The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-03-16
r,,. Treaty of Peace with Mexico as n mas p~-''"
the Senate"

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-. s,tv while the Senate had il under Amusement
Rot now that it has passed the ordeal the in'eii,
gsoeer has returned 10 its vocation OF censung anu
attacking the administration II devotes long article
10 the qualification OF its party feelings ana olihs9
oysber under the above caption all the frivolous obIec
,;ons which It's imagination can con ure up. we have not
time space or inclination 10 scan the whoe Vi It's anu
ce but content ourselves with sezng lis principal points
II begins by repeating, in the words OF Sir Phliip
Francis that 'the treaty of peace-snpposihg 10 DC ac
complshed by the assent of Mexico to the alterations
which it has undergone-is peace Wh'eh every one
quU be clad Of but no one pW proud o. IL takes Tor
Granted that this is 'he general opnlon'-that every
onevi he "elad of the OF peace !; but that none
90 ia readers will "be proud of the peace" We are
afraid that the majority OF its readers may join in the
,mspt for they are high party men, whom it is hard TO
n,eose Nothing that the republican party can do for
Tho GOOD or Glory OF the country can propate
them Bu that the great body of the people, who
advocated the war at its commencement, or APP
nrovsd its prosecutions should feel both pride and
Measure at the tcar, and the peace which will follow it,,
. rather too bold an assertion to be honestly expressed
ar seriously believed is true that the has cost
millions of money, and what is far precious, the
lives of some OF noblest citizens; but what great
advantages has it obtained for us' 1t has covered
~ with glory 1t has extended fame to the remotest
corners of the earth If the treaty be ratified it will
tend the area of freedom to the Southern Pacific The
National nteigencer, indeed, denies that it has ac-
compished any of the ostensibe objects OF the war"
Yet surely nothing but the bndest party spirit could
have made this eyravagan assertion Have not driven
back the insoent enemy who invaded Texas. and shed
the blood of citizens upon soil Have we not
pursued him into the heart OF his country seized all
his srongholds upon the coast and occupied his capital
Have we not subdued that glorious and arrogant spirit
which has been productive of many insults and so
many asgressions? What has become of all those
gssconade pronunciamentos which have "struted
their brief hour upon the stage"-of those idle threats
to drive us from Texas-of the silly boast of Santa
Anna, that he would gather his laurels upon the
banks of the Sabine The London Times, in 1916,
fatered the national vanity of the Mexcans with the
hope that we should not be able to send men enough to
encounter their troops They under the impression
that our army dared not Mexico, if we made the
attempt that we should be driven back like chat before
the whirlwind. Their vanity deceived Them and their
government attered their arrogance and increased their
infatuation Now they tanned. Now they have con-
scented to negotiate for peace without requiring our ships
leave their coast, and troops to desert their ter
tory These changes in the popular sentiment have been
produced by the brilliant achievements OF Buena Vista and
of Cerro Gordo the capture of their castle and of their
capital Does any one believe that their spirit is not
humbed and that the sense of their own inferiorty
will not induce them to refrain from repetition of the
insults and aggressions which they had so repeatedly
perpetrated upon u.s. They will be stripped, too, of
large portion of their territory They may be stripped OF
more, if they should wanonly insult again. Will not
the lessons they have learned operate as "secury for
the future: Will not the moral force we have gained,
and the military genius we have exhibited, go beyond
Mexico, and produce their impression upon the other
tons Of the earth With ample Indemnity for the past
then, and with such security for the future"-wth
achievements in which any nation might envy
with extension Of territory to the Pacific, which gives
us some of the finest harbors in the world--(for
one of which aone-the bay of San Francisco-Gen.
Jackson willing to give five millions of dollars
with an immense commerce opening upon us with the
richest nations of Asiawh every facility secured tor
whalers in the Pacific, and with the other advantages
which will have secured with all these, we can
truly say that have every to be proud OF the
war, and proud of the peace which it has obtained
We repeat, therefore, that we proud Of the acor
and glad and proud of the peace peace should come
with the ratification of the treaty. -
The National Intelligencer, however, is not content
with this general and unenabe declaration. proceeds
to enumerae the advantages which the peace will pro-
duce but it draws these sketches with the disgusting
hues OF party spirit 1t ascbes extravagant measures TO
the administration and still more extravagan motives II
charges the President with commencing the war without
the consent Of Congress This the old hackneyed cant
and to again only for the purpose of laying be-
fore readers complete justification of the of
the President, as ii appears in the following extracts from
the able address of the late democratic convention OF
Virginia:
1'Snce the last presidential election feow-citizens
issue has sprung up, which this convention canno,
pass in silence. The annexation ofTexas which
sanctioned by large maority Of the people of Virginia
and of the Union, has led a with neghboring re-
public This war the wing party alleges to be unjust un
necessary and unconstitu tionaa violation alike
of the rights of Mexico AMI of fundamental la of the
United States. brief history of the causes which pre-
ceded that event WILL it is believed fully vindicate the
character OF the nation from the asperons that have
cast upon it. aud dsprove the goundles charge that
Chief Magistrate has usurped the war-makng power. In
discussing the justice OF the war, it is first necessary
anime the act of which the public enemy complains Tha
Is simply that the Congress othe United States annexed
this contederacy the republic of Texas, which Mexico
claimed as a revolted province. On examining into this
slain, appears that the States Mexico were sovereign
and independent States, united by constitution SINH
lar to our owa. The relation existed between the
parties to that instrument and the central government
aoshed' as that which exists between the States of this