Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-03-13

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"If they vote against it, then we will proclaim tn
peace party IN war Our organs shall henceforh call y
nothing but Federaists, and shall identity them with tn
party. No matter how false the impuaon of their id
with the old Federalists. Stick it. In times like II
good e well stuck 10, is better than the pure truth bad
tanned When party gets so bad that truth can never i,
iasehood becomes its only resource
Now SIR suppose this all TO have been dream. Hjt W
the Dreamer had had his vision about eight months ag ani
haa contemplated the progress Of from that time t
4 ne would die In the belief that ii was no dream.
As TO the war; far the Mexicans were conceri "a
was avery small aiar-a incident to the general @
i would be no more than brigade inspection, or reg ae-
tai muster These poor savages would ay before our s
as did their ancestors of the part y or fall before be
ancestors OF the other part their original invaders under M
| bloody and rapacious Cortez
Prescous beautiful and flowing history lad inst anne MAJ
and suppose furnished the staple of historic inform
which these wise heads possessed of Mexican af, WA
| Mexican resources.
was famous game, if could have been carried ont a
coding to the plan Of those who devised it, If
tended arms the Democratic President and party Y 4,
have the credit If disaster and defeat occurred let tina
sponsby be with the General and the army II was hesds
WIN tails you losea game by which faction and gnora
might appropriate the rewards OF genius and enterprise ~
which imhcclly should trick off its harlequin brows with the
wreahs which vaor might purchase with its blood II has
turned out however, not TO be great speculation after al
Yes, SIR there will be enough oil reco upon those who prt
mis- ball IN notion to stretch them and their retaners gur
day and mine.
have said have confidence in the ability of the fsi.
dent mean, sir, that the Resident has shown that Is
utterly ignorant OF all that he ought known in O.
TO have decided wisely and properly the movements OF AZ
miles, And he were not thus ignorant, he has To. up
poft OF his own party that party evidently pefcevr The
approximation Of the time when il will no prudent for very
to look for himself and therefore dividing and -
Ing each other on every proposition submitted Them
lie asked US for fifty thousand and miicns eC
money. We gave to him. What has been achis we'd
Some hundreds Of miles OF progress have been made on e
of operations found necessary TO be Abandoned Tie
whole supply for the first campaign exhausted, and nothing
realized but three Victories all the spells gained by which
would not if dubbed together, subsist volunteer
for a fortnight.
As for the glory have gained sir it seems to hive
have paid pretty well for that debt which suppose will
not fall Short at the close of this campaign of hundred
millions of dollars, and, what still worse, the sacrifice Of
twenty five hundred three thousand of the flower Of
youth whose bodies mnge with the cods Of the Mexi-
vaey sleep forever the deadly shores Of the Rio
Bravo. .4
The President has permitted the general to conduct tba
campaign He undertakes here, in Washington, decide
what the army and ought to do He breaks up armi
sce made at Monterey and orders the army advance
with what success They do advance only turn upon
their tracks, without having achieved any result and the
next hear of the gallant Worth and his DIVISION he at
the starting point, Brasos Santiago
The brave General Taylor has been for the terms
of the Monterey captuaton And this floor his con-
duct elsewhere has been the subject of attack The honor
able gentleman from Illinois, (Mr. FIcKLs) who to
have call for military criticism, asked reference the
ugives of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma why he did
not cut them off !" suppose the gentleman would hardly
desire that General Taylor should his prisoners
and yet he certainly that he not able to feed
them
But Senator has answered the inquiry what he should do
with them "discharge them on parole" Discharge an
army OF Mexican rancheros parole. Why, sir would
be very troublesome operation mark them, and unless
did, you would identify Of them. mention these
things 10 show that General Taylor not only improperly
nteered with by the President but has been absurdy
assaulted by his partisans.
The President has the confidence of his party With
nearly seventy majority House, and ten in the other
he get bill through without the aid of the Wings He
called for lieuenangenera il refused him by the
OF his party The grand leading proposition of the
defeated in this This favorte conception
OF the President, this Lieutenant general fell the first fire.
and he will rise more
" He lays like a warrior taking his rest
With his martial cloak around him"
He asks money, you stick the Wmot provso He calls
for regulars, you give him volunteers II he asks for Bread
you give him stone if he asks for fish, you give him
serpent"
Sir he carry this war His party is divided on
all the great questions Of the day. How could be other
wise Without any principle, of all the
ties political complexion known in the country, united
together Tor the purpose merely of getting possession of the
Government and the advantages of its administration.
True you published AGREED at Baltimore every important
ce OF which has been violated the other the d
sons OF your party You have agreed party but
measure with ordinary unanimiy, since you into
power and that might have been expected Of the
worst Of your measures. mean the Suhtreasury.
Two years have not anspired since Mr. Folks naugura-
NOUS party The Northwest arayed against him for his
the Oregon question, and denouncing him with
bitterness which shall not initiate. The Lake country and
the Upper Mississippi against him his Of the and
harbor bill. Pennsy Vana, Ohio, and New York first giving
him divided support the tariff and then swept by the hur
rcane of the last eecualy TO leave him
man to tell the tale of that unexampled disaster The mar
yrs here sir contemplating in the phlosophic camnessof
post morlem existence the beauties of progressive Democ
acy They have Ito do them JUSTICE shown spirit enough
eco under the tread Of the idol that has crushed them His
friends in the South, proposing draw back his from
the prosecution Of the war; and those in the North pressing
for conquest of territory, be converted into evolutionary
Gordon Southern frontier.
see nothing Mr. Chairman, but unnixed evil to come out
of this Mexican If there be any good will be the put
ting to rest forever that unfair and unuhu argument used
50 long and with much effect in the South against the
Wing party that their political friends in the North in
closer aha'on with the Aboionis,s than the Democrats
do not charge that the respectable Of the Demo-
cratic party have used this argument But do charge that
II has been used, and used with great effect.
Behold the position Of the two parties this moment on
this great question
The Democratic party, with very few exceptions go
this moment for territorial acquisition, be made into free
States Southwestern border. And, carry this
purpose, they put to hazard the Union itself
The Wings the other hand, every Of them, say
us Of the South Wewant territory, free slave
have enough, and than enough We have already
dscord and trouble enough But if you will be warned
if yon will go in this wild of nnexation tell
you that whilst leave to you the management Of your
domestic institutions best you, whenever these
territories do in, public sentiment end OF the
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