Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-07-03

because her people are divided INTO Two or more
parties, who would be safe or what people SO
much the mark of incessant and universal war as
we ourselves? Do not parties in the United States
constantly accuse each other, the one as being the
friends of monarchy, and the other of having prac
ically established mob-monarchy Suppose,
them upon this provocation, all nations should as
sail us-one part to prevent our having despotism,
the other part to remove the danger of our example
as Republic What rational objection could Mr.
Polk make!
Mr.. MONROE recognises the right of a European
monarchy to resubdue to kingly power its reyolted
colony. Mr. Polk holds that Mexico, a confede-
rated Republic, had no right to reconquer her seced
ing member, Texas.
Mr.. MONROE declares that il is not until after
European Powers shall have broken their neutrali-
ty, and actually lent their arms TO Spain to resub-
jugate the Spanish-American, Republics, that we
will interfere Mr.. Polk attacks Mexico without
waiting to see whether any European Prince will
be called in, or will accept the call, or will be backed
by any European Power.
Mr.. MONROE distinctly admits (as every Amer-
can musD that any people has right to adopt the
monarchical form of Government as much as any
other if it peases it. He says, in effect, that its
form of Government, if not imposed on it by Eu-
ropean Intervention, is none of our business that
to us the Government de facto is always the legt-
mate one. Mr.. Polk holds that Mexico must suit
not horseB in hSr form of Government and that
she Justly incurs invasion because Paredes and his
party were suspected Of believing that Mexico, in
her dissensions and weakness, would be compelled
to take refuge under strong, kingly Government,
in order to her national existence from extinc-
ton by our advancing aggressions. In short, he
drices that poor people (who hate monarchy to
consider whether monarchy itself is not less evil
than conquest by strange people who seem insa-
tiae of njuring them; and as soon as hey in their
distress, dare TO entertain any such question as TO
the mere nednS-most reluctant means-of their
public salUation, he falls upon them, u,der that
plea, with desoating war of conquest When
Rome, under terrible public disaster, resorted
to her occasional remedy and called somebody Ia
Cincinnatus, for instance) to the Dictatorship, Mr.
Polk THAT great civan) holds that she gave to all
neighboring nations, and indeed to every body, the
right OF attacking overrunning and conquering her
When the French, hard pressed by their enemies,
made NAPOLEON First Consul, that warlike vigor
might be given their self-defence all Europe and
America into the bargain might at once rightfully
have fallen upon them, and destroyed them without
mercy!
Mr.. MONROE does not think Of saying that peo-
pie struggling for freedom, or against invaders and
dismemberers, will not be permitted by his CONT
mental policy to obtain the generous assistance of
any compassionate nation even if European He
perhaps remembered that no such invention was
thought of when France came to our timely help in
oar Revolution. He certainly was not averse to
European Intervention whea on the right side and
defensive of Freedom and weakness for he had,
in this very NATTER secured the assistance of Eng
land. Not so Mr.. POLK: that friend Of freedom
opnes that they who sent helpto the Greeks against
the Turks /" traitors !" at least if not "blas-
phemers" latter being his last addition through
the Union," to the many titles with which, in the
height of his dignity and decency and sense, he
honors our poor selves. He is no doubt, firmly of
opinion that nobody in Europe ought to have help
ed Poland when that whig, federalist traitor, and
blasphemer, KoscIUsKo, attempted to save her from
being blotted out of the map.
We might multiply, almost without end, such
enormous contrasts Of Mr. PoLK's contnentalis,a
with that from which he pretends to derive it but
for what use! Who cannot see that the two things
alike, just blood is like milk, darkness like
light, the bully Of all his weak neighbors like the
noble and gentle knight of old, whose broad and
bright shield was everywhere spread over the weak
and injured, while his invincible arm was never
raised but against rufiian wrong and strength
1t is proper to remark, before we proceed fur
her that the appeal to these special doctrines Of Mr.
MONROE must be regarded as involving, on the part
of Mr.. Polk, not only violent party contradiction.
but gross personal one. In the famous business
of the Panama Mission (ls26-7) the Jackson party,
availing themselves of the intention of the Adams
and Clay Administration to carry into more sys-
tematic effect Through consultation at the 18th
mus with the other Republics of this continent
this Continental Policy of President MONROE,
made it one of the chief resorts for spreading
popular alarm, in order TO upset that wise and safe
Administration which ,cas to be overthrown. though
1t were " as pure as the Angels" Well did they sue
ceed; and well has il appeared, not only that the
purity Of that Administration could not save it. but