Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-20

Mexican domain Signifies then, all the lands of
Merico; which will, by its conquest, have become
part and parcel of the public domain Of The United
States And so, obviously the Mercury" if
not the Union y ALSO understands the phrase and
even the fact.
1t is proposed, then, to declare forfeiture of all
private Mexican property in the soil of that coun-
try, and give effect to that forfeiture as fast and
as far as our citizens land who are they all Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa, and Oceanca, if il likes them)
shall present themselves there to take possession.
What, then, must be the process? AS in mill
first come, first served :; and entire soldiery,
with the camp-followers, being upon the spot, will
help themselves foremost and Of course to the BEST
The officers, each according to his grade will take
estates, from that Of viceroy down to a marquess
the mere rank and file will help themselves out Of the
best Of what is left the ignobler but still rich land
ed estates of the hidaigos and cabaiieros and, Of
course, (the right of property being the same, each
ousted Mexican will, with his immoveables, hand
over to him who thrusts him out all personal pro-
perty-money, plate, coaches, clothes, livestock,
&c.* The work will of course naturalIy-for each
man will want to come into his estate at once
begin in the cities of which we now have possess
sion; and palaces, banking-houses, the stores of
wealthy merchants, &c. will be parcelled out to-
gether WITH inevitably, the ecclesiastical wealth,
which large and whit less forfeited than every
thing else.
We need not further define the method: each
mans imagination can pursue it for himself. 1t
will be not when William the Norman won
England for the plumber of his armed adventures
and billeted them forever upon the castles and ba-
ronies of the elected Anglo-Saxons, {" land-steal
ers no more,) but our more civilized William will
call over all Normandy and all Europe at his heels,
and, as they flock in, turn every inhabitant who
has roof or goods, out of house and home, and
make of Mexico one universal land Of worse than
saves-leperos, beggars
project of robbery ruthless and gigantic the
amazed world hath not heard, since Attila, Aaric,
and Genseric, those scourges of the earth, broke
with their barbarian multitudes upon the cul-
tivated parts of Europe and turned them into de-
ISOLATION. 1t is true that the detestable proposal
must be rejected, with wide public indignation:
but what then! Its very suggestion-not to speak
of the counenance given it by our Government
through its organ-is shame to our country, be-
cause a mark of the estimate set on its morals and
lead and govern it.
But we pass, with shudder, to the milder yet
still bloody remainder Of the scheme: so much, we
mean, as regards the mehod-now admitted to be
the only one-by which we can. after ALL subdue
Mexico All the millions, all the lives thus far
pended, the ravage as yet committed, the national
reproach incurred, now admitted, and even by
the Presidents organ tacitly confessed, to have
been frutess. We are stained with the blood Of
weak sister nation; we up to waist in
bootess debt; and all this has gained US nothing
but position from which we are to plunge over
head and ears into bottomless expense and perma-
nent bloodshed!
Gentlemen now coolly inform us, on the part of
the Administration, that we shall, to finish the Pre-
sdent's for him, have to spread all over Mexi-
co perpetual army UNDERESTIMATE Of ffty-four
thousand men, We say perpetual" because they
themselves have planted in every breast of that ma
ton hate Of us which whole centuries may only
deepen and will not eradicate: while every meas
ure now intimated can only to infurate it to
an exterminatng resistance. We must, according
even to these advisers, hold the country, with supe
rior armies until the national hate shall weary of
Such is the plain import of than phrase in the
article quoted from the Mercury But should any reader of
suppose have here imagined system wholesale
robbery and plumber not warranted by the avowed designs
Of the "War and Conquest party in this our country,
him only procure file of any of their papers, and Judge
for himself whether in conception of the rapacy Of their
aims, exaggerae miss,ae them AT the moment of
our pennng these remarks, there has fallen under eye
the last number Of the New York Sun"-the leading article
Of which is headed "Mexico Mexco"-an article
rabbi than other articles the subject which the
print has lately put fohom which the fol-
lowing sentences
" PROVIDENCE HAS wILLED THIS WAR 10 unite and eEaH
both nations, which result believe is certain and
inevitable as any event in human destiny. Can be that
there intelligent American blind and mad calmly
propose that the United States after being forced by the
OF Mexico TO enter her territory defeat armies and hode
OF mecess robbersscaer cloud of despotsm hung
over her people, and plant protecting banner her
ports forteses and capital the expense of thousands of
precious lives and millions Of treasue-shoud once with
out indemnity for the past present. future without
pishng peace JUSTICE abandon SPLENDID THAT
mas BEEN THRUST INTO our HANDS /"
Mad the writer Of this may be allowed be- he
yet has method in his madness y for his idea Of the
folly of not cluching the splendid prize has foundation
you take from under it the stereoyped sehood that the
United States forced by the act Of Mrico 10 her
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