The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-20

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TREASURY.
Mr. ATHERToS gave notice Of q bill TO amend the act
entitled an act Tor the ssfe keeping transfer dis
bursement Of the public moneys A loose some
where
THE TEN REGIMENT BILL
ar BADGER, Of south Carolina, said-I believe cir,
eompes me to speak upon this matter fthe question
hsd been quietly brought forward should not perhaps
been called, might have permitted the bin 10 pas
.''uout Woth OF comment. But as it ia, am bouna
sbo cors r.sts my oPoion cannot VOC. for H.
the public that my view, should accompany that vote
hr shall STATE tie my views sa shortly with as much
oev,y as inc Importance OF the subject will allow and
as my duty to my constituents viii permit have sir
%r a. srea1 who have the other side
10 the place occupy that should state INV vi.vs ir
oppost,on and with all the frankness becoming sepa
tor OF the United States shall 20 so far back a.
the Hon. Senator from Massachusetts did the otSrd
out nevsrhees' viii be under the necessity q refer
ring back in some degree to what has passed 1ha s
In which we are nov engaged with Mexico was in con
sequence OF the unlawful and unconstitutional act Of the
PRESIDENT OF the United states. suppose sir there
IL no gentlemen on this floor, elsewhere who will con
tend that the President vested the war powsr
1t is exclusively confined to the Congress Of the United
states The President would have control exoantin
for the fact that be has the power over the s 9
Congress, and is the principal military Officer of ~
United States The President declared the war wbe,
he directed General Taylor to move the troop, OF
the United States from che right bsnk 70 tbs lsrt
bank the Rio Grande When he aid 90 he oomn n''
ted an ect of undensble war. What "a war contasr
which is carried on not by argument but BY force 1t
can therefore remain question that when n nator,
UNDERTAKES to support matter under discussion bv
force II is war H. however? there Is resistance is
not OK course war Itrequirer parties TO make wa
IT. for instance strikes blow unss, IL Il. We
sisted no fights the re,utthere no war but II there
Is resistance materially alters the ease Whether this
act on the part Of the President was an oct of war a
act OF hostility or of aggression, depended at all on
the question whether We hid or bal not rights War
expresses combat about rights Public war is contest
between nations about right carried ON BY force apd
not Dy argument IT, therefore, IL nssumea Ms ma
teral that the title Of the United state. extended to
the bank Of the Rio Grand any movement TO dispos
aess the Mexican government the left bank Of which
sue neo possession and claimed Co be her Ia
OF war-usthed and rightfu il the property be ours
unlawful and upjustifsble If tho property belongs to
those who have possession Of every case an act
ct war. Well sir, the commenced by the Pre-
siient OF the United Stairs g. How you?n) He took
from the government Of Mexico what Mexico claimed
to wit the bank of the Rio Graude occuDed nv her
VIZ bsager cited the example Of Mr. Jefferson in case
81 portion or our southern territory Clearly ours hut
occupied by inhabitants under a foreign power Yet Mr.
Jefferson had not invaded this territory because con
slIered any movements tending to state of
yoving upon Congress In tho present autho-
rty was overwhelming Against the President 1t could
ne proved from the Presidents words that he had
committed an act of aggression. Read from letter to
Commodore Conner, of July 18th, 1915 directing tho
Commodore with the United States feet TO be or the
coast OF Iexas and to act it's annexation 20 he would
in defence OF any other Of thu States Of this Union
Inc resident desires the great event to
oe accomplished without blood shed the ploymcnt
OF force, and TO this most esctualy he di-
reefs that the Commodore shall commit no act of no
gresson upon Mexico and tho meaning the President
declared to be- that while the whole boundary of the
Rio Grande is claimed be the rightful BOUNDARY OF
Texse would be act OF aggression during tate of
peace to dslodge the excans by force from apy posts
or position which they may occupy east of the Rio
Grands. The letter to General Taylor of july lsl5
Was to the same purport MIR Badger therefore contend
nat IN tne letter 10 Gen Taylor OF Jan 49, ls46
derng the march to the Rio Grande the President the
United States according to his statement Of what
would be an act ofssgreson had committed such aggres
sion upon Mexico and thus brought the war sp
act OF hostility and of war the flight of the nhabitanta
on tns approach OF General Taylor had proved it such
almost impossible to prevent 1t producing state of war
to change our relations from a state of peace tn q
state oil war From the angry feelings exiting between
the two countries have expected to fol.
