The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-16
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THURSDAY NIGHT, SEPT. 10. ls47.
The Pending Negotiations.

After stating that Mr. Trst is charged with the duty
of conducting the negotiations OF our government with
Mexico the "National IntelGgencer" of this morning
has in its leading article the following remark:
What are the precise instructions under which he will
is known certainly, inclined think, (udg
ing from the of the UnonD the
editor OF the government paper We hope not at least
for if those instructions all in the rauating and
ragacioms spirit which has characterized the articles in
that paper treating of the which be exacted
from Mexico, it is certain that treaty short Of substantial
National annihatson will be accorded to that people,
We have not fit TO make any statement as to our
knowledge OF Mr.. Trists instructions We are quite
willing to wait till the terms offered by our government
shall be made known to the public, in order to settle the
question whether we have written anything at variance
with the views OF the administration to its proposed
conditions OF peace.
But when the lntegencer asserts that have
tmated, in any form, that the substantial national annihi
aon" of Mexico is to be the condition OF the treaty upon
which government will insist even charity itself is
bound to suppose that the Integencer states what it
knows to be unfounded in fact We cannot but wonder
that the editor OF that journal should suffer any such
statement to appear in its columns OF course we ex-
pect that regard to its character will lead the lnei
gencer either to promptly withdraw its assertion else
to substantate it from our columns.
The Intelgencer also charges that articles have
been written in vaunng and rapaeous" spirit That
is matter of opinion We have insisted upon Just ter
rtoral indemnity from Mexico, in view both of past
spoliaons and of present Perhaps, this claim
happens to be made by US in favor of country
and against foreign enemy it to patriotic
National" to be "rapacious" II the claim
made against us, by England, Mexico, any foreign
power, the lntegencer if we may Judge from its past
course, would probably shuttle the leaves OF its
political dictionary to find milder expression. If
this be So it may explain why the lntelgencer regards
our high and just appreciation of the glory gained by our
gallant armies in this as vaunting.''
But while insisting upon The rapacity OF our views
as proving our ignorance of the purposes Of the Ad-
mnistraton treaty of peace, the lnteligencer in
the very same article, most strangely cites probably
authentic and even "semiobci" the conecures of one
of the letter writers Of this city, whose language GER
tanly carries the territorial claims OF our government
farther and states his belief to their character
explicitly, than any terms which have fit tc
employ For very obvious reasons, we have never
deraken at all Indicate how much territory our govern
ment will demand from Mexico Much less have we
ever said that clipper California and New Mexico
would be deemed either little or too much Still less
have made any similar statement as to slipper and
Lower California" And now for the purpose of proving
at rapaeity and our want OF information, the
lnteigencer brings forward as ''semofciao the Ian
guage of writer who assumes to conjecture that the
claim of our has gone beyond both of those
limits -
If the Inteligencers object in its article be TO elicit for
party purposes, little premature information as to the
proposed conditions OF peace we hope it will read what
we have written above with vast satisfaction IT, on the
other hand our excellent National" means to create
an Impression that government will show itself
in the negotiation uniusty and unduly "rapacious'
OF Mexican territory then beg leave to refer it,
for information that point, to its compeers of the
wing press who have OF late cried out SO loudly that
the administration is suffering the very ague Of 'peace
panc" and abundanty ready to patch up peace upon
any terms The lntegencer must have seen with com
miseraton the terrible apprehensioIs under which its
wing brethren of the New York Courier and the Pha
delphia American and Gazette have been SO recently la
boring lest the administration should in the negotiation
retreat disgraceuly" from the due assertion OF 'souI
claims against Mexico" and leave sthe honor and the
rights of our country to shift for themselves Let these
apprehensons OF the ntellgencers wing compeers now
soohe its opn fears that government is going to
make the national annihaton of Mexico the sine qua
non of its treaty
sincerely regret that in the hurry of composition las
night we inadvertently omitted the name OF Gen Franklin
Pierce among the distinguished generals who figured il
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