Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-24
"PRoBABLE RESULTS OF THE MEXICAN WAR;

print not unfriendly to the Administration, and
always dispassionate and consderate-rnakes the
subjoined reflections on the new career on which
our Government has entered in regard to foreign
Intervention. They open new chapter in the Sc
ries of consequences likely to result from policy
repugnant to republican institutions and to all the
precepts of the founders of our Government.
FROM CHARLESTON EVENING NEWS.
appears be the popular persuasion in the United States
that the military possession Of the city Of Mexico will be
nearly the last stage the Mexican contesdplomacy finally
peecng all that has been left unacheved by our arms We
appehensve that peace under present circumstances
will shortly reveal to the ntricacy of our position. We
will them in all probability, te only in the commencement of
series OF entangements new to practice and foreign
the genius of Governme The distraction and weak
ness Of enemy win wosad On US inter,
vention viii have beS crce Is regards our foreign
policy, in opposite direction that prescribed by our
erest and inclination.
This will be the unantcipaed result of superiority
growing Of the very felicity of fortunes easily
conquerng infatuated foe. Having entered his capital
collected together the materials Of peace party informed it
with of its patriotic obligations; consolidated it il
possible, by armsfor these things must be done under
the shadow of our auhonythe next step will be to patch
up peace which may end in hollow truce Now this is
Intervention of the dangerous kind call it by whatnam
may This carries with it the pers-perhaps the pains
and penateso interference in the domestic affairs of foreign
countries This imposes the necessity of playing off faction
against acton-arrayng interest against interest,
gagng in the ntrgues which the opprobrum of Euro
pean diplomacy No rule Of abstract political morality pre-
scribed by authority at Washington, will control this
necessity the intervene maintain government in
Mexico. The agencies which parties employ against each
other country full of faction must be countervaed by
similar means, if not put down by force.
But this is not among the fruits of the policy of in
tervenon to sustain government in Mexico in consonance
with views and in agreement with political sympa-
hies very probable that there will and does s great
diversity Of opinion among the Mexican States only
relates to the question of peace war; but in regard the
form of political organization by which they willing be
governed Shall support those States of Mexico which
have the stronges; political anes for that scheme of poHy
agreeable and those rulers which are inclined to
peace by casting sword in the balance 1t will be recol
lected that with Confederacy loose in its
structure and not with simple Government of which unity
is features that the disorders incident such conflict have
impaired the principle of union with the Of nationality.
In these circumstances merely of factions, but of
contendng States, may be impending policy of
tervenon 1t is impossible what TO foree of position SO
complicated We know the probable termination of
policy unusual to country widely departing from
that peculiar system of foreign relations Of which nonner-
ference formed the distinguishing principle. contest be,
gun with victory and ending with conquest may thus in the
guise of peace lead almost nexcabe ENHANCEMENT pro-
ducing this strange sequel singular in its origin our
becoming parties civil conflict uncertain in its results
and perhaps of indefinite duration.