The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-28
From the Ner York Ereni,lg Post, Dem. ]
OCCUPATION OF MEXICO.


cal and pressing question presents Itself, what
is TO be done with the territory now IN our
possession There is little use in carplng
or cavilng at the past The present and
the future are pressing upon US, Inc pre-
sent and the future are Impractical subjects
of contemplation for the statesman, and that
humber animal the politician we opposed
the annexation of Texas in the form in which
il was presented We were overruled by-a
majority Of the country, and neither our tenn
per nor our creed permits us to sulk IN moo
DIV inaction because our particular plans were
not adopted and our Individual counses not
listened to- The present practical question
is, what shall be done with those portions Of
Mexico now in our possession
To answer this question, we begin with
assuming what we believe is beyond dispute,
that the war is to be attributed to the an
ne&ation of Texas; and that the annexation,
after the virtual abandonment Of Mexico of
all her nght,to Texas, was question be-
tween Texas and ourselves alone. The
rights and feelings Of the north may have
been triied with in consecrating all Texas to
slavey-the rights and interests of the whole
country may have been trihed with BY the
indecent and dangerous haste with which the
measure was passed and closed. But with
this Mexico has nothing to do The war
was commenced by her in madness and IN
iatuation, and has been kept up by her in
madness and iniatuation, and has been kept
kept up by her in equal ignorance and OBJ
stinacy, till she finds herself lying at the feet
Of her victors
Now IN this contest it appears to us very
clear that the incompetency and utter inabi-
lily OF Mexico to maintain an independent
EXISTENCE decent existence as an indie
pendent power--have been made most ma
nitestiy apparent Her leaders have shown
the most arrant ignorance of the strength
and character of this country as well as their
own, and the most disgraceful incapacity in
the management of the contest in every
view, both civil and military. After spend
ing the last twenty years in one protracted
civil war, they appear at the end Of it utter
ly unable to make decent show OF lorcble
resistance to a foreign foe, and their whole
conduct Of the contest has been marked by
the EXTREMIST feebleness, cowardce and stu
pidity-so great indeed, that We're il not for
the enormous disparity Of numbers, and the
total rawness Of the larger part of our forces,
the Mexican laurels would not be worth
wearing by people who have vanquished
Britons in equal fight
The advocates OF peace, as they style
themselves among us, are perpetually harp
ing upon the. Mexcans as il they We're Span
lards, or Europeans, or Of European descent;
and they talk Of Zaragoza and Badaios, and
guerlllas, as il the history of Old Spain were
TO be re-enacted on our continent One
would really suppose that by this time the
deluson W ould have been dissipated One
would really suppose that by this time the
delusion would have been dissipated One
Maid Of Zaragoza We're worth all the Mexi-
cans that were ever Graded. The Mexicans
are Acknowledgment INDIANS Such
Indians as Cortez conquered three thousand
years ago only rendered little more mis-
chlevous by bastard civilization. The in
fusion of European blood whatever it is, and
that too infused in highly iHegitimate way
is not enough, as we see, to affect the cha
racter Of the people. They do not possess
the elements Of an independent national ex-
istence. The Aborigines of this country
have not attempted, and cannot attempt, to
exist independently along side Of US. Pro-
vide ce has so ordained il, and it is folly moi
=. .c .ccognize Inc TACT. i he Mexicans are
Aboriginal Indians, and they must share the
destiny of their race.
Now we ask whether any man coolly con-
template the idea Of recalling our troops from
the territory we at present occupy--trom
Mexico--from San Juan de Uloa--from
Puebla, and thus, by one stroke Of Secre-
tary's pen, reconsign this beautiful country
to the custody of the ignorant towards and
profigate rufiians who have ruled it for the
3 last twenty-five years; Why, humanity
cries out against II. Civilization, Christi
anity, protest against this rehux OF the tide
of barbarism and anarchy.
How we are to maintain our control over
the country-on what terms, under what
contingencies a matter of detail, and
subject to future events but we do not be-
lieve there lives the American, with true
understanding of his country's interests and
duties, who, ii he had the power, would de-
.llberately surrender Mexico to the uncon-
trolled dominion of the mongrel barbarians,
who, for quarter Of century, have de-
graded and oppressed her
II IS wholly mmaterial, in this point Of
view, to hunt up the origin of the war--how
1t commenced, or through whose fault. The
contest IS begun-it is indeed substantially
over; the money has been spent, the pre-
clous lives IoSt-and the question now is
whether the world, humanity, civilization,
Christianity, shall profit by the sacrifices we
have made, or whether we shall deliberately
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