Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-05-06

other But il is part of the Governments management
this war; and ask again. what credit is it entitled to
such management
Am not right them sir in saying that the whole manag
ment OF this war; far the Government itself
has been the weak mbece, and disreputabe chat
characterized administration since governments
tablshed And am not also right in saying thai all th
glory which arises from umphs accrues to those brav
and skfa Generals who planned and directed the campaigns
and those gallant and iessess officers and who unde
the guide and direction Of superior minds, swept the battle
field with the force and fury Of the driving tempest and bsor
whose terrible charges squadons and columns and square
alike down. scattered from their path like
4 leaves before the blast
Now, Mr.. Chairman, ! viii endeavor TO examine for
short time the objects and purposes OF the Administration
the prosecution of this am forced TO say, sir that
not feel at liberty take the given by the Presden
for the prosecution of the the ones because the
OF the Administration have been m direct conflict with il
professions in the matter and because the given b
the President have been asdverse and different as the differ
en messages which he has TO Congress the subject
In his first message he sad The army ordered the from
tier defend territories In his message of May
1885, he said the waged because Mexico had nva
ded our territories, and shed Amercan blood American
soil. In his next message il because Mexico had re-
fnsed pay the indemnity which she owed citizens
In the next, it conquer peace And in the last
was to obtain indemnity for the past and security for thu
future.
Now, sir, Judging from the acts Of the Administration
assert, and il had time could prove beyond doubt, that
from first TO last this Government has had bnt single object
IN view, and that was to obtain land! land land strange
nfauaon 10 have seized the Administration to acquire
land all hazards Why this should be So when we have
much already than know what to do WITH
strange indeed but presume General Houston understood
the secrets and ongngs of his own party at least when he
stated in his late speech TammaBy Hall that " there
conceang the fact hasthis people fond of land"
TO prove that the object of the Administration
que land REFER in the s place. the instructions given
10 Mr. Sdel before the commenced which instructions,
although the President refused TO let the public them, have
got before the country Notwithstanding Side is instructed
in the fist place, purchase the country down TO the Rio
Grande the second place, to purchase New Mexico and
in the third place to purchase California TO pay ave millions
for the FIRST millions for the first and twenty five mil
lions for tbs whole Money said be Of account but
the land every thing still the twenty-five millions be the
uafus, and the minister is instructed to be very careful
wake up Mexico the subject but TO purchase the
land much cheaper is possbe and the President will
like much the better but all events to try and get the
land and that, successful enviable Immortality awaited
him.
But this mode of acquiring the land by negotiation has
fallen through by the failure OF the Sde mission Another
and Objectionable mode resorted that Of conquest
The avowed object of sending General Taylor and the army
the Rio Grande defend the country, then claimed
be ours, down TO that The battles of Balo Alto and
Resaca de la Palma fought upon It's banks The Mexi
army utterly routed beaten and driven from the
country and within week after the fighting Of these
battles there not armed Mexican within hundred
miles Of the seene and would have BEEN There not
gentleman this floor who will risk his reputation in say
ing that he believes there the most remote probability
that Mexico would again have renewed the attack The
feeble forces OF feeble foe perfectly annhated Santa
Anna exile territory, if .7e ownedit, defend
ed and the slightest necessity existed for striking another
blow upon herostrate foe We might have held the
try TO the Rio Grande remuneration for the money Mexico
owed until that question adjusted and had not
newed the attack them there would have been blood
she'd But had not acquired the land coveted, and,
under pretence of defending territory, General Taylor
ordered the and march upon Camargo Mon
terey, Sallo, and San Luis Potos COL Donphan
dered to penetrate the country and conquer Nsw Mexico
Gen. keany ordered to advance from the north and take
possession OF California Fleets under Commoaores Soat,
Stockton, and perhaps Others sent around Cape Horn
assa Mexico from the Pacific Ocean, while Gen. Scott
directed take Vera Cruz and its fortress and march upon
the city Of the Monte from that direction and all this
sir under the miserable and shallow preence of defending
territory Who believes it No There is
willing far to stuy himself say that be believes
that this the object of the Administration What then,
their object in this fveod invasion When take
other facts into consideration perfectly manifest that their
object compel Mexico in way yield the land
wanted.
Again Three-hs Of this of territories almost
uninhabied, where Mexico had armies and nothing with
which contend part and had the general object Of
the Government been conquer peace there could not have
been the least propey in sending armies into wilder
where there neither armies enemies conquer
but there territory TO conquer and this conquered
efiectuay, showing that the great object the and
But again If examine the public documents we will
find that the army instructions given by the here
the commanding officers there take OF
the country that TO be surrendered in any event.
or under any contingency showing that the great and
trolling motive obtain aud hold the land a all events
But, SIR is additional well stubborn and startling
fact that the Government managed matters that the whole
of California conquered annexed to the United States
and the flag Of this country waving before was known
there that the between and Mexico had broken out
The battle Of Palo Alto the 9Th Of May 1885, and the
stars and stripes raised Monterey, the Pacific
by Commodore Slo, the 7th Of July Of the year,
the country having been previously subugaed by Capt FIRE.
mont and a: time when Fremont Gillespie, and others
testify that they knew nothing whatever Of conflicts with
Mexico
But sir these territories only thus subugaed and
held military conquess until difficulties adjusted hut
in Of them almost conquered, civil govern
established justices Of the supreme court secreta
~ Of state attorney general and other civil officers
pointed Mexican citizens compelled take the oath Of
allegiance the United States, and Of them after
wards actually hanged for for the violation Of tha, oath
showing that no what treaty should be made, the land
TO be
But let us look little further for evidence Of the motives
and objects Of the During the year ls46 ls47 aregi
raised in the vicinity OF New York; under the
mand Of person distinguished in "ppeyng in New
York city, by the of Stevenson This regiment
raised in early part Of the war; be by to Caor
na with the ayowed and express understanding that they
return, but TO remain and settle there. II
conquer the country necessary, and then settle upon it.
The regiment saed and arrived there after the country
conquered and nothing has been heard Of their return How
SIR could all this have taken place except upon the position,
early assumed by this Government that that country
he oursa AT all harar1s