The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-05


troops should be withdrawn The other course
then would be support and foster the existing 60
ysrnment But is said that would be uselses and 1t
would fall the moment our troops were withdrawn
MIR President, protest against building up any power
in Mexico shall thereby be obliged to support 1t
again and again, until at last would be compelled to
take IL ourselves The conquering of Hndostan, wnich
we have SO long deprecated, came on in this very
way There was no intention Mt first to conquer II.
That by degrees till at last it appeared mat
ter of 1t would be with Mexico, II that 60
should agree to make treaty on suoh terms
as we ask The President himself agrees We shaii AAe
the very course have forshadowed. He says, In SO
many words II all measures fall We must enforce terms
which the homo, of the country demands ID not 'h'
acknowledgment that If the faotonal government 10
not built uc we must conquer and occupy the country
thus enforcing terms, not upon the government but
upon the people Well, the President Is right This
will be the result. Every argument against taking
defensive line, will have doubls force when we have
spent .xty millions Of dollars more, and occupy q still
greater extent of territory. The men engaged in the
war the contractors the several parties engaged, d.
rectly or indirectly this large body will be adverse
to and their influence in favor oil continue
tion OF the war; will be found too powerful to oppose
Well sir, now that We have added sixty millions OF dol.
lars the former amount expended what will you get
10 indemnify It? With the population, which you will
have 10 sustain and the army of forty fifty thousand
men, the Secretary Of War says, you will never get
enough pay it ard it will have come out of the
pockets OF people the u This and the next
ereton will have to bear this burden We now come to
Ne solemn consideration proposed by the resolution
Ia, shown the proposed by the President 1t
70 OF out the nationality Of Mexico and throw seven
or "A sht millions of people your hands, either As
provA incorporated into our Union. Shall We do
etaerA No, Mr. President neither and for these
cons irs will be against tho avowed object Of the
war Ma message has been sent to Congress which has
not distinctly denied the object to be the extinction Of
the stouality Of Mexico; and yet sir what disavow
will have been accomplished, and what We avowed will
hav been defeated This sir, at least, will be an i'm
pea shaent Of the ability of to manage
it's ,wn affairs acknowledge the full amount Of glory
our army has acquired and shed the country but
Mr. President, am afraid sl our applause will be con-
Aned army Every civilized nation looks upon
as hard-hearted people, who are more given to war
than zntdern nations However much we might r. joce
IL courage bravery and skill Of our troops and the
isbing victories they have achieved no was yet
sorry confess that the government had lest that
tso for moderation and justice which had been its
crowrN ig attributes in its early days II shall
attemp to hold Mexico prov noe, incorporate
It into this Union shall find 1t utterly imprac
We hi never sssimiated of the Indian tribes with
our pa ope when incorporating their territory into
Union We have removed tn sm farther away. We
have ever incorporated any people into this Union but
the Gu ucasian race-the free Hhite and shall
now O, rrupt this white population by introducing
into Oh confederation the Indians the mixed
of Mex leo He protested most fnestly against such
polio y Our government 10 for the free white man
This ia the secret ofit stability The Spanish
rspub this continent b. failed because they had
mainly attempted to place e coorsd equality
In
equally adapted to tr government yet 1t was pro-
posed t. the Mexoan States territories. and
place Il equality with the rest Of the States
lie utte y against the adoption Of any such
policy form He adverted to the proofs OF history
to show That the 0oored could not be BLENDED I'D
the ga ne govern ent and In the same terms Win the
white races that the colored races are always ae'
grade o. sn' that the whites even In savage state,
ms IaU. some Of the elements Of free institutions
Hs came next to consider the two points In one I;
t at the holding of Mexico In subsection woua
4, the end, be suSversive of free institutions,
and that no such line of policy ought to be adopted
II would DO waste Of time to argue that the incorpo
ration of Mexico would bs dangerous tc free nti-
buttons He who understood the American constitu-
ton he who had studied It's character; he who had
proded from the examples Of history and had marked
the consequences where large had been hed
by hostile nation, territorial possessions, would
need other proof convince him that to hold the re-
public Of Mexico either province, or as terrtorie
mus. lead to the subvrrson and overthrow OF our free
Institutions In all the examples in which such inoorpo
ration, Of territories Of foreign people, bearing any
Thing near the proportions which Mexico bears to the
Intel States the end had been the downfall OF the
oopousring party With us, Mexico would add 30 much
to the patronage Of the general government that II
would absorb all the powers Of the States 1t would De-
come imp rial 1t would usurp the powers OF the
legislative department all the powers OF the go
v.rnment would fall into the hands Of the execu
tive end with the prevailing rule Of party proscrip
ton and the increasing patronage Of the executive
our Institutions would not be able to combat the fre
Dental elections they could resist the check. Mr.
Calhoun sdmonished gentlemen not to hatter themselves
With the deusve idea that as we'll as Great Britain
could hold great empires under subsection, and hold
them 10 saey or all the governments that ever exist
3D. England possessed of the greatest power OF e1pan
SION without reducing her people to anarchy or her OH
oes corruption this vas in part because the execu-
tive branch Of the government and the conservative
The House of Lords, hereditary Rome never had
such capacity for expansion. When the Roman en-
p sxendd east and west beyond the barriers OF Italy
tue central power began to weaken and soon 1t became
corrupt and ansrchy violence the order of the
day. Yet England had been going on In the extension
of Der doinons without any visible symptoms Of decay
Yet she could not long escape She pay
isg tho penalty she is paying penalty for her two
huulfed lions Of dependents which, like dispropor
Lnae superintendent weight threatens to crush the
foundations Of the supersructure. Yes sir, instead Of
in emnity from her couquests they are burden
to her. and neghboring Ireland has taxed
he'll for Its support and the labor Of her
people, almost beyond their power to bear. Shall
90 and follow this example for territorial indemni
ties for tbs expenses OF wars' Let u.s. now, cons
the incorporation of Mexico into this Union There
twenty States In Mexico these should have first
to initiate territories The governors, the magis'
traes the Justices would all have to be appointed by
the Executive In territories, made up Of our
own people from the foreign stock ourselves
We have In this rst formation of Government TO take