The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-10-14
Mails for Europe.

close In Ills city to-mofroW. afternoon. - ne
Hssold for Europe will be published, As usual, in
time for her malta, "a ~. i, 80, .1.. eli Z
The French steamer Missouri. from Cher.
bourg, hasbeen at sea nearly fifteen days, and is
now fully due. Her advices will be eleven days
later, than those srece iysd by the Hibsrpia at
Bostonfrom Liverpool. .arsae.'at s'fs..v 2 le.''
Later intelligence from the other side is look.
ed for with the most intense anxiety, as the
commercial existence Of many in our principal
markets depends upon the nature of it. We are
induced to believe that we have heard and seer
the worst; that the darkest hour has passed; that
theIcrisis has been realized, and that the com
mercial horizon will look little brighter We
also anticipate slight improvement in the corn
market, and irmness in the cotton Market
On the whole, we think the news by the next
arrivafwiil be more favorable than the last. ri
The Cambria, from Liverpool for Boston, has
been at sea nearly nine days. She will not be
due until about Tuesday next. Her advices will
be six days later than the dates by the Missouri.
-. hnr ,s..i frr4t.ai e
Our Past and Future Course towards Mexico.
''sssaa,'sI . What are we to Dot
sat would be the height Of absurdity to regard
ths,whole Mexican policy of the administration,
from the beginning, as uniform or unerring 1t
has no. been so. 1t is impossible it could have
been so, There could not have been found seven
men in the country, at the commencement Of
this war, who knew Mexico--the character Of
its people-ther capacity to carry on war-their
piiaacy-for it cannot be called stubbornness-
under innumerablc defeats.
Tho lights our rulers had 10, guide them
were false lights; and no wonder, that
in advancing to their object, they have
often stumbled. They possessed no personal
knowledge of the people with whom they
had to contend; and being obliged to act at
once, they were compelled to rely upon the re-
presentations Of those who had been in the
country, some of whom were incapable from
prejudice, others from ignorance, of giving pru-
dent and proper counsel. That the administra-
ton should have. frequently erred under these
circumstances, is not at all surprising. The
English government has been seven hundred
years learning the character Of the Irish people;
and they do not know it yet. We knew very
little more Of Mexico, when we entered on the
task Of chastising her, than the English did Of
ireland in Henry the Seconds time. But we
have learned much-we have unlearned much;
ssnd our after course must be guided by the
Knowledge we have laboriously gained. Here
after blunder will be crime. .i.,s ,-,-.1,
We can no longer depend upon Santa Anna to
promote peace. He may have entered into the
struggle with determination to work for peace,
but he threw himself into the popular current,
and it bore him EDWARDS, powerless to resist.
He is now thrown on the strand, bruised and
wounded, without strength to make war, with
ont influence to promote peace. He may, TO be
sure, recup-rate; but it will be only to lead for
slSrn hope Of bootless petty warfare, and, after
rejecting the terms offered through Mr. Trist,
he cannot venture to make peace on terms less
moderate. -..~.- ~.,,.,- ---.-+ r-,.e ...-., ~.
=, It 10 evident, too, that the party favorable to
peace, from the commencement, has not such
weight as it has been represented by some very
sanguine persons to possess. Nor does this or
any other party in Mexico, regard without
interest the struggle between the two countries.
The most powerful and cogent argument made
against the United States on the merits of this
war, is that contained in the letter of the Mexi-
can commissioners, someof whom, and we be-
lieve majority, have been hitherto practically
disposed. - r.. '...
We must not then hug these speeious decisions
longer II is an insult to the people OF the United
States to attempt to deceive them into fur
ther support of the war, on shallow and false pre-
,iences. 1t is a trick that no honest administra-
lion should resort to. II is one to which the
administration should scorn to stoop, however
much the journal protesting to be their organ
would labor to induce that belief. he people
have right to be made acquainted with the true
state of the case. Their nerves are strong
enough to hear the truth TO be told bluntly and
without reservation They should al once be
honestly told that there is no prospect of peace
except in the total subjugation Of the country,
and that they must prepare themselves for pro
tracted struggle.
r Among those things scdulously to be avoided,
is the raising of false issues. One Of these false
issnes is, that the war was commenced, among
other things, to compel Mexico to pay us what
she owed. If this be made an issue, it will in
yoive contradiction of the averment that the
war was begun by the act Of Mexico. The war
once begun, we were right in insisting, assone
OF the conditions OF peace, upon full liquida-
tion of our claims; but the indebtedness of Mex
leo should never be alleged az one of the causes
of the war Another false issue u.s. that the war
must now be waged with a view to the ciyiliza.
ton Of Mexico. This propagsndism is a most
dangerous doctrine. The principle once recog.
nized, there is no limit to its agency. 1t is for
tunately by no means automatic that one nation
has Alright to civilize another nation less refined
than itself, by carrying desolation into its heart
and annihilating its sovereignty. We CEN
sured England for its Chinese war, although in
the case Of the latter, the doctrine of propaganda
ism was not 80 abhorrcnt as it would be in the
case OF Mexico. We should be extremely care
fui how we entail odium on ourselves by pro-
tossing be actuated by the principle in regard
90 that country.
a. The only plea that can Justify the subjugation
and absorption of Mexico, will consist in a
stringent political necessity. Such necessity
is almost certain to arise. Why, then, multiply
the issues, when such course can but invaIidAte
our cause. --ie ~