Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-01-16


to the President men and money prosecute and he had
no right to stop in carrying on, till Congress told him
stop 30 long as Congress suffered that act to remain in full
force, unepealed the President bound 60 forward
and continue push the war; he supplied by Congress
with the means to do it. He must go invade the
my TO blockade his ports, to take his towns to storm his
FORTS and subdue his country He must carry the horrors Of
into every village and hamlet unless Congress should
stay his hand and it Congress- and not the President
that was responsible Tor the consequences The President
was its agent He knew only its command make with
Mexico to the utermos and to continue till the gates of
mercy shut"
Gentlemen asked how long this to continue The
answer was easyl Congress put stop to it, Gentlemen
might then better inquire how long Congress would continue
to order the President prosecute the war If the
to go on then Mr. T. for pushing it with the utmost
vigor. ~' .... ...... ST.. '...ss
But how to be terminated On that question Mr.
T. had had the honor to submit few observations the other
day. There but three out oil which 10 choose
ls To abandon Mexico, and withdraw forces from it.
I'd. To decide how much Of her conquered territory
meant to hold, and fortify the boundary.
3D. TO adopt another line Of invasion, and onwardt
the palaces OF the Monezumas and there dictate treaty
Which Of these should we adopt The President in Sc
ecting, must bs bound by the instructions received from
Congress.
AS abandoning what we had taken along the Mexican
that he presumed out Of the question Mr. IT, should
be utterly opposed to any which did to
citizens the payment OF their just claims and give ndem
nifty Tor the cost OF the because he held the to be
perfectly just and he in nowse disposed to abandon it
till we had ssncred an honorable peace
Then we mad one two other alternatives One Of these
to invade the country by the way of Vera Cruz
and march the palace of the Monezumas If the
opinion OF majority in Congress that this should be
adopted Mr. T. prepared to support the and
carry it fully out But he presumed nobody in his senses
expected could do this with handful Of men, Could nine
or ten regiments Of regulars and ten regiments Of volunteers
effect enterprise like that Let no aater himself with
any such expectation The people of Mexico resolved
TO stand for the defence of their country They believed
10 be wen in
the they felt that they fighting for their homes for
their liberty for their religion. Could any be inatu-
ated as to expect to conquer eight millions Of people, pene
trated and united ny such conviction with army Of ten
thousand and corps of volunteers The thing
impossible We might attempt ii, but should our
line of march with the bones brave men, sacrificed in i'm
practicable enterprise, and dropping under the diseases of
sicky climate. We might perform podiges of vaor and
scatter death from the palace to the Casa but could
conquer the nation Eight millions Of people, fighting for
their liberties and all they held DEAR not to be conquered
Drive them from the plains and they would take their
mountains and, battling from height height would defend
themselves to the last a... .... ..
As present BILL provided the adequate amount Of force
was voted, Mr. T. indifferent whether they should be
gular volunteers The President asked for regiments
of regulars proper to strike from the bill the clause
which gave him the appointment of the officers
Gentlemen here anxious for volunteer force in pre-
ference to regulars. Now, if Mr.. r. differed from the
Presjentn his views of the war; yet the existed and
Congress had charged him with its prosecution he would be
in favor Of giving the President what he asked Volunteers
might be best if the plan to push invasion bot if
we were to stand where We were, and fory position,
regulars would be preferable volunteers But Mr. r.
not afraid, in either to trust the President with the APP
poinnent Of some fifty officers He thought this point
gentlemen manifested strange Of faith the Executive
But he had sad if the object hold the country by
garrsons then regulars would clearly be preferable voun
teers Every body familiar with the character and depo
men of volunteer troops must know that they not
cepbe of that rigid control which needed in garrison
defence They would contented cooped up be-
hind notifications They fight and they wanted
to fight of hand they not to be pent up in gason
For what purpose had this been commenced First
defensive repellng invasion the pant of Mexico
That end was accomplished. The invaders repealed
he believed there not such thing Mexican soldier
within two hundred miles of border So far then, the
end of the accomplished.
What else remained To indemnify our citizens for the
spoaton Of and the outrages their
far this could be done by money; and then get back
the cost of the =.
Were likely, by further invasion of her territory get
more money We could do this for money she had none
Were we in this way to gel peace Neither could do
that for there nobody power Mexico who dare make
peace with under those circumstances. Surely had
already got enough Of her territory indemnify We had
possession Of California, New Mexico chihuahua, Coau
la, New Leon, and Tamaupas Surely here enough for
indemnify Why not, then, let stand where ;
foy present position, and spare the further euon Of
blood Why not say 10 Mexico "You invaded without
have repealed your invasion have invaded you
in RETURN and taken portion your territory now we have
got enough. And then make trial for honorable peace
If she listened the offer and gave satisfactory security for
the payment Of claims then surrender up her territory
if not, hold to what have till treaty concluded
this the plan to be adopted then wanted regulars
Mr. t. said he would not the for the sake Of
obtaining territory from Mexico uuustly. (n what he
said he not speaking for the President for the President
he had said, under orders from Congress prosecute
the war; He would not take from her foot Of soil with
out paying for just equiv He did consider de-
srabe that should take payment in territory, because
of the slavery question which had raised in relation
all such territory He spoke for all the South when he said
thayvp tba
and, indeed, he much mistaken If the North would either
But he decidedly Of opinion that the acquisition Of terri
not desirable to the South the slavery question
TO be agtaed in regard to it. He should be favor Of fixing
permanent boundary between the countries-no
the Rio del Norte, but ut great mountain barrier in
part of the Monte del Madre and he would pay all the
toy west of that barrier But gentlemen should succeed
in surrounding the South with Gordon Of free States from
which the Of the South must be excluded they
to be kept of the territory which their blood and
had helped to then he against keeping foot
of it. He would not under any circumstances,
territory the Union but by fair purchase The people Of
tho North had got whole Oregon they would get Santa
Fe the Bay Of San Francisco and Monterey the Pacific
All these would go to the people of the North And TO
New Mexico and so much Of California lay south Of the
compromise line, it desired by shareholders All that
the South would get to the south Of the Rio rande would be
outlet for their slaves to migrate southwardly lie could
not believe that the North then, would be unwilling stand
by the compromise But if an impossible wall TO be
built up round the Southern States he had rather that
should withdraw armies at and give up every foot of
Mexican territory The great argument Of gentlemen had
been that the would give California But all that
valuable in California lay north of the compromise line Santa
Fe in 36o So; Monterey, of the Pacific, in 800 So
and San Francisco Bay in 800