Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-08-17
From the WsshingtonU Union.
The Obstacles TO Peace.

20 watch the progress OF the negotiations |
which rumor( whether truly or untruly) |
announces to have been commenced be- |
tween the Mexican government and our |
own, 1t may be useful to consider the |
main Obstacles which stand in the way of
their successful termination. tis hardly |
necessary to assert-what is too evident |
TO be. questioned all those difficulties |
have their being in the existing spirit
and temper ofthe Mexican government
and people. Our government Is now, as
It has been from the first, eager and an.
1ions to end the war at once in just and
honorable treaty--a treaty which shall
secure to ourselves only that which is
just and right in view Of allthe facts of
the case, without inAicting and needless
loss or humiliation upon our enemy. Mex.
ico-conquered in single year and at
our mercy-may have a peace on such
terms, the moment she is wise enough to
desire it. Still the war is not yet ended,
nor is its speedy termination yet by any
means certain,
Nor is it difficult to discover the real
causes of the delay ofthe return of peace.
Our arms, glorious as have been their
triumphs, have fought at g. disadvantage,
because, even while they moved on from
victory to victory in quick succession, the
spirit Ut faction among ourselves has,
with equal ardor, inculcated into the
mind Of our enemy the whole creed and
lesson of partinacious and desperate
FeSistance-of stubborn and blind reject.
ton of all the counsels of peace. At this
very moment Mexico holds out in the war
exclusively on the arguments and preten.
ccs which the Opposition orators and
presses among ourselves have framed
for her, and instructed her to employ.
She says we have 'robbed" her of Texas.
She has adopted both the idea and the
phrase of it from the recognised organs
ofIAe creed Opposition. She says we
are fighting her to Cypress and degrade
her, and dismember her territory. She
fiRds the very terms she uses, set down
ter her in the opposition speeches
and journals, and beholds the opposition
party OF our country rallied upon them as
party motto. She proclsims that to
her the question of the war is question
Irrational eriStance; and for proof ofher
assertion, she points to such devices at the
''lust Of conquest" and the obstruction of
a sister republic" emblazoned on every
federal flag. She calls her people 20
resistance and endurance, and such pre-.
detroy battle as they have yet the power
to make, avowdedly on the hope that the
administration here must soon abandon
the war; and, as a reason for such faith,
she cites the labored diatribes in which
leading organs of the opposition have
again labored to demonstrate that our war
has as yet conquered" nothing but the
''spirit Of our own constitution" and that
its unpopularity with thePeople must soon
eject from power the councils in which il
has been waged. Her rulers tell her
people that peace is dishonor; and find
their warrant to say so in the federal
invictives which denounce the war on our
part as "ruthles rapine and MURDER" and
call upon the Mexicans to ",Oelcome the
invader with bloody hands and hos
pitable grave" Her government journals
announce to their deluded readers the
approaching advent Of ''a better spirit
towards Mexico in our government; and
for proof, they cite the steretyped federal
motto of mo more Mexican territory"
Mainly-nay, almost soley-upon such
federal 'aid and comfort" the war Of
Mexico holds out. She looks for help to
her "allies" here. American faction
fights her battle for her, when she can no
longer battle with hope of success in the
field. Our war has been full of glories.
Thanks to the ability with which it has
been planneda and organized, and the high
soled valor with which it has been fought
our conflicts have all been victories. The
military powers ofour people and of our
institutions has exited the establishment
and won the admiration Of the world.
But the fury Of faction has found, in the
freedom Of those same institutions, "room
and verge" enough to rally peace party
with power to rob our victories, in large
measure, Of their moral effect upon our
enemy, to inspire her with new courage,
and 80 to protract her hostilities even
when The sinews Of her war are broken
and withered. We believe that the PEG.
ple-anx'ous as the people are always are
and should be for honorable and perman.
ent peace-seeing that our enemy is con.
CURED: seeing, too, that administration has
done all that could be done. both by diplo.
macy and by arms, TO secure such a peace;
asd ssein, too, that Mexico, emboldened
by the pledges and the exortaiions Of the
federal 'peace party" among ourselves.
yet refuses peace; we believe that the,
people, seeing those things, will under.
stand fully which ofthe two parties among
as has been in this crisis the true friends
Of the rights, the honor, and the peace of
our country. and will SO apply the great
remedies provided by our constitution as
not much Ion ger to permit the base and