New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-11-26
Oussr Mr.. Clay TO have sp"hens


--.,,;o.e;on 70 the leader Of the oppo,lsE host
:. ~. ;n,sryal between two great battles NO
,h,y oould be more palpably true. The two great
49,, Repobics In the world mauling and manslipg
each other, 10 the great scandal Of Liberal lnsu'
tutions, when neither has anything TO gain bat
much to risk by the weakening Of the other. Des-
potism cites their protrscted envenomed hostiiies
as proof positive that War is not game Of kings
only-that Republics can waste their strength ano
load themselves with debt 10 fratricidsl bIoodsned
% well. This War is accustoming the hexlcsnS'
fwho were once extrsvagant in their admiration
and inconsderate in their imitation Of this country
Ia hate and sbbor as and there would seem to be
reason TO fear that they will call some European
Prince 10 rule over them in order more ehectualy
In resist and baffe Us. 10 every aspect wherein
sagacious men can view it, this War is not merely
crime bat a gross blunder-a struggle IN which
defeat would be calsmitous and humiliating, but In
which triomph has its dangers scarcely less appah
ing. What shall it profit TO gain tho whole Of
Mexico and lose our own liberties or shatter our
Unioni
The evil and the danger are obvious the practi.
caldeliyerance is Tor has BEEN involved in obscunty
or doubt We know well that majority Of the U.
8 Senate last Winter agreed in utter detestation
Of the War and in anxious desire that 1t should be
terminated. Mr. Berren's No Territory resolution
barely failed TO receive ma jority. Mr.. Cahouns
far more exceptionable idea of taking defensive
line and guarding titus recOnciling ourselves 70
the existence Of q state Of interminable though
sloggish warfare-camc near being adopted, for
want Of something better, and in utter disgust at
this aimless, miserable War. We know that lead
ing Wing Senators said repeatedly TO their friends
who addressed them on the subject We hate the
War as thoroughly as you can-we wish 1t were
dead and buried-bot rchat can re do If the
president sends our troops to the Pacific and
the Isthmus, can we leave them to perishl Must
they not be fed, equipped and reinforced Don't
call II our War said Carolinian sharply in
reference to a casual remark there is no psrto
the country where this War is more generally
sdetested than In South Carolina. SO Congress
talked and acted deliberated and adjourned; the
greater number heartily execrating the War yet
feeding H. And some would have it 60 so till
doomsdsy.
Not % THOMAS CoRwIS. as the world well
knows Not 50 DANIEL WEBSTER, as his great
Speech at Springfield last September attests. He
then and there declared that Congress ought TO in
quire for what purpose this w ar is TO be farther
prosecuted, and continues;
"Isuppos. majority or the next House Of Representa-.
tatives in Congress will DO composed of Wings.
Suppose that to be the cs'e, say At once, unless the
President shall show to Conges' ths, War Is prose
cued for no purpose Of acquisition dominion, ior no
purpose not connected directly with The saety OF TINS
linton thea thy ousA not to grant any fa'he' suFY'"'
so Hon. ROBERT G. WINTHROP, one OF the most
N G Al, hose
ton was hailed with especial rejoicing by the
Courier a. Esquuer, because Of his freedom from
fansticsm and his patriotic course with regard to
the War, declared in his Fsneuil Hall Speech Of
the Sd inst under the immediate inspiration Of the
great New York triumph
"Thsrs TO- then but policy for II we az. 20 pre-
pse the peace Of the country a0d the Union ihS cef
mat BE- sfopped chers u IS. These absurd preensions
either for part the whole Of Mexico mus, os absn
doned"
Very significant also is the language of sirAs
WRIGHT, in his official correspondence respecting
the California Expedition:
"Ifit 10 designed to make present with Mexico
s.sof ssnqesd and appropriation OF any part 81 me ero
~ eonfess-diy and indisPuaey hers Ih'"t "a, difna
rslfaksn one So far as the question Of boundary
IL involved, should be a all tunes really to make t'eaiS
ssfabhiHg s ss~e BOUNDARY nhoa 'e s,aried at at corr
msneewssf Of thu ueT. This would do a. matter OF
sopnd and principle aud equally as matter VI wee
policy"
We cannot remember that either Of these enin-
ent citizens was assssied with scrimony by any
proesscdly IYhig journal, still less accused OF TAX
ing sides with his countrys enemies. Mr. WEB
srERs Speech was copied in full into the Couiier@
Enquirer, without symptom ofccnsure that we can
can reoollect All that journal venom asreseryed
TO be poured out upon illusrious head whitened
with the frosts of seventy winters bu; st towering
.s.A... CT 81 h,all.
ofnveterate hostility in front or the poisoned arrows
Of fawning treachcry in the rear That head may
be prostrated it cannot be dishonored the veriesl
miscreant who would fsin sully it with his foul
breath knows well that truer patriot never lived
than the man he would fain revile and expose to
spprbrium.
He who honestly says that there was no need
of q Speech from Mr. Clay at this time and on
this subject simply betrays his own gross igno-
rance. 1t was eminently ecessary that the North
should be assured, from source that would COM
mand credence and respect, that the better Por-
ton Of the South do not desire expect expsn-
sion Of our Slave Territory-that far from regard
ing Slavery as a good to be cherished, propa
gated, established, they profoundly realize that
it is formidable evil, to be deplored limited and,
% soon A. may De exterminateu' true, Mr. Olhy
said this substantially in isii, in of those very
Alabama letters which have subjected him TO so
much reproach. and which were usedto his great
injury but since then hardly word has been
heard from the South in the same spirit, while the
little juntos of aspiring politicians, whose sole hope
Of promotion is bound up in the favor OF the slave
breeding and negro trading interest have filled the
whole land with their rant In behalf Of the South,
the South and its determination to have at least
half the territory which may be wrested from Mex
loo to plant Slavery upon. This has naturally
alarmed and aroused ali parties at the North, and
created an alarming sectional division and agita
ton which threaten to shake the pillars Of the
Union. Hearing voice from the Southern States
ba, that Of this little knot of Slavery propagsndsts
the Free States are led to regard their demand as
the general sentiment Of the South, when nothing
could be more mistaken nor more mischievcus. II
only to have burst this bubble, and shown that the
real South. speaking through the most eminent
man in oil the Slave States. and responded to by
great public meeting Of bis fellow citizens, do
want any more Slave Territory, Mr. Clay ought to