Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-27
FROM THE sEw YORK aEacASrrIE TIMES.

When this cry of war and conquest and glory
began we were happy, united and prosperous
people The vast enterprise and capabilities OF our
citizens fully employed in profitable and honorable pur
suits The workshop, the field the mars of commerce, all
witnessed prodgious activity and unexampled returns Tor
capital, skill, and labor The nation was out of debt AT
peace with all the world and cbeying those wise maxms OF
the Father Of his Country which babe US avoid ntermeddng
with the affairs of other nations respected abroad
and before the mild glory Of free institutions the preudices
ofahe old world stood COMPOUNDED and convicted.
In that evil hour which behed US engaging in war with
our neghborng Republic that glory dimmed in the eyes
Europe We have been able to justify this proceed
ing before the world No pretext plea yet assigned
be assigned carries the wegh feather with rejecting
And what have we gained in Mexico OF friendly neigh
have made enemy, whose revenge will live through
long centuries and the political institutions which, in the
progress Of amcabe intercourse they might have borrowed
from u.s. have now become oahsome byword and,
than share in the blessings Of freedom with u.s. they would
even embrace despotism if offered by enemy
Our domestic condition certainly improved by the
war; Through the msorunes of Europe afflicted with famine
and the bounu harvess yielded by fields enabling to
supply them large profits, this country has greatly prosper
ed and that accidental prosperity has Masked to great
tent, the msches of the upon ourselves But is only
for short All those Inconvenience and derange
mens which must later overtake people engaged
in of invasion and conquest, must fall upon Area
dy we have contracted debt OF hundred millions of dol
lars have created pension list which will demand many
millions more we have sacrificed the lives of from twenty
thirty thousand American citizens mostly young and
in the vigor Of manhood have demoralized multi
tudes of people, and changed the of enterprise and
ambition and dangerous channels above all, have
introduced elements Of discord jealousy hatred and dis
union into political compact and opened nerminabe
prospect Of mischief and disorder
Suffer speak few words in view of the sad national
mssteps we have considering The farmers of the Uni
ted States did not originate this the merchants did
the manufactures did they altogether did is
Of their work advances of the interests of either
On the contrary, deranges depresses crppes them all 1t
destroys large share of the profits of all the producing classes
Who, then, did originate it Politicians Who bene
flied by it corps of contractors commissares and the
like. Will these arrest the war Probably for it is
their living. Will politicians stop Yes when the bone
and snew of the couny-the whose enterprise, Skill
energy, industry, produce the prosperity OF the country
when the business Of the land forth from their FARMS
their shops their manufactures their counting houses and
shall say We nerered with stopped in our law
full and indispensable pursuits prevented from build
ing up the prosperity of country and this grand nerfer-
ing must be put out of the way.
And who have better right insist upon being heard and
regarded They furnish the money carry the war; and
they ought heard will be heard when they feel and tell
Congress that they have been taxed long too heavily
for an unnecessary and injurious purpose.
We have said the unforeseen prosperity of the last year
which nicts upon trade But this
of things will nocontnue much longer. The business
Of the country will experience all the evils that result from
financial arrangement And along with this the utter un-
certainty regarding the utue-how long the war is to last
and what TO cost If Government could fix upon any
time and beyond which il will annoy u.s. we might
make up minds to it, the cost and 90 on with our
wonted pursuits But while Government itself is in maze
while the confusion of politicians grows confounded
and the tful CLEANS Of light vouchsafed only make the
darkness visible what wonder the patience of those
who stand in relation the both supporters and suf
ferers, should at length give way