Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-11-11

be other method of obtaining from that impoyer-
ished and exhausted country the indemnity due for
depredations on our commerce.
The old quarrel concerning the robberies she has
committed upon merchants, and the indemnity
due to them IN consequence, should be adjusted We
should leave no cause which may keep alive enmiiy
and jealousy between the two nations nothing which
may possibly breed contentious, bus endeavor so
to arrange all questions of difference as to make the
mutual good understanding perfect and lasting as
possible.
This will not be done if our government patches
up peace without making provision for the payment
OF what is due TO citizens from Mexico. Mexico
has other way of making compensation but by
cession of territory. We might take her promise,
but treaty including such promise would be
fraud on its very face, for II promise which would
be certain not to be fulfilled and would draw after it
perpetual wrangling and discomfort between the two
nations.
The danger Of a quarrel between the north and
south, on the slavery question, has been urged by
some argument against the addition of any
territory 10 our Union We are in the midst of that
quarrel already regard to the organization of the
territory of Oregon. few thousand square miles,
more or less in California New Mexico, will not
change the principle of this controversy make any
difference in its adjustment. 1t may be settled, and
doubtless will be- at and the time, for both
Oregon and the territory obtained from Mexico"
sent opinions are inconsistent with those expressed
by US in July; or whether opinions have been ih
iuenced, the Journal pretends TO suppose, by
Juniors flying trip to Washingt NJ As TO the
opinions at present entertained by the Administration,
if the Journal were little wiser than it is and
could Judge with better judgment, it would perhaps
be able to that it knows nothing at all about
them. After every body else finds out what they are
by the course Of events" they may expect 10 hear
something said about them in the old almanac Of the
Journa,-ihere is not the slightest danger that it will
"progress" fast enough to do any thing more than
follow in the rear, cursing government and
crying over the "poor MeAicans"
As to coRsisiency-hcaven save the mark The
very man whom the Journal thinks can be alone elect
ed to the Presidency by the wings, and whom it Of
supports without the least regard his opin-
ons-Gen. TAYLOR himself was one of the very first
to suggest the boundary for which We recently ex-
pressed qualified preference, and in view of which
the Journal now preends to feel such inexpressble
horror! In his letter to Gen. Gaines, written more
than year ago. and of course altogether forgotten by
the Journal, Gen. Taylor wrote distinctly favor of
the Sierra Madre line, in these words:
1t seems to me, the most judicous course to be
pursued on our part, WOULD BE TO TAKE POS
SESSION AT ONCE, OF THE LINE WE WOULD
ACCEPT BY NEGOTIATION, extending from the
Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, aud occupy the same,
or keep what we have already possession Of; and that,
with Tampico, (Which hope TO take in the Of
next month, as | can get the means of
transportaton.) WILL GIVE US ALL ON THIS
SIDE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, and, as soon as
! occupy SaltIllO, will include six States or
Provinces, thus holding Tampico. Victoria, Monterey,
SalliO, MOnclOvla, chihuahua, (Which | presume
Gen. Wool has possession of by this time) Santa Fee
and the CALIFORNIA;, and say to Mexico, Drive us
from the country !'-thrOwing on her the response
bity and expense Of carrying on offensive war,-at
the time closely blockadng all her ports the
Pacific and the Gulf course of this kind. if per-
severed in for short time, would soon bring her to
her proper senses, and compel her to for peace.
In the above the line of the Sierra Madre is dis
tincty suggested the one should or might
py, and d.fy the MericanS 10 drire as from IL! II
such idea is wrong in US, when coupled with the
hope of fair and liberal dustment OF all difficult
ties with Mexico and is entitled to the punishment
inflicted by the sermonizing, longwnded articles OF
the Journal, let similar vistalions be inflicted upon
It's favsrite candidate for the Presidency also When
it does this the Journal may be able to appreciate, as
well pretend believe, the truth, that honesty
the best policy"
We hope readers will pardon us for trespassDg
their patience, with such subject this, and to
such length Were not that the real object Of the
Journal is to excite sympathy for the Mericans at
expense, should not have thought the subject
worth the space it occupies.