Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1847-10-06

difficulties between thr two countries. Our
Enterpm~nt bad made application to Mexiro
Co know 10 she would OPEN negotiations for
the settlement OF The disputed questions
She answered iavofablF 10 this proposIlrn
Nj SIltelj was appointed minister pienipu-
Tertiary TO - 70 Me1ica. Mexico objected
f0 receiving a MINISTER. on The ground that
the question OF Texas and the boundary must
be settled before SIZE cauld acknowledge the
existence Of tuIi relations Of amity with us +.
she Offered therefore 70 receive q Commission
tr. - treat specially ON those questions and
no others. Our government would NOT con
sent ia indulge her IN fhs demand. although
ti has since that Time. scnta Commissioner Tor
pretty much the ssme purpose, IN the person
OF M. Iust. DO nc tttcu~e MEXICO Tor this
-eiussi To receive our minister. II was very
frivolous Ple,e Of talss pride. bat very much
IN character with ell her other foIics conuec.
trd with tins quarrel. But certainly this re-
tusal 20 receive a minister was not war.
On The 18th Of January, Isle. whist this
question oil the reception of the minister was
yet pending. and before il was known whetb-
Ct Mexico would receive him or not. and at
. time when thsre was no expectation OF an
tneasl9n from Ncxleo-and more 70 be noted
than anything eise-ut a timt hhcH fhk Con
grtss u The United STATES rus IN session thu
President, privately. without communicaiina
our syllable To- Congress, or giving any hint
ol the event to either branch of the ]nation4I
legislature, TO whom alone the Constitution
has e0Hhjed The great s0d momentoas power
ui making Waf-fH these circumstances. and
on this DAY. Mr.. Polk authorized Mr.. Marcy
10 q 10 Gen. TAYLOR an directed By
the President 10 instruct YOU to advance and
occupy, with the troops under your com
mant. positions on or near the east bank Of
the Rlu del N0rte, as soon az IL can be con.
veuienfty done, WI III reference 10 the season
and routes by which your movements. must
be made. From the views heretofore pre-
sented To this department. it is presumed
POINT Isabel Wllt ~ considered by YOU an ell
igibis position, this point. or some one near
Dc. and points opposite HatamoruS. aud MIR.
aud IN The ugcfalfg Of Eortdo, are suggested
TO your consideration
Tan any friend OF NJ. Polk,s answer th-
question, why Congress vas not consulted
when this decisive step Was taken Here
VAS a clear, unequivoeal liquidation Of all
our previous pledges IN rek4rj TO the ques=
ton OF the boundary to the Rie del Nofte.=
Here was an order TO oCcun a country which
1t was admitted was under the jurisdiction
of Mexico, and IN which d Mexican town,
on The left or eastern ba0k Of the Rio del
Norte-the town OF Eofrao. containing fit
teen hundred noabIlants-was specially de-
slgnated as one Of the posIHous for the army,
here vas, III short. an invasion OF Me1lco-
Just such al Invasion a. esery civilized IA
ton would regard as an al OF war. sup
pose the case reversed, AMI Mexico had di
rstied her troops 10 advance 10 the Nueces,
aud TO occupy a position winch should com
msnd one OF the villages OF Te1Bs,-Shdt
would this country have thought OF it, Need
ask The declar ton would have been uni
versal that Mexico had bcBan the war, BY an
act OF fiagfant aggression. And yet Certainly
Mexico had quite as much right 10 seize upon
the disputed territory as We had-li Mr. Ben
ton oPlnoia Is worth any hing-a much BET
Ter right,
On the 10th Of March, 1916. Gen. Taylor.
10 obedience 10 these orders, commenced his
march from Corpus Christi 10 the Rio Grande.
lie arrived at that river on the 2Sth, and
encsmPed opposite Matamoros. What he
did when he arrived there. YOU will read IN
hi o%ttlelai despatch. On ihe 9th OF Apdl,
OF four eighteen Founders will be completed.
and the guns placed III battery, today. IhtSr
gils bear directly upon the public square a
MatGmoraS, and ,etthin good range tor de-
motishIHg the torn. iHElR OBJECT CANNOT
BE MISTAKEN BY THE ENEMY.' Remember.
that when this letter MAS written there had
been no collision-nOt a shot had been fired,
not a man made prisoner.
AID yet we are told that this act was not
an act OF wal that TINS msrchingo( an al.
my into what we pleased to call sdispnted
territory v but which c0nfessedly was, aud
always had been, IN the actual occupation
of the people oil Mexico aud under the iuf-
isdictIon OF that eountry;-this marching Of
an army there; this pointing the cannon into
the uerg homesttads Of tht iahabitGnt8 Of Nat
amords, the CT pItal OF Tamaultpas was
not an act OF war 4 Collisions ensued.-
How could il be otherwise, with these guns
pointing into the windows Of Matamoras}-
Armies were in motion, and il was not long
until blood was split. What . piliiul and
unmanly equlsocatlon was ii. for the Presi-
dent 10 say, after this aggression on his part.
that war exists BY ne act Of Mericoi He had
failed in his duty when he failed 70 submit
the question Of Invasion, ,shiob wts a CUES
ton o. iodr, 10 Congress. And when he found
that he had brought our ltlle army into pc
mi by II, II was d mere ttlck TO nd himself
OF The responsibility he had so rashly ASST
med, TO throw the blame Of the war upon
Me,ico.
These letters have grown too long to allow
me much space Tor comment on these trans
acuous, and as prefer democratic authority
~ TINS matter 10 any Other. | shall close this
narrative OF The events which belong 10 the
origin ct the wal. by a few extracts from a
distinguished writer on the democratic side,
who Was once the editor OF a democratic
magazine, and who, as these extracts Will
show was d friend and supporter OF MIR. Folks
election. f
| quote some passages from an article in
Bfownson's Quarterly Review, on the Men
can war published in July last aud written
by Mr.. Brownson himself:
For oufselyes7-he ssy.-"we have re-
garded The Mexican war as uncslled for, I'M
polite and unjust. We have examined the
documents published By order of the Govern
ment. We have fead the official defence OF
the war IA the last annual message OF the
President TO Congress, and with every dispo-
stlon to hnd our Government IN the right.
but We are bound to BAY that our original i'm