Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-06-22


copy the following from that print on the At
lantic border which has been most Jealous in adj |
vocating the Conquest and Annexation of the
entire Territory and People Of Mexico by the U
States. We know, by the wailings of this
journal, that all is as it should be, and that
our government is SAVED from consumation
which would have been not only disastrous,
but most disreputable and dishonorables to our
country,
From the n. Y Sun of June 5, 1913,
The last and most farcical act of the war
drama is ended. The patched-up Trist Treaty,
concocted in defiance Of the instructions of
the Executive, and in every way odious to the
interests. honor, and integrity of the American
people, has been ratified. Mexico and Mack
intosh have won complete triumph; shut Us
from passage TO the Isthmus OF Tehuantepec;
robbed us of the prospective sovereignty of the
Pacific; and, for God only knows how long,
delayed the glory of what will yet be accom-
plished--the complete supremacy of Anglo
Saxon liberty, enterprise, art, and industry on
the North American continent. The United
States may now beat the ''rappeP' OF retreat;
recall her victorious armies amid the hootings
of the Mexican rabble; abandon the posts, cap
itals, and fortresses where her banner has way
ed so gloriously, give up the lood-bought tro-
plies of the battlefield; forsake the bleaching
bones of her thousands of inundated soldiers;
| and, pocketing the contumely of the world,
- Il Al. Il LIZ o1o
against Mexico, and the hundred millions ex-
pense of the war, and prepare to pay the fifteen
millions more squandered for dishonorable
peace!
Never mind the shame, the dishonor Down
with the American flag, from San Juan to Cha
pultepec, and send home those heroes whose
lives have been peried for an ignominious
prize. Send them home, that they may be dis
patched to the sand wastes and chaparrals of
New Mexico, Santa Fe. Sonora, and Upper Cal
ifornia, to bivouac among alligators, mosqui-
toes, and Indians, the latter of whom we are
bound by this infamous treaty 10 keep from
depredating upon Mexico.
The treaty is ratified! Let the people chew
it as sweet morsel of taxation and war for
perhaps generations to come; for into this will
derness, civilization shrinks from penetrating
with her enterprise, industry, inventions, and
arts. while there is decent spot of earth left
Our Senators can now gloat securely over their
territorial conquest. They have freed Me xico
from the trouble of protecting nearly million
square miles of swamps; desert, and rock-land,
which, in the face of all their boasts of fertility
and wealth, have in three hundred years accu-
INFLATED less than 300, 900 white inhabitants,
and those of a very questionable charac-
| ter.
The treaty is ratified! Mark the glorious
boundary won by this nel1 indemnity, Trace
it up to the centre of the Rio del Norte to the
ella, and from thence west from the mouth of
the Colorado to the Pacific. What an area!--
New Mexico, Santa Fe, part of Sonora, and all
Upper California ours, including natural wealth
and products worthy of Patagonia and the AT
rican deserts, and savages sufficient to breed
Seminole and Creek wars to employ the whole
of our grand army for half century! But we
hear no shouts of rejoicing from the American
people. Why is this? All, the gold, the sill
yer, the cochinea, the pearls, the rich fancy
and dye woods, the glorious gardens of tropical
fruits, and the inestimable passage from the
Gulf to the Pacific, holding the key to the
on the globe, all lie south ofthat odious new
boundary. All that was worth having Mexi-
CO has saved, and we have taken her territorial
, scum-Heaven grant it may not give us ma
tiona scurvy-at cost of not less than tWo
hundred millions of dollars and thousands of
priceless lives.
For the purposes and interests of the present
f we have gained nothing buta prospect ofbloody
Indian wars and expensive territorial settle
ments; and be it remembered this Treaty pro-
vides that the present white inhabitants of our
nea0 wilderness have the privilege and are to
be protected in the enjoyment of the rights of
Merican citizens, if they do not choose to come
under the laars and institutions of the United
States. Magnificent treaty! When England
or France opens passage to the Pacific via
Panama or Tehuantepec, as one or the other
will soon do, let the United States console her
self that she got the bay of San Francisco by
p her Trist treaty. If she finds that she cannot
r accept of Yucatan because Mexico reclaims it
f and we are bound by treaty to keep peace
with Mexico-let her think of the bay of San
' Francisco! This in fact is her maagmum bonums
of the treaty. Forever be such a treaty con-
demned-a treaty which takes nothing but
insult, and expense, and giUes everything val
i liable. The American people will yet repudi-
ate it by pushing their boundary to where God
designed it-Panama on the south and the
Cults and Oceans on the east and west.
e EcHo.-The Memphis Eagle says there is u
remarkable echo in Arkansas opposite that
u city On the night of the reception of the nom