The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-23

about that order And why let me ask should Con- /
gress have been consulted about IL Does not salts
factory for the omission OF the President to con
suit Congress about this order suggest itself TO sena
tors Have we soon forgotten the events OF that pc
rod Have we forgotten our difficulty then pending with
England in regard 10 the Oregon Territory The ailx
ety felt everywhere and by every upon that subject
Have we forgotten the temper displayed py our elow
citizens al that time the manifest and eager uprising on
the of population upon the ever popular cry
this country of with England OF the prompt demand
for news upon the arrival OF every steamer from Eng
land Have we forgotten the debates in England and
France cher ally upon the Oregon and Texas questions
and the debates in this chamber upon the anticipated
rupture at that time with this formidable power VI me
necessity all felt for the immediate uslmen oil I'M
question: fairly and amcably, IN order to preserve lhe
peace of the world and probably England or America
and possibly both from many and lrreparabe sacrifices
Have we forgotten the influences which this oregon CUES
lion had upon the policy of Mexico, and OF the IeXa
question upon the policy of England, by which these tw
powers were brought together, and acted IN unsonI
against the United States and in which the opera
ton of France relied upon by the mad and visionary
but tempting consideration of giving, under the auspices
oi Paroles and the clergy ruler to Mexico IN the per
son of prince of the house of Bourbon! In such ri
critical position OF affairs, In January 1885, was
the President prepared at that time TO recommend Con
lesired war; which he did, with that power |
No. sir, he was not. He chose, and | think wisely,
IA different line of policy He chose to settle oulI
difficulties with Mexico, if possible, rather by nego
directed minister, (Mr. Sdell,) Notwithstanding
the refusal by Herrera to receive hun, and nowithstand
(which it was achieved he directed that minister, not
these obstacles to remain in Mexico and to
make overtures for his reception TO the usuper with the
view OF settling every OF dispute between the two
countries and that minister did remain, and did make
these overtues until the 18th OF March, when on that
LAY, his overturcs defnitvely and finally rejected
That cheftan having come into power by revoution
predcated upon the question of no negotiation with the
III ned States, but warand expecting at mat precise Pc
|rod of time rupture between the United States and
England upon the Oregon question, which had at tina
time assumed the appearance OF probablliy-and relying
or the before alluded to, upon the Cooperation
ot relying also good deal upon our qnhap
reason to believe he was well normed-that chieftaln
flor these reasons, on the 18th OF March dismissed MT
Sde, and resolved in the midst OF our difficulties att
home and abroad invade Texas, for the purpose of
|conquerng it. At that time, on the 18th OF March,
when this long edof invasion of Texas bad been de
|emned upon, the movement of General Taylor from
Corpus Christi which the lth of March, and
only day before the final refusal of the reception of
Jour minister not, and could not have been known
10y Paroles, in the city OF Mexico was not there
fore the march which either caused the refusal of the
reception of minister by the government OF MeXco
that provoked that power into hostles against the
limited States from which this dates It's origin Are
other proofs to establish this TACT desired; II 50, we
have them in the proclamation of General Ampuda, at
that time al the head of the invading army under date OF
the 9th OF March, at Salto, in which he enumerated
he causes Of complaint against the United States and m
Christi not enumerated but the resolution Tor the an
1nexaon of Texas is enumerated. AS General Taylor
HAD only arrived at the Rio Grande on the 10th OF March
lon the day only preceding the date of that Generals
proclamation, the movement of General Taylor was
probably unknown to him. Are further proofs wanted
show that the admission OF Texas into the Unlon and
mot the march of General Taylor, the cause OF OF
fence to Mexico, which produced the revolution, and
pushed that power into hosties against us We find
hls additional proof IN the manifesto OF raIedes aaed a.
The had heard of the arrival of General Taylor on the Rio
Grane, which arrival he notices in that manifesto, and
(Which he regarded as an aggravaon OF the offences
2of the United States against Mexico. That chietaln,
that document informs us, thai on assuming the re-
7sponsbity, in the beginning of the year 1916, he had
resolved upon changing the policy OF Mexico IRON thai
of weak and temporzing which had been observed in
gard to the United States III consequence OF the perhdy
of the United States in incorporating one OF the depart
ments of Mexico into its coniederacy and of It's reach
erous violation Of the terms OF existing treaties which
defined the limits of Mexico That President OF
Mexico tells in that document, after good deal OF
buster and bombast, that 1t was Tor this reason thai
Mexico sanctioned the movement which he began al
San LUIS Poosi, not for the purpose OF placing himself
power, but that Mexico might shine" by the triumph.
of cause, which is the cause OF the conservative prn
cpe of human society Are other proofs wanted to show
that it not the march OF Taylors army to the Rlc
Grande that caused this war; We find them in the let
Iter of Commodore Conner under the date of the q
aof March, 1916, nine days before General Taylor moved
Il from Corpus Christi in which the Commodore states thai
the papers OF the capital state that within the last ten days
large force OF nearly eight thousand men mad march h
little credit to the report at the me but subsequent events
have proved that these statements the papers
Is further proof wanted to show that
march of Gen Taylor from Corpus Christi that brought
lon this war If so, find these proofs in the reports Of
General Taylor informing OF the affair al the Little
lColoradoof the rancheIos which bese his march, and
6of his having found his arrival the Rio Grande
800 or 1000 men at Maamoras and of expected rem
Borcements under Gen Ampudia, which could not have
been organized and placed in position within the time
(which interviewed between the breaking up of his camp
1at Corpus Christi, and the arrival of General Taylor
the 23d of March at the Rio Grande Proofs might be
multiplied to show the impossbiGty of the march OF
of this Yet sir, for some time after the arrival oil
General Taylor on the Rio Grande no attack was made
aupon him. and it had been deferred so long, that that
General, and General Worth, both of opinion that
attack would be made upon our army and under this
Impression, General WORTH the 18th of April, re
signed his commission; and the 10th of April left Point
Isabel for the United States, and reached Washing
lafair-whch affair, before observed, was the
acause OF the war. After all this proof, is still con-
tended that the President is the cause of this
because he did not supply Gen Taylor with more troops
lOur unsettled difficulty with England, which was then al
its height required portion at least of our small army in
other quarters. The public exigences at this precise
time required portion of troops the Atlantic,
supplied with all the regulars that could be spared
|him: But the President gave him full authority, if he
needed more troops to repe the threatened INVASION
ca for such force he wanted upon the governors of
Alabama Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky
and Texas and these governors notified to honor
General Tayors call for such numbers of troops he
Required If Geaera Taylor, in whom the President
placed full confidence, did not draw for these troops the
fault was in him, and not in the President Volunteers
sent to HIM by General Gaines without his order.