Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-29

against those of the United States has continued exist up
to very recent date We hope that reader will either
overlook or forget this extraordinary revelation
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE PUBIC LEDGER
"WAsnINGroS, MAY Is, ls47
'Wih the defeat Of Santa Anna my hope of peace
derably diminished for however strongly the Opposition
press may have rallied against what it pleased to call
the passport granted to that chief certain it is that best
hopes Of peace rested him. and that nothing but the inn
possibility of sustaining himself in Mexico has thus far baf
fled his efforts to make the Congress agree the proposition
of our Government TO send commissioners.
Ihe tone OF his warke dispatches from the COM
mencement forced upon him by the which
he was placed, and PERFEcTLY uHDERsT0oD THE
PRESIDENT his CABINET. Santa Annals only hope
Of consisted in first satisfying the national vanity of
his countymen avaing himself Of some lucky accident
to turn for moment the fortunes Of war, and improve
that moment for concluding peace. he pry near
such chance al Buena VISTA, but the battle Of Ceno Gordo
has put end to his prospects, and, with hem cal
cuiations Of peace from that quarter"
From this publication the Union = compounds
charge against the Administration, which we have
never made, for the purpose of declaring that :" it
the charge has in it single particle OF truth or
of FEASIBILITY" Without conesting the sufiiciency
Of this defence against what has been charged by
u.s. it is enough to say that the " Union does not
pretend to contradict any particle Of the disclosure
by the sagacious and astute correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger-nor still less of our infer
ence, from the direct terms Of that disclosure that
the entente cordiale between the President of the
United States and the Ex-President of Mexico has
continued to exist up to very recent date" IN
contradicted as it is in the midst of all the rage
into which it has wrought the government writer's,
it must be considered as ADMITTED that there has
been, in the language of the Ledgers correspondent
ing here, by the President and his Cabinet" with
Gen. Santa Anna, as to "the tone of his warlike
dispatches"
The second specification of the government
paper against the National Intelgencer is that it
has charged the Administration " with looking to
the total subjugaton of Mexico, and to the holding
of that country in permanent subsection to our
Government, the basis upon which peace is 10
be concluded" This specification is just as I'M
true as the other. We have made no such charge
against the Administration We have charged that
there is, soetchere, least to the extent to which
such design has been made manifest a purpose
to subjugate Mexico, &c. The existence of this
purpose find accurately stated, by an inteligen,
friend Of the Administration ITSELF as follows
I" There is party in this country disposed to pur-
sue towards Mexico policy, if not of annihia-
ton, at least OF Total subjugntion They desire
to overrun with our army the whole of Mexico !;
establish the Constitution OF the United States as
the law of the land; overturn the national re-
gion, and appropriate for an indefinite period the
revenues of the Government and Of the Church. !"
This statement of the is quite as strong as any
that we have made. But zoe have not charged this
purpose TO The administration. We have, on the
contrary, expressly exonerated It from the charge
and the government writer, when he penned this
second specification against the National Intelli-
gencer had before him that paper of Thursday
last, in which, when citing newspaper proofs of
the existence of such design, it is said i" Now,
although all these are papers Of the Democratic
caste, and one of them the especial organ of the
ofice-holders in the city in which il is printed,
WE DO NOT WHhom more direct Evidence,
MpUTE THIS PURPOSE TO THE ADMINISTRATION
ITSELF
Having thus disposed Of the charge and the spe-
cifcations of the Government Editor, we have some
thing to say OF the tone of the Executive organs
commentaries upon the {" false witness" which il
self has borne against its neighbor. Such an I'M
pleasant task we might well spare ourselves, were
the circulation of the /" Union" confined to the
limits of the District of Columbia. Within those
limits we are perfectly content to upon public
opinion the relative claims Of the National Inte-
gencer and the Administration and its organ to con-
fdence and respect But, wide of this city, in dis
tant parts of our own country, and in American
circles abroad, the position Of the government pa
per gives official impress to reflections and i'm
putaions upon its contemporaries which are here
wholly without consequence. On this ground,
considering them emanations from the Execu-
tive, through the medium of his established organ
our readers will, trust excuse us, for the nonce,
for departing from our usual course, and bestow-
ing few serious thoughts upon the official inso-
lence-such was vented upon the Senate whilst
that body in session, and now in its recess al
most every day belched forth upon this press-of
which fair sample is to be found in the article
which we this day copy from the government paper.
They who, from press set up by the Execu-
tive for his mouthpiece and made to speak or be
silent at his bidding, thus assail us, should consi-
der that the National Inelligencer has, under its
present Editors, been known to the country fun
toice as long, and 1--WE trusD quite as advantage
ously as President Polk. What is there TO iden-
tfy him with fealty, or patriotism, or honor, or
character, to point so supreme that he and his
word can take away from us the light of public
esteem, or be to all men that creative sovereign,