Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-03-18

HH..H" AItalAHNlA4 FA are 7
gong soc h+tv cen lhe FpsiIeut and his Com.
-,.naet. Me-. Iris, came out her. with
it, rs.Nr commission 10 make a treaty -
'io 90 'tou-hi me a tgealy, signed by him
s"d lHe Mi-Nlgan Commissioner. and NV
ot'et7" - 70 case husuilirs. OF course Nc
'f" a' nothing else bnt halt aud stack our
arms "'" W.
% "~it. saws ]. "Gjuerol. it amt right |
ia Pal business; itll break no thl, arest an.
FN" f.ah iiat wa, jest goil on 50 nice Thai |
"r Htsii d got through with i, in a year or
~" woi'; and then IL will bother the Presi.
tt"i w'Si To death about his election for line
second terms. That treaty must be ,tnn,.J.
IL m'st b. Sant home; ss.tIIl g, riahi and
sc Ait Ti,t about IL
s'eii veHt anl hunted up Mr.. Tfist. and
iai i talN with him. Saws /, "Tr,t. nos ,
h'si ibtF tell me you've been making a
ifraiF With these Aiexieans."
"Saoui 'ut wouifrifI had. says he. ..thstsI
Isat what come out here Tor"
Wei, | must say, SIR. saws |, IL think
ttis a pretty Fieee OF business. How do
Won dare To 10 such a thing! You know the
President ordered YOU homs.''
Yes s'ys he. 'and | mean to 90 home as
s'ol as set Though the job he sent me to
,io.
"'W.ll now saws |. "Trist. | claim 70
NnnW what the President is about. and what
be- wants. and I'm hi. Confidential Trend and
private embassadlr cut here, and | shall take
Che liberty tn interfere ia Ills business This
hi5hhanied doing OF yourn must he mint of in
uie bud. hat sort OF ii birlsin have you
been %makinsl Just let me look at the trea-
Y.
Tan I do it, says he. its half way to
vera Cruz by this time; | sent il of yester.
day
Blood and thuuderi'' saws / "then YOU have
knock d the vaeie busi6t s. in III hea |. sure
enough. You We committed an outrageous
tlime' SIR, and a great shame; aud don't YOU
know sir. That great crimes deserve great nun
ishHtHt>l ! don't know what Col Polk will
30. but In W what nay friend old Hickory
would doii he Was alive; be would hang YOU
night up to the first tree he come at"
w hot hang me for doing jest What | was
sent here to do! says he. For I've made
i such a bargain as the President told me to
make; only a ilt:le better one"
"liats nothing here nor here saws |.
you hnow cIrcumsiances alters cases. And
YOU hhow. that. as things now stand, the
Pr sd Mt don't want a treaty. Now. saws l.
Mir itisl, answer me enc piain question
"Doyou think GU have amy right at all TO
'' 49,. eiN XII idS ordered
you homer
"Ntll.' says he, 81 think circumstances
alters 'ases too; aid when the President or
dered mr one, ! suppose he thought / couldn't
sei through The JOB lie sent me to do. tut |
thought %couit, aud 80 | kept nying, and I've
got through with 1t, al last, and done the bu-
slness oil up according TO my first orders; and
/ dom see why the President shouldn't be
well satisfied"
well" soys |, whats the items Of the
bargain? What have you agreed upon.'
why says he, I'VE have the whole OF
TeNss clear 10 tn Rio Grande. we have
all OF New Mexico, and all of Upper
California And we pay the Mexicans fifteen
mii IONS. ana pay our own eitlzens five mill
lions tafl tn MeSicaus owed them. And we
STOP hriag. draw our charges from the guns
Mat are loaded, and 80 home
"Wrli. now says /. "Tri,t don't YOU ,link
you are "a pr'tty teller To make such a bargain
ss this at This time of day? The President
viii oe mortified to death aboui it Here
W. We b en fighting near a5oul two Yeas to
maize The Mexlrans pay over hat five millions
CT dolIa1s they ON ed our people. and now
You've agreed hat We Stall put our hands in
our pockets and pay it ourselves. The whole
plan {. The war has b Ell carried on by he
President up n the highest principles 10 90
s'laistt dhadd and cong ter a peace man
fashion: and now you've agrees 10 back on,
Of tn sceape, aud buy a peace, and pay The
money turli. You Know very well the Pres.
sidrnt has declared, time and again, that 4 G
war should 80 on nd We got Indemnity 70,
The past and security Tor the lutuge-them's
his v word,-anl now you've agreed 10
settl- rp without getting one jot Of either
For The past, We ole atieast ID hundred mil
lions o. dollars out OF pocket, besides losing
ten or fifteen Thousand men. As Ter he men,
| srosr you may say we can offset them against
the Mr&icans We have Killed, and as we have
killed re than they have, may he it ioots
up d tlttte IN our tnvof, aud that's The only adj
Vantage YOU have secured. RS or the hun
dr"d %tnlitionS ol dollars, we don't get penny
OF il back, So oil The Indemnity YOU get tor
lha past Is a lew thuusdud dead Mexicacs-
that i, as many as remain after subs, racing
wbat %ibey've killed OF Us IRON what we've
killed OF them. Bat the cap-sheat of your
bargain Is The "~security for the ~iutnre.' The
CllleS and towns and castles that we have fit
SO hard to take, and have got our men into,
and all So well secufed.y u now agree to give
em oil right up again tothe euemy, aud march
oar men oil home with their fingers in their
mouths; ana that's our security for The future.
As!or the nlleen millions Of dollars you agree
to pay ior New Mexico and California, YOU
might jest as well a thrown the money INTO
th" sea, tor they was ours aiore; they was al
ready conquered ant annexed, and was as
much ours as II we had paid The money 70,
en-
Here | tumedon nv heel and left him, for
| was 50 Disguised at the conduct oil the felIer
Wat | wouldn't have awy more talk with him.
/ = ht t.lt.- my aptr iNalAaAl H.. = ,.A,l.-.
fer us To do but To- look this business right In
ms face ami make lhe best we can oft. II
Niere was any way 70 hero the thing out OF
sight. Il would he bsst itf you 10 throw the
Irtay Ia tbs IRE fs saoa rs you get it and send
VOID on TO Giuersi ssotl 20 60 ahead aga A.
bat that IS imppssiha;' it will be spread all
over he country AMI iaiewn to every BODY
And IN convinced il Wit b. the best way for
,ou 10 turn Tl4at abeut. make out to be clad
u What can't be heiped. and accept the trea
tr. The nominations lr President is close al
lani, aud you must IN ready to go into The
lection iar the second Term on what you've
.ot, aud make the best show you can win il.
4 you shuuid'rtjrct The realty, The opposition
You'd set tie advantage OF YOU again: they
would then cry cut that HE Mexicans had ask
ii Tor peace and ypt aad refused il; aud there
you'd or no tnd to their growing about his
pprrsslte war OF Invasion. Bat II YOU accept
re treaty, II puts an rnI 10 their srumbling
bout the War, .
10 plcll, our friends that are very eager for
be whole OF Mexico. you must tell 'em to look
'ui AMI see how much we base already rot:
,ttP telling oi 'em liiat bail a loaf is batter
bau 40 bread; tell 'tui 10 herp quiet unlil al.
~ year neXt eieeiioa is over. and may be
600 a c'utfive some plln % be eating into
t"lhrrhaI. k-ep Mf. kitchie blowing The or.
att. oil WealurIs. to the Tune oil hall of Nrxi-
q" iora song. Tell tie Ahale country. ans