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hereinafter specified, and tender its services. i,
would be accepted. Il is proper ihal it should
be done with tic consent ofthcGovornor Of Nov
York. The President expects, and indeed re-
quires, that great care should he lakca to have il
composed Of suitable pgsSons--l mean Of good
habits-as far as practicable Of Vanons pursuits.
end sgch as icOgd Lc HklLy 10 reuaig. ri the end
Of The Dar, sifLer "a Oregon or IN aag other ter
FitOry in h0t rsgi0a Of "a. globe rhich faov thsn
be part Of the United States. The act OF he
18th Of May last authorizes the acceptance of
volunteers for twelve months, or during the war
with Mexico. The condition Of the aceeptanse
in this case must bea tender OF service during the
war, and il must be explicitly understood, thai
they may be discharged, without cIaim for re-
turning home, wherever they may be serving at
the termination of the war, provided il is in the
THER territory of the United States, or NAV be
taken 10 the nearest or most convenient territory
belonging 10 the United States, and there dischaf-
gcd.
The men must be apprised that their term of
service is for the war-thaI they are to be dis
charged as above specified, that they are TO be
employed on a distance service. 1t is, however,
very desirable that it should not be publicly
known or proclaimed that ihoy are to 90 to any
particular place. On this point great caution is
enjoned.
The communication to the officers and men
must go so far as to remove all just grounds of
complaint, they have been deceived in the nature
and the place Of service.
1t is expected that the regiment will be in read
iness to embark as early as the first of August
next: if practicable, steps will be Immediately
taken to provide for transportation.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
WIN. l.. MARCY, Secretary of War.
Col. J. d. STEVENSON, Nero York City
Would itnot be Wfng with your patience to
take up timein comments on this letleri should
feel mortified if there were in my district school
boy who could fail TO understand it on reading it
once.
Permit me, Mr.. Chairman, next Enquire, how
much farther YOU will prosecute the warl Ac-
cordlng TO the rule you have adopted of charging
Mexico with the costs of the war, the longer you
60 on with it, the more reason there will be for
contlnulngi it; certainly until your bill amounts to
as much as all the land in Mexico is WORTH
When your bill gets up to that amount, you ought
not to prosecute the war farther, unless for some
other reason. Well, sir, the thought has occur
red 10 my mind, that your bill is large enough
already. 1t depends good deal on the manner
in which you make up yodr account Of the cost
OF the war. DO you intend 10 charge Mexico
merely with the money and properly that you
expect to lose, or do you mean to debit her also
with the men you lose! Will you take strict ac.
count olthc dollars paid out, the vessels lost and
damaged, the horses killed and louudcred, and
say nothing of the brave fellows who fall before
the cannon and the pestcncel | do not believe
that you mean to make any account ofthem. If
you dId, you would keep better acCout ofthem.
You would take more pains to ascertain who fall
IN battle, who die in the hospitals, who are miss
ing. But, sir, il | am in error, if you do intend
to charge something for them, how much will il
be! How much landl A voice, "one hundred
and sixty acres" That will do, sir. The ques.
uon ought not TO be submitted to this House it
is not tit to decide it, Go ask the chldless moth
er 60 ask the widowed wife, 60 ask the orphan
children, of one oflhose poor fellows, how much
Mexican land nc was worth. | will abide their
decision. Sir, if you charge Mexico with the
men we have already lost, you will have claim
large enough to take all her territory, though il
were ten times as broad as it is. No, Sir, Mex.
leo is not able to pay for them; yet they must be
paid for, every man of them, and at their full
value, and you mustdo it-aye, you-the authors
and promoters Of this war; and though their kin.
dred may not be able to bring you to account, be
assured that lie, without whose knowledge not a
sparrow falls to the ground, will.
Mexico may not submit readily to your de.
mands; and if she does not, what will you do
go on conquering her departments, and sIaught.
crlng her citizcnS! Suppose you do and suppose
that you drive the last remnant Of her people
within the walls of her last city; suppose that
you offer "capiuaton," she should have enough
ol the old Castilian spirit left to reply, "War to
the knle," aud her priests should dlvest them.
selves Of their sacerdotal robes, and hallow the
defensive war by their participation as we'll as by
their prayers; and her daughters should cast them
golden ornaments into the crucible to come forth
bullets, and themselves help to speed them to the
hearts Of our counlrymen, telling them, in deri,
sion, to take freely what they so much covot.-I
repeat, what will you do! Will you extermnatc
the Mexican race, without regard to age, sex, Oh
condition! Will you make the land desoato
that you may take it to yourself! When you
contemplate these things, do you ever remember
that God is Just!
What will you do with the territory that you
conquer from Mexico! What will you do with
that which you have conqueredl Will you hold
1t under military sway, orwiI you establish civil
government over 1t! lfyou only exercise mill.
'ary authority over it, you must respect the rights
OF the citizens; you must leave the laws and mu.
nicipal regulations precisely as you found them
At the conquest; you have, in short, no right to
do more than defend yourself This would be
but sorry indemnity for the expense of the war,
and you will not be content with it. Then you
must establish civil government over the conquer
ed territory. How will you do that! BY your
President, and his pachas of more or less tails!
Sir, you cannot. The President has no other
than military authority over this territory, and all
the acts done, and attempted to be done, by him
self, his Generals, Colonols, aud Commodores,
looking towards the establishment Of fciyil govern