The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-06-18
KA.LIDA VENTURE.
UESDAY. JUNE rs. IsaS.
Internal DissentiOn.

The recent news from Mexico suggestt
some reflections. We form the greatest, tn,
only potent confederation on this continent
and we might add the most important pow
er on the globe, destined more than any 9th.
er 10 stamp the impress of our policy upor
the worlds history. We are at this time en-
gagged in war; contest to secure violated
tights from a weaker power; with a people
impotent from native inferiority, deficient
cultivation, and general vice. Weak as thai
power is from these causes, she realizes the
most disastrous consequences from her feuds,
from her want Of union, and from that inter
nal treachery which aims rather 10 secure
the success of personal ambition and the graf
ification Of unworthy passions than bappi-
ness, glory or elevation of country. Owing
to'these causes, and to the inherent valor
and energy of our armies, her troops have
been every where, without regard TO dispari-
ty Of numbers, broken, scattered and defeat
ed. Yet Notwithstanding all this-notwith-
standing our power, our great victories, and
the hopelessness of the contest, Mexico yet
refuses 10 listen to overlurcs of peace.
What is it in the present humiliation and
defeat of that country gives her hope, points
the assassin dagger of the guerilla, and pro-
longs the contest to desperaion2 Foreign
mediation she rejecs-hope in her arms she
can have none. 1t is not love of flibcrty, for
liberty can have no existence among peo-
pie degraded enough to be the sport of mill
tary dictators. Beaten at every ooint--her
strong holds taken--her capital defenceless
her finances exhausted-her resources al
an end; why does Mexico still hold out? The
answer must be, her hope is in our dissentions
that Mexican leaders look to party in this
country to force dishonorabe peace. And
the organs of that party tell them in exult-
ing tones they look not vainly. In the NJ
Y. Tribune Of the Sd, it is boasted that the
next Congress, if whig, will force the gov
ernment TO yield to Mexico the whole fruits
OF our victories. That paper says
."Tho President is destined to find in the
next Congress no plastic body; to give form
and action 10 his crude and unauthorized
conceptions. The ,car he commenced with-
out its sanction, 1t may determine against his
adpice. The conquest of sister Republic
is not the desire Of our people; nor do they
wish to force upon the Mexicans institutions
which their habits, their laws, and their pref
udices repel.
"The House of Representatives-the
proper break water between the frenzy of the
Executive and the security of the People
may, by passive resistance to the designs of
the Admistration, coerce il into the gratifca-
ton of the public hope.
awe can at least have guarded peace
if not formal, an e6ectual armstce. We
can establish boundary, of our own will
if Mexico withhold acquiescence-an pro-
tect our territory against invasion: wall Of
objection, more effectua than that of the An
TONNES. This, we can establish with but
little opposition from Mexico: can maintain
with but little expense to ourselves. In case
of protracted hostllties, ii may be the only
measure we can adopt with safety and
honor"
That Mexico will for time be deceived
by these promises we cannot doubt--that
she overrates the power of dissention and
faction to palsy the national will, there is no
doubt. And there is as little doubt that she
is now enduring the desolation of war that she
may succeed, through our feuds, i'll evading
the consequences of such peace as the
honor of our country and maintenance Of its
rights demand.
There is danger to our country more i'm
minent than the opposition of federalism
The desperation ofMexco is awakening the
spirit of conquest. If this unfortunate strug-
gle should be prolonged, as events seem to ev-
idence, till nothing but Mexican subjugation
can bring the of preferred peace we desire
then upon the factous opponents Of this
war ought to rest and will remain the wrong
of the blood and sacrifice 1t will cause. The
government have not aimed at conquest
from tine first such design was promptly
disavowed, and we have 10 reason to believe
is now OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES did any class Of
our citizens design to cast their. votes in
competition with the degraded races of Mex
ico--yet the prospect of conquest is now by
many locked upon with favor, and the idea