The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-11
Efforts or the Wings to prevent "a Peace.


Efforts OF the WhIgs to prevent "a Peace.
Again and again call the attention of the people 10
this subject 1t is the most memenous political fact
which at this time engage their consideration Both
the government and the country want just peace with
Mexico 1t is the main object of our present policy
This is so manifest that the people may well select the
political party which they will support with principal
reference to the attainment of this great result
Now, what in their power have the whigs since the
began failed to do prevent the return of peace on
just honorable tems' With the sanction of almost
the entire wing vote in Congress, the war was made
war OF invasion yet, no sooner it declared, than
the wings party, proclaimed it to be on our part
murderous and piratca. They reused Mexico TO the
most desperate resistance, by falsely declaring that our
government was aiming at nothing less than her
tional humiliation. They exaggerated the perils of
the war beyond all bounds of truth and reason, to
daunt the courage and damp the energy of citizen
soldiers They sought TO create by their panc-pedic
tons the failure of the treasury and the destruction of the
public credit They made the Mexicans TO regard them
as their best and strongest allies In every form of pub
icaton-in Congress and out of Congressthey put on
record their determination neither to ask nor to receive
from Mexico any indemnity in the only form in which
indemnity could be obtained They invoked for Mexico
the sympathy of all civilized nations They made the
putting down of their counrys war, voted by them
selves, party issue and they foretold. with conf
dence that their party would be in power, and
would stop tile war, and abandon the objects for which
was waged. AL this acas knopn all through Merico
1chen Mr.. Irist met the Mercan commissioners at Tac-
baya and the knowledge, than all other causes CON-
bined, defeated at that time the attainment of peace Cen
Scott himself, in his proclamation to the Mexoans, con-
fessed the danger of such result from the course the
wing party when in that document he asserted, and
abored TN 10 convince the Mericans that this coun-
try united in its determination to prosecute the
war with vigor, till its ends were obtained Could
that language of General Scott haze gained ersdenu
in Mexico-could the wing party have found patri.
otsm enough in their counses to uerify that Ian.
guage, in their party position upon the war
who does not know and feel that such an assurance
would have done more to secure peace promptly, than
all the bayones which swept the heights of Chaputepec
or all the grape" that hailed upon the enemy through
the dehles OF Bnena Vista But SCOTS language was not
believed by the Mexcans The unbroken tenor of whg
votes, and wing speeches, and wing journals prevailed
over his assurances Webster at PHILADELPHIA, and Cor
win in the Senate, and the long list of their whig COM
peers had full possession of the Mexican ear and were
quite too explicit and too strong their statements tg be
discredlted by the commanding generals proclamation
But the wings are not content with having tb 10 defeat
ed the negotiations at Tacubaya month ann tbev sent
out to Mexico formal legislative d, ,r,,on that the
majority OF the popular branch Of Co. hold the war to
bea violation Of the constitution TSa;r journals
follow this up at once with .snicant indications that no
more regiments Will lent 10 Mexico And Just now,
u' "nE o'''l'N.'ee of Ways and Means, speaking at
y ~ su vac" chairman, and by their reported loan
' 'e'p" o" lie double intmaton to Mexico that our
asury under vast load Of debt, is fast break
''ie facilities it asks for to obtain money! And il
the face of such of action as this-eary
begun, Systematically continued, and pressed with
more ardor than everthat the wing party camors about
the evils and dangers of the war, and pretends to be
"tte party of peacet" "The party of peace% Why
should have had peace months ago. if there had been
upon the war question no wing party in the United
States; if that party, retaining Its organization. had
not deliberately put partsanship above patriotism, and
true its instincts of 1872 while forgetful OF their punish
ment again utterly refused, party to do its duty or
any part of its duty. to the country in time of war
1t is for the people of this nation, who desire Just
peace with Mexico and demand tit is for them to
ponder these things, and to determine for themselves
which of the two political parties among has really
been aborng to secure such peace. By this criterion
LET the wing party and the democratic party be tested IN
The coming canvass, and have fears of the result
We requested TO state that Mr. Charles II Della
van of New York, will deliver lecture Temperance
on Sunday afternoon, the 18th instant, at the Rev MI