The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-07-09
Political.
mo- the Whigs OF Ohio.


to demand that we should take counsel
together. And in what we have to say,
we wish it to be clearly and distinctly
understood that we are not assuming to
ourselves authority to speak for the par
ty to which we are attached, but it is rath.
er to be regarded as the expression Of
our W individual views; which the
Wings are free to commend and adopt,
or condemn and reject as othem seem fit.
tits a matte rof ust pride that our party
has always commended f%orprinciples; great
and fundamental principles; which we
believe to be intimately connected with
the welfare, prosperity and continuance
Of our Government. And in this respect
the Wing party has not changed; "ur
principles are the same for which we con
tended in the last Presidential canvass;
we are still in favor of a Tariff; we oppose
a Sub-treasury; we deprecate the union of
the sword aud the purse in the hands Of
one man; we would curb executive usur-
pations and entertainments; and we would
restrain the abuse of the veto power,
which enables the President to defeat the
expressed will of a majority of the rep
resentatives ofthe people.
We have no sympathy with that selfish,
narrow-minded, short-sighted policy,
which. while with a profuse hand it law
ishes millions upon the seaboard and has
literally dotted the Atlantic coast with
artificial harbors, breakwaters, and light
houses, can see nothing worthy ofprotec-
ton and encouragement in u IMMENSE
inland commerce; carried on for thousands
Of miles by means of our noble lakes and
rivers; on whose bosom floats annually
millions ofproperty; on whose waters are
exposed the lives of hundreds Of thou
sands Of our fellow citizens.
The Wings opposed the annexation Of
Texas, and forewarned the country a.
gainst the consequences. Their predic-
tons have been fulfilled and become q
part of our history. After the rejection
ofthe Texas treaty, it is we'll known by
what extraordinary and unusual means,
annexation was brought about; and with
what indecent haste the door of recon
citation was closed in the face of Mexico
For the motives which actuated the adj.
%vocates of annexation, we offer the fol
lowing explanation upon high %locofocr
authority:--Mr. Benton. in a speech de
livered at Bonneville, Missouri, July 18th
1914, says:
"DIsUNIoN waS q primary object nth,
treaty; AN INTRIGUE FOR THE PREsIDENcl
was its secondary object; land speculation
and stockjob6ing acre auxiliary objects.
and the four objects together brought j
forward at the time and in the manner il
which it came forward, just forty days be
fore the Baltimore Convention, and at thu
exact moment to mix the Presidential
election and to make d~issension, discor'
and mischief between the North and tn
South"
War with its enormous expenses ant
its ever attendant train of evil, is upol
us, as the natural and foreseen result q
annexation. What are to be the fn1
consequences, is given TO no man to know
They are shrouded in the %impenetrabl
future; but to us they seem TO forebod
nothing but darkness, imminent DANCE
and disaster to this Union.
The causes of this war, and the mar
nerin which it was brought about, ar
we'll known to every intelligent person
And while we yield to none in love {
country and a concern for its true glor
and honor, yet in view ofall the facts, W
have no hesitation in saying that we be
lieve the war to have been unnecessar
and impolitic-unnecessary, because i
this enlightened and christian age, wa
should be the last and ultimate resort {
nations. and only, after all means to ava
it have been tried in vain: because on
differences mil ht and ought to have beef
settled without it. 1t was unnecessar,
tar we had much t. risk and nothing
gain by an appeal to arms.
lmpolitic, because Mexico was a wea
and feeble power, struggling into natioI
atty modelled after our W republic'
institutions; and adding to the examples
man capacity for self:government. W
| are great and powerful, and could wit
out any abatement of our dignity, or ris
of furnishing the national honor, afford
be generous and magnanimous; she wi
, our natural ally against the powers Off
rope; and instead of converting her I'M
an enemy. we should have retained HI
as a friend. Wherein she was weak, "
should have strengthened and sustaine
her; wherein wavering, encouraged an
> confirmed; wherein ignorant, enlightene
and instructed her.
= The war is impOlitic, for our true pol
cy, upon which we have hitherto acte'
e is to cultivate a good understanding an
e friendly relations with all nations. B,
n cause in the appointments to Office whic
e it renders necessary, it enlarges the po'
ers of executive patronage. already t.
5 great, and mow exercising controllir
and dangerous influence in ouI cover
ment; and in the hands of an ambition
and INSCRIPTIONS man it may become
. most potent engine of corruption. II
0 war is impolitic on account of the gre
debt it brings upon US, already amountil
to untold millions. For the great loss
life it has occasioned and will o%ccasio
g in the various forms of disease incident
an ~unfriendly and pestilential china
death has reaped a rich and abunda
harvest; and the blood ofour gallant cou
try has been poured out like water,