New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-15
THINGS IN WASHINGTON.
Anniversary Of the War-Whaf we are and
what we might have been-Refusal of Polk
TO give informatios-,1r. Pearce'- rpe-ch-
Nrs. Gaines, &c.

uaoros q large Mexican city. Oceans Of o4ocd
have flowed since to stone for this wicked act Of
the President and for our stupidity IN putting him
where be IS.
a. Ana this was but Just, future szSs will say,
When some names shall live bit IL hissry 5 curse.
When Truth viii be heard srd those lords q osy
Be forgotten as fools. or remembered as worse
And when We look back upon what our country
might have been-the millions spent IN spreading
carnage and desoiston, expended on works Of use
falness-our country prosperous, N peace, and out
Of debt aud Patriot, States nan and Pnian:hro-
PIT honoriDg the chair Of the great and good who
had gone before biai, and whom be had made bis
models how humilisting 10 see a great people
put at their head such u1an as>Poik, when he mp
on whom the mantle Of wisdom descended from
the Fathers Of the Republic, walks about among
Us the anhonored bot stiI immortal HEsRT CLAY
Whose mind is an essence ccmpo8ntel with srt,
From tie naest and best Of al other mems powers
Who rules. Ike wizard, the world Of the heart,
Anaeould call sunshine. bring dewnits showers.
Whose eioquence, Frightening whatever Il tried,
Whether reason or fAncy-the gay or the grave,
Is as rapid az deep, and as brilliant a tide
Az ever bore freedom al9ft on Its wave
OBJ it 10 humiating 70 see what we are and TO
think what we might hsve been Two years Of
carnage and blood 10 gut the vast revenge of such
a nlaA as Mr. POLK people divided into sec
tonal parties, our Treasury empty, our country IN
debt and our barbors unimproved at the calls o.!
Commerce to sstate the taste which be has for blood
and carnage il not too near him.
The President has sent to the lIOuse, today
his refusal TO give up the reasonable correspond
ence he held with the bloody ruftian SANTA AsSA,
-treacherous as himself and deceiving as the
author Of the Kane letter" Can we wonder that
two such men should enter into schemiDg plots IN
the moral atmosphere Of the cockpits Of Havana
But the President refuses to give up the proofs,
because they relate to negotiations not yet com
pleted Did not the proofs Of BENEDICT ARSoLD's
treason. with better man than SANTA ANNA, re-
late TO negotiations nerer Completed wonder that
the Preaidents friends do not that their strongest
ground is this that these transactions between Mr..
Polk and Gen. SANTA ANNA are only cogtdeatioi
notes betneen intimate friends, and that Congress
has no business to interfere with the social rels
tons of prirate friendship. Mr.. ADAMS made some
severe remarks about the President today. The
fact is, the President, with his vast patronage
now feels himself stronger than Congress trust
Congress will soon make the trisl OF strength, and
prove whether we really ere despotism or not
/ want TO see whether the President has light,
in spite Of Congress, TO get us into war-to
send ruffsn, known TO be such, TO lead our enc
nv and 10 butcher our citizens-aDd then refuse to
give any reasons to Congress why hrs Majesty was
moved 70 commit this unparalleled act of treason.
Maryland holds up her head. TO day, as Of old,
among the Wing Sisterhood of States. | will not
attempt to give you sketch of the mastery man'
ner ia which Mr.. PEARcE used up the arguments
which had unfortunately come from distinguished
airy lander in favor of the justice Of this war
Mr. PEAKcE is a fine linguist aud largely read !
choar. His eruditlon was manifest. 10 day, on !
he nice questions OF boundary He utterly ennhi /
ated the arguments u show that Texas extended |
o the Rio Grande. He pr0red, every man who |
lad read for himself knew before that where |
Sen. TAYLOR encamped, opposite Matamoros, /.
BY order OF our Government just two years |
ago. was as clearly Mexican territory, as Al !
,any is part of New York State. He showed
he utter ignorance Of those who talk about
SANTA ASsA's treaty while a prisoner, with
military as well as civil functions suspended, and
proved from Texas herself that her claim to the Rio
irande in 1886 WAS only pat up for the sake Of
having large margin for negotiations He proved
By BEvIoN IEGERsoLL DosELsoS, MARCY ami
Dther Loco Focos, that Mexico was ia possession
'ast of the Rio Graude He showed that we were
reversing the manly rule which said parcere SUB
sctis debeliore Super6oS." Our Government seemed
to be growing craven TO the proud, and naughty
only toward the weak The Northeastern Boun-
dairy showed US British soldiers on our soil. The
case OIL the CdTOIuc suOWcu US blOJi
shed on American soil" He might have added
SO 40 showed us the white feather Of Looo-Foco-
Ism.
" To show the white feather Is many meas doom
But what Of one feather Polk shows whole plume.
Did our Loco Foco President or our Loco Foco
Congress ever think OF acting toward strong ard
naughty England we have done toward weak
and PROSTATE Mexico Did we ever. il other wars
ask for Indemnity in land or money. The war Of
1912 cost OF two hundred millions Of dollars
We never asked cent OF indemnity. Why do We
now
HIS reference to Ton CRiB's" remonstsance
against the meannsss o. q transaction, similar -
our cry for more vigorous blows on Mexico when
she is really PROSTATE and bleeding at our feet was
stogingly apropoS
what Ben. my old hero Is tbs your feoowu7
I, this the rev g9l-kicS man when hos down
When the foe has knocked uuder-t0 tread on him then
By the Is, Of my father, l blush for thee, Ben
And Molyreux ay even Blookey, cries shame.
Loot down upon Ben-see him. dasglR all DER.
Ipsut the fallen foe thst harm HIM no more.
Out cowaToly spQ Reyi Again aud sgsin
by the nst Of nv father, blush for thee. Ben"
Ay. and You will see all the y0oReys, that ran,
ike so many dunskW champions from So iO'
stand by the President fora vigorous prosecution OF
war upon the body Of PROSTATE foe. And this Is
called the honor Of our country. Mr. Z. gave a
some pecunisry indemnity for hack hire the price
OF powder, pistols, cowhldes. or whatever else be
had provided himself with, for tie vodicstion OF
his honor lie had booked into Sir JosAH BAR
RiNGToS N vain TO find this IN any Irish code Of
honor. He cespised the man and he would de-
spiSe the nation that would talk Of it. But can.
not give you even the points you must give the
whole speecA IL was imprompta nearly. as Il
was not I'LL yesterday be intended speaking.
had almost forgot mention the best part Of IT,
He came out maniuly against our going on with
out providing to meet the expenses. IL was not
fair that one generation should have all the glory
and the next all the taxes II he could bring It
about we shall pay sswe 60. Thus is but fair. ii
will insist on knocking out brains 1t Is but fair
TO pay Tor the laxury.
Mr. BUrLER Of ;. {. speaks on Monday. the
Senate having adjourned over TIL that day. Mr..
BADGER follows on Tuesday. The bull Of Folks
war has been taken by the hoTns-l trust the COW
srdce, imbecllity, and high handed usurps,ion BY
which It was begun, snd by which j, has been car
ried on by the Administration lmiDd YOU, except
the glorious achievements Of Scott and Taylor
will be thoroughly investigated and exposed.
fear our Statesmen do not feel the full weight OF
the detestaion which the people have for this Ar,
its authors and its ends. TIE glory of our gallsnt
army does DOT dim the pubic eye, nor make il
Mind IN fhs -fui W frt