Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-20

~ e1AS nv AAAtillOlIS VI uSDl WHICH MI.
Folk made the war TO recover, and fifteen mil
lions In cash; and as to security fo- the future
we have none. But what han SsIexico? She
mas security for the future. We are bound TO
protect her northern frontier against the hos
Tile and predatory incursions of the Indians OF
California, now ours, heretofore source of so
much annoyance, expense and suffering TO her.
people. From these calamities she is TO be
] hereafter protected, not by her own, but b.
American armies; so that. in point of fact.
Mexico, and not Mr. Polk has got all The
indemnify for the past and security for the
! future.
Such are the benefits of our war and the
blessings OF our peace, of which we hear so
much boasting on the other side of the House.
Sir, but Tor the madness and folly of this ad-
inlnlstration, all we have got could have been
obtained. by wise counsels and amicable nego-
tiation, for some fifteen or twenty millions
who can doubt it? But no. nothing but war
and bfoodshed would satisfy the President; be
would "cayll on the ninth part of hair" he
/ would not consent to change the title of our
negotlator Sent to Mexico from minister Pile
| nlpotentiary" TO commissioners" which was
all that required to secure his recognition by
Mexico, and the opening Of negotiations for
peace. RatheF than comply with this reasona-
BILE request, he instantly ordered Ger, Taylor
~ ~ TIE htO ANU COuine0 ceQ
the war without consulting Congress, then in
session. thus fixing on Polk and his party the
responsibility, the fearful responsibility of this
war and all its con sequences.
But there was another grave objection he had
TO the policy of the administration. Our gov
i eminent. as now administered, has in effect
become foreign G0ucrament, We could now
do everything abroad and nothing at home.-
The American people Were taxed for the benefit
of foreigners. The millions raised 10 carry on
this war had been expended for the most part
IN foreign country. Internal improvements
were unconstitutional at home, bul not abroad
; We could survey, and of course improve, the
Dead Sea, we could make roads and canals
across the isthmus of Panama and Tehuante
i pee Ii We want goods they must come from
r abroad. American hats, shoes and coats, were
not good enough for the Administration; they
, reduced the duties and brought them from
: &oroad. proposition was actually made by
his colleague, Mr. J. G.. Ingersoll,) and sus-
tanned by his party, few days ago, TO TAXI
e half the present low duties off the ricl
e mans ltxures, jewelry, and everything of The
4 kind, and OFT iron, COAL cloth, hats, shoes, and
u every species of manufacture, reducing the re-
: venue one half expressly TO favor foreigners
t who were repre- sented by his colleague 10 bt
Y III suffering condition, (no matter about Am
n ericans) and then, TO make up, it was proposed
], oput duty of twenty-five per cent on tbs
IT poor mans tea and coffee.
!; Thus, Sir, everything done by those s'pro
II gresslves" inure 10 the benefit of foreigners
: Our money is sent in ship loads abroad; on
e Improvements are foreign; our army and ouI
navy are employed abroad. Everything j
n foreign, foreign; nothing American. No power
: to protect or benefit our own people or improve
e our own country. The power TO contract debt
Il to tax and Cypress the people, were the only
IS legitimate powers of Government as now adj
:; ministered. Was this not true to the letter
+ Would the people longer submit to this stat
of things? The power and the remedy was il
&c their own hands, and they would apply it b.
le elevatin9 that honest, true hearted American
; Gen. Taylor TO the Presidency, who wonlt
soon correct these foreign and anti-Americal
:, tendencies, and bring the country back to tn
IS good old revolutionary principles of the tru
: American policy OF the earlier and better day
of the republic
6 The Baltimore platform had great man,
5 things III it to which his brief re remaining tim
8 would not permit him TO allude. He saw
S amongst other things, they had resolution il
9 which they repeated the Presidents charge tina
2 the Wings gave laid and comfort to the enc
z my" Now he would like TO know what sor
i of laid and comfort Gid lack gave TO the enc
7 my? MIR. Polk sent Santa Anna to give then
g aid and comfort, while instead of aid, General
u Taylor gave them ga little more grape an
4 canister. He wished gentleman opposite t
81 make the most of that ''aid and comfort" OIL
n lack had spiked that cannon, or rather ha
50 turned 1t upon their own ranks, now fyin
81 like Mexicans before him.
Il In the next place they go in for sound cur
"a rency; and yet the party. after The destructio
IS of the United States Bank, had established 81
No. or seven hundred State Banks. This had bee
b done by Democratic Legislatures in Democra
j6 &c States. But was perfectly consistent wit
u all they did They make an outcry again
81 Bank paper and they fill the country with ill'
r. gitlmate paper money, issued in violation
l3 the constitution. which expressly declared tn;
20 no State should tissue bills of credit" and
b course they could not authorize others TO {
: what the States themselves were not aulhori
II ed to do This provision, MIR. Madison say
is was inserted for the very purpose of proven
e. ing the States from issuing or authorizing tn
as issue of paper money" He (Mr. s. was nj
lv a bank man. We had too many banks.
of was opposed to United States Bank, thoug
10 he had once voted for it under the unanimo
nd instruction ola Democratic Pennsylvania LIE
Of islature, when every member from Pennsy
id vania in this House voted for it but one.
%. Next, the Baltimore platform declares tn
rv the present Administration had given ''a mob
N liupuloC ~ JfCC LTuucy ny repeating l!lC tai
IS of 1912 and establishing that of 1916. TIL
nd was announced as the crowning merit and 81
rly ry of Mr. Folks administration. 1t was too la
nd to enter upon that subject, for MS time a
of most expired, but he would merely obser
nd that their system had been so successful as
of produce balance of perhaps some forty mi
lions against the country. Specie was in CO
cir sequence going out of the country at the "a
~. of three millions month from the port
hat New York alone, and goods were coming in
rar millions; and he would tell them, while The
tn imports are vastly increased under the tariff
hat 1916, that their exports were falling. greal
all falling off. The exports of breadstufs will n
ear be one tenth part of what they were last vel
,st and, judging from what he saw in the Ia
at Union, they would be much less than that
ant The '.Union" of yesterday states the exports
rod Great Britain of flour last year at 2,269, |
~ barrels, this year, 1879 :l9l; wheat last, 2,l5
100 448 bushels; this year, 2l5 80; and so on; a
mn yet gentlemen talk of evidence of the worth
their system. Where was it, and what "