Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-08-24

which Mr.. Trist addressed TO the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, and which was
read to the House on Thursday, is published in
the National Intelligencer of the 18th. MIR.
frists letter was accompanied with various
documents and papers, which. he asks the
Speaker 10 lay before that BODY. He
says:
They are not what have wished and in
tended TO present; but the day fixed for the adj
Jounrment OF Congress forbids any further de-
lay on my part, and until my intention can be
executed they must suffice. They will answer
the purpose of dispelling, in some degree at
least, the justification with which the mind
OF our country has been couded up in regard
to the treaty of peace, and all matters touched
upon in them.
soon became aware of the justification
above referred to. As the only way in which
IL could be thoroughly dispeled, determi ned
TO lay before the representatives of the people
connected and detailed narrative of every
thlng That has occurred to me having the slight
est bearing upon matters which the public in
terests demand that the country should know
the exact truth of. This exact aud full know
ledge and thorough understanding il is of the
very highest importance TO her that she should
possess. 1t ls 50 for numberless reasons that
most deeply concern her, and concern her
IN The most permanent manner, concern her
now, and concern her in the boundess here
after.
The letter says that the "narrative"
above referred to will be prepared in
month or two. Mr.. Trist then gees on
to make the following very grave declara-
tons:
/
Had Congress continued to sit a month or
two longer should not at this moment have
broken silence; should have bided until /
could lay before the country, through her rep.
resentatives, The narrative 10 which | have re-
ierred, connected unbroken, not a single gap
ia 1t, detailed 80 lar as necessary 10 establish
clea' connexion This il the only way which
truth can be presented in a shape to leave no
doubt AZ TO lis being what It's. Isolated "prom-
inent facts will not do. However true they
may be, they can always be deHlsd, and more OF
less plausibly converted. The whole truth Is
the thing this the people shall have. II will
then be seen leho, among those who seek their
confidence, will be 40 bold as to pretend that
| he does not believe it.
In one Of the accompanying papers (oler
| to the "Represengati OF the American pto-
pie" under date MEXICO, Feb. ~, 1881 my
belief IL expressed that Congress and the cOun.
Try had been deceived by the individual hold
ing the trust of President OF the United
States" and that the object for which that de-
ception had been practised WAS the indefinite
protraction OF the war--this protmction OF the
war having for its end the conquest of Mexico
and her absorption into our Union. This was
my belief then; ii il my belief now. In that
same letter, and particularly in the notes re.
Gently appended 10 1t, my belief is expressed
that corrupt use has been made of the power
and the influence attached to the trust of " Pres
ident OF the United States" even TO the extent
OF Subordindtioa of perjury!
Upon both these points my beliefs positive
and firm, distinct and clear. Equally firm and
clear in my mind is the futher belief, that TO
make the former the belief of Congress and OF
the country nothing is necessary but that the
representatives OF the people should exercise
the powers OF inquiry Inherent in them as the
grand Inquest of the nation-as the body eek
clusiyely" entrusted by the constitution with
'the power" and consequently with the duty
''of Impeachment"
The letter then refers to the late revolution in
France, and after citing as one of the leading
causes OF that event 'the corrupt use OF Exec
utive influence. goes on to say
1t is time, high time, that we should LOOK
AT HONE. Corrupt use of Executive innu-
IHNe' ouSH aH' @cCotolhS 10 ihy soieihh oeleI,
has occurred among OURSELVES within the last
six months, cannot have been snrpd sScd by
anything that formed part OF the "misrule' of
the "Citzen King" In point of unscrupu-
i lousness and righteousness, 1t cannot have been
/ surpassed In point of audacity and efl'ront-
cry, doubt if it has been equalled by any
thing ever ventured upon by that "mon-
arch"
The letter AID accompanying papers were re-
ferred TO the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions.