The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-12-21

natural feeling OF disgust have exploded, by one
the miserable shifts and preences upon which the Intel
ligencer seeks to Willy and deiame IFS own government
and uphold the cause Of our enemy We have done this
in order that readers may know upon what utterly
unenable and unsubstanta grounds even the most un
scrupulous opponents OF country in her controversy
with Mexico compelled TO rest their opposition we
have done this work. we trust, for the last time The
great topic in all patriotic minds is now not the past OF
the war; but its present and its utmeno ITS causes nor
its commencement, but the mode of its Prosseuo'-so
that it may soonest close in the attainment OF its great
otjecsusice, reparaton, indemnify or in these ma
tional honor and character are nvolved) and peace
Beyond all question the war is national The Execu
tive, Congress, the whole government, and the whole
people, embarked in it and pledged to it, The best
and havest blood of the country cries out from the earth
of glorious battleeds against the baseness of deamng
it, of abandoning it, of faering in its prosecution till
its great ends secured!
The spirit in which the Inellgencer responds to such
appeal, may be traced in the following paragraph:
"Had the President the of the Mexican gov
eminent in proper spirit, by sending commissioners
treat of the only imminent qassonhe question Of bounda
~; had he pertinacousy insisted coggng that
question with things having necessary ith
the boundary might have been amcaby settled the clams
of our citizens examined and adiudicaied leisure"
| What medley OF unblushing untruth is here The
question of boundary the only imminent question Why
the administration of Herrera, in conserving
ceive minister ''fuy empowered to settle all questions
in dispute" admitted in any form that the "mmi
nent question" question of boundary The eds
pute' of Mexico against the annexation of Texas
Her alleged grievance the act of annexation Her
claim was not for any particular boundary line
but for the whole Of Texas And what were the
'thngs" with which the Intelligencer accuses the
President OF having clogged the negotiations which
he offered Mexico' Why they the claims of our
citizens against Mexico for acts of robbery mprson-
men and murder, which claims had been first evaded BY
every arice of dishonesty then reluctantly assessed
and stipulated to be paid and them in mass-seventeen
instruments out of twentymost perfdously and insult
ingly withheld But, says the Inellgence these claims
might have been examined and adiudicated leisure
the President had confined his poered negotiations
the Texan question. What such examination and adiu-
dcation would have amounted to, we know already
But with what force the Inelgencer pretend that
any such result or any good result, would have been
produced by our combining the negotiation the question
OF Texas when Herrera himself tells u.s. in his recently
published letter. that he was thrust of power by the
military usurpation of Paroles expressly upon the plea
that he had consented to open any negotiation a The
charge OF Paroles against him was not that he was will
ling to receive negotator clothed nth too much po,pe
but that he was willing to receive any diplomatic nc-
tionary ,chateuer!
In another passage the Tntellgencer puts forth the
following audacous Misrepresentation of the spirit in
which our governments acting towards Mexico:
| "Unappeased by the slaughter and devastation will
which he has already visited her borders he has not
yet forced her to voluntary surrender of her coveted ter
ritores the PsdeHt not only ,car in
and rndicfire spirit but annex the province.
above referred tohe acquisition of which now ayowed
have been the object of the conquer and oc
cupy all the of Mexico, should she not meanwhile fall
upon her knees confess her fault and mpore our pardon
Tor having given us the trouble of invading her That
about the ofthe Executive recommendations in re-
gard to the future of this war"
| The main allegation in this paragraph is wholly un.
true. The President has not recommended in his mes
sage the occupation OF all the rest of Mexico" He
has recommended the active prosecution of the war
| in such portions OF the Mexican territory as ma,
seem best fitted to constran her to grant us indem-
nifty, justice, and peace. And when the Intelligent
Ger speaks Of the policy OF the President Savage and
vndctve, does il hope 10 escape the public infamy OF
such an accusation against its own government through
the ignorance or fogeuness of the people that Mexico
in her last negotiations, proered only such terms as were
almost insulting her past iauesi Does not the Intel
gencer know that the very first point the instructions Of
Mexico to her commissioners negotiate as If she had
been the victorious and not The uanquied pary-tha she
nsolently demanded the dismembemen of the State OF
Texasthat she required payment for her losses in the
war-and that she utterly refused every concession to
u.s. demanded alike by national honor and national JUS
ice! And because our government does not submit to
spirit like this in enemy the lntelligencer charges
il with acting in a savage and vindictve" spirit!
But il is in the language which the Intelligencer per-
mts itself TO towards brave soldiers now perllne
their lives in Mexico in the maintenance of their coun-
rys rights, that that journal has done its worst and its
utmost to challenge the Indignation and to defy the scorn
Of the American people. Who would believe that any
American journal-however Infatuated and debased by
party rage-coud be found lost to every sentiment
both of patriotism and of gratitude, deliberately to stig
matze brave citizen who turned the tide of
battle in the defles of Buena VISTA and whose unhnch
ing vao bore the flag of their country in triumph over
the blazing ramparts Of Chapultepec as that "BANE
OF PUBLIC FREEDOM, A PERPETUAL STAND
ING ARMY" We want words to express our abhor-
OF the atrocous rage of faction which, forgetfu
alike of the merits of the living and the memory of the
dead, could put forth sentiment abominabe Is this
the reward which the wing party holds to those
of citizens-the nobest and most patriotic spirits
OF the land-who have left the peaceful avocations
IL,