Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-03-11
The Persecution of ,he war.

We cannot regard as entirely consistent with pub
lie interest, the of several distinguished and
leading in each House of Congress, upon the
Mexican wa. OF course we acknowledge the legis-
lave right of opinion speech and action. OF course
we admit that parties incidental to popular gov
enmens, and generally useful that both of the great
parties into which country is divided, having
equal stakes the liberty, character property, pros
poets, and other rights OF the country, equally
PATRIOTIC and that the distinguished Legislators who
oppose the Executive in the prosecution OF this war,
deeply involved in, and keenly sensitive to,
the safety prosperity and honor of their country,
those Legislators, equally distinguished, with whom
they disagree. We cannot award to Gen. Cas-, or
COL Benton, or Mr. Allen, or Gen. Dix, or MrsGam-
eron, purer motives ofiler aims, than to Mr.. Clay
ton, or Mr.. Crittenden, or Mr. Corwin, or Mr. Web
ster, Mr.. Calhoun. But while admitting ell this,
must insist the right of judgment. and without
impeaching the motives of any, urge that while the
course OF some among them tends TO promote the M
teress and sustain the honor of the country, that OF
the others has the very opposite tendency.
The recent speeches of MIR. BerElep, Dir. Calhoun,
and Mr. Corwin are, in our estimation, very mpru-
dent at the present crisis. They utterly useless
for the purpose Of reversing anything that has been
done towards Mexico and worse than useless in pro-
tracing the war. The opinions of Mr. Corwin upon
the origin Of the war, will not restore the country to
the position which it occupied before General Taylor
crossed the Nueces, or Gen. Arisa the Rio Grande.
lDey cannot UnNgW the DalicS OF IdlO AllO, heSdCd
and Monterey, to life the thousands who have
died IN the war, to the treasury the millions cx-
pended. Then of what present value all these
censures of the (, ecutive for the past We see
none; and were they merely useless, should Sc
yerey condemn such waste of precious time in Con-
gress. But such things more than useless. They
are positively injurious to the country inspiring
the Mexicans with hopes from our divisions; and in
thus protracting the war. The Mexicans, an igao-
rant, vain and thoHghtess people, accustomed to
frequent revolutions in their own government, pro-
duced by causes much sligher than any which excite
divisions in Congress. In Mexico, the slight and
temper lry disagreement between the War Depart
meni, end Gen. Scott the proposition to cast i'm
piled upon Gen. Taylor, would have called
from either Of these officers a pronunciGRento, fol-
lowed by revolution and fetal change of national
policy And the Mexican Legislative parties, each led
by an aspirant TO the Presidency, could not pass
through Congressional session without rerolHii0n,
a new President, and the imprisonment, exile OF
death of bis predecessor. Accustomed to such changes
and measuring all political action by their own this
vain and ignorant people may well suppose that our
Congressional stries the precursors of speedy
revolution in which the present administration will
be displaced by another favorable to Mexico. And
they do suppose it. General Tayors letter tells them
that nobody in the United States thinks of annexng
Mexico; ~ and hence they encouraged to resist
u.s. believing that as the administration will not b.
permitted to receive any territory, the people will
not incur the expense of prosecuting long war Tor
nothing. Mr.. Berren says that our policy is against
farther acquisition of territory. which leaves the
Mexcans to infer that the government are prosecu-
ting without object, and will not be tolera-
ted longer in wasting the national resources. Mr.
Calhoun tells them that must retire within the
Rio Grande, which encourages them in their efforts
to drive Us over it, And now NJ. Corwin vindlcates
the Mexican government, denounces his own accuses
the President of issuing false manifesto, and calls
upon Congress to stop the war; all which informs
the Mexicans that halls at least of the American
nation are their allies and consequently that they
will finally beat The other half.
Such are the tendencies of these proceedings, how
ever conscientious and patriotic be their authors;
and for their integrity and patriotism We allow full
credit. Their object being speedy termination Of
the war, they would attain it much more easily by
prosecuting the war with yigor; by proclaiming to
Mexico that however the originated, 1t is the
cause of the nation, and must command all the ma
tons energies; that whichever of the two nations
were the sggressor, Mexico must hope to find al
lies in the United States We must admit that the
tendencu of such conduct is aid and comfort to the
enemies of the United Saies, though never intended
for such purpose.-Pa. Ledger