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10 debate The subject there, but TO have the mat.
ter referred TO the Committee Of the Whole
House on the state Of the Unioni and he should
be compelled 10 ask the suspension Of the rules
TO allow him 10 introduce the resolutions. He
accordingly made that motion.
The vote on the motion 10 suspend the rules
was decided in the negative, as follows, and, as
will be seen, by parry vote.
Yeas 76-An Whgs-Nays ee-All Loco.
focos.
So the rules were not suspended.
In the Senate the same efforts were made, and
with the same result. The Wing Senators from
all sections Of the Union, and with no single
exception, recorded their votes, as in the House,
against a war Of conquest, and against the dis.
memberment Of Mexico. The following is the
proviso offered by Mr.. Berrien, Of Georgia, and
rejected by strict party vote. as follows:
Yeas 24-All Whgs.-Nays 29-All Loco.
focos.
provided always, and j, is hereby declared to
be the true intent and meaning of Congress in
making this appropriation, that the war with Mex
leo ought not to be prosecuted by this government
with any view 10 the dismemberment Of that Re.
portion Of her territory; that this government
ever desires TO maintain and preserve peaceful
and friendly relations with all nations; and par.
ticulary with the neighboring Republic of Mex.
co: will Away be ready TO enter into negoua.
lions, with view TO terminate the present unhap.
py conflict, on terms which shall secure the lust
rights, and preserve invioate the national honor
of the United States and of Mexico; that it is es.
pecially desirable, in order 10 maintain and pre-.
serve those amicable relations which ought al.
ways 10 exist between neghboring Republics,
that the boundary Of the State of Texas should
be definitely settled and that provision be made
by the Republic Of Mexico for the prompt and
equitable settlement Of The just claims Of our ci-
tzens on that Republic"
The Administration would endorse no such
honorable or conservative sentiment as this
Now what becomes oithe declaration Of the Pre-
sident, 10 be found in his message 10 Congress,
and which says, "THE WAR HAS NOT BEEN
WAGED WITH A VIEW TO CONQUEST" !"
We have put the UoieS of his friends in the two
Houses OF Congress against this declaration, and
we here add TO this confessions of the organs of
his own committees in Congress. The language
of Mr.. Sewer, chairman of the committee on
! "The intelligence possessed by the President
gave them reason to believe, that by certain ad-
vance in money. to be made TO them in their ex.
hausted and impoverished condition, to pay off
their army and other expenses, they would be
willing and able TO make peace, and cede, for the
objects specified, that portion Of the country he
had named;" meaning the whole Of California
and New Mexico.
"No one thought of getting less" said Mr.. S.
in another part Of his speech. friend of the
Presidents in the House Of Representatives (Mr
Stanton Of Tennessee,) declared that "the an
neration Of California loas Tie great measure IF
the age" Another of the Presidents friends
( Mr.. Bedinger, of Virginia,) uses this language
in answer TO the question, "ls this TO be war of
conquest"
"He answered, yes trusting in Heaven and on
the vaor of their arms, theirs should be a war
Of conquest-conquess as brilliant as those
which had already astonished the world-con.
quests, he trusted, in rapid succession"
The chairman of the committee on Foreign
Relations, who had asserted one thing in his re.
pert to Congress, and quite another elsewhere,
makes an extraordinary speech in defence ofthe
three millions bill; in which, ialsilyng the de.
claration Of the President, and the whole spirit
and language ofhls own report, he says:
EVERY body knew-yes, every body knew
that this was to be a war Of invasion--a lUar of
territorial conquest, although it was now spoken
of in terms of condemnation in that respect. But
il could not be otherwise than n war of conquest.
This was the only use that could be made of all
the power granted by Congress, and by Congress
commanded to be employed"
Here, too, are other proofs of the design and
character of this war. The following is from
the report of the committee on Foreign Relations
( II. R.) in response to what is called, in the re-
port itself, "the Presidents war message" of the
18th of February.
"Compans Of the resort TO territorial con-
quest, from Mexico are dsarmed ofreproach by
the undeniable facts that Mexico, by war, con.
strains the United States TO TAKE BY CONQUEST
WHAT, ever since Mexican independence, every
American Administration HAS BEEN STRIVING TO
GET BY PURCHASE; and that the EXECUTIVE ORDERS
and military and naval execution of them, FOR
THE ACHIEVEMENT OF CONQUEST, have conformed,
not merely to long established policy Of our own
Government but wise principles of selfpreser.
vaton, indispensable 10 oil provident govern.
ment."
Mr.. COhoun's testimony in the Senate, on the
9Th Of February, runs thus:
"Ile was Of opinion" he said, "that if the an.
nexaton Of Texas had not taken place, there
would have been no war with Mexico, but that
annexation was not the cause Of The war; The
immediate cause of the war was the marching of
our troops from Corpus Christi 10 the Rio del
Norte. II General Taylor had remained with
his forces where he was, there would have been
no invasion--thcrc would have been no con-.
! Hicl."
With such admissions, that tho present is war
Of conquest, we are content TO leave the subject
Out Of the mouths Of many Witnesses, and those
selected from The accused and guilty party, we
subslanliate the declaration on which we started,