Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-04-05
Il From the Washington 4unioA.
The Treaty Of Peace with Mext.
co, ms 10 has passed TIE semitic.

The. Treaty OF Peace win Mext-
GO. ms u has passed le SENATE.
Some credit is due to the National IN
telligencer for the tirlnness with which it
advocated the ratification of the. treaty
while the Senate had it under Amusement.
But now that it has passed the ordeal, the
lntelligencer has returned to its vocation
of censuring and attacking the administra-
ton. 1t devotes long article to the gra-
1tification Of its party feelings, and brings
together, under the above crption, all the
frivolous objections which its imagination
can conjure up. We have not time, space,
or inclination to scan the whole Of its ar
ticle, but content ourselves with Selling
its principal points. u.
1t begins by repeating, in the words Of
of Sir Philip Francis, that s'the treaty OF
peace-supposing it to be accomplished
by the assent of Mexico to the alterations
which it has undergone-is a peace uhich
every one sciU be glad Of; but no one will be
proudcf" Ittakesfor granted that this is
''the general opinion"-that every one
will be "glad Of the news Of peace;' but
that none Of its readers will ''be proud Of
the peace" We are afraid that the ma
jority Of its readers may join in the senti-
ment, for they are high party men, whom
it is hard to please. Nothing that the re-
publican party can do for the good orr glory
Of the country can propitiate them. But
that the great body Of the people, who adj
vocated the war at its commencement, or
approved its prosecution, should not feel
both pride and pleasure at the scar, and
the peace which will follow it, is rather too
bold an assertion to be honestly express
ed or seriously believed. 1t is true that
the war has cost us millions OF money, and,
what is far more precious, the lives Of
some Of our modest citizens; but what great
advantages has it not obtained for us? 1t
has covered us with glory. 1t has extend
ed our fame to the remctest corners of the
earth. 1.-THE treaty be ratified, it will ex-
tend the area of freedom to the Southern
Pacific. The National Intelligencer, in
deed, denies that it has accomplished any
one Of the ostensible objects Of the war;
Yet surely nothing but the blindest party
spirit could have made this extravagant as
| sertion. Have we not driven back the
insolent enemy who invaded Texas, and
shed the blood of our citizens upon our
own soil? Have we not pursued him in
to the heart Of his own country, seized all
his stronghold upon the coast, and occu-
pied his capital? Have we not subdued
that vain-glorious and arrogant spirit which
has been productive CT SO many insults
and so many aggressions? What has be-
come of all those gasconade pronunciin-
mentos which have "strutted their brief
hour upon the stage'--of those idle
threats to drive us from Texas--of the
silly boast Of Santa Alma, that he would
gather his laurels upon the banks of the
. Sabine? The London Times, in 1S45,
aaltered the national vanity Of the Mexi-
cans with the hope that we should not be
able to send men enough to encounter
their troops. They were under the i'm
preston that our army dared not enter
Mexico, or, if we made the attempt, that
we should be driven back like chatf be-
fore the whirlwind. Their vanity de-
ceived them; and their government flat
tered their arrogance and increased their
infatuation. Now they are tanned. Now
they have consented to negotiate Tor peace,
without requiring our shi ps to leave their
coast, and our troops to desert their terri
tory. These changes in TIE popular SEN
timent have been produced by the brilliant
achievements Of Buena Vista and of Ger
no Gordo, the capture of their castles and
OF their capital. Does any one now be-
lieve that their spirit is not humbled, and
that the sense of their own infcriority will
not induce them to refrain from a repeti-
ton Of the insults and aggressions which
they had SO repeatedly perpetrated upon
us? They will be stripped, too, of large
portion of their territory. They may be
stripped of more, if they should wantonly
insult us again. VIII not the lessons they
have learned, operate as security for
the future?" viii not the moral force we
have gained and the military genius we
have exhibited, 60 beyond Mexico, and
produce their impression upon the other
nations of the earth? With ample "in-
demnity for the past" then, and with such
security Tor The future with achieve
ments in arms which any nation might en-
vy-with an extension Of territory to the
Pacific, which gives us some of the finest
harbors in the world-(for one of which
alone-the bay of San Francisco-Gen.
jackson was willing to give five millions
Of dollars with an immense commerce
opening upon us with the richest nations
Of Asia-with every facility secured for
our whalers in the Pacific, and with the
other advantages which we will have Sc
cured with all these, we can truly say
that we have every reason to be proud Of
the war, and proud of the peace which it
has obtained us. We repeat, therefore,
that we are proud Of the acar, and glod and
proud Of the peace, if peace should come
with the ratification of the treaty.
Clinton County Democratic Con.
vHsAlsnn.