Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-03-16
Mnitc0 5tatrs Gonoress.
Editorial Correspondence of Pitts. Gazette
THE TREATY, RATIFICATION, TERRI.
TORY, &c.

WASHINGTON, March 4; ! 94G
The week has passed, - the thirteenth of the
session, without any action upon the Treaty.
The sessions have been long, wearisomo and
The debates no doubt of an unusual character
Ii is perhaps n new Thing under the sun to find
u treaty submitted to a public body for rali6ca.
tion with every body opposed TO il, who are Ia
uct upon il, from the President to all of both
parties, whose advice is asked upon ils ralifca.
tion. Wlb the result very doubtful, there has
been great anxiety 10 knowlhe opinions of Sena.
rors.aud the aclionoflhe Senate from day to day.
In the form in which is was originally submitted
by the Executive, lis ratification was impossib' G,
aud with considerable uuaRmiiy tA.rs'o c, m
amendment was Urged, and carried. Since then
new amendments have been urged. and this day 5
discussion has been upon them altogether. Il is
not deemed very reishiug id "a Thai all the pro.
pie OF New Mexico and California are to come
into the Union at once with all the privileges
Of the old ciliz'ns Of the United Slalcs, and
something more indeed. Nor is it a very pleas.
aui reflection that we are To guarantee The Mcxi.
can nJton from Indian depr,darons, and be-.
come at once both the dcspolr of her provinces
AMI the prolccjorut her existence. In The COURSE
Of political history strange Ihiug3 have appeared,
but The state Of u:ls ia regard to The treaty OF
Mexico is beyond all example amazing. The
man who had predicted The present Slalc Of fact
u year since would have boen declared q mad.
man or something worse.
The admission Of Texas was talked Of four
years ago, but the very idea connrred up the
ferc 81 opposition, even from tho Democrats of
the NOrh.-B1holI now, not only Texas an.
nexed and not only old Texas to Il Q NeIces
only even according 10 Stephen Aus,ia's map
which have this day seen but Texas even TO
the Rio Grande, with the Senate dclihcralng as
10 the possession of California New Mexico and
some oGIhe body claiming down to the Sierra
Madre, and some almost up to this point thus
hoverng in tho country like the strip of iron in
the vice Of The arzar. Some think cur mar.
ches are SLOW. So thought The sans cuIolte in
the French Revolution, all the time they were
counseIing progress and conquest before and
under Napoleon. We arc further from New
Mexico and California now than France was
from her most distant possessions aud conquest.
England has gone further. but at the price Of u
debt which will be forever and forever an enor-
nous tax upon the industry, enterprise and cncr-
gy Of her people.
1t is just one year less ono day, (and the re.
naming days will now be counted as the dccl.
ming days ola peoples captivity that Mr.. Polk
Is entitled TO ain in tho Executive Chair
While President he has said IN one of his Mes.
sagas to Congress he will not consent to surrcn.
der New Mexico or California! The Senate
must acI in view Of this state of facts. lie who
commenced The war with the view Of scizing
this territory, whose officers, as had occusion
to show yesterday took part against Mexico in
California long before the act Of hosiIilies was
known, feels bound to conSumute this much OF
his nelurious work.
Reading further indeed into the California
document, from which | quoted, find that
Captain Gillespie was sent to California, through
Mexico in l845 for the purpose Of protecting
American interests. lie went with instructions
TO the American consul at Monterey, and with
letters 10 Col. Fremont, and these instructions
wtrj to md and Torment any difficulties which
existed between the CuIilornians aud MeXicons
To the public all this was disguised under the
idea Of protecting American interests" but the
protection was war and meant war. To make
this testimony complete, the instructions Of tho
Navy Department und the executive ought to be
laid before the public. E. y.