New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-02-07

Inc Keen observer OF Puoi'o e'oNS-'
the ignominy with which MIR. Inst mas been treat
cd by the Administration Press ever since the news
arrived Of his participation In new efforts TO secure
a Pesoe with Mexico, and who notes how promptly
the knowledge that Gen. Scott had given bis coun.
tspspce to those efforts was followed by his supen.
s;on from the supreme command Of the Army, can
surely have no doubt Of the utter hypocrisy and
hollowness Of the faint pretences still made by the
War party Of desiring Peace with Mexico Their
aspirations the farthest possible from this The
public rebukes administered TO Mr. Trist for pro-
posing, while negotiating before the capture Of
Mexico, to submit to his Government at Washing
ton the proposition Of Mexico 10 leave the country
between the Nueces and the Rio Grande uninhao-
tied and desolate a. perpetual barrier between
the two Nations-the ostentstious proclamation
through The Union that Mr.. Polk and his Cabinet
never consented nor would consent to Peace with
out the surrender by Mexico Of all her territory and
people this side Of the Rio Grande, with the balance
of New.Mexioo all Upper California and the rug
ged desert which separates them-the entire and
peremptory withdrawal Of Mr.. Trist's powers, with
the appointment of successor to the place be had
Temporarily vacated in the State Department TO
proceed on this Mission-all these were enough TO
prove the absorption Of the Executive in schemes
of conquest and spoliaton but more are DOW forth
coming Mr.. Trist, though no longer in the public
service but remaining at the Mexican capital on
private business keeping grocery, III sneeringy
stately IT, we hear to be brought home by force if
necessary and punished for his diplomatic INSIDE
meanors; while the opinions Of our Military officers
1.-THE wish being father TO the thought in favor Of
the subjcgation and permanent retention Of all
Mexico, are eagerly paraded in the War journals;
resolutions looking to and justfying alphabetically
such annexation have been offered by Loco Foco
Members Of Congress and stand unrebuked on the
journals for future discussion; and Gen Cass, the
Senatorial spokesman and Heir Apparent, declares
himself cautiously but expressively in favor Of per-
manently annexing all Mexico down to the Sierrn
Madre or great mountain chain which separates
the residue of Mexico from the Valley Of the Rio
Grande, stretching from the Gulf nearly due North
for several hundreds Of miles until it interlocks
with the southerly spurs of the Rocky Mountains
This il the latest phase of Progressive rapacity
save a. 1t il developed in the Military hurah for
the whole Of Mexico We first overleaped the
boundary between the two nations established yre-
that afforded by the inhospitabe wids between
the Nueces and the Rio Grande and at last the
great river is discarded and the mountains beyond
fixed upon az more convenient and proper along with
the acquisition OF at least third Of the whole terri
tory Of Mexico by carrying down our Southern line
westward of Red River from lat 420 to 32S North
Taking these magnificent slices of her Northern
and astern frontier, we should leave Mexico with
less than hafthe territory she had at the beginning
Of the War, or about third Of what was hen be-
fore she was Invested OF Texas The balance, If
she will submit to this partition immediately, our
rulers would probably consent to wait a few years
for until our Finances could be somewhat recruited
though there is a very considerable fraction who go
for taking the whole and taking it now. We think,
however, that majority Of the War party would
consent to take half as an instalment and wait
few years for the balance
As to the Rio Grande as a boundary, for which
this War was ostensibly commenced, we never
had bat one opinion nor held but one language con-
corning it. 1t never can be permanent boundary
between two nations like ours and the Mexican
There is not another line between New Orleans
and Vera Cruz so utterly unfit for boundary and
80 incapable Of being maintained as such. The val
ley of the Rio Grande, so far as it is arabic and
habitabe, is too narrow, too isolated, too closely
bound together by the tortuous, navigable current
which chsracterizes it, to belong to two nations. 1t
would be the perpetual haunt Of smugglers and
outlaws lodging from one bank to the other for
cealment or impunity, if made a boundary. Had
oar Government been willing to sccede to the actu
al boundary between the two nations, the two
races, we should have had Peace last September,
saving thousands Of precious lives, and millions on
millions Of utterly wastefal expenditure But that
was not merely spurned but Mr.. Trist was dis
graced for offering to entertain the proposition and
refer it to Washington for decisive action. And
now, when he is confessedly without power or au-
thority, the fact that he has consented to be the
bearer Of Peace propositions from Mexico and has
endeavored to procure such propositions as would
prove acceptable to our Government form the
basis and impulse Of the most rancorous attacks
on him as though he were Matching treason or sell
ing his country. Could this be so if cur Govern.
ment really desired Peace on any reasonable terms
Who that is not wilfully blind cannot see whittier
we are tending Mr. Polk might like Peace per
se. but he far more desires a reelection. War
enormously increases his patronage and power dis
tracts public attention, affords plausible reason
for leaving the Government in the hands of those
who have hitherto had the direction of affairs. If
this War can be protracted till June, Mr. Polk may
be renominated and it will not be stopped sooner
events shall be shaped conformaby to his wishes.
Blu, let fair Peace proposition only be set before
Congress and the Country, and we have great hope
that the gamblers with human lives for Political
ascsndancy will be defeated Very much, however,
depends on the sasacity and fesrlessDess of the
Wings in Congress. If they shall unanimously
choose to dorght we still hope that the War isnow
very near Its termination.
PARDON OF PoLLocK.-Several of the jour
malls OF our State. including some hitherto most
favorable to Gov. Young, are commenting with
severity the recent pardon of Midshipmsn
Pollock, Of Buffalo. The facts, it will be remem.
bored, are Substantially as follows: Pollock had
been dining at his hotel at Buffalo and there com.
mttsd some offence which was reprehended in
the next Commercial Advertiser, Mr.. Jewett OF the
Advertiser being q fellow boarder at the Hotel