Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-03-11
THE WAR SPIRIT REvIvING.

The war spirit yet, even in contemplation of the
ratification of Treaty Of Peace with Mexico, ami
mates The bosom of our belcose and belligerent
Administration. Hear the latest strain of its organ
The real question before the people is whether the
Wings in Congress- after the ratification of the treaty by the
Senate, will for such of precaution and
preparation necessary make that ratification efectua
by presenting Government in such attitude and aspect
before enemy will against all chance OF vac
aon bad faith the part of the Mexican rulers This
be DONE and should be done without delay Let the ten
regiment bill be passed. with the loan bill in shape ade
quate TO supply the Treasury, and Government thus
vdsd with the of vigorous war; calculate surely
upon the unwngness of Mexico provoke such
part by recedng from the basis of paci6caon which her
commissioners have agreed, BE-. Of Monday night
And thus, again:
Assuming then, the ratification Of the treaty, say that
the question pressing upon the Wing party IS whether
they will refuse delay the of preparation proposed
and demanded by the Government for object To this
question the Wings they be the party peace they say
they aeif in fact they be wholly Indifferent peace,
opposed to ito this question: presented they have
but answer"
We were about, to make few remarks on this
newborn zeal for the passage OF bill to>raise an
additional Regular Army of Ten or Eleven Thou
sand men, Including some four five hundred
Commissioned Officers, Colonels Lieutenant Colo
nels, Majors, Captains First and Second Lieuien-
ants Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons, Paymasters,
Quartermasters, Commissaries, &C., at the moment
when the /" Union itself calculates upon Peace,
when we met, in the Cincinnati Gazette, with the
following so entirely applicable to the case that,
transferring it TO our columns, we have no occasion
to add single word of our own 10 il:
PROM THE cIScIssArI GAZETTE or MARCH 2.
"PUT THIS AND THAT TOGETHER"
THrs.-Wo have in Mexico between forty and fny
thousand troops, besides existing authority raise several
thousand and gill up the reduced regiments in the
field Mexico is prostrate--whout an army the
Of raising one, to fight so humbed in spirit has she be-
come well impocnt in physical resistance that I'D.
vsed by the last arrival Of the conquest Of city Of twenty
thousand inhabitants by three HUNDRED and fifty American
troops and the establishment of rcS government of the
civil and military them without resistance.
10 addition to this military operations suspended by
treaty peace, which has been received by the President and
by him communicated to the Senate.
Now Thar. --, the ----- Of the -, while the
Treaty before the Senate, with hot haste presses the
passage of the bill to raise additional thou.
sand mcnoE the vigorous prosecution Of tbs Mexi-
war
Put this and hat together, and what does ii mean More
troops surely not wanted the Mexcans arc conquered
hositcs suspended treaty of peace is negotiated
Why, them the necessity Of ten regiments Il Il to
make "powerfu demonstration to friah,en the subdued
Mexicons," as Mr.. - declared Most assuredly not
The and true for all this is that lag
Of Executive patronage is connected with the ten regiment
bhundreds Of partisan politicians crying for "spos
and are impaeny Whiting for commissions in the ten egi
menis Presidential election Is approaching help is want,
ed and therefore desperate effort is be made to pass
unnecessary bill to extend Executive patronage Such is the
me ming and object Of his and that phen Put together