Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-02-10

Cry OF Mexico, ANNEXED u. s, Dec. 30. l947
DEAR COLONEL: feel good deal anxious
to hear how you are getting along there to home,
and 'spose you are full as anxious to know
how we are going i, out here got your mes.
sage to Congress and their first three days do
ings, and lhal's the last I've heard. When
found the Wings had fairly carried the House,
see in moment there was bad time ahead
Tor us. Says |, look out for squalls the old
ship will have bad time Of i, This winter.
had good mind To come right home to help
stan by The helm, for knew you would need
me. But then see at once that wouldn't do.
for our officers have got into dreadful snarl
here, and | shoulnnt dare To leave ill things is
settled, for fear the annexin would all 90 back
again and we should lose TWO years work.
So, as can't come, all can do is TO give my
notions about things little, by way of advice.
see how twill be The House will be quar-
relng with you all winter they'll be asking
you all the hard questions they can think Of,
and all the time prying into your secrets, about
the war and annexin. And | don't beieve
the Senate will be copper better. Tis true
there ainl so many Wings there, bu, there's
them there that is full as bad You can never
do anything with Mr.. Calhoun you know he
always splits every thing in two even lo hair;
and The mos, he'll ever do for us about his an
nexin business will be to split off Iit,e piece
Of Mexico. If he finds oui we are annexln The
whole of i, he'll fght agIn US ill all is blue
Then there's Col. Denten don't think is
whit better than Mr.. Calhoun. Yon know
wha. fuss he made when we took in Texas,
because we sol out 10 take in a Iiuie strip Of
Mexico with il only iule reasonable strip.
too, es, on our side Of the river, so as to make
square work oft Col Benton's ebeEeZer was
righ. up about il; he said it didn't belong to
us, and it didn't belong TO Texas, and we had
no right to ii, and shouldn't touch it, Now, if
he made such fuss about that little strip on
our side of The river he'll be likely to raise
Ned and turn up Jack if he finds out we have
a notion of annexin the whole Of Mexico. And
he's terrible enemy 10 have, can tell you !;
don't believe there's any other man in the
country that can look down opposition equal 10
him. Now, with such men as these IN the
Senate, besides all the thunder of W ebster, and
all the persuadin of Criuenden, how are you
a going TO get along! think there's no
way for US To gel along safe but 10 Keep such
men in The dark Keep coaxing the money out
of EN- TO conquer piece, but never lei EN- mis-
trust that We intend to conquer the whole
We mus, look one way all the time and row
'Iolher. | know you'll have a hatd time Of it,
for Congress will keep diving into you all The
time with this question and thai. and pryin into
all the secrets abou, The war; and want to know
what orders you give out here in Mexico,
and what the armies are going to do, and where
all the money goes TO, and a thousand things
that they've no business with Now, when
thox, Ena
Iions, think the only safe way for you to shet
your mouth righl up, AID keep stiff upper Hip
and not say word. And do pray be careful
what you tell to good old Mr.. Richie, for you
know he never could keep his mouth sher-
There's some dogs, you know, that always bark
al the wrong time and frIghIen away the game.
You never can train EN- 10 keep still when they
ought TO. You remember more than two years
ago, before the war begun, when you was lay
ing ou, the work privately and carefully, and
getting your ships round to the Pacific, and
giving the officers their orders 10 stan ready
and wait ill the train was touched on this side,
and he moment they heard the FIRST sound of
the war TO snap up California. and annex it,
SO that if we found the people wouldn't let the
war 90 on we could come 10 a settlement, and
each side hold what they had got-you remem-
Der how Mr.. Richie got SO full of The matter
that he liked TO blow the whole business up by
letting On about the conquest of Mexico. A
lillle more such careessDess a, that time would
been likely TO upset our whole kitrle Of fish
I'VE might los, California. and Santa Fe,
and likely enough even tha, little strip on our
side of the river jining Texas. And, as for the
whole of Mexico, our jig would been up at
once, we might whlstled foi ii ull doomsday
bu 'twouldn't come.
| think you. did right to make believe in your
message that you had no idea of conqnering the
whole of Mexico. don't believe it would be
safe to take that ground ull The work is all done
The people Of our country too skiush ye,
about conquering other countries, they hahn,
go, use TO ii. And for this reason you will
have 10 be very firm with Congress, and not lei
EN- cross-queslon you TOO close, aud get you
into bother. Call upon them boldly for large
armies, and all The millions of money the mnts
can make, and all that Mr. Walker can borrow
and tell EN- you are digging into he vital parts
Of Mexico 10 sc, that five millions she owes Us