Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-12

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be that of SANTA ANNA!
Fylhty in the Report of the Committee of Fo-
reign Relations, (H. of II. February 24th ast,) its
chairman Mr.. 9. J. lNGERsoLI, speaking, from that
confidential position, of the War and the Message
said that {" the war had created new and admra-
bic System of Finance, worth more than all its 1.-THE
vars charges" The system here meant Is IN
confesta6y the FREE TRADE system Of Finance; !;
which consists (as every body knows) in the Low
lmpost Duties, with Treasury Loans and Notes to
fill the void. Now, this system is that with which
the present Administration began its existence If
then, the war was necessary TO create that system,
the war was designed before the system: or at
least its creative cause, must have existed before
the passage OF the Free Trade Tariff, in August,
1915; and accordingly we know that Gen TAY-
LoRs first orders to pass the Nueces are older than
the date of the New Tariff Act. If we consider
that, without the war, the Administration would
have had no need for Loans and Scrip, and that
the Free Trade party were the original Annexation
party, we shall better understand Mr. INeERsoLL's
assertion of the relation between the war and the
Mckay Tariff.
Sirthiy, the object of continuing the war as the
President assured the country, in his last Annual
Message) is 10 secure peace. If he had said that
the object of peace is to secure a war; NE would
have uttered truth as profound, justification as
equitable. As the most appropriate means of Sc
curing peace, breaking it is certainly an odd one
especially as, besides, Mr.. INGERsoLL saws war is
the appropriate means of erecting valuable systems
OF Finance; and the President himself lad alrea-
dy pronounced it the means of repellng INVASION
OF procuring lndemnites, of getting Minister'S re-
celved OF overthrowng tyrannies, of substituting
for them republics, of vindcating the freedom of the
Press of las he will presently assure us) paying
you for the expenses puts you to in short there is
nothing like it, it is the most economical thing in
the world but requires large indemntes for its ex-
pense; it is very repulsve and very attractive
that, TO drive out invaders-this to get in minis
ter; it's very subversive of tyrants very consruc-
tive of free governments; is excellent for libera
ing the Press in Mexico, and for enslavng it in the
United States but above all things, there is nothing
like war for its peacefulness
Seuenthty, in the same Message, the Presidency
promises thus "The war will be vigorously pro-
secuted there lin Mexico) with view to obtain an
honorable peace, and thereby secure ample indem-
nifty for the expenses of the war;" Thus an hon.
orable peace becomes the object for which war
IS prosecuted, which both Mr. BENTON and Mr.
CALHOUN (who never agreed in any thing else)
agree-supporters of the President as they are, or
have been-ought to have been avoided, and might
easily; but the peace thus obtained is clearly to be
" "honorable Z" only as securing an ample indem-
nifty for the expenses of the war" So that with
delicious confusion of ideas, we have war set on
foot to repel invasion, which we either made or
marched in search Of and we are keeping up the
war IN order to extort an ample moneyed indem-
nifty of its expenses (or the President will not avow
any acquisition Of territory his objecD from
nation so poor, so mortgaged and hypothecated in
all its revenues that the very army in which was
placed all its hopes starved at San Luis Potos and
the great fortress of San Juan de Uua fell with but
six days provision in it, because Mexico could not,
for her life, raise the half of million of dollars
From people thus moneyless, creditless, beggar-
ed, we were to get back the terms of an honora-
bic peace, the cost of all the war on our side be-
sides enabling them TO pay their own 1t is In
IDENTITIES longer for the ancient spoation of our
citizens that we seek them abandon; " an hon.
orable peace can be made without them. So, too,
OF Kidding Mexico of Tyranny and setting up
again oar friend, the Presidents protege that lover
OF liberty, SANTA ANNA: the President has got him
back, to the head of army, into the Presidency
so that these are longer conditions of the "hon-
orable peace, or objects of the peaceful war"
Nor is the Liberty of the Press nor is the recep-
ton OF Mr.. SLIDELL is Free Trade at home
nor is All invaluable System of Finance-for we
have got it, and debt of probably at least hun
dred millions of dollars part of it. In short,
the only object Of the war is Indemnity for its ex-
penses and, as the Administrations Congressional
organ, the Chairman of the House Committee of
Foreign Relations, has averred to the world that
the system Of Finance created by the ,car is morth
10 as more than It's cost, on an equitable settlement
Mexico owes us less than nothing!
Eighhty. In our former survey of the objects
of the war, we showed that the same Congressional
organ of the Administration, its Chairman of the
Committee of Foreign Relations, had, in his Report
on the Presidents Message, avowed for the Execu-
tive that the purpose of the war is one which this
Government has pursued ever since Mexico became
independent (ls2l that is, the acquisition of Ca
lifornia For that document says /" Complaints
of the resort TO territorial conquest from Mexico
are disarmed of reproach by the facts that Mexico,
by war; constrans the United States 10 Take by