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"Can'I do it," says he, "iI's half way TO Yer.
Cruz by this time; seni il of yesterday"
"BlOOd and thuHdcrl" says /. "ihen you have
knocked the whole business in the head, sure
enough. You 'yeeOmmiiled anomageOus crime
sir. and great shame; and don't you know, sir,
that great crimes deserve great punishmenlsl
don't know what Col. Polk will do; but know
what my friend old Hickory would do if be was
alive; he would hang you right up TO the first
Tree he could come az"
"WhaI hang mo up for doing jest what was
sent here to dol says be. For I've made iesl
such birgaIn as the President lO.i mc to make
only a csne bausr oae."
That's nolhIHg here nor there,' say, |, "you
know circumstances a.tCTcasts. Ana you kHJs
well oHOngh, or yog ought 10 have sause euo "a
TO know, that as things nov stand, the 'ra,,ae
don't want areoly. Now. says |, Mr. TrsI an.
swer me one PLAIN question:: Do you think you
have any right at all 10 make a treaty aller the
President has ordered you homel"
"Well," says he, 81 mink circumstances al
ter cases TOO; and when the President ordered
me home, suppose he ,houghll coud'ntgelrbro,
the job he sent me TO do. But thought could,
and SO kept trying, and I've got through with it
al last, and done the business all up according to
my first orders; and don't see why the President
shouldn't be well satisfied"
"Well," /" says /, 'whgI's the items Of the bar
gain! What have you agreed upon!"
"Why," says he, "we have the whole Of Tex
as clear TO the Rio Grande; we have all Of New
Mexico, and all Of Upper California. And we
pay the Mexicans fifteen millions ofdolars, and
pay our own citizens five millions that the Mexi-
cans owed them. And we stop firing draw our
charges from the guns that are loaded, and 60
home."
well now" says "Trist, don't you think
you are pretty feller to make such bargain as
that at this time of dayl The President will be
mortified 10 death about il. lIeIe we've been
fighting near about two years to make the Mexi.
cans pay over that FIVE millions Of dollars they
owed our people, and now you've agreed that
we shall put our hands in our own pockets and
pay it ourselves. The whole plan Of The war
has been carried on by the President on the high.
est principles to go straight ahead and ''conquer
peace" man fashion; and now you've agreed
10 back out Of the scrape, and buy peace, and
pay the money for it. You know very we'll that
the President has declared, time and again, that
The wal should go on till we got indemnify for
the past and security for the lulure-Ihem's his
own words-and now you've agreed TO settle up
without getting one jot of either. For the past
we are al least hundred millions of dollars out
Of pocket, besides ten or fifteen thousand men,
As for the men, | spose you may say We can
offset them against the Mexicans we have killed,
and as we have killed more than they have, may
be it lootS up lule in our favor, and that's the
only advantage you've secured. As for hehun-
dred millions Of dolsars, We don't get penny
of it back. So all the indemnities you get for
the past is a few dead Mexcans-that is, as
many as remains after sublracting what the've
killed Of lis from what we've killed of them
But the cap.sheaf of your bargain is the security
for the future. The cities and towns and castles
that we have fit so hard 10 take, and have got
our men into, and all so well secured, you now
agree to give'em all right up again 10 The enemy,
and march our men off home with their fingers
in their mouths; and that's our security for the
future. As for the fifteen millions of dollars
you agree to pay for New Mexico and California,
you might jest as well thrown the money into
The sea, for they was ours afore; they was already
conquered and annexed, and as much ours as
as if we had paid the money for "em"
Here turned on my heel and left him, for
was so disguised at the conduct Of the fe!Ier that
wouldn't have any more talk with him. And
now my dear Colonel, there is nothing for US to
do but to look this business right in the face and
make the best we can of it. If there was any
way to keep the thing out Of sight, it would be
best for you to throw the treaty into the fire as
soon as you get it, and send word on 10 Ginera
Scott to 90 ahead again. But that is impossible;
it will spread all over the country, and be known
to every body. And I'm convinced it will be
the best way for you 10 turn right about make
out TO be glad of what can't be helped, and &C.
cept the treaty. The nominations for the Pres.
dent is close at hand, aud you must get ready 10
90 into the election of your second term on what
you've got, and make the best you can with it.
If you sho'd reject the treaty, the opposition
would get The advantage of you again; They
would then cry out that the MeXicans had asked
for peace and you had refused it; and there
would be no end TO their growing about this
oppressive war of invasion. But ii you accept
the treaty. it puts an end 10 their grumblng about
the war.
To pacify our friends that are very eager for
the whole of Mexico. you must tcl'em 10 look
out and see how much we have aheady got; keep
telling of 'om that hafa loaf is better than no
bread; tell 'om TO keep duel till after your next
election is over, and may be you'll conlrive some
plan to be cutting into 'lolhcr balf, Keep Mr..
Richie blowing the organ, all weathcrs, to the
tune of half of Mexico for song. Tell the
whole country, and braz2n it out 10 every body,
that you've made great bargain, capital bar
gain, much better than Jefferson made when he
bought Louisiana for fifteen millions Of dollars
teI'em for the same sum Of money yoI have
got great deal more land, and more men on it,
I'm satisfied this is the best ground to take; we
must go for the treaty, and, bitter pill as tits, we
must swallow it rs though We loved ii. lspose
it will have to 60 before the Senate, as the con-
stiution now stands, the constitution is very de-
fecve on that pint, and ought to be mended, for
it's dangerous trusting important matters to the
Senate) but you must drive your friends all up
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