Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-03-18

with the inhabitants Of the present States of our
Union. For ourselves, with reference to the at,
temps at further annexation, which some Of our
friends seem to apprehesd, we should be willing,
had the General Government the power, to make il
death for any man to propose to annex to the Union
another foot of foreign territory. Whilst, however,
we would not willingly have accepted the cesson
ofthese vast wastes upon any terms if we could have
Peace without them, even then if present refl-
sal would prevent what appears to us to be ulti-
matey inevitable, we must not shut our ewes to the
fact that, Invested of this feature, the Treaty OF
Peace never could have received the assent of the
Senate as now constituted, and that the great diff
cultyon the Democratic side of the Senate has been
TO induce sufficient number Of its Senators to
sent to Treaty which takes land not by conquest
or in the cant of the day, by way of " indemnity
for the past and security for the future'-but by
purchase and payment Of at least its full value.
Not to trouble our readers with any further ar
gument upon the merits of the Treaty, we will add
few words upon the prospect its final ratification.
OF the ratification by the Government Of Mexico
of Treaty Of which (f she will make any
Treaty. the balance inclines so much in her favor,
we can hardly entertain a doubt. The certainty
might perhaps have been greater had not the Treaty
been amended in some of its details during its pas
sage through the Senate. But, without knowing
precisely what they are, we cannot allow ourselves
to believe that these amendments will be suffered to
defeat measure already so far matured. Upon
the friends Of Peace in Mexico, could these lines
reach them, we would most earnestly and respect
fully impress the necessity of asserting at once to
these amendments. From what we have heard of
them, they will not seriously interfere with any
honest purpose the part of the negotiators, nor
deprive the Government of Mexico or its citizens
Of any right which the Law of Nations, and the
Judiciary of the United States, governed by that
law, will not protect and maintain. With the inteli
gent statesmen and right-minded citizens of Mexico
the fact cannot escape attention, that this Treaty
has encountered very serious and powerful oppo-
sition in the Senate of the United States, having
finally passed by division SO close that, had the
absent Senators been present, there is no knowing
but the Treaty might have been rejected No one
can, therefore, foreel whatmay be the consequence,
on our side, of refusal of the Government of
Mexico TO assent to the amendments proposed.
We cannot but trust, however, that Providence,
having inclined the hearts of the two Nations to
Peace, will vet crown the work with its blessing,
that we may all be enabled to Join in thanks to
Heaven for lis nterposition to put an end to this
eauseless and cruel war.
Finally, we do not know how we can close these
hasty remarks in manner more consonant to our
own feelings on the subject than by transferring to
our columns and adopting the following brief but
expressive remarks upon the late act of the Senate,
which have just met our eye in one of the papers
which lie upon our table,.
We are advised" says the Philadelphia
!" News of Saturday, i" that the Treaty OF Peace
: has received the sanction Of the Senate, by a
: vote of 80 TO Is. Surely we may congratu-
: late the country upon this suspicious event.
: We do not know what the exact terms of the
treaty may be, but we have sufficient conf
dence in the integrity and patriotism of the Sc
nate to believe that they are not inconsistent with
the national honor. This is all we ask. We stop
not 10 discuss technicalities, and dispute about
mere forms. We care not whether we get few
acres more or few acres less-whether we pay
ten or fifteen millions of money for them. We
I are heartily sick of war-of the blood and car
mage, Of the distress and misery it has brought
upon us-of the evils which its further prosecu-
ton threaten. Give US PEACE! Let us exchange
the sword for the pruning hook, and work out our
high and benefcent destiny in the cultivation Of
the peaceful arts in our own country, Of good will
with our neighbors, and the dispensation of the
blessings of Civilization and Religion throughout
the world. Once more we say, we rejoice, and
the country will rejoice with us, in the Treaty of
Peace"
This short paragraph expresses, we do not doubt,
the sentiment of nneteen-twentieths of the People
Of the United States on this suspicious vote, so
full of promise of returning PEACE.
The actual vote in the Senate upon the project Of
Treaty with Mexico las amended by the Senate)
we have reason to believe was yeas 81, nays Is