The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-23
The Wing Issue.

Hon. r.. ID. JOHNSON, (of Galveston,) for Texas.
CORNELIUS GLEN. for the State of New York
The Wing Issue.
The National Intellgencer the Louisville Journal,
and several other wing presses, have shifted the issue
from the "Wilmo Prouiso" TO "No more territory" We
have already stated that this proposition does not meet
the assent of "the universal wing party and referred
wing journals and quoted extracts from their columns,
to show that schsm prevails in their ranks The
Natonal Intelligencer," however, still adhees to the
text and to the doctrine of "E" (Which denies to be Mr.
Ewing of Oho) and it leads off, under its editorial head
of this morning. with the following brief but pregnant
article:
We commend the particular attention of those friends
of the administration whose longing for Mexican territory
ravenous, the following evidence of public sent
ment in the west on that subject;
From the Louisville Journal of Sep. IL.
The government editor may as well permit the western
wings, and indeed the wings of all sections to speak for
themselves he will hardly receive many thanks from
them for putting sentiments into their mouths which they
last Saturday night that the wings in
stealing and annexing Mexican territory is calumny on
the consti,uon The western wbips We're firm and United
in opposing the annexation of Texas and present
solid front against further ezra appropriations Of Mexican terri
cerey believe that the disposition that prevails
@ Tsy weap asa M a
their might the further carrying Of national boundary
Union as it is and do not Wish to see It placed in peril
crafty unhaowed lust for what does not and ought
obelong to U.S."
Heaven forbid that should undertake to guide the
cratic councils of the wing party. We should as soon
pretend regulate the of the comets but we must
with all due Difference claim the privilege of reading the
signs in the wing sky, however difficult they may be to
understand, whenever their policy is calculated to af
feet the interests of our country With this apology
shall continue to animadver upon their eccentric course
at all times We shall show in this particular case, that
whatever may have been their general policy in regard
the extension of our territory, yetn this there
wing journals who 60 for the annexation OF portion of
Mexico to the confines of our country
We understand from the above extract, that the lead
ing organ of the wing party is opposed to the slightest
extension of our boundaries, We must not obtain an
inch and No territory is the issue OF the leaders
What them to become of the just claims of citizens
for ndemny' They must be abandoned or we must pay
them out of treasury Mexico has money to pay
us, and if cannot take land equivalent, must
pay them ourselves, citizens must be stripped of
their claims What becomes of the expenses Of the
We must lose them all What TO become OF the great in
,eress of country which dependent upon the
must all be abandoned according to the present wing
issue WHAT'S to become OF the ports of California, which
are 80 essential the accommodation of more than 600
whalers and 10000 seamen What becomes of the mar
ket which would be opened by growing population
on her coasts to American manufactures Where are
the facilities which shall acquire bya more direct
communication with China perhaps Japan, and the east
They must all be given upas well as the advantag es
which our children and chdren's children may OBJ
tain from throwing open New Mexico and Santa Fe to our
western settlers or to our foreign emgrans. The wing
leaders insist upon it, that must close the with
out acquiring another foot of territory.
But such have not been the views of all our dstin-
guished men. The "Boston Courier" informs us that
if Mr. Webster had continued Secretary of State, he
would have attempted to obtain the port OF San Francis
He had laid his train for the purpose. friend
informs u.s. that among the papers of Gen. Hamilton,
which were offered to Congress, was &c memoir that
subject prepared by A. Hamilton for Gen Washington II
embraced large and long views las has been represented
to us and reached to the acquisition of all the Spanish
ritory this continent In reading the published
respondence, &c., of Mr. Jefferson, there is oblique
hint at some such purpose by Gen. Washington when
he wthdraws from the Spanish negotiation (under the
of Carmichael and ShorD proposition to guaran-
ty the Spanish domain this continents; and coupling
that with short note in the Ana (vo 4th of cores
pondng time, strongly impressed that this ac-
QUESTION had employed the thoughtful patriotism of Gen.
Washington at that early day. To these references
might add the Richmond Enquirer OF 1929. When the
controversy made its way into the prints between John
Quincy Adams and the Boston federasts, Gen. Hamil-
toms opinions made part of that controversy and his
predictions for the acquisition OF southern domain are
very plainly Swallowed forth"
But now to be told by the National Integencer
that abandon all these territorial acquisitions We
must suffer Mexico togo scot free and we must not touch
single inch of her extensive, oppressed and at present
useless domains Well, let this be now understood as
the wing issue, and let how the people of the Uni
ted States, and above all those of the west, will receive
this declaration. For part, il were to throw
our country out of view, and look only to party issues
should be happy to see the which the wings arc
about take Let them take this issue as soon as they
please-and now mark our prediction Should this war
be closed without any territorial acquisition at all we
shall these very wings raise clamor against ia be-
we had made acquisition because we had thrown
away New Mexico California and all the advantages we
might have derived from the contest and because the wal
has thus ended in disgrace and that had shed so much
blood and wasted much treasure in vain with various
other eremiads of the effect Mark too, the predc-
ton, that the treaty does much territory