New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-20

dent Of the Society for the ensuing year I'm place
Of Arson g. Phelps Of our City, who declined are'
election the other officers Of last year were re-
elected and then the meeting formally adjourned,
though the II all was cleared very slowly. left
many in it when came away H.o.
The President and Cougress-Mutual Conf
dence.
Editorial Correspondence.
WAsHISGTos, jan l., lsis.
The House has asked the PresidentIt TO furnish it
with copy of his Instructions 10 Mr.. slidel when
tho latter was sent down 10 Mexico to settle the
original difference concerning the Annexation OF
Texas The President refuses to comply and in
fact refuses to throw any farther light on the blum
6ering or bullying diplomacy which resulted in
converting the state Of theoretical War which
Annexation created into that OF actual hostlllties
which followed the march to the Rio Grande he
says in substance to Congress Give me more
Regulars Volunteers Supplies, Appropriations
Loans, Taxes Treasury Notes but don't bother
me about the origin Of the War-that is my pri
svate affair." don't believe they will crafty
him. His bill for Ten new Regiments OF Regulars
is knocked stiff already-it may Just wrggle
through the Senate in dying spasm, but 1t has no
ehos; of chance in the House MIR. BADGER oil
n c. beat out of it to-day the little breath still left
10 it and all farther urging it will be simply
waste of time by those who affect to think every
moment precious and its loss irreparable.
But look at the general subject The President
refuses 10 disclose TO Congress his instructions to
Mr.. Slide as the basis Of his negotiations respect
ing Texas and its boundaries, because, las the
MON says this would initiate the oolishly honest
egg. peddler who tells his customers at once that
his mother instructed him to ask one price for bis
sggs but take a lower one rather than not sell
them. WHAT'S this but clear confession that Mr..
Polk well knew from the outset that the Rio
Grande was not the rightful boundary OF Texas,
and instructed Mr. Slidel to offer an indemnity for
that boundary to consent to one this side OF 1t
The case is perfectly plain. Mr.. Polk concoals in
the archives Of the State Department the evidence
Fl ON his 0wn mouth that he has been publicly con-
tchding in regard to the Texan boundary, for what
he has privately admitted to be unjust.
Bat look at the pretext on which this important
information is denied to the Peoples Represents
tives. We are told that Mexico would take Gd-
r7,,tage ofa What advantage She does not need
any new evidence to convince herselfor the world
that she is right on this question; aud fifty demon
STATIONS that our Executive was wrong in com
mencing the War would not compel him to aoan'
don the wrong now, when he is perfectly able TO
maintain it. Forty such demonstrations would
not restore to Mexico her shattered armies her
slaughtered people, her captured stronsholds, nor
her subiugaed States Nothing Of the sort is to be
apprchended
But look again at the prctext that the instruc
tons TO our Minister long since recalled cannot be
made public now because the negotiations TO which
they had reference ave not ye completed Everything
las changed in process of time-Ministcr, cues
tions at issue, relative poiition Of the psrties-yet
we sre 70 keep cur instructions shrouded in secre
CIV for fear Of embarrassing future negotiations
though We have now no authorized negotlator IN
Mexico. Now regard this in the light OF notorious
facts:
Mr. Trist and the Mexican Commissioners tried
to make Treaty the last of August and failed
The Mexican Government, not ashamed OF their
propositions nor afraid that advantage would be
taken Of them, immediately published the whole
negotiation When the documents reached w ash
ineton. they were transferred to the columns Of
the Unioa, Mr. Trists draft of a Treaty being
prefaced by the following Editorial note
I'VE give below the authentic copy Of the draugst Of
che Treaty carried out ey M T The Pa.s.se; enc 9s.e
Those interpoaons appear, however In the versions Of
the Treaty which given in Spanish In the Mexican
newspap We have therefore Trans aied and inserted
them IN the original dTsught though We eenro, vouch for
the fact that these passages were embraced N the p'opo-
Commissioners Ths. fact 20 far As We advised, rests
present merely the authority of The Mexican news
papers j
Here in the osteniation Of holding up Mr.. Trist as
a mere clerk, who had nothing to do but submit 4
pruiect prepared for him at Washington, the origi.
nal Cabinet draft Of Treaty conided to Mr.. Trst
is taken from the secret recesses OF the State De-
partment and banded over TO partisan journal for
publication. The passages enclosed in brackets
are of no consequence no public purpose was
sabseryed by this verifcatioR OF the Mexican
misunderstanding but r doubtful display OF Mr..
Buchanans consequence. and Mr.. Trisis ins;snih.
canoe, which might, by Notifying the Mexicans,
obStruct future negotiations but could not possibly
facilitate them. All this referred not merely 10
an unfinished but avery recent negotiation. Yet.
when Congress. instead of the Court journal, calls
for sight of much older and altogether y-gone
Instructions from the State Department, the Presi
dent refuses to communicate them H.G.
USEFUL INpVsTRY.-The Massachusetts girls
last wear. made l,Oi6 944 straw bonnets and hats,
worth O57 s92; also. Palm leaf hats wcrth $3.50,
3s7; and straw braid, value slo2 367. What a
purse sl.6iO 500 was to divide among them In
1876, the Old Bay State made nearly twenty
million pairs OF boots aud shoes, yalGe nearly fl.
teen millions of dollars
On the other hand, the Government Of the Uni
ted States s.rcceiving less than thirty millions OF
yearly revenue. and spending more than ninety
millions When Adams was Preslden, and Clay
Secretary Of State, the annual expenditure was
not one dollar for every i've now.
IE- We regret to hear that Hon. JOHN w.
UOKNRYCK II anresentativa In rnnoress from the