The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-05-04
From the Nat. InieIligencer.
THE PLANS OF THE EXECU-

dents of two leading Administration pa
pers, giving reason TO suppose that COM
munications were about being opened by
the President OF the United States with
Mexico, with a view to peace. The
terms therein stateIto have been propo-
sed by our Executive, however, are such
as, if accepted by Mexico, never could
be ratified by the Senate of the United
States, and never can become constitu-
t~ionalIy binding on this people. We say
coNsTTrUTIoNALLY; fer the intrigue for
the annexation of Texas, consttulionally
condemned by the tr~eaty-making power,
was vel carried out, in the face and teeth
of the Constitution, by bare nlajorilies of
the two Houses of Congress. Ia the
same manner, for aught we know, those
who have for their " ends involved US
in this war with the neighboring Repub-
lie, may c~ontIive to saddle upon the Uni-
ted States the curse of annexation Of one
half Of Mexico.
The following additional information,
more exact and probably more to be relied
upon than the extracts which we have al
ready published, is from the Washington
correspondence Of the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger, the u~umistakeable marks Of
which denote official authority for what
is stated in it.
Besides the other interesting informa-
ton it contains, it must be highly gratify-
ing to the People Of the United States to
know that sthe Order in Council" lately
issued BY the President, without any sem
blanec Of legal authority, is exceedingly
CRAFTY ing to THE MINISTERS OF ALL THE
FoREIGN Powers. Whether THEY were
called into Council on the occasion the
correspondent of the Ledger does not
state. We think it quite likely that they
were ~coNsULTED on the subject.
Correspondence Of The Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, April is, 1917.
.sThe rumor which is in circulation
here, to the effect "that the Administration
means To give up all the conquered terri
tory south of the thirty-sixth degree OF
parallel, in order TO get rid Of tie Wiimot
p~rovlso, and all It's pernicious consequen-
ees,' is without a shadow Of foundation.
| Neither the President nor the Cabinet IN
terrain such an absurd proposition. The
frontiers Of our country must be fixed ac-
ding 10 strategical prudence, and in refer
cnce to military position against so excl
table anil peeyish a neighbor as Mexico,
The Administration understands this per-
fecily, and is not afraid, as ii is charged,
Of meeting the proyIso men in the Seuate
at the time of the ratification of the trea-
~"
"The Wilmot provIso, moreover, was
started IN a technical point of view, by
men who had to attain another o I'M
mediate object, and who would only lose
that object by introducing the proyiso in
a treaty with Mexico. / have no hesita-
ion, therefore, in saying that the basis of
our negotiations with Mexico will lie a
few degrees south Of the th:r,y-sixth de
gree of latitude in California, and that
our Government means to hold the PAsso
DEL NoRTE.
"As to the immediate object OF peace,
Isbelieve there have been received indi-
rect but no DIRECT offers Of peace thus
far; that is to say, the proper Department,
is probably from a RELIABLE though not
OFFICIAL source, informed that an offer Of
peace, on generous terms, would be aecep-
table to Mexico; but even the most relia-
bic source in Mexico may mislead you,
and the men WHO are wiling to treat with
you to-day may not be in power to-mor-
row. II is a Herculean task TO watch
the political tide in Mexico, in which the
best man may commit many blunders.-
Similar causes, in Mexico, are not always
followed by similar effects, and BONA FIDE
promises often broken from a want Of
ability to perform. While, therefore, no
great r~eIianee is placed on the apparent
disposition to treat for peace, of the pre-
sent Mexican rulers. an offer win no
doubt be made by our Government; while,
at the same time, neither army moi navy
will for a moment relax in lis endeavors
to enforce peace by constraint. Gen.
Scott will press forward on the route 10
Mexico, and the navy will be employed
to seize upon every Mexican port in the
Gulf, ill the whole maritime coast is in
our possession, so as to give effect TO Mr..
Walkers tariff for Mexico, and raise a
revenue Cor the expenses Of the war.
~Fhe Ministers Of all the foreign Pow
ers have expressed themselves exceeding
ly gratiied with The opening Of the Mex
! lean ports: and the measure IL M douht
calculated TO go far in smoothing over GER
J tain asperi.ies, 10 which all rigid block
AIDES are liable to give rise with neutrals.'
Aletter from a Matamoras correspon-
dent, dated March %, informs US that
Gen. Taylor was preparing for an ad-
vance on San Luis Potosi. which he
would commence on the 18th inst The
Ee,ler also states that Gen. TAYLOR will be