The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-31
The Lost Plank OF Federalism shivered.

For months the federal press has been assailing the
administration for the advance of army to the Rio
Grande According to these authorities, this movement
was the great fountain of evil from which all
have flowed This terrible deed, if the federal Or
gans to be believed at once violated our constitutions
and made outrage upon all the rights and du-
ties Of humanity. By this deed the war became the
Presidents of aggression and conquest" and the
President because OF it, to be held to 'a strict
countability" in the form of impeachment"
Now it so happens that this same heinous deed-the
adtance of our army to the Rio Grande- acas suggested
and advised BY General Taylor himself months before
~as directed to be done by the administration! More
even than this General Taylor not only suggested and
advised the advance of the army but he gaze excellent
reasons for has opinion and most emphacay expressed
his appreciation of the movement of the army to the Rio
Grande three weeks after the order directing that move
ment had been issued from the War Department
independently of the support which this movement
would derive from Gen Taylors recommendation, it is
now certain that the movement did not bring the war,
because appears from official documents, that the
Sleyicans were determined to wage the war upon us,
before troops advanced to the Rio Grande In fact,
they had troops upon the banks of the Colorado Just be-
fore troops crossed that stream Gen. Worth cross
ed ii III the face of their troops, and in spite of their
threats Mexico il is well known, was determined to
make the war, only because they claimed the Rio
Grande, nor to the Nueces, but to the Sabine itself
They had proclaimed, almost from the beginning, that
our annexation of Texas was war
The Federal press applaud General Tayors patriotism,
galantry and Judgment to the skies The N Y Courier
and Enquirer, which reached this morning tells us in
substance that the President by placing General TAYLOR
in asituation to gain his great victory at Buena
Vista, has in effect dominated him" as the neat Pres-
dent Yet now he stands before Federal journals as hav
ing recommended and approced his own signature
the very act for which they have been for months pro-
claiming the President to be deserving of impeachment
Was ever faction before placed in such humatng self
contradiction We commend these matters to the care
iu attention OF our readers, they are well set forth
from the Official documents in the following article from
the Baltimore Argus of this morning:
From the Baltimore Republican and Argus
HE WIG cLAMoR AGAINST THE OUR TROOPS
TO rHE no GRANDE REeuKED BY GES TAYLoRA consider
present with Mexico The wings insist thai il was lie
marching oil the American army TO the shores OF the Rio
Grande-and in this opinion they have been recently back
ed by Mr. Cahoun-whst the democrats insist that nothing
but the unequaed perverseness and obstnacy Next
ca race gave rise 10 IT, occasionally we find some wings
referring TO the annexation of Texas the emote or pre-
dspong cause OF the war; whilst they all agree that the
marching of our army the shores OF the Rio Grande
was the immediate cause of active hoslities They
adhere TO this latter argument solely because they think
That democratic agents alone responsible it, but if
me annexation OF Texas had been aided by wing votes
hey might perhaps attribute the origin of the exclu-
slyey 70 That measure 1t happens, however, that the
whg are mistaken in supposing that member of their
party ADVISED he military movement the Rio Grande,
anu ult he very ist suggestion of that kind came from
one whom they claim as good Kentucky whiu" and
hat was chiefly owing to his advice and opportunities
,hat the movement was made carly We allude to no
less parsonage than Major General Zachary TAYLOR and
TO prove what we say, we ask the attention of our wing
friends to the following extract from his letter to the ece
tary OF War, dated October 4, 1915:
have reason to believe moreover that snutarv moral
effect has been exercised upon the Mexicans Their ira
ders continually carrying home the news OF our position
and increasing numbers and conessedy struck bv The
spectacle OF large camp OF weapponted disciplined
troops accompanied by perfect security their persons
and property instead of the mpressment and piave 10
which they subject in their country For these
reasons, position thus far has, think been the hes,
possbe but that the entire force will soon be con.