Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-01-19
Correspo alence Of the Baltimore Patriot.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. lS47

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ought to b. that h has ta1ea back his epthets and tina
there Is in consequence to be fight. Still tho afai,
was conducted in such school boy like manner to
cause much laughter in the House, and few excla
| nations Of '.flfce" 10 be made.
The Presidents message IN relation the appoint
of General Oil er command all the military
forces during tl when read il both Houses of Con
gress to-day, created great understand
Withdrawn b the President, he sent i,
III early last week, an the title of Lieutenant Gener-
al stricken oat Perhaps the structures OF of the
Washington Correspondence caused this step be taken
Maybe aud maybe not The title is left be fix
cd by Congress. Ofcourse, vii. be simply Gen
| era O.lcer.'
/ The debate tao question is up again in tho
House of Representatives. The bill the reg.
uiar army, by raising additional regiments of troops
for term of five years, during the war. under
! cusson ia Committee of tho Whole.
am sorry 10 disposition. manifested the part
OF ia the House, oppose the further prosecution
of this Mexican war, l pray Heaven the number may
be few. They say il is totally unlike the war of leI2-
that that was defensive part, ana therefore
ought not TO have been opposed by any pay-wte this
IS war of invasion an conquest part and
being prospect Of its terminating, il ought
be further prosecuted.
This is logic tn subscribe to. That the war
was unconstitntionay. improperly ana outrageousy
brought on By Mr. Polk for his ambitious purposes
without deigning 10 consult Congress IN the matter-bc
iierlng doubt he did beIieve, that it would
b. terminated in blaze of glory enure TO the honor
of his Administration, ana make HIM candidate for re.
election, readily admit That for thus trampiing the
Constitution under foot and paying such an insult to
Congress- he ought be he4 up the
the whole country and sidIied with the responsibility
winch Justly belongs TO him. weighty and terrible
IS III this matter maintain all times and on all &C.
casons.
But the having been commenced, Congress was
toll
however, with only sixteen dissenting votes! II
belongs them to all but those sixteen Congress- to sup
port ana maintain the that engaged in
IT. uht the Mexican army is destroyed, the Govern
ment of that Republic compelled o sue for peace.
What though Mr.. Polk usurped authority which did
not belong to him, in bringing the war; What though
he intrigued with the base treachorous ana bloody tyrant
santa Anna 70 get him and his suite Of Mexican Gener
ais back into the Republic from which they had
Justly banishei. and whore they rendering
at ana comlort to our enemy, through the unprece-
dertei coniuct of Mr.. President Polk. What though
the expensive ana the treasury exhausted, by the
adoption of Mr. Po!k's Locofo2o measures. What though
our brave troops dying hy thousands in Mexico
we, proud and brave Republicans claim be, to
surrender to Mexico. has wronged and nsulted us
50 long and 50 often, and cry gccari Congress took
upon itself the responsibility of making the Of
invasion II shoald 60 them vigorously, speedy
AMI triumphant termination. We should whip Mexico
and this Polk Administration at the time! Both
Santa Anna the conspirator, and President Polk,
tgucr shonld be beaten and put rout They richly
deserve it The must stop whore it by any ig
noble withdrawal of forces from Mexico. 1t must
go 1t would be disgrace, deep lasting, inc fable dis
for us to stop whore unless the enemy
Justify for peace! He deserves whipping He ought
TO have it, aud that too speedily and summary
than Mr. Polk has been administering him, by send
ing Santa Anna Almonte and the other Gene rails, his
We have him in lie he
quered-and the quicker the better. Wrongs enough
have been inflicted upon by Mexico, and lies enough
that Government has told with its forked tongue, to
warrant all that doing, and all that we mean
Q do,
y no is there that Will take sides with enemy and
against his country in crisis like ths7Ca an such
expect TO be called parioc?--Let him into
the future and what viii be said him hereafter.-
let him call 10 mind the amount of odium that has been
heaped upon the heads Of the Tories of the
and those antiwar Federalist who burnt
the enemy in the of 1872 ana in whose political
ISOLATION whore James Buchanan Henry Hubbard Reu-
e Williams, Samuel Cushman, VIM c. Bryant, Harma-
BIeecksr, George Bancroft, and others like the
who yed-in the wool Locofocos,
What matters it that this those of tho
| Revolution and 1922 We invaded Canada during tho
last war. invade Mexico, though with the
The country in the and it belongs
! to the PEI ple to it,
It belongs the Wings TO hold Mr.. Polk responsible
for rendering aIi and comfort the enemy in ntrpu.
ing get Anna and suite back into Ne xico Il
belongs to them hold him responsible for forcing
through his party machinery, such upon the
country as bankrups the Treasury. thereby that
also rendering aid and comfort the enemy. II
longs them that the vigorously prosecu-
ted and that the Administration shall disgrace the
nation BY any pary backing out Of the 1t belongs
to them TO hold up merited contempt the outrageous
iutripue which sent i N back into Mexico.
POTOMAC.
(r-Beau,ifu is the love and sweet the kiss
Of a sister; b. when you havn't sister handy