Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-30
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCEA
TO THE EDITORS.

You truly say OF II that LOT us lolty ana underlined
tone il would do honor 10 any page oil Roman an
naIs If Won had known Mr.. OLAGUIBEL, the Gov
ernor, as do, YOU might have added that these an
mails woud be searched in vain for a nobler exam
ME Of lofty and dsineresed patriotism. If there
is one man alive who is capable of enactng the
mart Of CuRTIus il is FRANcIsco OLAGuIBEL. He is
distinguished and Woodworking lawyer and has
always been opposed to SANTA ANNA, and never
would take office under him in the palmy days of
his power. He published, some five years since
at his own expense, small newspaper called Ell
Diablo Cagueio, the Lame Devil,) dedicated en-
tirely to the unmeasured denunciaton, ridcule and
exposure of SANTA ANNA, then at the height of his
power. There no Office which he could not
have commanded as the price of his adhesion, but
there was none which he would accept, preferring
to live in humble and vrtuous poverty upon his
professional earnings. He was the head of the
party called E2aitados, or those devoted TO this
country and its institutions. The object of his
idoatry is WASHINGTON, and he always wears
miniature likeness of him in his bo.om-unlike
almost every other Mexican gentleman who wears
a costly jewel. On the Fourth of July and other
festivities of the Americans in Mexico he was al
ways an invited guest, and the only Mexican who
| venture the assertion that no American
ever applied to him for an act of friendship and
was refused. How idle 10 talk of peace-party in
Mexico when such he breathes nothing
Dul tleTNal War--War 10 the hllle since hOSClUS-
10 the world has seen no sublimer spectacle of
a brave struggling with the storms of fate
And nobly falling with falling State
If there were but one such man in Mexico | would
notbreak that one great heart for all the lands Of
the Republic.
The note of the Mexican Secretary Of State to
the Commissioners, and also their note to Mr..
Trist, are touchingly pathetic. Courteous, even to
kindness; subdued, despairng, yet firmly resolved
tba,- ada M,
of honor and delicacy, more than acalculation of
interest forbid it. No portion of our people are
devoted III the nationality of their feelings, or
have made many sacrifices that account. We
cannot consent to sell them, like cattle, for money
Never Let the nationality Of the rest OF the Re-
public perish with them. Let us perish together
Noble sentiments which must find response in
every patriotic heart. Would we, under like or
under any extremity Of suffering, transfer to for
egn Power of the States of this Union? Is il
not urged of the strongest grounds of our
claim TO the country between the Nueces aud the |
Rio Grande that it ceded 10 Spain by the treaty
oil 1919 without authority, as our Federal Govern |
ment has no power 10 cede any portion of our ter
ritory, and that such cession is void although we
have received the equivalent territory which is
now of the States of the Union, and which, for
the same reason. cannot be restored In our case
il was merely establishing boundary which before
-
and no State Government could make such treaty
and, therefore. it follows too clearly to be argued,
that 1t was one of those international affairs which
deyolyed exclusively the Federal Government I
In the case of Mexico the line of boundary as to
New Mexico and California is not disputed-both I
are States OF the Mexican Coniederacy which we
demand shall be coded TO u.s. Nay, more the /
Mexican constitution positively forbids the aena-
ton OF any territory. Under the guaranty Of that
constitution the States Of California and New Mexi-
co entered the confederacy, and ask the Mexican
Government TO violate this guaranty and sell those
States and their people for money. The Mexican
Government is confederacy of States like our
own. Could constitutionally do such an act
Is there any pressure of circumstances under which
would do il Ii cannot come TO good. Let us
be warned BY the history of all previous conquer
'ors, nations or individuals, from Rome to France
IN our own day-from Nebuchadnezzar, an idiot
grazing the fields, TO Napoleon his desolate rock
Has not me time arrived when Congress should
demand of the President distinct and specific
statement of the objects of the war; and the mode and
the extent OF It's further prosecution So repeated
have been his mistakes that he certainly now has
no claim to the blind confidence Of the country
But for the performance, not of one but a success
sion Of miracles, the armies OF Scott and Taylor
would both have been sacrifced-no thanks to the
Administration that they were not. Never has
there been heard such burst of indignation, loud
and deep, as would have pervaded the whole coun.
try II those results had happened which, but for a
succession OF miracles, would have happened
said long ago that, to obtain any practical results
by an advance to Mexico, army of fifty thou
sand men was necessary. Who now will denv
that proposition With adequate garrisons and the
road kept open, how much public property and how
many lives would not have been saved! n any
concessions were 10 be obtained by force from
Mexico, it would only have been yielded to such
an overpowering army. The handful Of men
which we now have in the capital only stimulates
and encourages further efforts. Ir Gen. Scott had
lei, Vera Cruz with thirty thousand men do not
b1l;- !, ..ouid have hnor oa,.at
or Que American life lost in battle. | have also
said that the occupation of the city would retard
INSTEAD oil expecting peace. We shall see.
will now venture two other predictions:
lst All efforts to procure fundsirom the Mexicans
10 nav the expenses Of the war; 10 inJ considerable
amount, will end in faIure. Goods NAV Nc sent
there and the duties paid 3n lhem but when the
drawback is deducted for goods sold our own army
very litie will be left. As to lcvying contributions
in any other way it cannot be done, for the simple
reason that they have no money. They are poor,
indolent, and unproductlve people. There are not
twenty wealthy Nexicans in the whole Republic.