The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-06-28
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
MONDAY NIGHT, JUNE %, Is47.


,.,her Specimen OF . Fair and Decent" Opposition.
The leading article Of the National Intelligencer7 OF
This morning commences as follows:
The government paper OF Saturday has made the at
, more unfortunate han its wont, to attach to ne
, charees-one of misquotaon and one OF isstaiemen'
.he first of these charges is simply untrue Some one
has imposed upon the venerable editor by doing the very
ming he has charged with he viii find, on examin
lag the record"
Unwilling as we TO add to the load OF deserved
lum which the "nellgencer" has incurred by ITS rai-
torous course in relation to the Mexican war anything
Of reproach which is not in sctness merled, we quote
from that journal the whole Of the passage to which our
article OF Saturday above alluded to had reference
oSre,th1y in the message, the Presidency prom
,.s thus, The war will be vigorously prosecuted there
lin Mexco) with view obtain an honorable peace and
thereby secure ample indemnify Tor the expenses OF the
war Thus AN honorable peace becomes the object Tor
which a war is prosecuted which both Mr.. Benton and
Mr. Calhoun (who agreed in anything ese) agree
supporters Of the President they or have beenogh
10 have avoided and might easily ta the peace thus
obtained clearly be honorable only as securing an am
y Indemnity for the expenses Of the ,rar So that with
delicious confusion IDEAS, have set foot to
,epel an invasion, which either made or marched IN
search of and keeping up the war in order to ex
tort an ample oneyed indemnify of its expenses (io the
President will any acquisition OF territory as ms
olecr from nation poor morigaged and hypothe-
Gated in revenues, that the in which was
ulaced all its hopes starved san Luis Potosi, and
the great fortress of San Juan de uiua fell with but
six days provision in il, because Mexico could not
for her life, raise the half of million OF dollars
From people thus moneyless, credtless, beggared,
were get back, the terms of an honorable peace
the cost of adj the our side, besides enabling
them to pay their own! IS tndemnaties no longer
far The ancient spoation of citizens that ne seek
item zoe abandon honorable peace can be made with
ont them So TOO Kidding Mexico of tyranny and set
Ting up again friend the Presidents profege that lover
ofberty, Santa Anna the President has got INN back
,,,af h. si1anr
are no longer conditions the honorable peace, objects
of the peaceful Nor is the liberty OF the press nor
is the reception of Mr.. Sdel is free trade at home
nor is an invaluable system of inanceior we have got IT,
and debt of probably least hundred millions OF dol
lars as part OF it, IN Short the only object Of the mar rs m
IDENTITY its erpenses and, as the con-
gressiona organ the chairman OF the House committee OF
Foreign Relations has averred to the world that inc system
df finance created ,r0rfh to than ats
COST equitable settlement Mexico owes us less man
nothing ~
We admit that the words protesting TO be cited from
the Presidents message, in this passage are cited cor
recy But we affirm that the whole passage is studied
and intended Justification OF the Presidents meaning
The President says in his message, that the war Will
be vigorously prosecuted there, Tin Mexico0 with
view TO obtain an honorable peace and thereby secure
ample indemnity for the expenses of the war"
The "Integencer" fasifes the spirit OF this declara
ton in the first place. when it says In the above extract
that the peace thus obtained is clearly be honorable,
ONLY as securing ample indemnity for the expenses OF
the war - The President makes such assertion.
He asserts on the contrary, that the terms OF peace
must be shonorabie" to us, and must, as part OF
this condon--not the whole of --secure TO us ndem-
nity for the expenses of the war.
But in the second place. the Inelligencer" still more
grossly als6es the Presidents statement when says
in the above passage short. the only object Of The irar
- demn;tu for ITS erpe,es' The Presidents language
ves M ground whatever for this misrepresentation.
Having already in his message stated the grounds upon
which the war was commenced, the President, in the
lines which the .Intellgencer has extracted audes to
Indemnity for its expenses as one of the objects in view OF
which il is prosecuted The '.Intelligencer states a
naked unruh and makes in substance false quotation,
when upon this il charges that the ory object OF the
war rs indemnity for its expenses"
In the third place we asser, that the entire passage
which we have quoted from the lnteligencer" is utterly
false in its spirit because it occurs as the seren Item
in protested enumeration of the 'aeged causes OF the
war Now, the President never mentioned Indemnity
for the expenses of the war; of the "causes OF
the war On the contrary he alluded TO such indemnity
only as an object in view Of which the war should be
vigorously prosecuted" after it had been commenced
upon other good and sufficient "cause."
AS 10 the lntegencer's explanation OF ITS charge re-
spectng the Presidents inaugural have only TO say
that partakes strongly OF that particular school OF
ethics in which certain Mr. Joseph Surface was wont
10 indulge and the authorship being now referred to an
mpersona nonenhty, we are unwilling further to dis
turb such ga delicious confusion Oh ideas"
The Cincinnati ''Chronice ederaD begs us " not to
trouble lonrseyesl about General TaYlors politics There