Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-09

Of Texas soemny incorporated into Unionhavng
placed herself thus distinctly attitude OF warfare against
the great principles Of popular sovereignty and having in
pursuance of this noerabe policy entered within our own
borders and shed the blood of citzensMexco now fnds
herself conquered and humbed past eeva by the energy Of
Government and the vaor of and yet assumes
10 reject with scon even while her songhod in
possession and her capital wholly mercy, all the propo
Of equitable and honorable peace which have kept
constantly open to her acceptance Towards such enemy
plain The character of our war must change
1t be prosecuted with ardor and with new power
Our enemy be made feel its burdens and It's evils
and She must bear the brun of its expenses The
inhabitants of her towns must be laid under stringent conbu-
tons Subsistence for armies must be gathered from her
country Since Cancellation spurned the strong hand must
be resoed to TO maintain rights and our honor Mexico
be made to feel that she continues the at her
peat her peril of mourning all its evils and ossesat her
peril paying the penalty of its further prosecution in terms Of
peace less favorable her petensons than those which
have already offered Meantime nothing must be wanting
on our part the most vigorous prosecution of the We
pour in troops upon her. and demand and take from
her authorities and her people of subssng and sup
porting them in the field"
Upon this official exposition of the designs of the
Executive we have only time now to make one or
two remarks:
First We concur of course in the views of the
Administration as to the present policy of sending
into Mexico, with all practicable dispatch, all the
further effective force which it command and
of providing promptly and literally the supplies
which are necessary to support the whole army in
Mexico. proper regard 10 the safety of the army
would enjoin this policy, were there not other con-
sideratons also in its favor.
A L.: Il.
its attempt to make false issue with the People of
the United States to the origin of this war; with
out our meeting and denouncing it. II is moi true
that Mexico entered within our own borders and
shed the blood of our citizens Never has
Mexican in arms advanced within a hundred miles
of the soil of the United States, Cncluding Texas
with its proper boundaries.) We shall not here
renew the argument on this point the opinion of
all dsinterested thinking men in the United States
being settled in regard to it. We will, however,
cite once more in reference to it an authority,
which, whether we consider his relations to the
question or to the Administration, which has shown
its willingness TO place the issues of Peace or War
in his hands, must be deemed unanswerable. We
quote the exact words of the Resolution proposed
by the Hon. Mr.. BENTON during the discussion of
the Annexation question in the Senate of the Uni
ted States:
"ResolUed, That the Incorporation Of The left
: bank of the Rio del Norte into The a,nericGn
: Union, By rirfue Of a treaty NTH Teras, com
pretending, as the said incorporation wouM do,
a part Of the Mexican departments of NeW Mer-
/. ico, chihuahua, Coahuila, and Tdmauiipas,
Uoutd De AN ACT OF DIRECT AGGRESSION ON Mex
leo for all the consequences Of achich the United
States acouid stand responsble.'
Thirdly. The government paper admits the rep
resentation of the terms proposed by the United
States to Mexico as the basis.of Peace to be sub
stantally and in doing so admits the pro-
bable correctness of the statement of the Mexican
and negotiations. But since the pub
LEGATION of the /" Union which contains this adj
mission, the propositions on both sides have reached
US and are published, though they do not state the
exact point upon which the negotiation was broken
off. The comments of the Union,'' however,
to be specially directed 10 the refusal of Mex
leo to give up to us the territory between the Nueces
and the Rio Grande.
Upon that statement we have TO remark that if
the country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande
belonged to Mexico before the war, as Mr. BENTON
anu oil hiCh dOhHoWicuSt, HtT refusal now 10
cede it to the United States should give no offence
to this country. We wish most sincerely she had
given up the point, but she had right not to do So
Sound policy would, in our opinion, have dictated
the cession or surrender on her part for consde-
ration. National pride, national subbornness, if
you please forbade it. But this refusal constituted
no cause for making or continuing war with her.
war upon that ground is in reality war upon
figned issue, such as litigious people make who
have fondness for being al lar with their neigh
bors, but which is unworthy of the Government of
magnanimous people. 1t places the Admnistra-
lion in the unpleasant predicament after having on
all occasions proclaimed that its object in prosecut-
ing the war was "to conquer peace" of renecing
the to force Mexico to strip herself of territory of
part of which was she ever for moment dis.
possessed until the Executive marched the army of
the United States into it.
Fourihiy. The proposition made by Mexico to
compromise her right to the territory in question,
agreeing, in effect that il shall be hereafter neu-
trial ground between the United States and Mexico.
is one which would be more useful to the United
States than the possession of il in fee, and ought,
properly considered to be acceptable to the People