Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-03-23
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is pretty piece OF business. How do YOU
dare to do such thing2 You know the Pres
ideat;has ordered you homer
eyes" says he, land mean TO go home as
soon as get through the job he sent me to do,
Well, now" saws |, :'Trist, claim to know
what the President is about, and what he
wants, and I'm his confidential friend and pri
vate ambassador out here, and shall take the
liberty TO interfere in this business. This high
handed doihgs of youfn must be nipt off in the
bud What sort OF bargain have you been
making? Jest let me look at that treaty"
Cant do it, saws he, sits half way to Vera
Cruz by this time /; | sent it off yesterday"
Blood and thunder" says |, ''theH yoa have
knocked the whole business in the head, sure
enough. You've committed an outrageous
crime, sir, and great shame and don't you
know, sir, that great crimes deserve great pun
ishments? | don't know what Col. Polk will
do but / know what my friend Did Hickory
would do if he was alive he would hang
you right up TO the first tree he could come
at"
"What, hang me for doing jest what was
seat here to do?'' says lie. ''For Eve made jest
such bargain as the President told me to make;
only leetle better one.'
THAT'S nothing here nor there" says /, 'tyou
know circumstances alters cases. And you
know we'll enough, or ought TO have sense
enough to know, that as things now stand, the
President don't want treaty. Now, says Mr..
Trist, answer me one plain question: DO you
think you have any right at all 20 make trea-'
ty after the President has ordered you home ?"
ssWell." says he, 81 think circumstances all
tiers cases too; and when the President ordered
me home, suppose he thought couldn't get
through the Job he sent me to do. Butt thought
could and SO kept trying, and Eve gotthro'
with it at last, and done the business all up
according to my first ORDERS and don't see
why the President shouldn't be well satisfied.
'sWell.' says |, whats the items OF the bar
gain? What have you agreed upon?"
"Why," says be, ''we have the whole OF
Texas clear to the Rio Grande; we have all of
New Mexico, and all of Upper California
And we pay the Mexicans fifteen millions Of
dallars and pay our own citizens five millions
that the Mexicans owed them. And 1--we stop fir
ing, draw our charges from the guns that are
loaded, and go home"
"Well, now" says !. s.Trist, don'tyou think
you are pretty feller to make such bargain
as that at this time of day? The President will
be mortified to death about it. Here we've
been fghtin near about two years TO make the
Mexicans pay over that five millions of dol
lars they owed our people, and now you've
agreed that we shall put our hands in our own
pockets and pay it ourselves. The whole plan
of the war has been carried on by the President
upon the highest principles to go straight ahead
and conquer a pace man-fashion; and now
you've agreed to back out of the scrape, and buy
ID peace, and pay the money for it. You know
very well the President has declared, time and
again, that the war should 60 on till we got in
demnity for the pas, and security for the future
-them's his own words-and now you've
agreed to settle up without getting one jot of
either. For the past, we are al least hun
bred millions of dollars out of pocket, besides
losing ten or fifteen thousand men. As for
the men, spose Tou may say we can offset
them against the Mexicans we have killed, and
as we have killed more than they have, may be
i foots up little in our favor, and that's the
only advantage you've secured. As for the hun
dred millions of dollars, we don't get penny
of it back. So all the indemnity you get for
the past is a few thousand dead Mexicans-that
is, as many as remains after subtracting what
they've killed of them. But the cap-sheaf of
your bargain is the security for the fulure.;-
The cities and towns and castles that we have
fit SO hard TO take, and have got our men into,
and all SO well secured you now agree 10 give
em all right up again 10 the enemy, and march
our men off home with their fingers in their
mouths; and that's our security for the future.
As for the fifteen millions of dollars you agree
TO pay for New Mexico and Cali fornia, you
might jest as well thrown the money into the
sea, for they was ours afore, they was already
conquered and annexed, and was as much
ours as if we had paid the money for EN-"
Here turned on my heel and left him, for
was so disguised at the conduct of the feller that
| wOuldn have any more 4 k with him. And
now, my dear Colonel, there is nothing for us
10 do but to look this business right i'll the face
and make the best we can of it. If there was
any way to keep the thing out of sight, ii would
be best for you 10 throw The treaty into the fire
as soon as you can get it. and send word sn to
Gineral Scott to go ahead again. But that is
impossible; it will be spread all over the coun-
try and known to every body. And I'm con-
WINGED it will be the best way for you to turn
right about, make out TO be glad of what can't
be helped, and accept the treaty. The nomin-
atoms for President is close at hand, and you
must get ready TO go into the election for your
second term on what you've got and make the
best show you can with it. If you should re-
ject the treaty, the opposition would get the
advantage OF YOU again; they would then cry
out that the Mexicans had asked for peace and
you had refused it; and there would be no end
to their srowling about this oppressive war of
invasion. But if you accept the treaty,
it puts an end to their grumbling about
the war.
To pacify our friends that are very eager for
the whole Of Mexico, you must tell 'em 10 look
out and see how much we have already got;
keep telIn OF EN- that half loaf is better than
no bread; tell EN- to keep quiet till after your
next election is over, and may be you'll con-
trive some plan to be cutting into 'tother half
Keep Mr. Richie blowing the organ, all wealth
ers. to the tune of half of Mexico for a song
Tell the whole country, and brazen it out to ev-
erybody, that you've made great bargain,
capital bargain, much better than Jefferson
made when he bought Louisiana for fifteen
millions of dollars; tell em for the same sum of
money you have got great deal more land,
and more men on it. I'm satisfied this is the
best ground to take; we must go for the treaty
and, bitter pill as it is, we must swallow it as
though we loved it. lspose it will have to 90
before the Senate, as the constitution now
stands, (the constitution is very defective on
hat pint, and ought to be mended, for it's dan
5erous trusting important matters to the SEN
ite;) but you must drive your friends all up to
rote for it; don't let i, fail on no account; don't
ct EN- 60 to fingerin it over and putting in
amendments that will make the Mexicans go
mad that they will kick it all over again. For