Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26
THE "BUFFALO HUNT" CONFIRMED AND
CONFESSED.

this month, announcing the projected conquest from
Mexico, by an illegal and criminal expedition of
armed citizens from the United States, of several Of
her Northern Provinces enabling us, however, to
correct error of the press, being that which re-
presented Gen. SHIELDS as being probably at st.
Luis (Potosi instead of at st. Louis (Missouri)
making the necessary preliminary arrangements.
The Bulletin Of the 18th instant says:
There is not the least doubt Of the correctness
of the statement in the following article, which we
take from the National hltelligencer Of the LIST
August as to the intention to separate the Mexi-
can provinces on the Rio Grande from Mexico,
and TO establish new republic. The nforma-
ton is equally correct that the plan for doing this
is now organizing, or rather IS organized, in the,
United States, and is to be effected by an armed
force from this country, and that Gen. SHIELDS is
: al the head Of the movement. The whole plan is
mo secret here in New Orleans, but is freely spo-
ken Of, and parties openly that they are en-
gagged in it, and we have now before us one of the
.prnted circulars issued by the leaders, calling up
son the parties to rendezvous for the grand Buffalo
: Hunt on the Rio Grande.
q 1t is also fact, and we speak adyisedly when
swe assert it, that the Government at Washington
has not only been made acquainted with the plan,
but was actually consulted upon it, and its aid and
assistance asked It, however, has declined to in
terfere, and will neither assist the undertaking
: take measures to check and arrest the movement.
AS regards the former, il of course is acting right
sly; as regards the latter it is as clearly wrong.
g Not only do the laws of the United States pro-
hibit its citizens from engaging in and fitting out
hostile ornaments from our ports or territory,
against the territory of friendly Power, but the
slaws of nations and the principles of honor and
'justice are equally opposed to such proceedings.
Yet, in the face OF the constitutional duty OF the
President, under the solemnity of his official oath,
and with full knowledge of the facts, all the ar
rangements for this warlike expedition are allow
ed to progress with impunity within our territory,
and without the slightest effort the part of our
srulers to nerere'or prevent it, not even to notify
the parties that they could not be allowed to pro-
\ coed in such an undertaking
at is, as the hfeiigencer justly observes, one
of the residuary consequences of the Mexican
Texan war; and is to be added to the other evils
(which the policy of Mr.. Polk and his party have
entailed on the nation. We learn that there will
be no lack Of means and probable oUer supply of
physical force, for the object in question, and
soon as the heats of summer hare passed, zoe shall
see ar armed force recruited and organised,
,cifhin our limits, in a time Of profound peace,
'assembled on the Rio Grande, With the openly
'auo,oed object of inuading and Remembering the
Territory Of sister republic. No doubt they will
divide out the property and lands of the country
eon the same plan as that adopted by the NoRMANs
in England. Those engaged in the enterprise
pretend to- justify their proceedings on the plea
that the expedition is undertaken at the instance
and request Of the people of the country, who
DESTROYS of separating from the Mexican Govern
'ment and establishing an independent republic.
The pretence is too shallow TO be worthy of even
a passing reply, as venture to say that not one
in hundred, probably not one in thousand, of
the inhabitants within the territory will know that
such step is in contemplation, until they find
their peaceful homes invaded by an army with
banners
"One thing, at any rate, is certain, that the Ame-
rican Government now publicly, as il was pre-
'viously priuately notified OF the fact, and if al
lows this fragrant violation of and attack upon the
Mexican rights to be consummated, it the Execu-
tive must bear the whole responsibility and the
odium Of the transaction in the face Of the world"
The New Orleans Delta displays an openness and
frankness which show TO what extent the press
parakes of the spirit Of lawess adventure and vio
lence which has been kndled in the souls of many
those who have for the last two years scented
the carnage of the battlefield; whose christian and
human natures have been so perverted by il as not
W w ouaS w uCsNCcu iBh' ahu "iObB ,
between the laws Of war and the duties Of peace,
between bearing arms under their country's flag
and carrying fire and sword among friendly peo-
pie, under pretences which take nothing from the
stupendous criminality of the action. Thus con-
fesses the Delta Of the 18th instant, commenting
upon the Bulletins article of the 18th:
"Cesn enteprsrg citizens, who have observed the vast
resources Of the region north of the Sierra Made and the
hopeessness Of the development Of these by the
present population, have the request Of the people Of that
country, determined to emigrste thher with oil the
and implements Of peaceabe culture and enterprise. i
the desire Of the people Of the country that they should do
80. The Mexicans wish to make their land valuable
and to give prosperity TO their country They know that
can only be saved bya liberal system Of coonizatonby
American energy and enterprise They desire to see in
troduced into their country the and institutions by which
this great republic has been built up its present height Of
glory and prosperity
will require stronger arguments than those Of the Bull
letn and National Inegencer to convince the intelligent
people Of this country that there any thing wrong in this
The CAN'T about The horrors Of The Merican Teran ,cdr
Is BEHIND Il sprung from the old jealousy Of
the North against the South The former, whilst pos
sessng boundess prospect Of expansion, wished hem in
and restrict the latter within certain and bounds I'm
fortunately cant has its deyotees the South well in
the North Through this medium Northern eaIousies and