Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-30

OF danger and dscord unlurling their black banners
OF evil If the prospect of annexation of par
OF Mexico has dismayed our best patriots, and ar
rested their deepest solictude Tor our domestic
peace, what will be the end of it, when whole ma
ton, with ten millions OF such inhabitants, are
emptied into our political bosom to add to its per-
plexities and outrage its security? We may talk
in elegant words ofpariotism, about the destiny OF
our Republic to spread lis wings over the American
continent. II was the destiny of Rome, proud i'm
| perla Rome, to become the mistress Of the world,
but it was her destiny to fall into endless night.
Her eagle scared to the sum- and from that blazing
eminence looked upon her victorious legions in
every land and cline, but Attila and Alaric tram
pied her to the dust, and nothing was left to perpe
tuate her fame but some broken monuments of art
and few volumes of classic writing. We are
drunk with prosperity and mad with national great
This is too little to satisfy the grasping am
bition of our awakened national spirit. New fires
must be built upon the affairs of the Republic, be-
fore which those of '76 will grow pale and dim.
We call upon the people to notice the signs of
the times. We call more especially upon thinking
Democrats to pause and reflect. They must see
that the public pulse is being felt TO learn whether
the sword shall be permitted to decapitate neigh
boring nation, an irrevocable sentence shall be
passed that I" Merico must be subjugated.'' This
is the question which now stares in the face. 1t
has been sprung upon the country by its phrenzied
rulers and benighted advisers and the whole land is
becoming scented with conquest and territorial ra-
pine. Have you thought upon the consequences,
men of the South? Do you wish to plunge into
such boiling caldron OF difficulty! You know
that peculiar institutions have no existence in
Mexico. Do you wish to be placed at the mercy
OF ten millions hostile TO you, enemies and con-
querors in the first place, and supporters of that
institution in the next! Are you willing run the
hazards of annexng Mexico Do you not know
that every State within the limits Of that unortu-
nate country would be against you? Whera, in the
course of time and events could you hope for a
majority IN a single lNerican State? How would
you feel with ten millions of ellow-czens on your
South, the implacabe foes of your system, and
fourteen millions on the North of you with belt Of
opposition encircling you from the Atlantic ocean,
on our extreme northeast around our northern line,
along the Pacific, and again across our southern
boundary to the Gulf of Mexico! How would
you feel, then, especially when borne down with
taxatlon-dlrect taxaon-to pay off the interest of
national debt Of several hundred millions of dol
lars, and to sustain standing army of two hun
dred thousand men to keep down the fires of Mexi-
can insurrectionsl
But how much worse would your condition be-
come when the bond Of union should be broken,
when the blood of kindred and counrymen would
hate and vengeance? Y on would be called out then
70 defend your affairs, and who can tell what fate
would await you We cannot lift the dark curtain
OF the future; but if the wild and monstrous pro-
Iects OF some of our people carried out you will
know IN due season how to long for the happy and
halcyon days OF the Republic, and lament our de-
parture from the wise counsels of WASHINGTON.
Our opponents NAV call us falsely moral traitors
TO our country but by immortal Truth we consi-
der every man an enemy to his country, particu-
larly to the South, who would let loose the blood
hounds Of war and give the bugIe-bas for the sub
jugation of Mexico. He may not intend an injury
TO his country, but his doctrine, if consummated,
would give its entrails to those boodhounds for
food
Friends of the Union and the South-Democras
and Whigs-avert doom so dire, by frowning
upon those death-robed schemes, and cling to your
constitution, your countrymen, your Union as it is
Then will fortune favor you, and skies continue
bright over your children when you can see the RI
sing sun no more.
PROM THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN OCTOBER 20.
The " Washington Union afirms that it has not
advocated the conquest and the acquisition of the
whole of Mexico. /" For ourselves" il adds we
have undertaken 10 determine how large portion Of
Mexican territory ought be required by our Government in
the form OF territorial indemnity. We have given no Opt
Mon this subject either before the late renewal Of HOSTILE
ties since. Still less have undertaken to give upon this
point any indication whatever Of the purposes and policy OF
the Administration. In matter Of such moment and deli
cacy, indeed should deprecate this tmewhle the war
yet wagng, and just after the enemy has broken off nego
aions-aDy detailed disclosure of terms of peace upon
which our Government may intend to insist"
The official paper, however, proceeds TO name
certain points upon which il supposes the judgment
of the people of this country is fully settled. One
of these points that the terms of pacfcation Of
lered by Mr.. Trist had the general approval of the
country at The time Uhen they 1cere reSoiUed upon
by our Government The Union" takes il for
granted that these proered terms were regarded by
the American people as /" not only satisfactory and
advantageous TO ourselves, but calculated, in their
moderation towards our vanquished foe, to exhibit in
a strong light our magnanmlty and forbearance and
desire for peace.
A second point, nevertheless, is, that the public
mind is also maured in the conviction that the re-
lection of our proffered terms and the subsequent
resumption of hostilities by Mexico constitute a
ne,C outrage against US by the Mexican Govern
ment," which demands new and additional repa-
ration in the conditions of peace which may be
hereafter agreed upon"
Another thing regarded as finally settled in the
conviction of the country is, that the next overures
for ueace must come from Mexico. also that the