Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-26


Such was also emphatically the policy of the
administration of the Government which followed
HlTing that period of the Revolutions in the Gov
ernment OF South America, President MONROE, with
a cool head and firm hand, kept this Government
steadily on its course of neutrality and friendly re-
atons with all the foreign world
Good faith and justice to all nations, peace and
harmony with all-cardnal principles OF the Revo-
lutonary Presdents-the fruits of the Old Cont
mental WARFARE, through long usage and the highest
moral sanctions, as mucha part of this Government
as the most sacred of the guarantees of the Con-
sttutlon, not excepting that of the freedom OF reli-
gion, OF the liberty of the press, or of the invoa-
biy OF contracts. This policy was respected, as
1t ever ought TO be, during the Administration OF
Mr.. ADAMS, the first President following the
Revolutionary race The Administration OF Presi-
dent JACKSON began by profession Of the same
policy, and ended with attempts to get us into war
with two nations, in both of which, by Gods will,
he was defeated through the instrumentality OF the
Press and the sound sense of the People The
Administration of Mr.. VAN BUREN was, in regard to
our Foreign Relations, almost unexceptlonable the
legacy of hopeful quarrel with Mexico, left to him
by the gentleman whom he termed g his ilustrous
predecessor" having for few months been kept
up for show, but quietly adjusted as as it could
be done without offending Gen. JACKSON. The
Administration Of President TYLER ended by leaving
to his successor the consequence OF his departure
from the policy of non-intervention iii Foreign po-
litics wisely observed by the great statesmen who
had preceded him, state of things, Of which the
present Administration has avaed itself to make
the territories of neghborng Republic the theatre
of bloody and desperate War, waged with il by the
United States.
How and when the existing War with Mexico
broke out-he most indulgent phrase we can think
OF to express the way in which we got into it-our
readers are by this time sufficiently informed; al
though at first its advent was so sudden as to sur
prise those who knew most about it, and even the
President himself, who, in his first communication
to Congress, informed them that it was begun by
the act of Mexico in shedding American blood on
American soil; pretext which, having answered
its end has been SO utterly discarded that neither
in the Procamations issued by the Executive to the
Mexican nation, in its official communications
to the GovernmeRi of that country, has it been so
much as hinted at.
Divers other causes and objects of this War have,
IS we have heretofore shown been since alleged,
rom time to time by the Administration, in its
public acts, and through its recognised organs.
OF these officially avowed motives for the War
he latest is that OF Political Necessity and Continen-
al Policy, which we brought forward more part-
;ularly to the notice Of readers in an article in
nj off tl,a lOit In ,ba oc -,
article by the government paper, its length has been
much complained of. Long as it was, however
We had not room to carry out, as it deserved, the
parallel between this War; on its now avowed
ground, and the remarkable event III European his
tory to which it bears the greatest resemblance
and has the most striking analogy. That unfnsh-
ed task we now resume.
We should not prosecute further this inquiry
into the merits of the War, were it possible for
he Mexican leaders so far to misunderstood the
Press of this country to suppose its design, in
the frees examination of the subject, TO be any
other than to impress the People Of our own coun.
try with just idea of the objects for which their
President has sent thousands upon thousands of his
to find graves in Mexico, and has |
morgaged the public faith by involving the country
in a debt already of untold millions. AS for
Mexico, her leading men are too well informed Of
the relation OF the Press to the Government of this
country, too well read in history and too con-
versant with the usages of war, not to know that
whilst exists between that country and the
United States, it must equally exist between the
people of the two countries; tat the Press
exercises no direct influence on the Government
and that it is through the ballot-box only that
change of policy on the part of this Government
(uness by treaty with Mexico) can be hoped for.
We do not feel ourselves at all restrained from
the freest expression of our views on this subject
by another objection which has been raised to it,
viz that peace is probably at hand Peace, itself,
however soon concluded, would be no reason for
suspending the discussion, much less for entirely
suppressng investigation into matters which il is
of the highest consequence that readers should
thoroughly comprehend
We therefore again ask the attention Of our read
ers to the extraordinary doctrine, first shadowed
forth in the Proclamation which was prepared by
the Executive for Gen. TAYLOR, but presented in
the Proclamation of Gen. ScorT, equally an act of
the Executive, in direct and tangible shape. We
again cite the text of Gen. ScoTT's Proclamation, and
this time from an authorized version of il, which
had not reached US when we before remarked
upon it:
considerations Of hgh policy aud of CoSrISESrAL