The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-12-13
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MONDAY NIGHT, DEC. Is, ls47.
A New Whig Manifesto.

and doubtless upon full consultation win he leaders OF
the wing party now in Washington, undertakes pro
fessed examination and review OF that part of the Mes
sage which relates to the with Mexico AS this
the era Of wing manifestoes; and as Mr.. Webster al
Springfield Mr. Clay at lexington and MIR. Gaain IN
New York. are generally thought 10 have shown an I'M
fortunate hand in that business, we feel JUSTIFIED IN re-
gardng this mammoth publication OF the ntelgencer as
an attempt of the collective wisdom OF some OF the wing
leaders to do something in that way more plausoie au
more proptous to the of their cause we snail
therefore, examine the nelgencers article IN TINS view
avoiding in far possible its enormous dfluseness
And in the first place. we observe that the omissions
Of this last wing manifesto, thus put forth, are very re-
markable and significant Processing 10 be the best that
can be said against the Mexican policy recommended by
the President in his Message this wing demonstration
makes no attempt whatever assal any single of the
material points of our future policy towards Mckee
which are urged upon the favorable consideration OF
Congress- by the President with view TO the speedest
attainment of peace upon just and honorable terms.
Through its whole eight columns of furious and mag
nan partisan denunciaon of our government and coun-
ry the ntelgencers article does not give us single
yord-much less single argument-aganst the wisdom
and the sound policy of requiring from Mexico in any
treaty of peace full indemnity for the outrages we
have endured and the expenditures we have been forced
TO make Not word is said TO show that this just IN
demnity can be made to us in any other form than by
cession of terrory not word to show that New Mex
leo and the CALIFORNIA; are not in all respects, the best
and ttest territory to be coded TO u.s. not word against
the proposition that treaty of peace concluded without
such indemnity would be dshonorable REIMBURSEMENT
of all our caims not a word to show that the terms
proposed to our commissioner by Mexico in any way
consistent with our national rights, honor, or inter
ests; not word to show that the territory in
question will not, in all probability, soon iall INTO
the hands of some foreign power II we rellnqulsh
it, not a word to show that there is any reason
why we should now surrender New Mexico and the
Californas this time in our possession; not word
of objection against the eypedency OF establishing
territorial government Them as the Message recon-
mends not word in favor of the ndemntylne policy;
not word to show that the mode of prosecuting the war,
urged by the Executive is not the fest mode TO secure
satisfactory peace with the least delay; and finally not
one word to show that the Congress of the United States
is not as fy committed by its past acts as the President
claims it to be in his Message, to the whole purpose and
doctrine of prosecuting the war the acquisition OF
full territorial indemnify On the contrary upon this
plee for it means over the facility and precptancy
with which the purposes Of the Erecut're came TO be sus-
tanned by the Legislative authority"
Since, then, the wing organ has thus wholly failed to
muster up courage enough to assa any point of the
warpoicy proposed and recommended by the Executive,
let us nowrepressng far possible all expression of
the just and natural Indignation which its vitu-
peration of country and our government both
in its Executive and Legislative branches, is fitted to
awaken--let us calmly consider what the posi-
tons put forth in this formal manifesto, and see
how far they constitute basis upon which any par
y looking for support to the people of this country,
venture to rally We read in this document that from
the first advent of his administration to power the Pres
dent of the United States disclosed ga settled purpose TO
make upon Mexico" and that Congress was
driven, bndod and gagged to lend its countenance to
these purposes This purpose is attributed to the Exec
utive, and this compusive subservency charged upon
Congress existing at the very moment when, upon
the Intelligencers showing in its daily columns du
ring the year 1885, the President equally bent upon
forcing into with Great Britain upon the Oregon
question Unless the Inteigencers allegation be abso
utely false the President then bent upon having
these two wars at time and since, in this very article
the nellgencer refers to the prevention OF awa with
England by the action of the Senate alone the country
must either discredit its declarations else must believe
that the popular branch of Congress either brow
beaten, or driven gagged and bndfoded" into coop
Grafton with the President in this his double begerent
design little further on, the article, we find
the assertion, that government may have peace with
Mexico, cat any day, terms of honor y while the
sconduct and sentiments of Mexico towards are
stated to be "worthy OF the most magnanimous repub-
lie !"
In another passage, in brief auson TO what the Intel
gencer calls "the five miserable millions OF indcmn
es demanded by our government the country is asked,
show stood the fact Of rery right to ask for those m
IDENTITIES after having helped ourselves to Tcras?" Can
political turptude go down to deeper depth than this
Fiue miserable millions of indemnities is the shame
full language in which American newspaper-the met
ropotan organ of the wing party--n open advocacy OF
our public enemy can describe the assessed damages for
violence and robbery pepetred upon the persons OF our
citizens and the flag of country in the ports OF Mexico
in time of peace in violation of treaties in forms OF ruth
less outrage which would have made every act an act OF
piracu if done upon the high seas And "helping
selpes 10 Teras is the opprobrious phrase in which all
our right to ask for these ndemntes is claimed TO be ex
tnguished by the Act of Annexation--an act done in
pursuance of the deliberately will of two
equally Independent republics, and so done; upon the
showing of Mr. Webster himself in his recent Springfield
Speech as to give to Mexico 'no lust ground of com