The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-18
INTELLIGENCE BY TUE MAILS.


wAsnISGroS, Aag l6, 1913.
1fe Lest Me,seFe Of the PresideHf-Jo1waql.sn 20
Washington
The rresident OF the Unit, States. the last day
Of the fesslon sent to both houses of Congress
sage, stating his reasons for signing the Oregon BILL
This message may be regarded as sop to the Cerberns
of Southern fan&tcism The North will ridculs II. as
shot in the air-without aim as without
effect. It contains passage, remarkable 70. it's
obscurty, and for nothing else. lie says Hold az,
sacred trust, the executive authority the whole
Union, and bound to guard the rights Of all, aid
be constrained, by sense of duty, 10 withhold my
official sa motion from any measure which would
hict with these important objects" What these inn
portant objects are cannot be guessed, from anything
that preccdes follows the sentence but the organ,
in disgustingy adulatory preface, explains what IL
meant by these vague words by declaring the
ing and intent the message to be- declaration that
the President will veto any bill extern ding the Wmot
proviso to New Me xco California In other words,
the President declares throue his organ that II bin
be passed at the next session of Congress extending
our laws over those prov noes, and such bill should
contain the Wilmot provso, 1t will not receive his
sanction Legislate as direct,n says Mr. Polk or
shall render your action OF no avain
believe when the time comes for passing territorial
bills for California and New Mexico there will be few
men, even at the North, unfair to wish this
slavery question settled to the prejudice OF the south
bat who VIII not regard this emp threat OF the res
dent as presumptuous nsolent and pragmatic in the
last degree9 Before the session the
OF the country may be changed, foe aught the res
dent knows to the contrar the of the
people, North and South after consultation with their
dreamed, of settling the question and in the mean
time without the alest necessity he puts record
most insulting threat-that ii the measure to be
passed be not framed according to his views he will
withhold his sanction Why those sile mt who
talked SO loudly about executive usurpation Why is
the Inteigencer SILENT that journal which while the
Oke su oh nj lv enuh
can horror-dlling whole sheets with its indignation
of the monstrous stretch despotsm exhibit
ed in the adoption of all necessary the vim
dication of the honor Of the country II contributions
were but levied in some Mexican port, according to all
laws OF warfare the Inteh gencer declared the Presi
dent usurped more tina kiDgy authority. To Judge
from the tone Of the papers, each nifty inflicted
on Mexico by our army seemed to elicit frsm tho
editor lively sympathy; and for each victory
gained by our arms, the President was execrated
Now the President has undertaken to dictate to the
of the people how they shall legisate
and from this fierce declamer against des-
potsm, there falls no lisp Of trbunitian rage-no
hurled against the North and for the purpose Of con-
cating the South. The InieAigencer fears to wound
the feelings Of its southern subscribers by dissenting
from the Presidents determination
There is much allowance to be made for the Wash
ington papers, 1t Is their interest be corrupt in
consistent, mendacious- aduating and trucking to
this man, and abusing that-and conducting, with all
the duh energy of which they capable, constant
crusade against truth and fairness And they do not
honest but more able than the Union, preserves q
greater show Of decency and CLOSES its sins with
much more tact and success. But 1t does always
succeed in hiding its hypocrisy On the first Of Au-
gust that journal published, the authority of pri
vate information, upon which the editor said =" we
place entire reliance charge against General
Shields, of heading what they termed !" conspiracy
against the peace, the honor, and the reputation OF
our country" This conspiracy was represented
to be a design to form o republic of the Mex
lean provinces the Rio Grande The only
circumstance that could give color to this absurd
statement, was solemn averment as II on intimate
knowledge Of the fact that General Shields then
what the designated in another portion of
its article "a violation of national fatha scheme
of national dshoporn Fortunately letters had few
days before, been received from the General who
travelling through Illinois, and thinking Of anything
else but Eruption into Mexico. accordingly con-
radicted the statement and the most charitable by
pothess, assumed that the editors must have been
imposed upon by q fabrication. This drew from them
what meant doubtless ungracious and lame
detraction Of the charge against General Shields with
what was in reality covert reteration Of it. This
mornings hteWgencer conveys, by innuendo the
reteraon Of it, that the irresistible conclusion s,
that the editors inten ded wfuy misrepresent Geu
Shields and there Is little doubt the pretended COM
munication was fabricated in their own Office. What
makes their the discretable i the decla
ration that they intended disparagement to Gen.
Shields notwithst they say in the BREATH
they have difficulty in believing his connection
with enterprise which in their former article they
stgmatize as conspiracy against the peace, honor,
and reputation of our country
! happen to know, that when General Shields left
his city for his home he had far other designs than an
invasion of Mexico. GALVIENSIS