low from such aggression There could doubt that
ths march to the Rio Grande brought the war
There had been mutterings brsvado and gasconading
on the part Of Mexico but stil there existing
Taylor remained at Corpus Christi which as a point
captured and occupied by the Texans be had au
down was that this war thus begun bv ths had
been prosecuted with the view the conquest per
manent conquest, OF Mt least New Mexico, Upper
and Lower California Th, fact he should establish
from the public documents He read, accordingly from
the instructions Of the War DEPARTING Gen krarby
OF Sd Iuns ls46, directing him to Establish civil GO
vernment in New Mexico and pledge to the people
free government like and to them in by
s.ructons to Com Sloat July 40 directing
course to be pursued in CALIFORNIA; also the Instructions
TO Commodore Stockton, of Aug 10 1916, to the
purpot To show what had been done in obedience to
these Instructions Mr. Badger read official let
ter of General kearny from Santa Fe of August 1885,
setting forth bis proclsmaons to the people, his
sress in the establishment of q civil government sc
ports of Commodore soat and Commodore stockton.
respecting their progress in the the extension Of
the area OF freedom in Upper and Lower California,
Of which had been done according to instructions not
withdrawing the President of the United States had
dsavoWed to some extent these extraordinary proceed
ings But the President had only dsapproved General
kearnys organic law for New Mexico because Of tia
permanent provisions No objections made to tbs
seizure OF the territory territory of the United
statesn TO the declaration that any the uhsbi-
who should resist his authority would be punished
of the war FROM its commencement and not indemnity;
because, If indemnity were the object of the war
why had not the President said or intiuiated a.
much in all his various instructions! Mr. slidell
went to Mexico In september 1915 He was not re-
ceived; he insulted, Wen, cir, it is plain to
me from the correspondence with Mr. Black that the
Mexican government never contemplated receiving q
minister. They said they would receive n commissioner
empowered to settle all disputes aud differences They
differences, as if nothing had occurred He commended
should have sent messenger who would have been
empowered to settle and heal differences instead of
sending as We did resident minister But that is not
all. Long before MIR SIS mission set foot, in
June 1915 General ayor written to- TO select such
site would be best to repel invasion the
Rio del Norte, be best adapted to protect for
nexation, the territory He believed then it
General Taylor considered It. and expressed himself in
despatch time afterwards and that he would
had he taken possession OF Point Isabel but that he
could not do as he had artillery and this would
bis orders he understood them II he had not feared
the Mexcans could successfully have repealed him The
mstely the left bank, precisely couched in the
same langusg. had been used in the order Of June
I545 What the inference II Cen Taylor had been
provided in June, l54j with artillery aud suitable engi
would not have Of the left bank!
This strange way Of ooncilating the Mexicsns.
Long before the minister despatched from here the
order issued to commit act of aggression the
Mexcan. but We have the Presidents own suhorityior
stating that he considered the taking possession of the
left bank act of aggression only justified by
state of Thus 1t appears 10 me- Mr.. President.
that the President of the United States proclaimed
unconsttutonally-no for the purpose OF procuring
uds mnitybut for the purpose OF acquiring territory
This he concealed from Congress- and declared that such
was the objso but merely for the attainment OF
honorable peace The Presidents message at the last
stated expressly that the prosecuted for
tie purpose OF obtaining honorable peace and the
hon member from Mississippi denounced mon.