Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-01-22
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE VAR. rrs DESIGN, AND PROGRESS.

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We trust no citizen who places any value upon
b;s own share, and his childrens share, in the go
lions inheritance which, in the providence of God,
has come down TO us from our ancestors, with the
Injunction to guard it with eternal vigilance, will
fail to mark the progress of events, daily develop
np. which are, in the end, convert This Govern
ment into Military Despotism, and have already
changed the relations between the People and the
Government of this country into that OF the subjects
OF Monarchy instead of the citizens OF Repub-
lie. Let every man watch closely the Debates and
Votes in both Houses of Congress. Let him
read with becoming attention every word in the
Senate Debate on Monday, copied into the preeed-
ing columns from the official report. Let him catch
The manly spirit that burns and breathes just m
dgnaton in the remarks OF Mr.. MANGUM, and mark
the admission by Mr.. Senator CAss, now candi-
date for the Presidency Of the existence of design
TO absorb all Nerico, or, in his own words, TO
swallow it!
Let him mark also the facts disclosed in the
passage we are about to quote, from an authority
known to be in the confidence of the Administrs-
ton, and not suspected of misrepresentng it. We
refer to the Washington Correspondent OF the Phi
ladelphia Public Ledger, from whose letter under
date Of the 18th instant we copy the following;
:. WASHINGTON, JAN. Is, lS4S.
You will see by the last news from Mexico
that Gen. ScoTT is faithfully carrying oat ne
uie,cs of The administration, which are 10 obtain
peace as quickly as possible by coercion, and not as
Mr. Trist would imagine, by suing Tor It through
an tnerant clerk in the State department. Mr.
Tris has altogether ranscended has orders, and It
is probably for this that he is about to be-
dismissed from the State Department, and Mr.
Appleton, now chief clerk of the Navy Depart
ment, appointed in his place. DC.
Let him mark also the following paragraph in
the same paper, not published an the letter, it IS
true, but evidently from the same source the
above:
GEN ScoTT.-We learn from a respectable
source that Gen. ScoTT is not to be recalled, as it
is plain he carries outfhe uie,cs offhe President.
If he ,pds to be recalled it was less for the quar-
rels of the Generals than account Of has official
correspondence Nth the Uar Department Now
THAI he executes orders, there is NO NEED FOR A
CHANGE"
In these concurring passages we have iniorma-
ton that the recent General Order of Major General
ScoTT, which has excited every where very natu-
raj and just sensation, is but execution Of orders
which he has received from the Presidents that he
had ventured TO demonstrate against these and cor
responding orders and that, for so demonstrating
or hesating, he was about to be recalled but,
having now executed these orders, he is NOT to be
recalled!
But, what is most important Of this disclosure is,
that, whilst the President of the United States was
addressing his annual communication to Congress,
suggesting the consideration of the expediency of
holding the few provinces of Mexico already occu-
pied by troops, he had, without waiting 10 con
suit the constitutional authority. actually so far
usurped it as to direct the arms Of the United
States TO occupy every portion of the Republic Of
Mexico!
What is to be The end Of all this!
We hold ourselves guilhess Of the consequences,
whatever they may be. Ue have, once and again,
endeavored TO the attention Of the People to
the conspiracy against their best interests and, in
the event of success, against their dearest rights and
liberties. We sometimes think that we have at
length ca"ght the ear of the Public, and that the
great Ieyiahan is beginning to awake from his in
sensibility. We hail with delight every evidence
that lis sensorum is accessible to any impression
but that of the sound Of the drum and trumpet and
the clangor OF arms. Among such evidence, we are
happy to place the two following instances, which
reached us yesterday. Both are the more welcome,
because,i if the paper from which we copy the first
be considered neutral only the second has been
heretofore decidedly favorable 10 the present Ad-
ministraon of the Government
BALTIMORE YESTERDAY.
The present is period which peculiarly demands calmncss
and consideration and members Of Congress should ac on
higher than party motives Much Of the future cond
ton and happiness Of this country depends in opinion
the policy which may be adopted during the present
NJ Congress. II is too paIpabe for denial that there
son public councils to enter upon extended
"h'eh'S " Wy annexation and unless this dispo-
on be CONTROLLED we are persus a 'ne permaH'n'y OF
the Union will be jeoparded. h.u.
II seems that when troops now on their ma''n '
arrived in Mexico, the aggregate Of the American army u
that county win be about foryfse thousand men
posed this force seventy eighty
number adequate the object Of keeping posses
Of the ronghods Of Mexico; and II apprehenaed
tina, the additional troops called for not designed 10 CO
operate procuring indemnity for the past and security fo
the future bat assist the conquest Of the whole coun
try II this We the intention, would not vote for another
man and It be not the augmentation would seem to bc
uncaed for Gen. Scott having stated that fifty thousand men
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