Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-01-19
From the New York Sun.
Mexican Affairs.

We seek not the destruction nor dis
memberm-nt Of Mexico, beyond what she
absolutely forces upon US. For her own
interest as well as ours, we sheuld rejoice
TO see peace resting upon the union vi tho
two republics. A peace which, oblitera.
ting every remembrance Of the past, and
as the treasures Of each sought exchange
with the olher-as our arts and enterprise
descended TO eniven the valleys Of Mexi-
CO, inspiring her people with new ideas
Of progress, happiness, intelligence, and
freedom, would give the great National
Republic, with its ship canal from the
Gulf to the Pacific, its precious mines,
vigorous soil, and unparalleled people, q
balance of political and commercial power
against the whole world. Such union,
such peace, would be indemnity and glory
beyond the computation Of money, and
such, We believe, the mass of American
people desire. But what say the law.
makers and politicians? Congress has
not yet spoken, and we trust it will not
prove recream 10 itself and the interests
and vii! of the nation, when it does speak
but there are those who have deIiber.
ately raised their voices 10 and out Of tho
Councils Of the Union-men who are ac-
know lodged leaders Of parties in favor
Of abandoning Mexico a! once, without
any indemnity beyond holding the boun-
dry Of Texas, which Congress defined
long before the war commenced. They
propose that the United States shall &C.
knowledge itself in the wrong from be-
ginning to end, and the war has been foul
injustice perpe,rated against Mexico-the
natural conclusion 10 which the whole
werld must come, should the folly of these
madmen or fanatics he CARED out. Dan.
iel Webster was first to advocate this ma
tional humiliation and shame in his speech
a: Springfield. Henry Clay re-echoed it
at Lexington, and John &. Calhoun lifts
the banner Of retreat in the Senate Of tho
United States. Mr.. Calhoun Processes to
be moved by love and fear for the safety
o. the Union. Remarkable posi,ion?-
The man who once threatened the disso.
luton of the Union, and who has done
more than all "Nor,hern fanatics" to draw
sectional lines between national interests,
is ready to socri6 the honor, interests and
glory Of the Union in order to give it
strength. We have never met with .
more ridiculous anomaly. We cannot be.
lieve that these men are stimulated BY
desire 10 promote the safety OF the Union.
1t is a safety OF peculiar institutions.'
sectional barriers, peculiar cliques, a eon>
>idera;ion which we trust Congress will
reprdiate as We know the American peo-
pie will, With sco.n! Is the na,ion-are
thousands of lives, and millions Of treas>
ure, unredressed wrongs and the future
glory of a Continent to be sacrificed 10 a
'sWlmot Proviso" or any other Matching
egg in the political nest upon which these
National "night mares" sit? Forbid il
Justice, God forbid: If Mexico is to be
abandoned, if such is the will OF the naties.
let the voice Of the people sanction tho
shame. Congress dare not, and with the
veto Of the executive suspended over il
cannot, take such a step. Win it thrust
the jubilees, bonfires, and rejoicing Of tho
people back into their teeth aud say, there
IS your indemnity in shame, swallow il
as you can? No, never! Clay, Webster,
Calhoun and oil the fanatics Of the Union
may cry retreat till they are dumb, va
have conquered Mexico and will never
yield an inch Of that cor ques, until all for
which Congress sanctioned the war
Indemnify Tor the past and security fer
the future lis obtained. On that point
The American people stand immoveable,
let Congress remove them if it dares q
can! .'