Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-22
PROPOSED COMPILATION" OF MEXICO.

If there be any truth in proverbs that are com
mon 10 every nation, there cannot be any where
great smoke without some fire. Without knowing
how Tar the combustion has spread, the smoke
which rises in different directions at this momen
proves the existence of common purpose some
where to that extent TO bring all Mexico under oul
Military Dominion; to convert her into an Algeria
for the United States to garrison her territories
with whatever force, say hundred thousand sol
diery at least, may be necessary for the purpose to
be supported out of the Treasury of the United
States, no matter what may be the expense paying
and supplying such force for an indefinite period
of time. These are not the exact terms it is true
in which the scheme is placed before the Public
but that is what it means, and even less than the
scheme itself necessarily implies.
We have already placed before our readers the
views of the woud-be conquerors and annexation
lists of New Orleans. We yesterday gave TO our
readers the expose of the New York Sun on the
subject The same general plan is echoed by the
New York {" Globe Of Tuesday, and Swallowed
out in the Philadelphia g Ledger" of the same day.
Now, although all these are papers of the Demo-
cratic caste and one of them the especial organ of the
ofce-holders in the city in which it is printed we
do not without more direct evidence, impute this
direct purpose to the Administration itself. 1t is
true that the government paper in this city has hate
ly, in one of its articles said something about
invasion OF Mexico being the parent of her gene
raj civilization, dffused intelligence &c-bu as
it has recanted $50 far as the Administration was
by iD the whole of said article, we
are willing to believe that this scheme of overrun-
ming and garrisonng all Mexico is not the proiet of
the Administration. 1t is not, however, on that
account the less alarming but rather the more so,
as indicating the existence of deeper-seated UNI
in the popular mind than we could have
more perverted conception of the
object and duties of this simple Republican Gov
eminent of ours than we had suspected and which
may, more generally diffused, induce the most dan
yerons land even fatally disorders in the body
polite.
But, of the perverson to which we refer, il is
'nly our purpose to-day to offer the following add
ional evidence, beginning with two trusms direct
y contradicted by all that the remainder of the
paragraph proposes 10 do:
NEW YORK "sLoBE" OF TUESDAY
conquest of territory, for the mere sake of con-
quest IS incompatible with the safety Of a repub-
lie; large standing armies are dangerous our in
tent Is to make peace with Mexico-to GIVE TO
HER mild and just government, and honest ciui-
ians in the adnliniSfraiion-to send out of the
country every ambitious chieftain-fo disba,ad The
Whole drmy-to call on all the Merican States
TO organise State Governments and establish a
niitaa-to place her on the same footing as our
State and Federatve system but the Mexicans
will not permit it and here is the embarrassment
of our position. If we make treaty with one
party, the other will violate it; if we withdraw
our armies to-day, tomorrow we may be COM
PEELED to recall them. There appears TO be no
other course iet as TO pursue than TO RETAIN Pos
SESSION OF WHAT WE HAVE coNoUERED-to open
the ports under reasonable tariff-to indem,ii/u
ourselves for the expenses Of The soar--To TAKE
POSSESSION OF THE MINING DIsTRIcTs-to restore
conhdence-to develop the immense resources of
that country, and ieaue euents TO take care of
Themselves"