Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-10-12
Flom the Washington Union.
The Wing ISSu6-NO Mexican Territory,

FIom the Washington Union.
The Wing ISsue-NO Mexican Territory.
Since the August elections, the wings
tactcians have been on the move effsc.
tually. They have pretty thoroughly
shpipedGeneral Taylor; they have brought
Mr.. Clay formally into the field again:
they have apparently made up their minds
to vote supplies for the war; and thew
have rallied with remarkable unanimity
upon their great issue-.No more .Msri.
can Ierritory!' This is quite work
enough for three or four weeks.
The reasons assigned for these several
moves in the wing journals are full of in.
struction. General Taylor is put aside,
because mole trusty wing must be-
found. Mr., Clay is taken up. because he
is the trustiest Of all the wings to carry
cut all the party ends without stint scrupIe.
The SUPPLIES for the war are to be voted,
because it would be party ssuicids"to re.
fuse them. And while the war is thus
carried on. all territorial indemnify for
1t, and for the wrongs that preceded it, is
to be refused and rejected. because upon
that issue of''no more territory" all the
wings of the north, south, east, and west.
it is alleged, can rally and prevail. Ii
matters not, that without territorial in.
demnity there can be no indemnity at all,
and 90 practical advantageous result Of
the war. Still. after the territory is fair.
y ours, it is TO be refused in order that
the wing party may have one issue
that they can unite upon; and then the
war: foredoomcd by the issue to he with.
out result, is to be fought out with new
expenditure ofblood and treasure, in order
that the wing party may escape political
suicide! High and worthy motives thase,
to control the policy of the country in the
acquisition of California and maintenance
of our rights and honor against Mexico!
Have the wing journals. now most clam.
orous for mo territory" taken any pains
to iniorin their readers upon what other
grounds of p9licy or principle in this mat.
ter they stand. save only this wretched
Pettitogging to keep the different gangs
ot their party together in the scramble
fo' the presidency? Have they underta.
ken 20 say, as publicisrs, that a territori.
al inCe mnity from Mexico to us is not lust
and tit! Do they deny that California is
worth having! Do they deny that, to ex.
tend the sway of our federal constitution
over that realm, is noble Object Of pat.
riotic ambition, WORT alike of the phi.
anthropist and the statesman! Have
they pretended to grapple with any one
of these questions, (involving as they do
The largest interests of the country. )when
they make up their issue Of mo territo1a'
Not at all. The Wilmnt provisu threat.
ems to give them trouble in their ranks:
and without hesitation or reluctance. to
avoid the trouble. they set themselves at
work to stunt and sacrifice the growth Of
the country, to make its war profitless.
and the treaty of peace in which closes
neither an advantage nor an honor.
This neD issue of ''no more territory"
is, in fact, an old one. II is, indeed, one
of the instincts of federalism Federalism
more than doubted whether any part of
the valley of the Mississippi ought to come
into the Union. 1t opposed the acouisi.
ton OF the Louisiana territory, and FIori-
da, and Texas. 1t was ready to call our
claim to Oregon "a humbug." 1t was
prompt to cede away the valley Of ARGOS.
took. 1t is willing now to give back
again to Mexico the ports and plains Of
California. Such is the cry of the whip
press in general. Such is the purport Of
the article in which the lnieIlieencer
yesterday put forth its opinion. But, old
as the federal feeling is agains, 'more
land, we do not remember that party
ever before rallying upon that issue under
circumstances ofgrosser qualification.
they now hold up before tue country at
the same time two party issues; the one
IS, vote men and money toI the war;
the other is, "By the refusal OF oil indem.
nifty, make The further prosecution of the
war prohtless fsrce." 1t is remarka-
BILE tina. the wings are resolving to sup
port the warjust so soon as they have
taken a party position, which turns the
war, in. view at lea tot one of the objects
Of its farther prosecution, into an absurd.