Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-01-30

Finally and conclude the yndicaton of the President in
this particular, can say that Mr. Polk Is not the first Pres
against Mexicoha Gen Jackson himself proposed ii in
1886, when affairs with that country looked warke and
that then, as now, agreed to take it.
And here Mr. President having fulfilled my task of vndi
eating the chief magistrate of the Union from the design n.y.
pothetcay imputed to him, of wishing appoint his
cesso my person. and by Of this lieutenant general
ship, might close my remarks but my has been
coupled with this business, and as have remained SILENT
and even left my seat, while the depending
take leave, with the kind indulgence Of the Senate,
proceed step further, and to say word on my
and to show that SERVICE and not rah was my in
agree the offer of the President and that there
might have been in which would not have accepted
the office Of lieutenant general it had been created
have already said that will not show what my own
plan was but can say of that plan which looked
to result and promised ISSUE and that briefly and that
would have had nothing do with any plan Of any other
kndnohng to do with any plan that contemplated long
and moderate war; of mastery inactivity or OF retreat
upon the Rio Grande, Of defending lne Of attack
upon the idle and solitary castle Of San Juan of Uuaespe
cay the of the for the black vomit
In of these would have been lieutenant general
captain general major general, colonel general
any other of general that heard Of know
very well that the President had idea of any of these
most amabe plans but there is way to give him idea of
them, and force them upon him and that would be-
by the simple process of denying him the OF doing
thing else. &
shall not state my plan but will say of it, that be-
sides intending result poposed to carry the while
there according the oil all natons
OF invasive warhe invaders to be paid and subssed
by the invaded Contributions regularly evieddutes regu
lary coeced-woud accomplish these Objects and leave the
United States free, or nearly free, from the expenses OF
the war;
can say further, that my plan was not limited to
military view of the subject that it compehended union
policy and OF armsthe oivebanch 90 with the sword
ministers to treat well army to fight diplomatic
mission, nationally constituted both in geographical and in
political sense attend the headquarters and while
the ministers stood ready negotiate every STEP the army
take organization and attitude give emphasis
negotiation And this combination of and Of policy
guesswork, the idle conception of fancy but
the result Of knowledge of the of parties in Mexico
peace party for honorable party for endless
SO LUMINOSITY shown by the Senator from New
York (Mr. DIx) few days ago. My plan adapted to
both of these partes-honorabe peace for the sword
for the other The military part Of the plan has fallen
the ground the diplomatic part falls with and il de-
wolves upon those who have frustrated plan of the Pesi
dent to present him a better
counted much the efficacy Of the diplomatic part Of
this pan for great prevail in Mexico with regard to
designs and feelings towards them and which nothing
but authentic mission could remove. The party is
ncessant its calumies against u.s. artfully contrved
operate every class of the people, and render peace i'm
possible has asehood for every class. TO the religious
orders the represented regon-the Profess
ant against the Cathoc-and of sacriegethe spo-
aon of the churches To the creole Spaniards and the
Indians of mixed blood, they present it as Of
the anglo Saxon against the Spanish American-and the
subugaton the latter intended. To the unmxed Indian
race, (neary the onehaf of the whole populations and the
sole of the army for its rank and f it presented
of extinction, of savery-heir to be exr-
pated, like many tribes in North America to be
carried into slavery to work the fields of their masters like
the slaves brought from Africa And, to ALL it presented
of ambition and of conquest in which there
peace for Mexico but in the degradation of her citizens and
the loss of her independence. misson such proposed
would automatically contradict all these caumnies and show
the deceived people Of Mexico that just and honorable peace
all that and that far from wishing her degrade
ton, both policy and interest unite in making wish to
her prosperous happy, and independent She Re
publc-our neighbor-who did us the honor to copy
form of government and had great with The
injuries of which complain the work of few while
the great majority Of the people, who have done harm,
willing to do justice and recprocate the wish for that
close connexon, political and commercial between the
Republics which necessary to their prosperity to the
stability of the republican system in all the Spanish American
States, and to the complete independence Of the New World
from the Old
counted much the efficacy of the diplomatic part of
the plan, and less the military part the other failed.
OF this say nothing but that not framed in total
ignorance of Mexican character Mexican country and Mexi
Forty years ago studied Humboldt and did
not overlook his chapter the military defences OF the
y and especially his imposing development Of the great ee
Of defence with which Nature had endowed her the
dangers of the when the north wind bowing-the
black vomit when noand the deep dees of volcanic
mountains. The plan may have been faulty but
conceived without knowledge of the subjects and pro-
missed resu-peace to the country, if it succeeded, and
he soldier that died, death worthy the soderthe battle
storm his embrace the field of honor his bed, the lofty
nts Of the Cordlleras his monument and his grave