The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-27
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST CT, Is4s.
The design of the Wing. eede away California
and


of the design of of the wing leaders cede back
Mexico the vast and Incidentally valuable territories
which we have acquired by the war We have already
quoted the language of Mr.. Duer, leading whg mem
Der of the House of Representatives from New York
affirming that "hs party prepared TO support
promise upon the rejection Of all territorial acquisitions
from Msrico" We have shown that this declaration
made by Mr. Duer in his place the House. professedly
on behalf of the wing party, and instantly taken up by
Mr. Thomas democratic member from Tennessee, as
.'an avowa that the wings, party ready to
Civ, back the territories in question to Mexico" was not
only not contadcted dissented from by any whg but
that in the very session of the House, il was con-
fmed by another prominent member of the whg party
r Smith of Indana,) who declared, Also without any
contradiction, that in view of the present agitation
the subject, she would the whole hated acquisition
from Us, burden and curse % We have shown
from the record that in the spirit of these declarations
the wings OF the House, by party voie defeated the
two tis sent down to them from the Senate, providing
respectively for the due execution of the treaty with
Mexico by running the boundary line and establishing
commission settle the Mexican claims of our citizens
in pursuance of its stipuations We have shown the
purpose to cede away the territories thus clearly ndi
Gated BY the wings of the House to be fully corroboated
by the of the wings of the Senate in voting al
save of hem) during the war; for Mr. Berren's
resolution against any acquisition of territory and BY the
declarations of Mr.. Webster during the discussions in
relation 10 the treaty, that she would have the Ter
rtory, though it brought peace along With it, and that
therefore, he, with many other leading wings voted
against the treaty!
If these facts could leave any doubt of the fixed design
OF the wings to shamefully throw away all that our
vaor and policy have acquired by the war, that design
is still farther confirmed by the whole tone of the lead
ing wing journals, and especially of the central wing
organ, the National lntegencer, in reference to the r
moed plan OF ga buffalo hunt beyond the Rio Grande
and, in the teeth of all truth and probability, it
more than inslnuates the connvance and connection
rof our government in some allegedillegal scheme
The design of all this is manifest. The Inelligencer
knows perfectly well, that far from wishing any more
collision with Mexico, the administration and
the democratic party alike anxious and resolved to
fulfil and execute to the uermost, in good faith the
whole letter and spirit of the treaty of peace, and pre-
any the slightest infringement on our part of any of
its provisions and it knows, moreover that the treaty
would have been at this moment in active process of
such execution and uldlment, if whig party uote in
the House had not withheld from the President the
instance the administration by the democratic majority
OF the Senate. But by parading this rumored bugbear
OF new scheme Of invasion and conquest before the
public eye, the wing organ strives to prepare the whole
mind of party for the execution of the infamous pur-
pose long pondered and now fully avowed by its
party leaders, OF sacrificing all the fruits of the rcar even
they have already DETAINED its character, furnished its
aures prolonged its horrors and their utmost abored
10 prevent It's success!
And in thus proposing to give back to Mexico our
Gently acquired territory, the wing party is acting in
strict conformity with its ancient principles and policy
The wings of 1900 opposed the uttermost the acquisition
OF the Louisiana territory and proclaimed the Union dis
solved when it was acquired They opposed to the
acquisition of the Flordas in 1919, and consented to it
only because Texas was ven up in the same treaty
They opposed with still hotter zeal the acquisition of
Texas and stood up in open advocacy of the claims of
England against the endeavor of the democratic marty
and administration to reduce into our possession the
Territory of Oregon The question of the extension of
our republican civilization and government is now per-
haPs OF all others, the cardinal issue between the
two parties and in order prevent the entrance of new
States into confederacy, the wings are openly avow
Ing their purpose to defeat the execution of treaty OF
peace-to reject and cast away realm on the shore of
the Pacific in violation of its spuatons, and thus turn
into mockery and word the trophies and the tri-
umPhs of just and glorious war.
Nor is it difficult to divine the motives which at the
present moment emboden the whig leaders to the propo
slon of this and nefaous scheme of national
surrender and sacrifice. The wings always fear new
Sihles for new States democratic. From these
they can draw no help in prostrating those noble
democratic measures of domestic policy, the estab
llshnent and of which have under the pres
ent administration, made the country as prosperous at
home as has been triumphant abroad Nor should it be
forgotten in this connexion that it has always been the
instinct OF the wing party take the part of the foreigner
in every question in which the foreign relations of our
country as connected with its growth and the mante-
nance OF It's rights, have been involved 1t was so in the
war with England in 1912. 1t was so with the French
indemnity question under General Jackson's admnistra
ton 1t was So have seen, in the recent OREGON
controversy; and is so now, the question of retain
ing or surrenderlng what we have conquered from Mckee
IN 'his view was that when General Taylor was made
'ne vctm OF wing intrigue and ambition and was in his
SunJomed and awkward way, submitting himself 1--WE
rust not without reuc'ance to be squeezed and cramped
INTO the attitude OF whig aua,labe" the poor old man
was forced to back square from the declarations of
MS letter to General Gaines, which proposed to take
anu mold as indemnity far larger portion of the Mex
ah territory than have acquired by the treaty and
place OF this, to sign and send out the Allison letter.