Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-09
From the Washington Union.
Santa Anna.


From the Washington Union.
Santa Anna.
gives US some satisfaction TO state,
rs fxed fact, that Santa Anna has en-
barked for Jamaica. We are happy TO
see that he left Mexico under a deep i'm.
preston Of the kindness which he has
experienced from the Americans. At
.'alRpa, he surrendered himself TO Col.
Hughes; and both in that city, and during
abe visit which Colonel Hughes and his
officers paid him at his hacienda of En-,
cerro, he made his "grafefuI acknowledge
ments of sheir courtesy" The same
grateful sentiments be expressed to Capt.
Tilghmsn and the officers who escorted
him from Jalapa to the point of embar.
eaten.
What is to be the future destiny ofthis
extraordinary man, is beyond the ken of
OUT sagacity TO predict; but certain it is,
that the wings can no longer make any
capital of the pass which admitted him
into Mexico. We have even cause to
rejoice at the opportunity which he has
enjoyed. These Dragging Mexicans can
not now say, 1--WE could have beaten the
Americansif we had seen our best general
at our head" They are now stripped of
this PretexI. They have had every ad.
vantage which they could command in
the contest. They have had three times
rs much force as we, and acquainted with
all the localities of the country. They
have been protected by every species of
entertainments. They have had Santa
Anna, with all the resources of his fruitful
mind-the best general Of whom they
could boast-at their head. And yet they
have been Vanqished in.every engagement
They can no longer boast Of their own
proves in any future war; they must con.
fess themselves decidedly our interiors.
Let US hear no more, than. of the famous
pass, nor Of the unjust calumnies which
che wings have heaped upon the Presi-
dents head. 1t is now rather the theme
of congratulation than of complaint.
How far the departure of Santa Anna
will affect the ratification of the treaty,
and contribute to the restoration of peace.
ia problem which admits of some doubt.
We had supposed that it would be the
fOrerunner and guaranty Of peace; but
some few doubts are expressed by exper.
fenced officers who have just arrived from
Mexico. Having no distinguished leader
TO rouse up the military energies Of her
cOuutFymen-Santa Anna 'gone-Valen-
cha dead-Paredes put down by the pow
er of the existing governmental was
supposed that Mexico would be happy to
embrace peSse. Nothing, in fact, could
create doubt about it, except the con.
duct Of the opposition in our own country.
They are responsible for the prolonga-
tion of the war. IF Congress bad pro.
vided,at an early day,the nee essary rein
fOrcements with something like unani-
mity-if Messrs. GaIlalin, and Clay, and
Webster and other orators, and writer's,
and presses, had withheld their clamors,
we have not doubt that peace would
now be certainly made--indeed, made
before this time. But testimony contin.
ues to pour in upon US from our officers.
and from whig ones, too-that the wings
have prolonged the war, and now leopard
tue fate of the treaty by the relentless
opposition they have wayed against their
own country. Ifpeace comes, we shall
rejoice in it with all our heart. If its fails.
then we hold the wings guilty of the fail
ure. II is the laid and comfort" thew
have given the enemy, and upon their
heads be all the blame.