Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-15

rams consequently, ley couiu never NC dt d ioos
for reason for annexing any body. The Russians
of Peter the Great and Catharine ii. held like
opinion of themselves, and had, therefore, gooc
right to annex Poland. So had England to annex
Ireland, if she (England) was only self-complacen
enough to think herself very happy very wise, very
progressive, and Erin very wretched, ignorant. anc
stationary. For observe the sweet human charities
of the new Social System! the more nation is
wretched, the more lin this philosophy have you
right to trample on it. to take away its poor but It's
last happiness-ihat Of not bending to foreign
conqueror and ceasing to exist as people.
Now, one serious word: Such theory this
last Locofoco one is worthy of alarmed attention
for such doctrines are never openly propounded to
an innocent people. To muldtudes they are well
come. But, to speak a truth still more terrible
they really enabody the conduct Uhich, as nation,
zoe are noU practising to,oards soretched people,
whose intsriority is a leading incentiue Of this
,oar. We are evidently going on to destroy and
to enslave them at the pleasure of an Executive,
scarcely one of whose measures against Mexico is
not a more dangerous inUasion Of our institutions
than of her SOIL Where are we to stop, short OF
it? Instead of meritorious or useful action as
taught by the New Philosophy ii is the most awful OF
crimes, involving not only individual murders and
injuries innumerable and the direst but the kill
ing of great collective moral and social beng--a
naton-the life Of eight millions of human creatures,
all particles animating one great civil existence,
State. What the soul is to the body-perpetual
what the rational element that resides within to
its coarse and grovelng envelope Of mere flesh
such is, as to its sacredness, that high thing, civil
lied government, to the people whose personality
it is, and of whom, under God it is the Providence,
the Human God. The mind, the heart, the affec-
tons of whole race of men, in all its generations,
are there in forms nober, purer and infinitely more
diffusve than individual lives can know. It is the
sensorium, the brain Of the body polite its action,
its choice, its thought, its Free Will; who hut God
himself shall bid it cease And how dare we, as a
Nation lift our hand to take away, without neces-
sity, the life of a fellow-naton? Whatever barba-
ran hordes, abandoning one part Of the earth, may
have inflicted upon another, savage or civilized, WE
are not wandering ravagers but people with homes,
fields, laws; whatever despots and conquerors
enemies and opposites, to resist and not to initiate
their crimes; and let sophisters and demagogues
drivel or roar for absurd ears whatever they WILL as
if Ambition and Rapine and Carnage were only
crimes when causelessly enacted by Kings, yet il
should be ours to know that, one or many, People
or King, the guilt and the folly of such acts falls
alike on all who participate in them, and each sepa-
rate sovereign among all this sovereign people bears
on his shoulders full Kings load Of the offence.
The r. Union" Of yesterday morning puts end to all
hope Of any peace with Mexico until she is entirely subdued
and ready accept of any terms which the President Of the
United States may choose dictate her. For thus
that government organ
awe understand there sort Of foundation for the state
ment which made in the Washington correspondence of
the New York Journal of Commerce of Wednesday, and in
Baltimore Clipper Of this morning. that orders have been
sent to General Scorr 10 halt the present at Japa In
fact no one doubts that Gen. ScorT viii push the capi-
ta and that he ,cW take IT, before any orders could have
been him subsequent to the 9TH instant We know
that has already passed apa and arrived at Peroe
Ry this time in all probability, he IS freading the imperial
capital Of the Aztses'