Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-23

Holion-ootu TeiiSiouSiy ana pOlltically, and o
which their history furnishes abundant exam
Piles both in the old and new world, and from
the time of the Carthagenians and the Roman.
to that OF the French under Bonaparte. Poll.
CIV more than arms, but combined with arms. he
considered the road to peace.
He would not say that victories alone woplf
not bring peace; they might do So but not the
kind of peace he was in search of. He wantet
the peace which was not merely cessation o
hostllites, but a restoration of the fruits anf
blessings of peace; the restoration of friend
ship and commerce, and of our position as heat
and chief and parental guardian of the system
oil Republics in the new world. The peace
which leaves all the animosities and resent.
ments of war behind, was not the peace which
the interests of the countries and the good OF
| the republican system, and the safety and in
dependence of the two Americans required.
Mr.. B. said he stood upon ground which he
could not explore; he alluded to subjects which
he could not unfold: but he could say that it was
a great error to confound the whole Mexican
people-the whole eight millions of their mix
ed popuation-under any one general view.
either politically, morally, or in their feelings
towards the United States and the war. 1t
would be great error to confound this large
and mixed mass under any one general view:
and worse error to act either military or poll
tcally upon that view. 1t had its divisions.
both of races and of political parties; and, leav-
| ing out the illiterate, impoverished, and de-
pressed part of the Indian race, which slgnified
noting politically, though the half of the whole
population, and the sole resource for day labor
ers and the ank and file of the armv-leavinp
out that depressed half, the other half is radical
| ly and irreconcilably divided in political sys
TENS, and in all the affections and views which
result from that division. The largest half of
the enlightened half is republican, and has
struggled since 1924 for our form of govern
ment, and always carry the elections: the 9TH
er part is the monarchica, and the strongest,
though least numerous, because it has the sim
ews of war-mohey and arms. 1t rests upon
the church and standing army of near TWEEN
ty thousand officers and not much over twenty
thousand men. The policy of the republican
party leads them to peace and friendship with
the United States the policy of the monarch
lists leads them to European affections and A
merican antipathies. But there are points at
which they all unite-the pride of nationality.
the love ofreligion and of country--and which
makes them all equally formidable, equally
susceptible of being fanaticised, both religious
ly and politically, against foreign invader
This unites both parties against us now; but
still there is great difference between those
who wish to be friends and those who do not,
between those who are willing to make perma-
nent and cordial peace on terms just and hon
orable to their country and those who want no
peace, and if they make one will only intend it
for a treacherous and hollow truce. This diff
ference Of parties should be known to the A
merican statesman, and acted upon. Unhappi-
ly, the present war had given the monarchical
party tue ascendant at the very moment that
the elections were bringing the republicans in
to power, and enabling them to re-estabIish our
form of government.
Mr.. 3. said he he had expressed his opinions
publicly and responsibly in the Senate, both
in speeches and in votes: and privately and
frankly to the President whenever asked. He
had done more. He had been willing to resign
his place in the Senate and go to the field Of
operations, not so much to command armies as
to make military movement subservient to d.
plomatic policy, and not mere truce, extorted
by force from weakness, and leaving the ans
mosities of war behind. He who had refused
embassies to the first Courts of Europe, was
will to 90 to Mexico; he who had refused to
let his friends propose him for first Major Gen.
eral in May, 1916, which would have put him
at the head of the army, was willing to have
taken commission when the war began to
take the appearance of continuing long, and of
becoming fanatical, and giving strength to the
monarchical European party. He was willing
to have taken the place of Lieutenant General:
for that would have Stocked no military feeling,
and displaced no military man, and would have
been approved by the President to have been
completely carried out. He could say no more
at this time, upon that point, but when the plan
which he submitted to the President comes to
be made known, it would be seen that the mill
tary men would have had nothing to complain
of-that General Taylor, instead of struggling
at Buena Vista with 5000 against 10000,
would have been advancing on Santa Anna with
10000: that General Scott, instead of an en-
trenched army at Cerro Gordo, would probably
have found the road open to Mexico, that the
two Generals would have probably met sooner
at the city of Mexico, and found themselves at
tended by diplomatic mission, nationally con-
stituted, both in geographical and in polit-
cal sense, and prepared to take advantage of all
events to smooth the way to a solid and lasting
peace.
Mr.. BENTON passed to new subject: one
which had not yet excited the public attention,
but which, in his opinion, was pregnant with
much danger: and required early attention. 1t
was not a question of foreign war, to be settled
by arms or diplomacy, but of domestic legisa-
ton, to be settled by public opinion and by
votes. He alluded to the slavery propagandst
resolutions, introduced into the Senate towards
the close of the late session, aad which he had
stigmatzed as irebrand on the day of their
Introduction. On their face these resolution
contemplate subversion OF the Union, throw
ing the guilt of the subverson upon those who
oppose their enactment into law. AT the same
time they propose what no citizen of nom
slaveholding State can ever stand, and what
many from the slaveholding States, himself in
the number, would stand if they could. They
propose the abolition of all compromises, past
and future, on the slavery question. and treat
violators of the rights of Che States, and of the
constitution, and as subverters of the Union, all
who w II not agree to extend slavery TO all the
territories of the United States, even to the
most remote and hyperborean--to Oregon it.
self, in the latitude of Wisconsin and the
Lake of the Woods. They 60 the precise
length of the Northern Abolitionis,s, and with
The same practical consequence only in re-
yersed FORM The Abolition creed is, that the