New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-23
Rio Crande the Limit Of our Couniry-Army
Bill IN the senate-Conduet OF Noian-
tssrs ut Observation-Disclosures General
u. 4. Senator from ya.-Judge Huntington

rom own Correspondent
WARRINGTON Thursday Jan 2l, lef'
The Rio Graudo may yet be the ultima thule OF
car South. western Empire There the god Ter
minus may place bis immoyable foot To TINS com
plexiop may we come at last
In the House Of Representatives there IS a quad
rup!s opinion in this regard The Northern Wings
are Oppose cd from policy well as principle to the
extsnsisn Of our territorial limits and they consti
tuts q party in Congress respectable IN number
st,ll more respectable from ability, and worthy oil
all consideration from the fact thatthey now reflect
the decided sentiment Of the non-Slaveholdins
States. The second party is composed oil those
Loco ocos Of the North and East who desirous OF
extending our conquests even to the Pacific profess
10 be still more DESTROYS Of preventing the territorial
extension of Slavery a sudden horror OF which
seems to snsross and agtste them. The Southern
Loco Focos and Wings, who, indifferent, or seem
insly So TO the acquisition OF farther territory yet
insist Il acquired 1t shall be subject to no law for
the exclusion of Slavery, constitute third class
A fourth is formed OF those Members who insist
upon Texas as she was annexed, and not as con
ousst has made. farther spohstion may make
her This class is strongest in prineple and weakest
in number.
Now how Is opinion So various 10 be reconolledf
how made so consentsneous as to be productive OF
any accession TO territory
PRtsroS KING. HANLIS. GROVER n Co. are
committed to the acquisition OF territory and 10
the exclusion OF slsvery-so much So perhaps as
TO fear tersiverss,ion RHsrr aud BURT, with
their allies, will never allow the separation no
slsvsry. no territory, is their determination, Thus
do the two great sections OF the party oppose to esoh
others action q neutraixing resistance Like TWO
opposite bodies coming into collision. with equal
momentum and rapidly, neither can pursue the
path in which it was moving but is driven back
and becomes immovsable. The alternative, there
fore of Southern Democracy will be sjuneuon
with the Wings for the abneg alton OF farther &C
suisitions-preierring rather to renquish territory
than to compromise assumed principle.
The dissensions of these factions may assure the
safety Of IN Republic. already endangered by
their union. II is therefore to be hoped that the
divorce may be complete snd irrsvocabe.
Col. BrxroS has declared his intention TO vote
against the Army bill now before the Senate, Will
the amendments that have been made and threat
susd appended thereunto and IL 10 said he u
not the only content Of his party. The amend
msnt proposed by Gen. HousroS-l e. to give Z
the Citizen soldiers the selection Of their owl
osacen-,hs Senator from Missouri particular,
eondsms and in truth II these same citizen sol
diers are unworthy to be trusted with the miser
able pittancs which Congress offers them undo
the spscious name OF ssaHfy. and your Looo-F Foo
aristoorsts contend TO this effect they most assn
rsdly are unqualified TO choose their own officers
However the candid truth is but this; that II Ger
HovsroS's amendment be not carried soldier
will be enlisted; and II it IS carried, tAey rN :
sood toy sotAsxg ck>a ealssted The most disrept
,abls conduct OF our citizen soldiers at Mosters
has not been revealed TO the country An oses
.ioual nfracton Of military etiquette may perhsr
b. psnloned the raw levy hardly, habitual yioli
tions Of the laws Of morality
But why should we ceasure the soldier when
is encouraged in military insubordnation BY h
own officers ! doubt which feeling. whether
disgust or ridiene.--will dominate the minds
persons who learn that Col, YgIi,-EN Governs
and Elk Representative as he is-and other of
Gers OF the Arkansas Regiment have been put n
der arrest and ordered to be tined by CourtMs
nal. becanss they ,cfased % drsH tts7r sseR Ii
fortunate Colones They may have feared, al
Justly too that they would have been the person
drilled. not the soldiers. had they commanded Al
attempted the exercise prescribed by military law
The Bseadier GenerslshiP sti hangs in su
psnse The four strongest candidates said
be Col. wrpr Gen. WARD and TEMPLE OF Ne'
York and Gen CADwALLApER OF PHILADELPHIA