The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-05
The Obstacles 10 Peace.

the state OF the watercorses.
The Obstacles Peace.
While all eyes are turned southwark to watch the
progress of the negotiations which rumor whether truly
or untruy announces have been commenced between
the Mexican government and our own it may be useful
Ito consider the main obstacles which stand in the way
of their successful termination 1t is hardly necessary
assert-what is too evident be questoned-that all
these difficulties have their being the existing spirit and
lemper OF the Mexican government and people Our
government is now. it has been from the first, eager
and anxious TO end the at in just and honora
bile treaty. treaty which shall secure to ourselves only
that which is just and right in view OF all the facts OF the
case without INJECTING any needless loss or humiliation
upon our enemy Mexico-sonquered in single year
and at mercy-may have peace on such terms, the
moment she is wise enough desire it, Still the is
mot yet ended is its speedy termination yet by any
means certain.
Nor it difficult to discover the real causes of the de-
Hay OF the return of peace Our arms, glorious have
been their trumphs, have fought at disadvantage, be-
cause while they moved from victory victory
lin quick succession the spirit of faction among ourselves
has, with equal ardor, nculcated into the mind Of our
enemy the whole creed and lesson of peril nacious and
desperate reslstanceo stubborn and blind rejection of
|all the counses OF peace. AT this very moment Mexico
holds out in the exclusively the arguments and
eences which the Opposition orators and presses among
Yourselves have framed for her. and instructed her to
|pIoy. She says have "robbed" her of Texas. She
has adopted both the idea and the phrase of from the
ognsed organs OF the creed of the Opposition She says
e fighting her Cypress and degrade her. and dsmember
he territory. She finds the very terms she uses, set
down for her in the opposition speeches and journals and
behods the opposition party of country rallied upon
hem as party motto. She proclaims that to her the
question of the question of national existence
land for proof OF her assertion she points to such devices
as the 'ust OF conquest and the obstruction of sister
republics" emblazoned every federal flag She calls
her people resistance and endurance and such preda
tory battle they have yet the power to make, avowed-
by on the hope that the administration here must soon
abandon the war; and for such faith, she
cites the laborcd datbes in which the leading organs of
the opposition have again and again labored to demon
state that has yet conquered" nothing but
1.-THE spirit of constitution" and that its unpopu-
larty with the people must eject from power the
councils in which has been waged Her rulers tell her
people that peace is dshonor and find their warrant to
say in the federal invectves which denounce the
on our part as sruthless rapne and MURDER" and call
upon the Mexicans to iuelcome the invader with bloody
hands and hospitablc grave" Her government jour-
nails announce to their deuded readers the approaching
advent of a better spirit towards Mexico in govern
ment; and for proof they cite the stereoyped federal
motto of "no more Mexican territory"
Mainy-nay, almost solely--upon such federal g aid
and comfort" the of Mexico holds out. She looks
for help TO her "acs' here. American faction fights
her battle for her, when she Ions ger battle with
hope of success in the field Our war has been full OF
glores Thanks to the ability with which it has been
planned and organized, and the high soued valor with
which it has been fought, conflicts have all been
victories The military prowess of people and of
our institutions has excited the establishment and
the admiration of the world But the fury of faction has
found, in the freedom of those institutions, " room
and verge" enough to rally "peace party with power
10 rob our victories, in large of their moral
effect upon our enemy inspire her with new courage
and SO to protract her hosttes when the snews
of her war are broken and withered We believe that
the peope--anxous the people always and should
be for honorable and permanent peace-seeing that
enemy conquered seeing too that the administration
has done all that could be done, both by diplomacy and
by arms to secure such peace and seeing too, that
Mexico cmbodened by the pledges and the exhotatons
OF the federal peace party among ourselves, yet re-
fuses peace we believe that the people, seeing these
things will understand fully which of the two parties
among us has been in this crisis the true friends OF the
rights the honor and the peace of country, and will
so apply the great remedies provided by constitution
as not much longer to permit the base and selfish pur-
poses of faction to rob victories of their fruits and to
prevent peace which our diplomacy has sought in all
honorable NODES and which battles have fairly
Elections.
The New York Evening Post OF yesterday says that
the elections which take place this week may decide the