider of millions upon millions
worse than wasted We should not speak of ex-
penses however, they are probably an nducement
to South Carolina for since its last amazing disco
very in finance, it must rejoice in seeing us plunge
deeper and deeper into debt because them in order
to get an increased revenue to pay it with, you
must lower your tariff all the while
The Mercarys logic is at fault when il would
infer from our objection 10 the depending on the
enemy for sold provisions our approval of taking
them by plumber from population who should be
conciliated. We may advise people not to go
a-marketng where provision of broken heads was
the sort of provend to be expected but we never
knew before that such peaceable admontion amount
ed to exhortng them TO take by pillage what we
knew could not be got otherwise The Govern
men! has seen that were right: but what then
From an absurd it plunges into wicked mistake I;
and the Mercury obligingly saddles both its blum
ders upon crimes.
As to the Santa Fe proceedings, we have already
answered the Mercury as far as we know how, ex-
cept only to say that if Santa Fe was already an
nexed, then why not as well shoot those found in
arms before since the capture Why should
pro-consu KEARNEY continue the g laws and au-
thorities ?" Has he any right over the laws and
officers in % part of the United States :" But es-
pecialy, ocho gave him could give him the right
to be a United States Court and to try and punish
men for treason of any sort-not to speak of the
New Strct-C Construction Treason of having left
their homes :"
As to our long affections" the Nercuys SYM
pathes only be fifty requited by little emu
meraton of them. We were afflicted at many of
the lengths to which General JACKSON wished to
90 against South Carolina and almost as much
when she became the dupe of the fag-end of Jack
sonism. We grieved over the personal obloquy
which she heaped on Mr.. Van Buren, but still
more when she fell into his ran and conjured him,
from the head and front of corruption and "public
plumber" into man Of Southern principles"
We would furnish TO the Mercury more of these
Affections, but our space will not now permit us to
extend the list.
| CHINESE PIRAfEs.-DREADrUL SLAUGHrER.-By the ar
rival here Of the Dutch schooner Swallow have received
particulars Of one Of the daring and muderous attacks Of
pirates recoec have heard Of read II appears