The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-07-14
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And to this add the loss Of time and labor
to the country of fifty thousand volunteers for
two years, and the loss 10 families and 10 the
country OF fifteen or twenty THOUSAND valuable
lives. And, he repeated for all this, what
have We gained? New Mexico and California
which will cost US every year to maintain and
defend, as much as il is worth. And where is
our promised indemnity for the past and Sc
curity for the future! Indemnity! We have
none, not cent for all our losses; but Mexico
has received indemnity for the past" by re-
lease of the five millions of debt which Mr..
Polk made the war TO recover, and fifteen mil
lions in cash; and as TO security for the future
We have none. But what has Mexico. She
has security for the future. We are bound to
protect her northern frontier against the hos
tile and predatory incursions of the Indians OF
California, now ours, heretofore a source of SO
much annoyance, expense and suffering TO her
people. From these calamities she is to be
hereafter protected, not by her own, but by
American armies; so that, in point of fact,
Mexico. and not Mr.. Polk has got all ihe
Indemnity for the past and security for the
future.
| Such are the benefits of our war and the
blessings Of our peace, of which we hear SO
much Boosting on the other side of the House.
Sir, but for the madness and folly of this ad-
ministration, all We have got could have been
obtained, By wise counsels and amicable nego-
tiation, for some fifteen or twenty millions. -
Who can doubt il? But no, nothing but wal
and bloodshed would satisfy the President Inc
would "cavil on the ninth part of hair" he
would not consent TO change the title of our
negotiator sent TO Mexico from minister pie
nlpotentiary" to commissioner" which was
all that required TO secure his recognition By
Mexico, and the opening Of negotiations fol
peace. Rather than comply with this reasona-
BILE request, he instantly ordered Gen. Taylor
to march to the Rio Grande, and commenced
the war without consulting Congress, then in
session; thus fixing on Polk and his party the
responsibility, the fearful responsibility of thi
war and all Its con sequences.
But there was another grave objection he had
to the policy of the administration. Our gov
eminent, as now administered, has in effert
become foreign Government, We could now
do everything abroad and nothing at home
The American people were taxed for the benefi
Of foreigners. The millions raised TO carry on
this war had been expended for the most part
in foreign country. Internal Improvements
were unconstitutional at home, but not abroad
we could survey, and of course improve, the
Dead Sea, we could make roads and canal.
pee. III we want goods they must come from
abroad. American hats, shoes and coats, wer.
not good enough for the Administration; they
reduced the duties and brought. them from
abroad. A proposition was actually made b,
his colleague, Mr.. J. G. lngersoll,) and sus-
tanned by his party, a few days ago, 10 take
half the present low duties off the ricl
mans lLxuries, jewelry, and everything of the
kind, and off iron, coal. cloth, hats, shoes, aud
every species of manufacture, reducing the re-
venue one half expressly TO favor foreigners
who were repre- sented by his colleague to be
In suffering condition, (no matter about Am
ericans) aud then, 10 make up, il was proposed
to put duty of twenty-five per cent on the
poor mans tea and coffee.
Thus. Sir, everything done by those '-pro-
gressives" inure TO the benefit Of Foreigners
Our money is sent in ship loads abroad; our
Improvements are foreign; our army and our
navy are employed abroad. Everything is
foreign, foreign; nothing American. No power
| 10 protect or benefit our own people or improve
our own country. The power TO contract debts
to tax and Cypress the people, were the only
legitimate powers Of Government as now adj
ministered. Was this not true to the letter.
Would the people longer submit to this state
of things2 The power and the remedy was in
their own hands. and they would apply it by
elevating that honest, tue hearted American,
Gen. Taylor to the Presidency, who would
soon correct these foreign and anti-American
tendencies, and bring the country back to the
good old revolutionary principles of the true
American policy of the earlier and better days
of the republic.
| The Baltimore platform had a great many
| things in it to which his brief remaining time
would not permit him to allude He saw
| amongst other things, they had resolution in
which they repeated the Presidents charge that
the Wings gave laid and comfort TO the enc
N.Y." Now he would like TO know what sor,
OF "ad aud comfort Gid lack gave to the enc
my MIR. Polk sent Santa Anna to give them
aid and comfori, while instead of aid. General