Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-04-17

again. "Thou stickest dagger in me, Tubal -
/" Wing General man already dangerous and
]" formidable to our party-must we thank him !
" Let us thank Mr.. PoLK-let us thank the Secre-
/" tary Of War-let us thank ourselves-let us thank
any body else ; but let us be in no haste to thank
/" Gen. TAYLOR"
Congress remained speechless on the subject of
vote of thanks until the 29th of January, when
Mr.. Cooke, very respectable Wing member from
Tennessee, moved for leave to introduce the appro-
pirate resolutions. The leave was resisted, for a
time, by the usual resorts to side-blows and eva
slons; but, finally, after an adjournment for the
day, the leave given, and the resolutions were
introduced and read. Thereupon Mr.. FARAN, q
Democratic member from Ohio, Immediately moved
to attach to the resolution, by way of amendment,
declaration that the war was commenced and
forced on us by Mexico, and was continued by us
IN defence of the honor and vindication Of the Just
rights of the United States, assailed, as both had
been, by repeated and iagrant acts on the part Of
Mexico, of insults outrages, and finally of inva
: sion of one of the States of this Union" Any
man of proper self-respect would have blushed
one would think, in proposing to suffix such de.
elaraton as this to vote of thanks. But there is
reason to Think nevertheless, that was done upon
concert. The object was so to alter the proposed
vote of thanks as that Whig members could not
support it, But Mr.. THOMPSON (of Mississippi
wished to go further. Mr.. Faran's proposition
would do, as trap for the Wings, but there was no
sting in it for General TAYLOR. So Mr. THoMp-
SON proposed an additional declaration, viz that
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an appreciation of the terms of the capitulation of
Monterey" This, it was thought would hit the
Wing General full in the face. Whether this, too,
was part of the result of party consultation, or
whether it only was that Mr.. FARAN and Mr.. IA
COB THOMPSON had agreed to hunt in couples, the
former gentleman Immediately accepted the propo-
sition Of the latter an amendment to his own
and, incredible as it may seem, Mr.. CocKE's very
appropriate and just resolutions, botched and dis
figured by these additions, actually passed the House
of Representatives of the United States We could
not but regard this proceeding as one of the most
and discredtable that ever disgraced the
Journal of Legislative body, and took occasion
at the time so to representa-. Mr. FARANs amend
ment was known by him, and by every body, to
contain statements of facts wholly foreign to the
subject and which at least one third Of the House
repetition of the unworthy trick played off by the
same party in the act of May last recognising the
existence of war. 49,: -....
As to Mr.. Thompson's amendment we hardly
know how to characterize il. 1t was quite compe-
tent to Mr.. Thompson to withhold his support from
the vote of thanks, if he did not think thanks de-
served; but when proposition before the
House to pay tribute of respect to soldier, to a
man with whom honor is every thing, and who feels
reproach as wound, to insert in such pro-
ceedng a fling, contumely, in the form of
doubt, or provso, is proceeding which we can
not conceive how Mr.. THOMPSON could propose, or
a House Of Representatives adopt. But all this was
to derogate from the Wing General who had already
been pronounced unfit to be entrusted with the
command Of the army. 1t was to stigmatize Gen.
TAYLOR, to break him down, and crush at once his
rising and dangerous popularity. Thanks to the
justice of overruling Providence, all these mis-
cradle inventions have returned with tenod bitter
ness and thousand new stngs "to plague the
inventors
How poor, how cheap, do the actors in these
scenes now look! How much must they be
ashamed of what they have said and done What
would they not give to oblterate the record of their
speeches and their votes
General TAYLoR's military feats have been quite
distinguished. With as much propriety as those of
almost any other man they may be called "prodi-
gies." But General TAYLOR, it is clear, was not
born to be himself the victim of "prodigy." An
eagle, "towering in his pride Of flight" was not
doomed to be "by mousing owls hawked at and
killed.
Let us now follow these Resolutions of
Thanks" into the Senate.
They taken up in that body on the Sd of
February. Mr.. SPEIeHT moved to strike out the
p,ouiso moved in the House by Mr.. THOMPSON
saying, with great propriety, that she was not will
ing to present thanks with one hand and censure
with the other" Mr.. SEWER and Mr.. BAGBY ad-
vocated the proviso, they disapproved the terms
of the capitulation of Monterey Mr.. ARCHER put
a very significant inquiry: " He desired to know
: why the Senator Mr. SEvrER) was for connecting
the subject Of the capulation with the resolution
9 of thanks :" Mr.. CMrTENDEN spoke at length
against the propiso, did Mr.. JOHN M. CLAYTON.
Mr.. CRITTENDEN shrewdly suggested that /" Sena
: tors here were endeavorng to qualify the matter
so as to go against General TAYLOR, or in his fa-