Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-26

/ PROCLAMATION
WE COME to obtain repara- We COME, therefore, nha-
tion, &C. We TO bans OF Zealand not as en-
throw the tyrans &c., but emes but in sefdeience to
we come 10 make upon prevent those who long
the People OF Mexico disturbed the peace Of Eu-
rope, &c.
/ The Mexican people who The persons of all those
shall remain neutral during who remain home and do
the contest shall be protected not take hostile part will
against their military despots. be held sacred
Your reiglon, &c, the Property will be protected
property of your churches and and preserved the most
citizens shall be protected and discipline will be en-
remain invioae. forced
We shall want nothing from Every article of supply fur
you but food for army and nhed brought market
for this you shall always be will be paid for fair and
paid, in cash, the full value settled price, &c.
What effect these disclosures of the ambitious
views of the Executive, prosecuted without regard
either to the National Welfare or the Will of the
People, may have upon the Mercantile and Mari
time interests of the seaboard, which have hitherto
shown an alarming insensibty'to successive usur-
pations of power by that branch of our Govern
ment, we know not. But we have the satisfaction
of believing that the Press and the People in the in
terror, North, East, West, and South, do read and
understand; wide awake to the change that is
going in this Government from Republic in form
to Monarchy in fact and will in due time admins
ter an effective remedy, the mode prescribed by the
Constitution itself We are strong in the faith that
if we live to see the next Presidential Election, we
shall have the satisfaction of welcoming at the Ca
ptol President to whom the Constitution will be
the measure of his power and the Law his rule of
conduct; and who will repair, as far as in him lies,
the breaches in both which his immediate predeces-
sor will have made.
If we not sustained by this hope and ex-
pectation, we should indeed, begin to entertain Sc
rious apprehensions for the duration of our Repub
lcan Government, even in form. Upon what prn-
ciples it was founded and has been hitherto admin
istered, we have briefly shown in the preceding
part of this article. To what complexion it has
already come, we have seen in the review which
we have made of the incongruous pretences under
which the present war was undertaken, and has
been hitherto prosecuted and of the new ground CO.
extensive with the Continent of America, which is
now declared to be the foundation of the war. The
Executive has gone on, alleging one cause after
another for the invasion of Mexico, until at last it
has avowed one, which is not only repugnant to
the whole scheme. policy, and history of this Gov
jealousy Of every nation Of this Continent, weaken
our hold upon the respect and confidence of the
civilized world, acquired by the just and wise for
eign policy, coeval with the Constitution, Of neu-
traity and non-intervenlion. For the loss OF that
confidence and that respect, no territorial aggran-
dizement, the result of opposite policy, could in
any degree compensate US.
Already, by no fault of the General Government but
through the indscreton of several individual States
the United States have lost, in the eyes of Europe,
much Of the respect which they have heretofore
enjoyed. "The commercial and financial delin-
quencies of some of the Sates,' says an intelli-
gent American traveller, !" have created universal
Z impression throughout Europe, of utter want of
faith, honor, and integrity the part of the whole
nation II is the most difficult thing in the world
to make these people understand the complex
movement of the Federal and State Governments,
&c. 1t is impossible to make them understand
: it; the General Government appears to them re-
sponsibe for the State insolvencies." If we have
lost much of the esteem of the people of the
several States of Europe through the breaches Of
powerful fleet and by army amply supplied with every pre-
paraon for the active and determined
prise.
We come, therefore, TO your shores, inhabitants of Zea-
land enemies, but in self Defence prevent those
who have long disturbed the peace OF Europe from
pelng the force of your navy TO be tursed against
'We ask deposte have not looked capture far
from it, the solemn pledge has been offered your Gov
ernmen and is hereby renewed in the rame and
press command of the King, MASTER that if demand
amcaby acceded every ship belonging to Denmark SHALL
at the conclusion of general peace be restored TO her. in the
condition and state Of equipment when received
der the protection Of the British flag.
ia in q hy n wOrl IN
sheath swords, most reluctantly drawn against you but
it. the other hand the Vaccinations of France render you
deaf the of and the call Of friendship
blood that will be split and the horrors Of beseged and
bombared capital must fall your heads and those Of
your cruel advisers.
His Majesty and soldiers, when shore, will
treat Zealand, long your conduct them will permit il
the footing of province OF the friendly Power in al
lance with Great Britain, whose territory has the misfortune
to be the theatre Of
'The persons Of all those who remain home, and who
do not take hostile part will be held sacred
Property will be respected and preserved and the
discipline will be enforced.
Every article of supply furnished or brought to market
will be paid for fair and settled pfice but immediate
and supplies especially Of provision forage fuel and
transports necessary all armies, is well known that
QUESTIONS unavoidable and must be enforced.
"Much convenience will arise the inhabitants and much
confusion and loss them will be prevented persons
thory found in the several districts to whom acquisitions
may be addressed and through whom claims payment may
be settled and iquidated
h such persons appointed, and discharge their duty
without meddng in matters which do them they
shall be respected, and all requstions shall be addressed
hem through the proper channels and departments of the