Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-05-29

the because ratification would have immediate
war with Mexico. He (Mr b. of the majority If
the Senate which rejected that treaty and his constituents
though all in favor of annexation appreciated his motives
and justified his conduct His reelection to the Senate in
the the verdict of the people upon his
duct and he made them his profound thanks for the justice
of that VERDICT and the honor Of that election
The treaty OF annexation rejected but annexation in
another form was still prosecuted. resolution for the ad
mission OF Texas State, passed the House OF Represen
taiyes additional and alternative resolution added
in the Senate, to appoint commissioners to negotiate for ad
mission, and To concae aud reconcile Mexico and thereby
prevent The annexation from bringing The expiring
administration Of Mr. Tyler snatched the alternative from the
hands Of the President ect-huried oil the House resoiu
ZION by midnight messenger-snmmed the door of conca-
lion in the face OF Mexicoand inamed her pride and
to the highest degree From that time forth every
thing beathed war between the two countries which broke
,.ut the ensuing year.
Mr. b. said this the history of the loss and gain of
Texas, and its sequence The wiM MrieO The coun-
try recoveeda has followed, and the question now
is, how TO finish it For himself he felt clear His policy
had been uno from first last get back Texas
without breach with Mexico and he certain it might
deem done wise and temperate counses had prevailed
The United States had only to wait for that was upon
the point of being signed in January sf2 under the pow
eul mediation Of Great Britain and France when the then
Administration broke up the peaceful negotiation, dispersed
the Minister'S assumed the war; and placed the army and
navy under the control of tho President Of Texas to fight
Mexico The rejection of the treaty stopped the then
assumed but the midnight transmission OF the House eso
luton started it again, and placed the two Republics in
| the unhappy condition in which they now stand
Mr.. b. repeated. His policy from beginning TO ending
had been get hack Texas without war, breach of
friendship with Mexico. He greatly to such
He great aud extraordinary evils in it, Besides
the evils all was-oss of lives, distress Of ami
es interruption of ruin to many merchants, and
load of debts and besides all these ordinary evils incl
dent to all he others OF new and extraordinary
kind in with Mexico She was Republic, and weak
one and neighbour and had done the honor TO copy
constitution and form o government and had maintained
civil home keep up She was one OF the Span
ish American States which stretch from the southern boun
Diary of the United States To- Cape Hon the whole OF which
had copied form of government and established close po
lcal and commercial relations with All these States
had Just emancpated themselves from European domnato
adopted the republican system, and taken the United States
for their model and their end-the elder sister and parental
guardian OF the Gordon Of Republics which stretched across
the two Americas The position of the United States the
head of this long chain of Republics grand and impress
sve and imposed upon her enlarged and enlightened y
TEN, which had been carefully acted upon by all American
statesmen from the time these Spanish American States be-
TO establish their independence Europe had system
Monachies consolidated by holy alliance. The world
had ITS system OF Republics, to be cemened and united by
sympathy and friendship TO maintain position the
head OF this republican system in the world due to
ourselves and the human To cherish and pepeuae
these Repubcsto preserve their friendship and their
merceto continue To be their political ntor-to continue
them in the republican system of the world and prevent
their relapse into the monarchca system of the old world
this was our true and noble policy. War with any of
them would endanger that policy for, being all of the
pahize with each other and in having with one the
friendship Of all might lie jeoparded.
He (Mr b had endeavored 10 upon these enlarged
principles, originating not with him. but with enlightened
statesmen before be nto public life He had endeavoed
TO get back Texas without with Mexico and GER
tam might have been done with all by the simple pro-
cess OF leaving Mexico and Texas to make peace, and
ing Mexico with the respect and Difference due Re
puhi-the more proud and sensitive because weak and
be to contend with The first great the annex-
ahon treaty Of 1872 and the manner in which it
ducted that the work of the Tyler Administration and
for selfish and unworthy purposes The second great error
worse than the rejection of the Senates alter
nave resolution and dispatch Of the midnight messenger to
Texas with the absolute resolution Of admission on the night
Of the Sd Of March, lS45. That also the work of the
Tyler Administration, and in the last of its expiring
existence The first of these steps (the treaty. would have
made instant it had been ratified by the Senate the
second made the and the great question is finish
it. How TO finish it That the question which every
body putting to him. and which every present,
doubt, would wish to hear him speak. But this not the
time speak upon that point The time would come, but il
His opinions had been asked by the President
and given to him. and approved hy him. and in time would be
given TO the public
But he could say that he relied upon policy than upon
TO finish this with a weak and proud neghbor
Fight bltes she could not That proved from San
Jacnto to Cerro Godo, and wherever the met from
the Gulf Of Mexico TO the Bay Of San Francisco victories
would come as often fights but there danger
TO be fearedhe danger Of nacsm-anl the CONVEX Of
the war into death contest for country and religion The
Spanish sc,ptble Of deep national emoon-a ia
eIhoioh-Oou pOltc and OF which
their history furnishes abundant examples both the Old and
IN the New World, and from the Of the Cahagenians
and the Romans that Of the French under Bonapae Pol
icy more than arms but combined with arms, he considered
he road to peace.
lie would say that victories alone would not bring
they might do bot the kind Of peace he
search o. He wanted the peace which merely
sat of hoses but restoration Of the and blessings
Of the restoration Of friendship and commerce. and Of
our position head and chef and parental guardian the
system Of Republics in the New World The peace which
leaves all the anmoses and Of war behind was
not the peace which the interests countries and the
good Of the republican system and the safety and ndepen
dence Of the two Americas required.
Mr. said he stood upon ground which he could not
ore he alluded to subjects which he could unfold but
ne could that il great coufuund the whole
Mexican peope-the whole eight millions of their mixed Do
puaon-under any general vew either politically mo
rally, or intellectually, in their feelings towards the United
States and the 1t would be great error to conound
this large and mixed under any general and
worse error to act either miIiarIy politically upon that
view. II had It's divisions both of and of political par
ties; and leaving the ilIierate impoverished, and de-
pressed part Of the Indian race which sgnifed nothing poll
cay though the half of the whole population and the
resource for day labores and the rank file the army
leaving out that depressed half the other half is radically
lrreconcIaby divided in political systems and ia all the aec
tons and views which result from that division The largest
halt OF the enlightened half republican, and has struggled
since 1874 or our fm Of government and always carry the
elections the other part the onachca and the strong
est though least numerous, because il has the snews Of
war-money and arms lests upon the church and stand
ng army OF near twenty thousand officers and much
twenty thousand men The policy Of the republican part leads
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