The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-05-17

for the port of Accomac c. H. in the State of Virginia
vice Samuel c. White, removed.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, OF Mississippi to be Brgadier Gene
raj, IN the place OF General e. J. Pillow, promoted
s.Ihs PHILOSOPHY OF Bloolshed."
The agonizng paroxysm Of hstorco political phoso-
phzing which the "Natona Inelligencer,' OF Saturday
morning, under the above caption, draws Qua through
four mortal columns in style considerably udi-
cous and exravagan than that of Mr. Senator Corwins
too famous speech would surely require notice from
hands, if il We're not the most and the best that the
central organ OF the Federal party at present find to
alege against the and the policy OF its country,
and in advocacy OF the enemy with whom that country
is at The 'New Orleans Mercury" had briefly re-
ierred to the fact--well known and obvious to
all intelligent readers of history--that most OF
the great conquests which, in successive ages of
the world, have been wrought among nations,
have, in, the end, under Providence, contributed
to the general advancement of the world in civilization.
That our war with Mexico, though commenced upon
far other grounds and waged for other and very different
purposes OF international justice, must result in
Improvement of the social condition Of any region which
1t may withdraw from the dominion OF Mexico, and
bring under the sway of our Federal constitutions is a
truth wholly indsputabe that, 50 far know. no
but the National IntelGgencer undertakes dis
pute it. Notwithstanding all this however, there are
doubtless many enlightened and Christian men who while
admitting all the glory and success of war, and fully
conscious of the deep impression of national power
and grandeur which has made upon all the leading ma
tons of the world, yet look with dread both upon the
sanguinary scenes which it presents and upon the
effects as to our national character which, in their
judgment, threatens The opinions OF such men, even
while weder from them, certainly disposed al
ways regard with all proper respect And to such
men it is usually sufficient answer to say that in the
present state of the world. becomes in cases
matter of stern necessy and that the whole history of
the Mexican government, and of its relations with us for
the last twenty years. proves concusvey that peace
not be preserved wthahat infatuated and misgoverned
people, only by the sacrifice part, of those
cardinal interests and the posation OF those cher
shed rights which give to peace the whole of its ines
mable value.
But the article Of the "Intelligencer breathes very
different spirit Assuming, in the first place. (what is
false. that conquest is always evil and assuming, in
the second place. (what is still fase) that our war
with Mexico was commenced and is carried on for the
sake of conquest and assuming in the third place, (wha
is most false of alb that our thus commenced and
WlIeu
the "Integencer" undertakes to force intohe service
of American party politics an abridged view of the
whole postdiuvian history OF the world Manchoos
and Neutrality-suspicious. and Tartars--Cossacks and
Calmucks-Nmrod, Minus, and Semrams-Cyrus
and Cambyses-Darls and Xerxes-Alexander and
julius Cesar-Genseric and Aila--Lydia and Assyra-
Nineveh and Babylon--the Jcbustes, Hittites, and
the Amaaki,es, together with the Visgoths, the
Huns and the Vandals--all are grouped together
by the "Intelligencer's' memorable logic and UNI
der the lead OF Peter the Great Catherine the Second
and Napoleon marshaled in formidable argumenta-
tive array against the policy which, part, would
hold Mexico to her obligations of justice towards u.s.
and would force her, in her future relations with u.s. TO
observe the faith of treaties and conform the settled
public law of the civilized world Tell this Federal pa
triot and logcan OF the territorial indemnify which
Mexico owes u.s. and he runs atlt against
your position with the hunting spear OF Nimrod
Hint to him that the existence of military despotism in
Mexico, having just policy enough lie and just power
enough to plumber, makes necessary on our part
in order to establish permanent peaceful relations with
that nation, basis of reciprocal justice and he smites
you in the face with the sinful example, of Semirams
Tell him that the long -contnued and systematic outra
yes Vi NeACo upoh tie PcISS anu property OI our Clt
zens perpetraed in direct violation of solemn treaties
and aggravated still farther by repeated reusas to redress
Them proving that Mexico is utterly nsensble the OBJ
legations OF that pghted faith switch holds the moral
elements of the world together'--tel him that these
things endured until farther endurance is both humlia-
ton and crime have at last made over imperative
duy--urge all this upon him, and he is qnite ready
with his answer. alexander" he replies, "wept on
the banks OF the Indus because he found worlds
to conquer and therefore, General Scott with his army
ought TO hurry home again from Vera Cruz with the
least possible delay And now with equal surprise and
regret we state the fac if is the Nationa Integencer
the Central metropolitan organ Of the federal party of
the countrywhich seriously parades this tedious and
abominable fooley before readers and calls it an ar
gument against the and the policy of the pres
en administration.
AT the conclusion of its long TRADE, the "lntegencer
gives the following choice specimen at once OF its polt
ical philosophy and OF its accuracy of statement re-
spect matter involving the character and the good
name of its country Quoting the statement made by us
three days SINCE that by this time General Scott
probably in the city Of Mexico the federal organ dis
courses as follows:
'sWe evidently going to destroy and enslave
them (the Mexcnnsl the pleasure of Executive,
scarcely of whose measures against Mexico ia NOT
dangerous inUasio1 VI institutions than Of her soil
Where to stop, short iof her destruconi And,
a useful action taught by the philosophy, il is the
most awful 1T crimes, involving not only individual muir
dcrs and injuries innnerable and the dest but the kill
ing of great collective moral and social beinga naton-