New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-17
BY THE MIDNIGHT SOUTHERN NAIL
THINGS IN WASHINGTON.
Injunction Of secrecy-Thc Treaty-Mr. Roots
speech.

Injunction OF Secrecy-The Treafy hoo's
speech.
Correspondenoe Of The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, March IS. is+s.
The Senate did not remove the injunction OF
secrecy. yesterday, from its proceedings on the
Treaty /, or rather. did not remove the injunction
the secrecy was already removed. Had the debate
been carried on with open doors its leading fea
lures would not have met a more faithful report.
The Treaty itself was known TO many out
.ider.r during the whole discussion and bat Tor
their discretion would have found it's way to the
public prints
Senators should either unlock their doors or close
their lips This playing fast and loose with an In
quistive public is hardly the thing.
Senator GRYEsE of X. |. in the papers generally
is made to vote against the Treaty. Sui. 10 the
United States Senate he voted for IT,
The great Inducement to adopt the Treaty was
the fesr OF something worse. Senators preferred
taking it with all its Ills than iy 10 others they
knew not Of Perhaps they were more timid than
wise. wear hence they will constitute the same
political body as now-be equally then. as now
break water 10 the encroachments Of Executive
pover-s barrier against It's madness. They had
nothing To fear but themselves.
Besid-. what treaty could be worse than the one
last adopted We pay two hundred millions OF
dollars Including the expenses OF the war which
we assumed for a certain number OF useless acres
the greater the number, the greater the poverty
We annex more wars TO the nited states and an
mex new enemies The Camanches-a warke and
ferocious nation-become ourneighbors and ineyita
bic foes They delight IN plunder and live by
robbery More powerful in the field than the
Mexcsns, they are also more cunning IN their
stratagems aud more trescherous in their negotia.
tons They the same arms that we DO and
use them as well They will continually alarm
our out posts and depredate on our borders. lnthe
words Of Mr. Roor, to day, in the House, we have
gained by this Treaty rocks rsttle-snskes aud
Csmanches.
We have gained domestic enemy more formi
liable than even the Camsnches. IL is the Execu.
tive He il is who, by the slaTmng extent Of pat
ronsge this war aud its necessary consequences
secures him. becomes the formidable foe of eur in
stitutions. For he gains almost incredible patron
age by the inevitable increase of the Army. Al
ready, Mr.. Chairman CAss asks for IRE hundred
ae,r commissions. What limit shall there be to
such demands! They grow with the increasing
limits Of our country. We shall early become a
military Republic.
Is peace near IL is difficult what to think--Mr.
rrist ii am told in his correspondence expresses
strong hopes that the M0derodos will carry the
next election. The MOderad0s are the peace party
and yet the MoHarchcal party The party that
gave us war, according to Mr.. Polk will according
10 Mr.. Polk, secure us peace.
Ks lost not merely an intellectual feast who was
unable to hear Mr. RoOr in the House 10 day but
cogent, conclusive Arguments against our 0cqHiSi-
irons by this Treaty. IL is little to say lis
of the greatest speeches made this session. There
should be original expressions for his fulde-
serving. II laid bare the hOlowness of this
War with MexicO-its degraded character and
awful consequences He told the House as ii
is said Mr. WEBSTER told the Senate.l that this
war was originated for the purpose OF acquiring
territory-territory with the slave institution. He
warned the House against the purpose of the Pre-
sident he invoked the attention and the alarmed
sense of the country 10 the evils sure to result
from the consummston of Executive action.
Bait the Hurons, he said, were on the war path
New-York was coming to the She would
stand by the Constitution and the country. Her
gres. voice was in favor OF liberty and 1t would
be heard.
fofbesr 10 give even n synopsis of this truly
eloquent speech. No report can be made OF il but
will seem tame. The action, the mpassioned
gesture, the play Of the features, the rirdd cls
OF the dictlon and expression, can be conveyed by
no description. However much may be read dis
speech. il never can be felt as it was delivered
The bitter irony with which he alluded 10 Gen.
CAss. the northern dough.face OF Yankee origin"
told upon the House. TO the General himself had
he listened 70 it, It would have been walking on
red hot plowsbsres. He left not hair of his head
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