The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-03-02
WING PREDICTIONS Full
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war. The Senator from Ohio was cor
rect. After hat act war was inevitable.
1t was, as that Senator said, predicted by
the Wings. He believed that his (Mr.
T.'s) own party had denied that, and said
there would be no war; but war had come
true enough, and the Senator from South
Carolina had done more 10 bring it about
than any other man III the United States,
for he had effected the annexation.
Mr.. CALHOUN replied to Mr. Turney,
and here is part of what he said
The immediate cause Of the war, if he
desires TO know, was the marching of our
forces from the frontier, A Senator: Cor
pus Christi from Corpus Christi to the
banks of the Del Norte. To repel that
On the part of Mexico, is what the Presi-
dent calls an invasion, assuming that the
Rio del Norte was the boundary. But
can that be Justly charged to annexation!
Ii General Taylor had remained where
he was, there would have been no inva-
sion. The evidence is clear. The fact
is, and cannot be denied, that General
Arista communicated to General Taylor,
either by letter or a rusty agent, that if
the American troops would remain where
they were, Eat Corpus Christi the Mex
lean troops would remain where they
were, on the west side Of the Rio del
Norte. That both might send out detach-
ments to the Salt Colorado, IA stream
about midway between the two p%laces,)
for the purpose of guarding the frontier
and preventing smuggling, and that there
would be no conflict between them. If
am not mistaken, this was communicated
to the Department, and a call upon it
would bring it forth, if it should be re-
CURED. | think something 10 the same
effect was recently published in the South
ern papers. A Senator: Yes! So,
then, VIC have clear evidence that The war
was made by the order to march TO the
Del Norte. That the President believed
that to be the boundary | do not question.
But the great question comes up, Has
the Executive the right 10 determine what
our boundary is! Whea we have a dis
puted boundary question-and we have
had many-does it belong TO the Execu-
tive or TO Congress TO determine it!
There are two ways to do it. One is by
negotiation and treaty, TO be performed by
the Executive and this body, in case the
two nations agree TO negotiate. The 9th
er is, If the party disputes the boundary
and will not come 10 terms, for Congress
to declare where the boundary is, and
maintain it, if need be, at the hazard of
war. How long did the boundary of
Name remain unsettled! From the ac-
acknowledgement of independence, in 1888,
down to the time that the Senator from
Massachusetts closed it by a treaty. But
did any of the Presidents ever think of
marching troops upon the line? The
British held Detroit and Fort Stanwix
after the treaty of peace until jays treaty
in 1884. Did General Washington un-
dcrtake 10 establish the boundary by mar
ching troops to the St. Lawrence, which
was our boundary! If war, then, has
followed annexation, it is not 10 be traced
! to one from South Carolina, but to one
from Tennessee.
As to the war, | have deplored it.
have deplored 1t for its consequences. ]
have deplored it for the manner of bring
ing it on. As TO my views in reference to
the war, have kept silent; assailed here
and throughout the country, my friends
urged me to come out and explain at the
last session. | intended TO remain silent
until | saw a suitable opportunity for ex-
PLANTATION. And here let me say what
Just now comes to my mind. 1t NAV be
asked, thinking as | DO as to the causes
of the war, why / did not take some step
TO arrest the march of Gen. Taylor! In
the first place, I never heard that the
march was ordered until a long time after
the order was given. The Senator from
Delaware (Mr. j. NJ. CLAYTON gave me
the first intimation that the order had been
issued. replied that it was impossible,
and could not believe il until the fact was
certainly ascertained. After Gen. Tay-
lor had actually commenced his march,
said to several of my friends he ought to
be stopped, it will bring on war. l said
also, ii my memory serves me, the same
thing TO the Senator from Delaware, from
whom | first derived my information
(The Senator assented.) said to him
and others hat the Oregon and Mexican
questions are intimately connected; that a
war with England, in reference to Ore
gon, would certainly involve in its conse-
quences a war with Mexico; and that a
war with Mexico might also involve a
wal about Oregon, or at all events prevent
the settlement Of our difficulties with
England in reference to it. That, thus
viewing it, Gen. Taylor, in my opinion,
ought to be stopped; and that / would lay
a resolution on the table calling for the or
der under which he marched, and would
follow it up by a resolution to arrest his
march, were not prevented by the posi-
lion which | occupied. OF the Two, /