The national whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1847, 1847-05-31
ERRORS CORRECTED.


County, Ohio, Wing meeting deserve passing no
tier.
I. Thaf the Msr can toar had its origin IN the
snaexafsoa Of 1e1as, u,sconsfifufionaiy COM
sseaesd By fks President By ordering the occupafioa
" feuifery occupied By Mexico, and not ours, with
me irps object of extending slavery, Strengthening
se slave power and obtaining the control OF the slave
! sisies"
4 We do not believe that the whole Of this res
cluiisa expresses this opinion Of the whole Of the
whis party Of The Union upon this subject. As j,
h one q she objects. Tor which the NATIONAL
wss wss established. TO express the sentiments
nearly % Il can ascertain them. Of the whole Wing
psay (,hss b he majority Of iD upon public men and
iubie measures, we design TO point out wherein, We
think. firm the best lights before Us, our Green
hsthren sfs In error in this and the following resolu
tons We hope they viii take our remarks in oil
kindnssa, aud sllow NJ the enjoyment Of our opin-
isns grant them the snjoymento Of ,hsirs-wi,h-
su, any impuiaiim Of motives. Every Wing will
agree with the FIRST solution just cited. far il
!. hsIieissd--e.sry Wing. North. South, Fast, and
wss, but ~hsn ne 90 farther there Is room for dis
puie. That our Green county friends are sincere
and ,hss there are hundreds Of other Wings
Who bslisvs as They do In regard to the rest o.
shis resolution. We doubt not hut Il appears TO
boxing Over ins whols ground from this centra,
point that 10 make the resolution express general
whig decuine. Il should read. a7;ras and NOT oars,
wiA fAs SOC object Of elsefing James X. Folk for
o seeoad Term.
- L.
a. a suar against freedom. humanity. justice, the
Union, the Consolidation. and the Free Staies."
That Il Il war against decentralization every Wing
10 the counlry will admit because il was begun in vo-
lalion az the Constitution hut there 10 great varie
" Of opinion among the wings about the justice Of
war with Msxico The ve,y fact that oil the Wings
in the last House of Representatives but Is voted
cor the recognition Of the war proves that such was
the case. When We speak of The justice Of the war;
Of course. we mean the proprissy and right Of the
Thing, ns equity. ID coHcctness if the Green CO.
Whiss mean Inst 10 not just war in the law sense
Of the torn, We admit they speak universal Wing
doctrine, because jus, In ,hst view Of the su-
,isvs By the Constitution. We believe that ma
joi,y u the Wing party At the Union convinced
that our difficulties with Mexico, even without Tex.
o., could never have been settled without resort to
the ultima ratio genfiYm. that we have hsd for ma.
ny years ample cause Of war against her, but there j.
no Wing who doris not condemn the manner In
which the war was commenced. n this opinion be
correct, the war cannot be against humanity II one
time more than ut smother. The resolution itali.
cised. therefore. We conceive, cmbodcs the genera
sentiment u The Wing party.
Q. That regard for The frue inkresis and The
highssf honor cffhe county NOT less than christian
duty. .houM mouss good citizens. 10 unite ,nef
forts 10 arresf The War, and reLere fhe country
from ito sggyessire Po'iiioa.
We believe there i not Wing in the Union.
nay. there Is not Democrats in H. save handful
who are pc rsonslly interested in keeping up the war;
who will not say, Amen 10 this sentiment. And
II IL proof to our minda that THE PEOPLE are de-
iermined TO arrest the war, by determining 70 make
ZAcnARr TArLoR their President They knoD
that M will relieve the country from the war. for
whatever difference Of opinion there may be about
the necessity Of at oil, every body 10 tired Of
II now--because we have beaten Mexico till life IL
almost extinct and we have nothing more 70 gain bu,
% take her territory.
Every Wing in the Union and nine-ienihs Of the
tion-and we hope that tho next Congress will nc
cord to Mr. Polk his deserts in the premises.
4. Thai Mr.. Polk, in ordering military occupa.
fion Of The territory beyond Corpus Christ, nhiisi
Compress ioas ~ session, arrogafed 10 hmsey the
po,oer If settling fhe boundary ~ The United SAFES,
al has ocn caprice aud al the erpense c ,car, for
,chieh he Justly deserves 10 be impsoehed.
s. That the po,oer Of Congress 10 wifhhoa sup.
pRs is greet constitutional qua, amy Of cirii
liberty and tie only eDerfire eli. ok upon ,cieted
ambitious, and reckless President.
True, every word Of il, and good Wing doctrine,
but that Congress did not Withhold the supplies for
carrying on Mr. Folks war only proves that they
considered tho refusal Of the supplies would be a
worse evil 10 the country than to grant them. The
course Of the last Congress In not exercising i,s
power as set forth in This resolution does not con.
denim those Wings who voted for tho supplies
because they are ss much the Judges Of their own
acts when called upon to act, as those who voted
against The supplies.
8. That the course Of q portion 81 the Whir
members Of CONGRESS and Wing editors, in denounc-
ing the war; and at the time in sustaining and
urging the voting Of men and money 10 continue IT,
abandonment on their part Of the surest qua
rany Of civil liberty, and Of duty, and meets ugqaa.
lifted dsapprohaton.
We come here to a proposition which we win be
hold TO say does no, meet with the assent Of the mil
lion,h part Of The srea. Wing party Of The Union.
n our Green county friends had said tina, tho policy
condemned met their disapprobafion, we could no,