Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-08-10
Incidental enpenses. damages. losses, (, 9
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/ And to this add the loss of time and labor to
the country of fifty thousand volunteers for two
wears, and the loss TO families and to the country
of Is or 90 thousand valuable lives. And, he e.
peated, for all this, what have we gained! New
/ Mexico and California, which will cost US every
year, to maintain and defend as much as it is
worth. And where is our promised "indemRity
for the past and security for the future I" In
demnity! We have none, not cent for all our
losses but Mexico has received indemnity for
the past' by release of the five millions of debt
which Mr.. Polk made the war to recover,and fif-
teen millions in cash; and as to !" security for the
| FUTURE" we have none But what has Mexico
She has security for the future. We are bound
to protect her northern frontier against the hostile
and predatory ncursions of the Indians of Califor-
MIA, now ours, heretofore source of so much an
noyance, expense and suffering to her people,
From the calamities she is to be hereafter protect
ed, not hy her own, but by American armies so
that, in point of fact, Mexico and not Mr.. Polk
has got all the indemnity for the past and secu-
rity for the future -
Such are the benefits Of our war and the bless
ings of our peace, of which we hear much
boasting on The other side of of the House. Sir,
but for the madness and folly Of this administra-
ton, all we have got could have been obtained by
wise councils and amcable negotiation, for some
fifteen or twenty millions. But no nothing but
war and boodshed would satisfy the President. /;
he would = cavil on the ninth part of a hair; he
would not consent to change the title of our ne
eotator sent to Mexico, from minister plenipo-
tentiary'' to " commissioner" which was all that
was required to secure his recognition by Mexico,
and the opening of negotiations for peace
Rather than comply with this reasonable request,
he instantly ordered Gen Taylor to march to the
Rio Grande, and commercial the war without con-
sulting Congress, then in session; thus fixing on
Polk and his party the responsibility, the fearful
responsibility of this and all its consequences.
But there was another grave objection he had to
the policy of this Administration. Our Govern
ment, as now administered, has in effect become
foreign Government We could now do every
thing abroad and nothing at home. The Ameri-
can people were taxed for the benefit of foreign
ers. The millions raised to carry on this war had
been expended for the most part in foreign coun.
try. Internal Improvements were unconstitution-
al at home, but not abroad we could survey
and of course improve the Dead Sea; we could
make roads and canals across the isthmus of Pan.
anna and Tehuantepec If we want goods they
must come from abroad American hats shoes,
and coats were not good enough for the Admins
traiian they reduced the duties and brought them
from abroad. A proposition was actually made
by his colleague (Alr. c. ]. Ingersoll.) and sus-
tanned by his party, few days ago, to take half
the present low duties off the rich mans luxures,
jewelry, and every thing of the kind, and off iron,
coal, cloth, hats, Shoes and every species of man.
ufacure, reducing the revenue one half, express
ly to favor foreigners, who were represented by
his colleague to be in a suffering condition, no
matter about Americans;l and then, to make up,
it was proposed to put duty of twenty five per
cent. on the poor mans tea and coffee.
Thus, sir, everything done by these "progres-
siveS" inures to the benefit of foreigners. Our
money is sent in ship loads abroad our improve
ments are foreign; our goods are foreign; our ar
my and our navy employed abroad. Every
thing is foreign, foreign; nothing American.
No power to protect or benefit our own people or
improve our own country. The power to contract
debts, to tax and Cypress the people, the on
ly legitimate powers of Government as now ad-
mnstered. Was this not true to the letter q!
Would the people longer submit to this state of
things The power and the remedy was in their
own hands. and they would apply it, by elevatng
that honest, true-hearted American, General Tay-
lor, to the Presidency, who would soon correct
these foreign and anti-Amelican tendencies, anc
bring the country back to the good old revolution
ary principles and the true american policy of the
earlier and better days of the republic.
The Baltimore platform had great many things
in it to which his brief remaining time would not
permit him even to allude. He saw, amongst
other things, they had resolution in which they
repeated the Presidents charge that the Wings
gave aid and comfort to the enemy" Now, he
would like to know what sort of aid and comfort
old Zack gave to the enemy Mr.. Polk sen, San
ia Anna to give them aid and comfort while, in
stead of aid, Gen Taylor gave them " a little more
grape and canister. He wished the gentleman op-
posite to make the most of that aid and comfort"
old Zack had spiked that cannon, or rather bad
turned it upon their own ranks, now flying IKE
Mexicans before him.
In the next place they go in for sound curren-
cy and yet that party, after the destruction of the
United States Bank had established six or seven
hundred State Banks. This had been done by
the Democratic Legislatures in Democratic States
But it was perfectly consistent with all they did.
They make an outcry against Bank paper, and
they fill the country with Legitimate paper mon
ey, issued In violation of the constitution, which
expressly declared that no State should issue bills
of credit; and of course they could not authorize
others to do what the States themselves were not
authorized to do. This provision, Mr.. Madison
says, inserted for the very purpose Of prevent
ing the States from issuing or authorizing the is
sue of F" paper money" He (Mr. S. was not
bank man. He was opposed to United States
Bank though he had once voted for it under the
unanimous instruction of Democratic Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, when every member from Penn
sylvania in this House voted for it but one.
Next, the Baltimore platform declares that the
present Administrator had given - a noble i'm
pulse to free trade" by repeating the tariff of 1872
and establishing that OF 1916. This was an
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