The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-01-22
FROM WASHINGTON,
Correspondence of the Boston Atlas.
WAsHINGToN Jan. 10.
All of Mexico to be CONQUERED,

WAsHINGToN Jan. 10.
All of Mexico to be Conquered.
Senator flanagan of Indiana introduced
three resolutions to the Senate. They were
three in nutnber,and contained three distinct
propositions. The LIST was, that it may be.
come necessary hereafter to assume u delen.
sive line. I'd. That this Government would
not permit the establishment in Mexico ofa
monarchical form of government; and, 3D.
THAT IL ,CdS not in Uiotdtiom ofa republican
form Of government 10 hold The toholc Of .kericC
qlld govern IL as q conquered prouince
These | believe are substantially the sub.
stance ofthe resolutions. They were spec
tally assigned for consideration this day two
weeks. The last resolution is the most i'm.
portant, and however much Mr. Cass, MI
Polk, and others may at this time deny that
such n proposition is entertained, kno,O BEL
ter. Such proposition is entertained, and
such a scheme is openly talked of here and
advocated. Such is the opinion OF .s!r Han
negan; and he, more honest than his pariT,
does not deny, or attempt to deny it. Such
! is the ineyitabe result of the policy now pur-
sued; while the administration deny it-they
ACT it. To have the whole Of Mexico is The
secret intent of the administration, and to
govern it by vast standing army aud Royal
Niceregents and ProconsVls, is n part of I'M
PERIAL will. The people fthis country
should know that if this scheme is favorably
passed upon by this Congress, they no long
er live in a Republic de tdoto.
was asked today by Democratic memhea
of Congress ifthe Wings in the House did
not intend, when the Ten Regiment Bill came
down from the Senate, 10 substitute volun-
;eers for regulars. | answered, TINT so far as
| mad been able to gather their views belev-
ed that tiicc did. "Well," said he, 81 hope
IL. II
ident would rather net have any force voted,
unless he had it in regular troops. This will
give him $50 new appointments, and with
that power he will buy up enough o. N,"tes TO
get tea and coffee tax passed" Such was
the opinion Of "A Democratic member, which
he declared to me this morning.
Mr. Crittenden aud the Wings eudeavored
to substitute volunteers for regular the other
day, but the amendment was voted down; 26
to 10; and Mr. Cass and Jefferson Davis, in
their speeches in opposition to MIR Critten-
den's amendment, discarded in toto the Dec
laration of independence, which declares that
call men are born free and equal" They ar
gued that regulars were an inferior race OF
men, who would, in consequence, submit
more readily to the discipline of the camp,
and obey the orders of their superiors--that
u regular soldier was machine-who had
no mind of his own, but must obey implicitly
the orders of his superiors or bde the conse-
quences The volunteers composed ''tbe chv-
airy otthe nation" and as the duty now in
Mexico would open no chance for displays
of chivalric bravery, volunteers were not re-
CURED: but men of"inferior neutrality-suspicious.
whom they thus considered as Legitimate
Stood for POWDER" would 10. This is the
sort oftalk which these Democrats hold forth
in the Senate ofthe United States; and it is
this large standing army "of machines" who
have ''no will of their own" "whose duty is
obedience to superiors," that we are to foster
and augment, that they may ensIave and en-
thral a neiglboring Republic, and eventual
ly seize upon our own. .
The President has made war, and am full
Iy Of the belief that the Executive aloEe can
make PEACE. ! say, that the power which
could bring Texas into this Union, and could
make war upon Mexico, can do anything
We must have an Executive friendly Ia peace
in order TO obtain it, SO certain is this fact
fixed in my mind, that | have come to the de-
lberate conclusion that the next Presidential
election settles not only the questions of
peace and war, but it settles whether we are
TO live under an Imperial or Republican
form fgovernmentso believing,s shall act.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. II.
Debate on the Ten Regiment
DkALs
The interest felt in the debate in the Sem
ate upon the Ten Regiment Bill increases.
The crowd today was full as great as we
have had OH any day. Mr. Johnson, of Md,
spoke The remnant of his speech of Yesterday, |
which occupied about an hour. The speech,
taken altogether, was one of the most singu-
lar compounds ofWhig doctrine and Lo-
co Focoism that / ever remember to lave
heard. He was very severe upon the Adj |
minisration to day, was for prosecuting the |
war with vgor until we obtained an honor |
able peace was for making the Rio Grande
the boundary between the two nations; was
against taking Mexican territory. lie thought
the great victories we had gained were sui |
ficient indemnify for all the cost ofthe war. |
When he sat down, Mr. Clayton of Delaware
the floor, and commenced by ask |
ing of the Chairman who bad reported the |
bill, whether any of our Commanders in !
Mexico had called for such large reinforce
ments. Mr. Cass arose in evident gusto.and- |
said he would checrfully answer the question
of the Hon. Senator, He then read from
paper as preliminary to answering the ques-
ton, certain statistics ofour forces now in
Mexico. ....
He then read an extract from letter ut
the Department, received from General Scott
in which he SUI stantially says, that off our
designs to take possession of
The capitals of all Ms States % in number,
believe-hold on TO the capital city and the
other places we now have, and to seize up
On the entire revenue ofthe nations and chnse
he Government from place to place, and
Keep it always on the move, he would re-
Iuire a force of fifty thousand men," In
word, if the intention ofthe Government was
o entirely PROSTATE and subjugaie the whole
If Mexico, he would need $4,000 men. aF
This was beautiful extract. Mr. Cass