Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-10-26
From the Washington Union.
The Result of the Negotiations,


published last evening, will present to the
country in a new and striking Iigbttbe des.
perate infatnation ofthe enemy with whom
we have TO deal. The whole basis Of
negotiation assumed by the Mexican gov.
eminent, and the propositions finally re.
solved upon as its ultimatum, outraging
as they do every principle of internationa
justice, can only be regarded as another
Insult added to the long series of wrongs
and indignitles which the Mexican rulers
have heapcd upon US. Certainly no gov.
eminent, however blinded by pride and
ObstInacy, could ever have ventured. un.
der such circumstances, to submit sucb
propositions, but for its hope of said and
comfort" from the effor.s of the onnos;
lion party nmong ourselves. The Mexi.
can policy of the wings has now develop.
co IIs legitimate consequences in all their
snormily' 1t Is fully proved at last that
mexico, conquered and almost disarmed.
ana having no reliance save on the aid
wnich she hopes to receive from the eff
iort' OF the wing faction here, has at last
resolved that she will have no peace with
QUE government, save upon terms which
are daring outrage upon our national
rights and honor. Such an outrage, be.
yend oil question, is the Mexican demand
Tor the Nueces as the boundary of Texas.
ouch an outrage still more plainly is the
Mexican demand for indemnification at
our hands for the losses and expenses of
the war which Mexico has forced upon
US.
Sscb being the disastrous effe rs of the
policy OF the wing party working upon the
price and ignorance of Mexico, noihir
lemaIns Tor our government, and for the
patriotism Of our country, but to address
themselves anew. in a slerner spirit, and
with augmented energy, to the task of
compelling, at all hazards, satisfactory
and honorable peace. Mexico must now
lie mace to iceland the sooner the bet
'er-Ihat the question of the continuance
OF the war is, indeed, fast becoming to her
question OF national existence. She
must be made to feel that, in thus reject
ing our just and liberal overlures of peace,
che is placing herself wholly beyond the
pale of further forbearance at our hands,
She must now be made to know that there
10 no peace for her, save upon terms which
shall secure TO US full indemniication for
all The expenditures Of the war, and full
!eparation for all the injuries which we
nave received, including among them, as
not the least, her insolent repulse of our
recent efforts for conciiation. She must
be made TO know that henceforth, at least,
this war is hers-the result Of her own
deliberate election--and so to be borne
by her, in the full extent of its evils and
Its burdens. Our work subiugation and
conquest must go on rapidly with aug
mented forces, and, as far as possible at
the expense of Mexico herself From
mexican contributions, levied and seized,
it need be, by the strong hand, our armies
must now be subsisted and supported in
the field. The policy of torbearance and
cancellation, however magnanimously a.
doPted by US, and in however generous an
attitude it may have hitherto presented US
before the world, is now exhausted. 1t
has met with no response, but new rancor
and contumely from our vanquished foe.
nenceiorth we must seek peace, and com
pelit, BY inaicIing upon our enemy all the
evils of var.
In view Of such state offacts as is set
forth in the records of the late negotia-
ton, it might indeed have been hoped that
ths whole country would unite as one man
upon the only true Mexican policy which
now remains to US. But the leaders of
the wing party seem of late to have fully
chosen their part, Forgetting all that
patriots ought in honor to remember,they
rally upon the cry of ''no more Merican
territory" Mr.. Kennedy, echoing the
sentiment Of Santa Anna, tells his wing
friends in Baltimore, that the Nueces is
the true and just boundary of Texas. Mr..
Webster, amid the cheers of the wing
convention at Massachusetts,, proclaims
that he can vote no more men or money
to prosecute hostilities with a view to the
acquisition of territorial in demnity from
uexlco. We do not believe that the
mass OF the wing party can be rallied by
their leaders upon such a ground. They
cannot and they will not resist the appeal
which is mode to their patriotism and to
their sense of national honor anJ Justice,
by these recent developments of the Mex
lean spirit. Bot if we are deceived in
tbis-if partisan drill shall be strong
enough 10 marshal the rank and file of the
wings on this platform of national disgrace
and humiliation, the honor and the rights
Of the country will yet be secure in the
strong hands ofthe democracy, and in the
energy and patriotism Of the administra,
ton which they have. clothed with power.
The Monterey correspondent of the N.
0. National, under date of August 26,
says:
''Some fiend in human shape last nipbt