The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-05

! him through the highly respectable commercial
house of Hargous Co., Of this city.
Now, with these views Of the position Of mat.
ters between the two governments, we may be
enabled to understand ,he meaning of the gen.
eral order issued by Mr.. Marcy, Secretary of
War, published in our paper yesterday, conven-
ing Court of Inquiry, at Perote, in Mexico, on
the thirteenth of this month"; for the purpose of
investigating, among other numerous things, a
complaint presented by General Worth, against
General Scott, and, of course, suspending Cen
eral Scott from the command of the army, during
the sitting of the court. This suspension, OF
course, grows out of military rules; but the real
reason may be the belief on the part of the Presi
dent and his Cabinet, that General Scott was
negotiating at the instigation of the opposition
in this country, and on his own hook, contrary
to the wishes and purposes of the administra-
ton, who mean, most likely, to keep the ques-
ton of peace with Mexico open, till after the
next Presidential election All negotiations
will, of course, be arrested in mid career by the
order of the Secretary of War, and, instead
of the wing party in this country heading off the
President, by this indirect mode of negotiation,
the President and his Cabinet, will completely
head off the whig party, and compel them to
meet an issue before the popular tribunal of this
country at the next election, of the annexation
of the whole of Mexico or none.
We do not believe, therefore, in the probability
of there being any real peace soon, all rumors to
the contrary notwithstanding. We are rather
disposed to think, that the President has made up
his mind to keep the question open, and in the po-
sition In which 1t is at present, between the two
countries, till after the election. The administra-
ton, with It's candidate for the next Presidency,
mean TO 60 before the country on the important Is
sue of the whole of Mexico or none-they taking
the whole, and eaving the opposition, or the wing
party, to take the contrary ground. Now in this
issue, a new issue-an issue which sets aside
all other Issues, and which, adore ssed to the
rhusasm, enterprise, ard imagination of the
whole country, the probability is that the admin
istration will again be sustained by the country
by large majority, In spite OF all that can be
brought against them by the opposition.
Since the last Presidential election, nearly half
a million of young Americans have arrived at
twenty-one years of age, and will come into the
field voters About two hundred and fifty
thousand emf grants, from foreign countries, will
also come into the field as naturalized citizens
and voters Probably also half million of old
voters, part belonging to the wing party, have
died off; so that the constituency of the whole
Union, during the present year, will be made up
of one fifth of new materials from what it was in
1874, and these materials will be much more
likely to support the grand magnificent and spleu
did idea of annexing the whole of Mexico, than
to go for defensive line, or merely Tor the &C.
QUESTION of the barren territory of California, the
position assumed by the wings.
From these views, facts, influences, and rea-
sonings, it will be seen that every thing concern
ing the action of Congress, and the election for
the next Presidency, are all mixed up together,
and that things are shaping themselves 10
make the absorption of the whole of that beaut-
full country the only issue on which parties will
be compelled to go into the next canvass. The
singular movements of the War Department, and
the remarkable order of Mr.. Marcy, the effect OF
which will be the immediate suspension of &C.
neral Scott and the reputation of all negotia.
tions either by him or Mr.. Trist, show, in the
strongest pein: of view, that Mr.. Polk, the ad-
minstration, and his party, are determined to
keep the question of peace with Mexico open,
and try the issue on the great question of the
annexation of the whole or none of Mexico
Who may be the candidate is another mat
ter Mr. Polk wants it one side, and
probably may get it, Mr.. Clay seems to have the
best chance on the other side, but the General
issue of the present position of things and pros
poets is, that we shall have no peace with Mexi-
co no other peace than we now have there, by
the presence of the American army, that Con-
gress will be compelled to raise money to keep
the army there, and that the whole matter will be
determined in the election in November next
and the chances certainly are in favor of the
party that will 60 for the annexation of the
whole of that magnificent republic to the United
| States.
TRAVELLERS IN EURoPE.-American travellers