The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-01-05

wards Mexico proposed IN the Presidents message Iht
article is based upon the following point, made by
'highly respectable" correspondent:
The boundary of the Rio Grande," says the President
and the cesson to the United States of New Mexico
Upper California, constituted ultimatum which
missioner under yield" Why wa
this boundary and cesson OF territory made umaun
which our commissioner was under circumstances
yield % The inference is of course that site,
entitled TO the OF territory claimed pay the de
mands of our citizens and the expenses of the war Blu
is this so! The message furnishes the evidence that it
not for, says the message "As the territory be acquired
by the boundary proposed might be estimated to be OF
greater value than Jar egipant for Just demands
commissioner authorized stipuate for the pay
ment of such additional pecuary consideration as was
deemed reasonable" Here is utmatum fixed and a
prosecuted to enforce compel Mexico to sell to the
President portion of her territory. Here admission
that not entitled to the territory claimed by the
President stair equivalent tor our Just demands
against Mexico Yet the President has made the cession
of it an utatu not to be yielded under any circu m.
stances Mexico might have offered in territory sfair
equivalent for just demands" and commissioner
could not have accepted under the instructions given him
by the President.
Mark in the first instance, the utter nsncerity and bad
faith towards government in its dealings with
Mexico which the wing organ discloses in this pary
bubble. Every of sense-much more every states
man-must see that, in fixing territorial boundary be-
tween the two countries, based ON Just indemnity TO lis
from Mexico other considerations than the nonev value
of the coded to be regarded Regard must
be had to physical characteristics to political divisions
and to natural boundaries And because the President
with wise respect of these considerations even while
basing the proposed boundary upon our righul claim
to indemnity, consented in spirit of peace and Of
liberay towards Mexico, make to her a reasonable
compensation for any estimated of value of the
territory coded to above claim he is here charged
with admitting that are not entitled to the terri
tory" If the President had been as wise statesman
as the lntelgencer and its respectable" correspond
emit he would we suppose, have sent surveying party
INTO Mexico TO lay of just so many acres of Mexican
territory as would have Unidentified u.s. and then have
run line IN utter disregard of all natural or
or secure or advantageous boundaries so as to embrace
Just those acres, though that line should leave one half
OF Mexican town or village under jurisdiction and
the other half under that of Mexico This would ar
cording to the lnelgencer have been the course Of
wing craftsmanship in the case-unless indeed az il
most probable, wing wisdom had seen fit to give nm all
indemnity and all claim for indemnity whatever
But setting aside the gross and palpable folly of this
style of adjusting national indemnties and boundaries
of this wing mode Of maintaining the rights and intee sta
and permanent peace of nations-see how this last
n Hof
contradiction OF the whole tenor of its previous clamor
against him. Tha, clamor has been, and now is that
his policy is unjust and aggressive towards Mexico
too hard upon her And yet, when the President after
giving in his Message the amples and most conclusive
why with reference to the interest and con-
venence of Mexico well our own, the territorial
indemnity coded to should be the contiguous provinces
embraced in proposed treaty line of boundarywben
I,fta hic fhoD da,t
and fair compensation for any of value in the ter
rory not fully covered by claim he is tainted bv the
nelilgencer with "admuting aucay" claim to such
indemnity, and making war upon Mexico in order to
force from her "sate of her national domain! His off,
erpromped alone by scrupulous regard to Justice and
fairness towards Meylcos turned into an accusation
against him. and that too by who are already and
always accusing him of being hard and extoionate
in the demands which he makes in vindication of his
countrys rights He offers to pay any due COMPENSATION
above the amount of claim and this offer is assumed
proving hahe proceeds without any regard to Justice
and that the part of government he has no ript
f,d claim to urge,
But all this, vruent and unjust as it u.s. is not enough
to satisfy the Inelligencer In its editorial comments.
that journal sets to work to manufacture facts and ac
cusatons, with zeal and audacy which throw its cor
respondent into the shade. Here is specimen:
''Ths government cannot up everything; and
down in Mexico at least the terms offered by Mr.. Commits
Irist the commissioners the adverse side hare
5eem published form authentic to be questioned As
his imatum, he offered to accept the boundary and
provinces quoted by correspondent from the message
to make no claim for the expenses of the war; take
upon ourselves the payment of the nemniries to our
citizens and to to her. the of the vaiue of her
territories taken ADORE beyond that of claims from,
fifteen to fcety millions of dollars.
Snow, to name, in like this, less and greater
price that which you willing pay really except
the observation-disclosures of awkward hucksering only offer
ng the larger price-hat is, twenty millions Add some
i've millions for the ind emnities and yo hare ent fire
millions the Presidents of ,chat zoe ought IN
pay for California, Nw Msrco aud belo,c it the line of III,
Rio Grande So that plainly appears by the Executives
own reckoning, that seize and keep by war as
fair equivalent for just Demands only some 6ve
much territory could take, even if we had
right help ourselves a nations soil and people at our
esti mate
Now we undertake to state, that upon the one main
point here in questonhat is, the statement as contain
ed in those official documents which have been published
relation to Mr. Trsts negotiaton) of the amount Of
fered by him to Mexico compensation for the cesson
Of territory contemplated in the treaty which he submit.
ted to the Mexican commissoners-in relation to this
point, not word of the Adore extract true We
have before the only documents in relation to those
negotiations which have been published in form claim
ing to be "auheptie" They may be found in the Daily
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