Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-06-10
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
LAMENT OF 4 LocoFoco.

LAMENT OF 4 LOCOFOCO.
Jtis fl that our readers should know in what
lipbt The WAR AND Conquest PARTY among rs re-
card The most happy event of the conclusion Of a
Pr.cE between the UNITED STATES and MEXIco.
TO supply this information, we copy the following
from that print on the Atlantic border which has
been most jealous in advocating the Conquest and
Annexation of the entire Territory and People OF
Mexico bv the United States. We know, by the
wailings OF this Journal that all Is as It should be-
and that our Government is SAVED from consum-
nation which would have been not only disastrous,
but most disreputabe and dishonorable to our
country.
FROM THE or JUNE D, lSiS
The last and most farccal at the drama ended
The pa,chedup rs Treaty, concocted in defiance Of the
instructions of the Executive and every way odious TO the
interests honor and integrity Of the American people, has
been ratified Mexico and Macintosh have complete
triumph shut from passage to the lsthmus OF Tehuan-
iepec robbed OF the prospective sovereignty of the Pa
cifc and God only knows how long, delayed the glory
OF what will YET be accomphedte complete supremacy Of
Aneo-Saxon liberty, enterprise art and industry on the
North American continent The United States may beat
the rappei retreats recall her victorious armies amid the
hooings Of Mexican rabbe abandon the ports capitals
and where her banner has waved goousy give
up the trophies Of the battle field iorake the
bleaching bones Of her thousands Of mmoaed soldiers and
pockeng the contamey Of the world, charge herself with
the old debt and claims against Nexicn and the hundred mil
lions expense Of the and prepare to pay the fifteen mil
lions squandered for dishono'able peace
Never mind The shame, the dshonor Down with the
American flag, from San Juan Chapuepcc, and send home
heroes whose lives have been peed for gnomnous
prize Send them home that they may be dispatched to the
sand wastes and chapaas of New Mexico Santa Fe, So
nora, and Upper California hisouac among aigatorS
eaoes, and Indians the latter Of whom bound by this
infamous treaty keep from depredating upon Mexico
The treaty ratified Let the people chew sweet
oTe OF taxation and perhaps generations for
this wilderness civilization shrinks from penetrating with
he enterprise industry inventions, and arts, while there
decent spot Of earth let. Our Senators goat securely
their territorial conquest They have freed Mexico
from the trouble OF protecting nearly million square miles
Of samps, desert and ockapd, which, in the face Of all
their boasts OF fertility and wealth. have in three hundred
years accumulated less than 300,00 white inhabitants and
those Of very questionable character.
The treaty is ratified Mark the glorious boundary won
by this nec indemnity. Trace il up the centre Of the Rio
Del Nore the Ga, and from thence from the mouth
Oi the Colorado to the Pacific What an area New Mexi-
co, Santa Fe part Of Sonora and all Upper California ours
including natural wealth and products worthy Patagonia
and the African deserts and savage sufficient breed Semi
mole and Greek employ the whole of grand army
for hall century But hear shouts Of rejoicing
from the American people Why i this All, the gold, the
silver, the cochnea the pearls the rich fancy and dye
woods The glorious gardens Of tropical fruits and the
ii1able passage from the Gulf the Pacific, holding key
10 the treasures OF India and commercial supremacy on the
GLOBE all lie south u tat odgs boundary All that
worth having Mexico has saveJ and have taken her terri
torhi scumHeaven it may give national
-ai cost Of not less than r) hundred millions Of dol
lys and thousands Of priceless lives
For the purposes and Of the present we have
gained nothing but prospect Of bloody Indian and
pensve territorial settlements and he il remembered th
Treaty provides that the present white inhabitants Of
wilderness have the privilege and be protected in ID,
enjoyment Of the rights o Mriean citizens if they do
ehooe 10 under The lars and institutions Of tie Und
Sofes Msgnihcen, reay When England Or France opens
passage the Pacific via Panama Tehuanepec on,
the oher will do LEI the United States console hese
thar she got the bay Of san Francisco by her Ts treaty
sbe finds that she accept Of Yucaan because Mexico
recams iiand bound by treaty keep peace witt
Mercoet her think Of The bay Of san Francisco This il
ise her magaa 6Ouha OF the treaty Forever be sucl
treaty eondemned-a treaty which tales nothing but shame
insult and expense, and giges every thing valuable. The
American people viii yet epudate il by pushing heir boun
dary where God designed it-Panama on the SOUTH AMI
The Gulf and Oceans on the and west