The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-03-02

mencement OF the next week. Speculatons are rife
about the result The ratification requires two-thrds of
the votes and no one positively say how many of
each party will vote against il, and whether it will
ceve the constitutional sanction. How many wings or
how many democrats viii vote against IT, no one can
positively ascertan nor is 1t surprising, since new as
poets oil this important question continually presented
which calculated TO change the course of different
senator's
We do not hesitate TO say, if the people al large were
poed upon the matter. the decided voice would be for
peace and for the general outline Of the treaty. modified
indeed, in two particulars The voice of the people
49, IN fact, coming up to member of Congress has
just returned from Mississippi and reports the anxious
desire OF the people for ratification of the treaty We
hear OF no dissentient voice from Virginia The mem
bers of the House of Representatives as well as the c-
zens in this metropolis, far we can collect their
opinion, in favor of the proposed treaty. with few
notifications They argue that have no time to lose;
that if the treaty be ratified at all by the Congress of
Queretaro it ought to be ratified without delay before
new elements of opposition formed in that coun-
try; that the question ought to be settled before
the nclemency OF the climate which may endan-
ger the lives of the recruits whom we may send
there in the treaty to be rejected and the war
the treaty be ratified, and they are to be withdrawn from
the country be exposed to the danger of the climate
of Vera Cruz. Besides it is urged very interesting
letter from distinguished officer, that this proposed
treaty has been formed under peculiarly urgent circum-
stancesthat the postponement of the negotiation until
the Mexicans could have heard from Washington, must
have been fatal, not only to the negotiations but to the
existence of the Mexican government ITSELF and that the
treaty was formed on the earnest representations of the
representatives OF friendly nations at Mexico, as af-
ording the BEST perhaps last, chance of putting an
end to the war tits further urged that the me nbers of
the government, and the Mexican commissioners who
made the treaty, of rreproachabe morals and char
acter So that it may be assumed first that the Mexican
government is confident of the ratification of the treaty
by its Congress- and, secondly that it is honest and
sincere in its efforts to effect it, but that if the treaty be
now rejected the present powers will be dissolved and
no new government is likely to arise with whom we may
hereafter treat and form new treaty The policy Of
ratification is therefore urged upon us, rejection will
destroy the present government and viii be impossible
to organize another. So that any hope of treaty must
end there will remain authority that treat or rep
resent the nation in any way. is further represented
that the territory coded to us is onehrd of Mexico-is
nearly as large thirteen original States and has
several seaports, the finest in the world
We are satisfied, Notwithstanding that some of the
wings will attempt to deprecate the value of the territory
which we may acquire But this is the same game over
again which was played on the purchase of Louisiana,
which said by the opposition to be of very little &C
count both in the value of its land and in other respects
In fact let any man compare the diatribe which Mr.
Truman Smith, of Connecticut delivered this day against
he ofyi hat, a.
asts forty -four years ago against the acquisition of Lou
sana, and he will be asonished at the uniform charac
ter of the opposition which attacks the value of both
acquisitions The opposition TO the wal has been
carried far by the wings of the present Con-
gress, that there are doubts already entertained about
the ratification of the treaty by the Mexican Con-
gress From the disposition shown in both houses to
delay any action the measures, the Mexicans be-
gin to draw the most sanguine expectations that the
President will not be upheld and shrewd and dstin-
guished officer in the city of Mexico thinks it extremely
doubtful whether the Congress of Queretaro will meet
before six weeks, if it meet at all.
The presses of both parties beginning to express
strong hope OF its speedy ratification by the Senate The
"Ncw York Tribune" thus speaks its opinion
"THE TREArY-We give no credence to rumors import
that the treaty of peace with Mexico may be rejected
by the Senate. Objectionable as comics sedy is. we are
yet confident that it will be promptly ratified Admit all
its faults and say fan mless and endless foreign war not
far than any honorable treaty peace could be- Hard
it to pay Mexico fifteen millions of dollars for territory
do not want, would it be far to spend ffy
millions another campaign, and very likely as far
from peace at the end of now Beside where is
money? How Is to be raised When it to be paid
If we can buy end to such this for fifteen mil
lions, der that dirt cheap.
The tate OF the treaty is of course in the hands the
administration senator's If the of them choose
fly it, it cannot fail; ifhey 20 agan, it, it must fail
We trust there will not be wing against it, unless
possibly those of two of the three Johnson They
may fly off in tangent, before but that one other
wing will vote to reject the treaty. will believe
until see it in the yea. and nays. True, don't
want the Mexican deserts; don't to pay ff
millions for the hababe country they offer to
cede don't want to acquire the most desirable
ritoy by virtue of our pistol held the owners head we
the aduncs revolving. We have yet seen nor
heard from single whg who is the ratification
of the treaty. Give peace.
Another New York paper the Morning Star" thus
also expresses its own opinion
tsTREArY MExIco.-We perceive that the cardinal
features of the treaty with Mexico laid before Senate
for consideration and adoption, in effect the sa
which Mr. Trs authorized to offer prior the battles
before the city Of Mexico and only involved the question
whether it is interest tender the terms er
victory, which we did prior those battles Having once
offered them, we lose nothing in the estimation of the
world in renewing them to dspred people, bending
der the evils and vicsstudes of and suffering defeat
every contest Our boundary under this treaty.
in the Gulf of Mexico, up through the middle
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