Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-18
COMMUNICATION.
WHEN SHALL WE HAVE PEACE

If The learned and acute Chancellor Of Sweden,
who sent his son forth to travel and see with how
little wisdom the world was governed" were now
living in these United States of America, what a
singular exemplifcation Of his opinions would ne
see The United States and Mexico, like game
cocks GATED and trimmed, have been ptted against
each other by President Polk and his "great and
good friend'' SANTA ANNA, till, painting, weary, and
bloody, they wish to know when their hard-hearted
masters will permit them to loose their hold OF each
other and seek needful repose.
How long shall our patience be abused by being
told that this war is necessary, either for the good
or the honor of our country! Does 1t comport
with either, tina: thousands of our countrymen are
now diving of the vomto in Mexican seaports; that
other thousands are sacrificing their lives in the
useless feat of marching to the halls Of the Mon
tezumas - that others perishng IN the vain at
tempt to guard public property along the high
roads of Mexico from swarms OF savage guerrllas !;
that others are engaged in sacking and burning
Mexican villages, till the whole scene has become
one of aggressions, retaliations and murders! And
in the mean time the tens of millions OF borrowed
money which the last Congress threw into the Ex-
ecutive lap disappearing with as great rapidty
as though tossed upon faro table, and subjected to
the keepers ominous rake.
And, during all this bloody and sckening scene,
where is Mr. Polk himself? Sitting coolly at the
White House at Washington to calculate the chances
of reelection, and anon prancing off to the North
to enact the part of Sir Holiday Amble in some
grand pageant there So true it is that
Man, proud man,
60 Drest in a little brief authority,
" Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven,
" As make the angels weep"
Yet the bare-picked bone" for which the War
has g bristled his horrid crest" is nowhere to be
found-or, at least, the Executive seems ashamed
to point it out TO. us.
Does President Polk covet portion OF Mexi-
can territory Let him show some glimmerings
of wisdom by taking possession ofthe portion which
he desires, and Withdrawing our troops from the
remainder.
Is he ambitious of conquering all Mexico Un-
less the people of these United States prepared
to sacrifice hundred thousand lives, and create
national debt Of five hundred millions of dollars,
they will put timely stop to such unfedged folly.
How long is it since Bonaparte attempted TO con-
quer Russia In the commencement his success
was prodigious: the result history can tell. The
city of Mexico may prove the Moscow of our
Conqueror.
What ,oiH The nert Congress do?
Certainly, no man can tell what they will do ;
but some things we hope they will do which the
last Congress did not. We hope they will show
themselves men of sound dscreon-men who will
neither be coaxed nor cudgeled into the Executive
traces, unless their consciences approve its acts.
If the present War was unjust in the beginning
has any thing occurred since to make it more Just?
And can Congress appropriate money TO carry on
an unjust war without making themselves partakers
of its crimes Will il be wise to throw the re-
sponsibility on the Executive, when Executive re-
sponsbiIity is the very thing which of late years
has proved so disastrous to the country! Can any
thing be more gratifying to the Presidential love
Of power than to throw the responsibility upon the
President, and then fll his pockets with money If
the followers of the Presidential camp have hun
dred millions of dollars thrown among them an
nually for the purpose of carrying on the war, will
they not be clamorous for war 10 the end OF time
And will not our ears still be stunned by an inces-
SAINT cry that this necessary for the honor and
good of our country
There can be no doubt that nine-tenths OF all re-
fecting men for peace; and, if peace is desira
BILE, the most efficient and honorable mode OF bring
ing it about is Immediately to withdraw our troops
from Mexican SOIL
Mexico undoubtedly considered the territory be-
tween the Nueces and the Rio Grande TO be her
own in good faith. When she attempted TO drive
off our troops, she did it under the very natural i'm
preston that they were intruders on her soil. She
did the very thing which we ourselves should most
unquestonaby have done in her situation. Is it.
then, magnanimous in us to make war OF con-
quest upon her and drive her to the wall for so
tural a mistake, eUen If IL Oas a mistake at all I?
If Mr.. Polk were to get into accidental fight
with a neighbor only half his size, and should
knock him down, would he think, or would the
,oorh think, that due regard for his honor rem
dered it necessary for him to demand his antago-
nist's purse, or deed Of his farm, before he let
him get up again AN OLD FARMER.
WAsnrsGros COUNTY, (Mp.) SEPT. 10, ls47.