Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-23

the frontier and crippled dsarmed and exhausted
is altogether impossible for her to raise army I'd
march through the intervening desert attack our posts r
regular army amounts to about twenty thousand men, wHh
will BIO a-sulIcen to garrison that line and that army E
cost no more that frontier than elsewhere If aad ed
upon that ne we shall thus have transferred Mexicda
the cost and inconvenience Of sending her armies pr
der which we ourselves suffering. But that he
will be assaied is impossible. We shall thus hive
avoided the two great evils of war; carnage and expendre
OF money is there any other but the deprivation of the p
of Mexican commerce That profit for the last yeah,
has not been $780, 600 per annum. Shall continue e
for that With the ports Of Mexico blockaded, is it t
manifest that ten times the amount of will be c
ed on along the line of the frontier would be through tie
maritime ports in state Of peace Mexico will fret ap
grow for year or two but have earthly doubt will mae
peace sooner than if continue this of INVASION The
country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande was he
OF the war; If Mexico had given it up, not oily
should have had war, but have official auhoryfo
saying that our Government would have paid ten mo of
dollars for 1t thus acknowledging of title by oetng
to buy one We did not offer to purchase the British tb to
Oregon we relied on and should have bne
with Mexico If we had had any title to rely upon frtnd
asked me recently what continuing this war for
answered that the only object which knew was to free
Mexico to sell US land. In all truth know no other It bay
be just cause Of it is certainly new one. Buwe
have undspued possession of the country the
and the kio Grande without paying for it. wiling
to do Does not every consideration of justice, humanity and
national dignity require of ask and to take no rore
What will satisfy
e This hdeous hunger of dominion"
this voracous Appetite which grows by what it feeds
is due touth and candor that would
the Rio Grande if left free to choose. 1t would be better for
both countries that it should be left wilderness as is
That wilderness boundary of the prominent
guments in favor of annexation.
would take no Mexican erritory-frst because
Tphf IN al 81. III
robber right If conquest it is the bandit right and more
who stronger than the traveller and he takes his purse and
Keeps It. Ou armies better appointed braver and more
warke than tn, Mexcans Does this give right their
lands knew and said, before the Of this
war; that we were superior to them in campaign 10
live but it never occurred to that this superiority gave
any right to Mexican territory or, with honorable men,
any nducement war upon them but the The
luhes at the night OF conquest has been carried by Just
tons is to seize as much territory will indemnify for
into which the conqerng country had been forced without
cause Is that the character If the present Would
God that 1t was large malerity of people think
otherwise and out OF the limits IF the United States do
believe that there is in the civilized world one intelligent man
who thinks SO.
Secondly, would not take more territory because will
be worse than vaueless i will e heavy charge upon
Government instead of indemnify to our citizens who have
claims upon Mexico. friend sadgo me TODAY that we will
not take the people, but the land. Fecey the reverse will
be the shall take the people, nut no land not
the country OF savage people whose lands held in
hundred and twenty-five years. many of item two and three
hundred miles square nothing paid for these grants when they
made, and taxes upon the lands afterwards; it all
private property and we shall get public domain which
will pay the cost OF surveying It, speak Of the country be-
yond the Rio Gande We shall get land but will add
large population, aliens to in feeling, educaon race and
regiona people unaccustomed to work. and accustomed
INSTRUMENTATION and resistance to law, the expense of govern
ing whom will be ten times great the derived
from them.
Last, and above ALL would take the country because
the nop-slaveholding States already have dangerous and
constantly increasing pePonderance in the Conederac and
slavery never can exist in the country OF which speak,
ing In all the country Of Mexico lying upon the Gulf the
mountains rise to an immense elevation very the
There is but very small portion country the climate of
which will allow the culture Of those staples which expe
rence has shown that slave labor be profaby empoyed
and that small portion, besides being the sicky
gion this ointment has navgabe rivers other
Of transportation for those heavy staples
do not express opinion lightly formed but upon
which would stake my existence that whether the principle
of the Wno proyso be enacted by Congress not slavery
will exist in any State which may be hereafter formed
west Of the Rio Grande In minority, are, and
the majority against fearuly increasing, great is the
ponsby OF that statesman of the South who lends his in
huence TO the acquisition of territory in which, by
possibility, slavery We have already in the North
west territory, from which the Indian population annually
receding, sufficient for twelve States Of average
size, all Of these will Of necessity be non-savehoding
States. There annual immigration to country of
nearly many foreigners adult males, the whole voting
population OF South Carolina All OF these, almost without
exception, settle in the non-saveholding States With
Oregon and California shall have room for eight
more quite enough abolish slavery by amendment the
Constitution yet in the face of these facts Southern
mady rushing upon destiny by the acquisition Of another
Gordon Of free Staesfor such they will bebeyond the Rio
Grande thus completing the circle of fire around along the
whole line of northern and western frontier from the
banks the Mississippi the frozen forests Of the Aroosook
from Cape Cod the Caribbean Sea- those baleul fires
blazing.
We have already countless thousands, aye, millions of
Of public land, than will be sold and occupied
hundred years. Why seek to add this comparatively
sterile and vaueess country TO already than ample
domain But in the presence Of the dangers which must
follow such acquisition il all its mountains of solid
gold, and all its streams flowed beds Of orient pearl,
would il from worthless bauble. The very best
result which anticipate will be dissolution of this happy
Confederacy and do confess that contemplate that issue
with unmixed horror. This may be regarded unmanly
fear. When the issue may be that those who have
mady raised the may not meet its fury with more
courage than those who foesaw who deprecated, and desired
TO avoid il.
Do we make any unworthy sacrifice of honor in meeting
the -slayeholding States this ground cannot so
consider it. They propose il, not They have the
questionable numerical superiority both Houses Of Con-
pie by legislation and than double numbers
force it. and they propose to offering Of peace
The conduct Of portion of the people Of the nonslavehod
ing States has, for years past been such upon this slavery
question that word short of d0cious will adequately char
acterze IT, This proposition does from that portion
Of the Northern people, but from the friends Of the Union