The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1848-04-10

gentleman can stand up here or elsewhere anu
say, that the recruiting service can go on faster
than it will be necessary to go on IN order 10
fill up these deficiencies in the regiments
abroad But now what do we want with
greater force than we now have in Mexico?
Without asking what need there is for the
supply of deficiencies in the existing regi-
ments, what do we want beyond the thirty
thousand regulars and volunteers now IN field
services What is the purpose? There Is no
army to fight. I suppose the enemy has not
five hundred men together under arms in any
part of Mexico. Except in one instance, per-
haps, there is not half that number. Mexico
is PROSTATE. There is no government to resist
us. Why, it is notorious that the Govern
ment of Mexico is on our side. 1t is our in
strument by which we hope to establish such
peace, and accomplish such treaty as We
wish. AS far as can understand the matter
the Government of Mexico owes its life and
breath, and being, at this moment, to the sup
port of our arms; and 20 the hope-I will not
say how inspired that somehow or another,
and at no distant period, there may be pecu-
mary means arising from our three millions,
or our twelve millions, or some other of our
millions. What do we propose to do, then,
with those thirty regiments that we design to
pour into Mexicos Are we going to cue the
Threats of the Mexicanss Are we going to
plunge the sword deeper and deeper into the
vital parts of Mexico. What do we propose
to dos Sir, l see no object, and yet we are
pressed and urged to adopt this proposition in
its full length -ten regiments of regulars, and
twenty regiments of volunteers We are
told, and the public is told and the public be-
lieves, that we are on the verge of a safe and
honorable peace. Every man looks out in the
morning for tidings of confirmed peace, or
confirmed hopes of peace He gathers it from
the administration, and every organ of the ad-
ministraton, from Dan to Beersheba and yet
the warike operations-the incurring of ad-
ditonal expense-the imposition of new
charges upon the treasury, are pressed here as
il peace was not in all our thoughts, at least
not in any of our expectations
Now, Sir, l propose TO hold some plain talk
today; and say that according to my best
judgment and apprehension of matters, the
main object of these bills is patronage-office
the qualification of friends. This very
measure for ten additional regiments, creates
four or five hundred officers, colonies and
subalterns, and not them only, for whom /
have some respect but then there comes, pay
neutrality-suspicious. engaged in the
transport service-.commissaries- down
to suffers, ctid gcnus omne-people who handle
the public money without facing the foe; one
and ali, the true descendants, if not she true
representatives OF corporal N YIN, WHO SdlU
For shall suter be . .-.
Unto the camp, and profits Kin accrue"'
Sir, l hope, without disrespect to those APP
plicants and asprants. and those patriots,
some Of them patriots ready to fight, and those
other patriots not willing to fight, but willing
to be paid-I hope-without disrespect to any
of them, according to their rank and station,
and merits, that they may be all disappointed
I hope, Sir, as the weather grows genial, and
= hos a1u how, fh, hole
find it their interest to place themselves one
of these mild mornings in the and take
their destination to their respective places of
honorable, private occupation and civil en-
ployment. They have my good wishes that,
bidding adieu to the Avenue and the CAPITOL
and the pnIheus of the Presidents House,
they may reach their hoGaes, in good health
themselves, and find their families all very
happy to receive them
But, Sir, paulo mqjora canamus This war
was waged toH the purposes of creating new
States, near the Southern portion OF the United
States, Out of Mexican territory, and with
such population as might be found resident
therein. l have opposed that project. am
against the creation of new States. L am
against the acquisition of the territory to form
new States. And this, Sir, is not a matter of
sentinentality, which am to parade before
mass meetings, or before my constituents at
home. 1t IS with me no matter of declama-
ton, regret or expressed repugnance. 1t is,
matter of firm, Interchangeable purpose, to yield
to no force of circumstances that have occur
red, or that l may consider likely to occnr;
and therefore say, Sir, that if am asked
to-day, whether fl the sake of peace l will
take a treaty that brings two new States into
the Union on its southern boundary l say no,
distinctly NO and l wish every man in the
United States to understand that to be my
judgment and my purpose. have said on
the southern boundary, because there the
present proposition takes its locality. wo' Id
say the same of the western, the northern, the
eastern, or any other boundary. l would