Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-09

Su6Joned TO this letter the muchaked OF resolutions
OF the House Of Delegates of Maryland will not show you
who voted against each of these resolutions in that Legsa
ture But may be well believed that whoever did did
upon mere party grounds and without any reference to the
merit OF the questions which they presented The opinions
expressed in these resolutions confined you have
already SEEM TO the Wings but the Wings almost every
where the United States have taken frequent occasion to
utter the opinions and there has been great deal Of
chay eoquence against hem great deal OF sereoyped
slang Of the press much san accompanied with many par
oxysm OF mock heocs and political sentimenal-tha was
to be expected The war; taken by ITSELF separated
from the ec that has been given by the brave officers
and men who have had do the fghings unpopular
war; and the manner in which it begun very unucky
Tor the President So far he is concerned in it. grev
Gus bunde SO far the Cabinet have had any thing to do
ene win Its origin its management since, they need all
he Pung oil all the orators to them They began
uncons'utonaly and they have conducted with singular
unskiuness presents series of remarkable negects and
omissions the part of the Government redeemed every
instance, only by the incredible powess forecast and udg
ment OF the brave who have shed their blood like water
II IS admitted that military operations commenced in the
quaerlmmense amounts OF money have been spent and
thousands Of precious lives sacrificed in the attempt pene
qate Mexico from the Rio Grande The Administration, dis
covering last that that mistake, have had begin
anew at Vera Cruz. They have failed to supply the army
with men when most wanted and Generals have
been obliged to the enemy with the odds against them
selves OF nearly four to onehus exposing their troops that
Dreadful waste Of gallant men, of which there is scarcely
parallel In modern warand when they have suffered this they
have found themselves without the of improving their
matchess victories For all this is the Administration
countabe and it requires great power of rhetoric help
them out with the people, twas therefore, to be expected
looking TO the usual of the tactics of the parythat
the Wings should be made bear the brun of abuse party
outcy could thus divert the public observation from those
the head of affairs But party outcy is sufficient for this
task the people see and will Judge for themselves
As far understand this outcry is not that the
opinions expressed in the Maryland resolutions are not true
heI dare not say openly least that Mr. Benton and Mr.
Calhoun have said what unue-bu that the people hare
tight 10 speak about the bunder the President and his
voAon of the Constitution. 1t is giving " aid and comfort"
TO the enemyt is treason That is the doctrine which De-
aadtc leaders attempting teach Democratic
people That's the doctrine which fills the columns of every
ervie press that lives by euoges the President from the
Union, at Washington, dOcn to 49, the Argus
will not say all think concerning the aid and comfort"
that have been given to the enemy but this Twill say that
whilst those who have assumed give the Democracy these
new lights consider question the Commander-n
Chief of the Armies and Navies the United States they do
not extend their doctrine to his Leutenans the veterans
Scott and Taylor, and others might 1t is great
offence to dsparaee rdicue attempt lessen them in the
esteem OF the country, suppant them their
mands whether the enemy did hope aid and com
fort in that and still more, whether he did also find in
the scany supplies of force by which he be encounter
ed are questions which might not be put the Gov
ernnent OF Mexico. Much confidently might we ask
that Government what consultations they have found the
resolutions Of the Wing party when that party chose
press its doubts of Mr. Folks wisdom. think, further that
he who furnished Santa Anna with pass into Mexico, ought
to insist his friends dropping the topic of " aid and
FORT ii be only for decency's sake.
These attacks upon the Wings very idle and seneess
If this great master Republic of the world with her twenty
millions of people and her boundes resources
fully make upon the little, mongre, distracted and dis
cordan Republic Of Mexico without suppessng freedom Of
speech and thought home, and without siencing all nqu
y into violations Of the constitution had not
all To read what is written and said by the leaders
of the Democracy would suppose Mexico invading
homes, hers that fighting for " affairs
and fresde and that there a call for all the
cue In such time OF CONSERVATION we should acknowledge
the propey of posponing inquiry but not now when foo
flying before regiments like pigeons, and when
volunteering go the for every fire that
asked for.
Mexico is fighting for affairs and resdes and she has made
talk Of peace. Shall we, in faint but appauve
imitation of her example, make speak truly Of the
war; or say Mr. Polk you ought have consulted Con-
gres it Is the Democratic Press trying compass
this One step would bring Sediton Law and
these jealous champions Of Progressive Democracy would
then have accomplished their last triumph Of popular freedom
Leaders may lead in this career but quite that you
the people, the real Democracy Of the country, will follow
You have been accustomed to regard the of Chatham
and Burke embamed in the richest JUNCTION Of freedom;
honored all the recoecons associated with struggle for
independence You that, in the phrase of
this day. traitors and dshonored the land of
their ancestors-g their Saxon stock by their freedom
of speech and eloquent denuncaons Of waged by their
monarch against distant people They had not been taught
however, the great truth that freemen be silent
that constitutions only sacred in time OF peace
Every Frenchman who questions the policy of campaign
in Alges in this philosophy, friend and ally of
Abd-el- Kadir and every Engishman who condemns the
Of and money upon Indian conquests giving aid
comfort to the Sikhs But unenghtened France and
England have yet advanced far in civilization
that principle Of freedom that when the
sword is drawn upon a far-cf people, may no longer
speak their minds They must come to free America to
from her aspiring Democracy the doctrine Of passive
obedience to regnng power
am not at that school, The Wings have affections
for this doctrine they think abec and obsequious seryity
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