Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-07-08

tons are embarked, L beg to acknowledge myself
Most truly and respectfully,
Yonr obedient servant.
D. TAYLOR, Maj. Gen. U. s. Army.
Jas W. TArIOn. Esq. Cincinnati. Ohio.
"Glve us peace then, with Mexico, ,rithout any Of
her territory, the Infringement of her national
rights. This is tie kind of peace want, as it is
the only kind of peace that be of long duration,
or that reflect honor upon both tons. Indiana
journal.
This is the ground which is generally being
sumed by the Mexican Wings and absurd enough it
is. We should like TO know if Mr.. McCarty, the
Wing candidate for Congress from this district, is
governed by similaEHotions. If he is, we imagine
hat far from getting democratic votes, he will not
receive the support of one half of The Wings; for
all intelligent men Of that party, well own,
must know that there is practicable way of set
Ting our difficulties with Mexico but by cesSion Of
part of her territory to us-Caiforna and part of
northern Mexico at least and that this cession viii
be made upon fair and equitable terms, and in
spirit liberal towards Mexico.
On this subject the New York Post recently OBJ
served
"If this be true statement of the wing policy in
regard to the termination of the war if wing is
hereafter to be known by being averse to the acqusi-
ton of any new territory in any peace which we may
negotiate with Mexico, their party is very small IN
deed. There are, think, very few persons in the
country who look upon any termination of the war
reasonable or probable, which does not include the
cessiOn of part of northern Mexico There will
be no other method of obtaining from that mpoyer
shed and exhausted country the indemnity due for
depredations on commerce. We might forgive
her the expenses OF the war, considerable they
we might agree TO regard them as part of the price
paid for The hasy annexation of Te&as, before its
people had composed their differences with the cOun
try from which they separated; but when we make
peace with Mexico, We should take care to place it
upon a solid basis.
"Ihe Old quarrel concerning the robberies she has
committed upon our merchants, and the indemnity
due 10 them in consequence, should be adjusted. We
should leave no which may keep alive enmity
and Jealousy between the two nations, nothing which
may possibly breed contentious, but endeavor
to arrange all questions of difference, to make the
mutual good understanding as perfect and lasting as
possible.
"This will not be done if our government patches
up peace without making provision for the payment
of what is due TO our citizens from Mexico. Mexico
has no other way of making compensation but by
cessi0n of territory. We might take her promise,
but treaty including such promise would be
fraud on its very face, for it is promise which would
be certain not TO be alflled, and would draw after it
perpetual wrangling and discomfort between the two
nations.
"The danger of quarrel between the north and
south, on the slavery question, has been urged by
some as an argument against the addition of any new
territory to our Union We in the midst of that
quarrel already in regard 10 the organization of the
territory of Oregon. A few thousand square miles,
more or less in California or New Mexico, will not
change the principle of this controversy, make any
difference in its adjustment. 1t may be settled, and
doubtless will be- at and the time for both
Oregon and the territory obtained from Mexico"
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'sThe leaders of the ocooco party (or it is not the
bone and sinew' Of that party which act such dis
honorable part) uphold the causes of the war, and
while they defend them at every hazard, they have
done all in their power to bring the commanding
Generals into disrepute and disgrace though they have
never lost battle, but shed the greatest glory upon
the American arms.-IRdiana Journal.
o. The latter part of the above is the very
of the truth, and the Journal knows it. The Democ-
racy have given all commanding generals their
due share Of praise, and have not uttered word of
unjust censure against any one of them. As the
Louisville Democrat recently remarked, it the
wings who denounced the movement of the army TO
the Rio Grande. which General Taylor advised; de-
nounced the armisticc at Monterey, which General
Taylor made; the occupation of defensive line of op
Grafton in Mexico, which Gen. Taylor advised; and
the war in which General Taylor has acquired all his
also charged that he raised babies for sae and creole
virgins for the bells of New Orleans; that he
throat-cuer and hcad-breaker; that he advised the
employment of blood-hounds in the Florida And
farther, they began to be particularly horri-
fed that he had shot deserters whilst swimming the
Rio Grande. They praise him now, and give hun all
the glory Of the war, because they think they can
profit by the popularity thus created-thus securing
to themselves the ''sinews." But what other Gener-
al do they think it worth their while to praise for
questionable gallantry! No one. Of Scott, espe-
cially, they are as silent the grave in which they
would be glad just to bury his gallant exploits if
| they could
/ Sometimes we receive the indianapolis papers, and
sometimes we don't We have received one journal
and one Sentinel, in vhole week We do not know
whether they mailed to US regularly not. but
believe they are, for sometimes we receive them by
| the river mail, more than week "afler dater' A
| few days ago we received Weekly Sentinel, almost
old enough to vote. Yesterday received two half
sheet Journals nicely cut and dried" both contain
ing the advertisements columbus, Ia.
Gazette, June 30.
| 03-So far our paper is concerned we can only
say, that it is always sent to the post Office without
delay, and always believe in for the mails
The money coined in the United States, during the