Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-03-10

The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to ohom
the Presidents 'oar message Of the 18Th
instant had been IN partreferred, respect
fully report ihereupon:
That while, in a country so free as ours,
diversity of sentiment must prevail upon
every topic of national concern, especial
ly one SO exciting as war, and is like
bracing airs, Of saiutary influence, yet
tie .dgg % prSpondsfance ofvaes, approach.
ing to unanimity, in Congress, declaring
war with Mexico, the corresponding una
nimity with which all required supplies for
it have been granted by Congress, and the
almost equally unanimous popular zeal for
waglng and sharing its operations, remove
all doubt the national resolution to pros.
ecute it as originally declared, vigorously,
to the only end ofjust. war, speedy and
honorable peace. ~
Complaints Of the resort to territorial
conquest from Mexico are disarmed of re-
proach by the undeniable facts that Mexico,
by war, constrains the United States to
take by conquest what, ever since Mexican
. independence, every American administra.
ton has been striving to get by purchase;
and that the Executive orders, and militia
ry and naval execution of them, for the a
chievement of conquest, have conformec
not merely 10 long established policy O
our own government, but wise principles
ofself preservation indispensable to all prov
ident government
! The war has been one constant career
of success, with never ceasing solicitation
, of peace without further hostility, if Mexi
co will accept peace on fair, generous ant
r lasting terms; and your committee cheer
q fully leave it to the Judgment of all consid
y crate persons. One imputation cast, anon
ourselves, upon the Executive Of the Un
. ted States, involving the country with hir
in illegality and aggression, your con
+ r mittee think proper briefyto refute: tn,
=, - which charges the President with produ'
q ing or beginning the war by orders to tn
~ ~ army in Texas to pass Mexican boundarie
u i Mexico never made boundary question
. The issue she took was the annexation
Texas, not the boundary. AS soon as a
as nexation was resolved by Congress, Il
az Mexican minister here, Almonte, deman
n ed his passports, having previously reno
ed from Washington while that questi
of was even considered, and went indignan,
nd home to make war, encouraged by the
nd roneous assertion of fmany OF our respec
to BILE citizens, that annexation of Te1
ess would be war with Mexico, and by the tn
threatened rupture between the Uni
ou States and England, which was reckon
he Mexican reliance, Mexico openly prep
his ed for war-openly declared and began
We, President Polk's minister Of peace, A
his Slidell, was rejected; not on any plea
Ills boundary, but because Texas was rot
zes together relinquished. Mexicantroopsw'
to sent to the Texan frontier, who crossed
are boundary river Graude, and attacked
to| American forces op this side Of that riy
- Stationed at Corpus Christi, on the "
the side Of the Nueces, at the instance OF i,
, or as, for its protection from invasion, the
rry merican commander, without orders f
--if| the President could have no alternative
is to let his Mexican, assailant choose
son place, time and manner of invasion, or,
the advancing into the more northern part
,oks the State he was ordered to occupy
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