Litchfield enquirer., 1847-03-25
What can we do with tho Territory if w
 get it.

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 h is now notorious that the present Hd- m;n;s,ra,ion is prosecuting the war with Mexico merely 10 acquire territory. 1t was aimed both in the Senate and House n, Representatives at the last session, by the leading friends of the Executive, that our Government would expect, in any treaty o' peace to be made with Mexico, cession Of all New Mexico and Upper California, and a recognition of the Rio Grande as ou' Western boundary. In this manner we should acquire about one half of the original territory ot Mexico, and space enough to constitute at least ipclue SIGteS as large as
 New York!
 When the Army Appropriation Bill wa' ,rder consideration at the last session, MT
 Winthrop of Massachusetts moved provl' SO in effect declaring that the war should mt he prosecuted for the purpose Of d'smem- bering Mexico, but this was rejected oy large majority, notwithstanding it received nearly every Whig vote. Thus it appears that no, only the President, but Congress- intend to despoil Mexico of her territory No doubt a conviction of the truth ot this, has contributed to make the Mexicans pe' culiary obstinate, and there is danger that inc war may become interminable. NOW suppose that at the end of long, blooay and expensive war, we acquire territory what can we do with it? What are we 10 dc with the mongrel race (white, black and copper-colored combined in all possible pro- portions and of every hue,) who now occupy those counres3 Are they 10 be invested with all the rights of American citizens and cooperate with us in controlling the affairs of this vast republic? Are they not only to vote, but 10 be eligible to ofiice9 Is Ssnor San,to to have the privilege of travel ing to Washington a; the tune of $S for every twenty miles, and to rise from his seat, Gas other progressive democrats do,) and exclaim, "Mr. Speaker" as introduc. tory 10 speech which may not be cousin germain to the subject under debate ?-or is he to be trampled under foot, and slavery introduced into the acquired provinces What if Southern masters choose to go there with their whips and their bowie knives, and establish the peculiar institu- tion," what are we to do about it? II we acquire territory, it will inevitably become slave country. No "Wilmot proviso" can save the rights of the North, or this nation, from the infamy of extending slave " to regions which are now free from the plague spot. What then is the object and end of this war, if i, be not 10 open wider and deeper the atyss into which we were plunged by inc admission of Texas into the Uoion? Will the people of the North sub nit to this? Will they suffer an enormous national debt to be created. and themselves and Their poSterity "so be ground" by tax alton "as between the upper and the neither millsiones," to enhance the slave power in this country. Have we not already experi> enced from this source innumerable evils {? In the Senate of ,he Uniied States the mem bers from the Slave States already out number those from the Free States by four majority; and provision is made in the act admitting Texas, for eating up tha. State ;aas 10 gire the South EIGHT move SenGio's Not satisfied with this, the devotees Of slavery have involved us in a war with Mexico, to conquer territory on the other side of the Rio Grsnde, from which the South expects to get an indefinite number Of Senators and Representatives. and thus obtain perpetual control of the Government.
 Let office seekers and dough-faces sac ri6ce the rights of the North, the intelli- gen, and honest yeomanry of Connecticut will stand by and defend those rights.