Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-02-19

party deprs it. The wary practical leaders OF the party
indeed toavod the danger OF schsm IN their ranks profess
adopt Mr. Clays manifesto only with modincauon ihey
ask territorial acquisition beyond narrow strip OF land
along the Pacific connect the habor OF san Fernando wh
Oregon, and incorporate the port into the American teoy
fiery spirits declare against this attempt al COM
PROMISE that Mr. Clay be thrown overheard and
go Gen. Scott II pretty clear that Mr. Clay
has oyershot the mark that his Quaker pohcy VIII not go
down with the electors Of the United States
| .As logcan Mr. Clay is quite correct IN calling the
with Mexico necessary consequence OF the annexation
Texas As party man, he consistent having opposed
heone To denounce the other but pocian ne therep
himself in direct opposition to national Pocy COM
NEscKp PERSISTED IN BEFORE THE ASSESArIoN
TEXAS Of which that annexation Is as natural and ne
csary consequence the with Mexico is of that an
nexaton.
Both simply stages in the natural development
Of tie aatagonisnp bet,eeea Merco and The United States
nhich COMMENCED DISPUTE ABOUT THE SOUTH
EASTERN BOUNDARY LOUISIANA The hearts OF both
republics upon the possession OF the territory extend
ing norward from the Gulf Of Mexico, and lying between
the river Sabine and the Rio Grarde The citizens OF the
United States enthusiastic conquerors of the desert to the
uses Of man. wished for field wherein to give free play to
this instinct Immediately Of their great mart Of New Or
leans The Mexcans, unwilling TO surrender territory
which nomnay apperaned to them but upon the occupancy
of which they had entered de dcto, refused to comply
with the wishes of their neghbo The will and power to
the disputed territory the main grounds upon which
the American claim rested that of Mexico based upon
duly formal diplomatic titles. The Americans resolved to
/. blde their time
Thadog character Of the tenacious grasp laid
upon Texas by Mexico became apparent The Mexi
cans unable coonze Texas invited citizens Of the United
do for them The calculation OF the Mexicans was
that American energy would do what they could not-rende
available the natural wealth Of Texas and that the thriving
Yankee would remain conented subjects and buta
res of Mexico In this belief the Government at Mexico be-
rather to apply to the sturdy settlers had called
the of justice II had been in the habit OF applying
its Spanish and Indian populations The result
sunecon, in the of which the almost exclusively An
eo-American population of Texas emancpaed itself from all
dependence connexion with the Central Government
Mexico Texas was recognised an independent State by
France and England Now, she time had come for which
the Government al Washington representative of the Anne
rican people, had patiently pdited. Texas free from for
ties liberty, in virtue of its independence,
tract Its adult citizens had almost to been born
citizens Of the United States they naturally DESTROYS Of
reapsng into their old character AND Texas incopoa
ed into the Union,
Still Mexico had recognised the independence of Tex
and dreams Of annexng il to the republic had not ceased
haunt It's rulers. Though warned by the Government
Washington that Texas having become integral part
the United States would be defended by the troops of the
Union against any foreign INVASION the Mexican authorities
levied troops and concentrated them in the direction of the
Texan frontier The predsposton both sides 10 decide
the disputed right the soil of Texas by stmua
edby awhoc host grievances less real both sides
Mexcans and Americans alike eager for war; and war
inevitable which party demonstraby the aggessoF
may be left to the psdants Of diplomacy TO decide.
SIN this the Mexicans have been beaten at all hands
In wonderfully short tme with seemingly most inadequate
the Americans have made themselves masters OF four
northern States of the Mexican Unon of all the Mexican
board the Gulf Of Mexico, and Of the capital OF the epub
lie The Mexican armies have been again and again beaten
and broken up. There is no real Merca Government Tie
Ameicans-conqusrGrs a regular Sa-are by The lacS
Of Grois entitled 10 dictate the terms Of peace They
have fought WELL and they have fought fairly Had they not
obtained final and unequvoca recognition of their sovereign
in Oregon, policy would have taught them to be conened
with the frontier of the Rio Gsande But soperegns 81
Oregon, ne annsraion Of San Fernando object 10
them; they hold, and continue hold, that harbor and
the intervening territory towards their frontier and there
be little doubt that they cH cEssoS, LEAST,
the part of Mexico, compensation the erpses the
| has entailed upon them
"We do take upon say that there has been no
thing in the conduct of the United throughout these
transactions Of which Mexico has complain but
could show that Merico has repeatedly gren Just
IF complaint 70 the United States And Mexico, in the will
fu ignorance Of vanity, has provoked collision c Po,ce
far s 0rmafeh IA strength Even yet though drubbed in
Of which might be ashamed the rulers Of
Mexico M any there b appear of how entirely they
have been beaten. They not disncned protrac in
definitely struggle but the settlement of defnitive
peace And the consequence Of this folly only be
ExAcTIov STILL HEAVIER CONCESSIONS BIZ THEIR AN
| TAGoSIsrs
"The Mexcans have their own want Of prudence and
energy thank for the spc they have got into That the
United States resolved turn the bunders Of their rivals
account may square with the dictates Of an ideal mo-
raity but for proposing 10 retain their hold upon northern
parts Of California, where is the State entitled to throw the
first stone at them Not France while il retains the Paat
hand and Algeria the other not Prussia
while il holds fast the Saxon province Russia while il
reigns Warsaw not England, while il half colo
Mes say nothing Of India It ridiculous the attempt
make that crime the part Of the Government Wash
ngon which, the of European Governments allow
ed be The ueritnb consequence IF POWERFUL
all Of international quarrel being obliged
10 be IuDGE owS CAUSE.
"Ths the light in which the question is viewed by an
immense majority of The practical influential statesmen Of
The North American Unon and the candidate for the
Presidency will be the who prepared to act up to it,
That the victories gained by the Americans Mexico will be
source Of advantage 10 their republic, may be questioned
II s than doubtful whether they ,oW be able 10 ren-
qttsh their hold of AMI MExIcAS TERRITORY r;
and, they cannot Mexico is likely prove their Ireland
But they have gone far to recedc without however,
ing done any thing justify that Utuous indignation ,chic
,coaid 'crite he annals fMe Mrican like romance
with the American Union for the unmtgaed villain Of the
story, and the Mexican Republic for the suffering saint
THE wARs-FoREIGN AND DOMESTIC
The Editor Of the Louisville Journal having advered
the wagcd by the President and Cabinet the
writer and other persons discussed the subject incden-