Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-05-06

necessary crush enemy al blow as those in Mex
co. No one presume, doubted ability to "swa
low Mexico, the distinguished Senator from Michigan hs
it, and to do it at and all agree that if she had
swallowed, otherwise subdued by force arms shoul
have been done at And yet with this poor mserably
distracted depressed, weak, poverty stricken priesdder
and down-uodden country, invaded by at ve dierer
points at once two long have been permitted TO roll
since the conflict commenced and we have just arrive
at peace, negotiated also in spite Of the Administration,
commissioner who had long before been dismissed dsgaced
and recalled If Mexico had be subdued and peace will
her conquered, every principle OF humanity and
ITSELF required that force sufficiently large Accomplish th
object should have been to that country, whc
would have rendered battles unnecessary would have
millions OF treasure and torrents OF human blood But in
stead of this at all times and places where have had
forces in Mexico, they have been small and apparently
emphs always induce the Mexicans either attack
resist them which they would otherwise have done
Who does not know that General Taylor had had witt
him the Rio Grande ten thousand troops blow woult
have been struck Who does know that if he had hac
with him at Buena Vista fifteen thousand soldiers he should
have had twenty-five thousand, Santa Anna would never
have approached him Who does not know that If General
Scott had had with hmin Mexico fifty thousand instead
from six TO ten thousand, those frghtfu conflicts Of Vera
Cruz. Cero Gordo, Coneras, Churubusco FL Molno del
Rey, Chaputepec and the city Of Mexico would have
taken place conflicts which have brought desoaon both
countries, and filled the abodes of each with mourning And
now, when the and peace restored the Govern
ment has been successful in placing foyye thousand
troops and their way to the of conflict and its
friends even now pressing us pass bill to e ten regi
ments more, not to tight IN Mexico but to authoze the Pe
sident commission FIVE hundred additional officers
But is said that have achieved brilliant Victories Yes,
sir the army has, that eated but brave old general who
never surreIders, with few on-heared under officers
and small band of determined, nfexble, and ressess
sodery, have asounded the world by their almost super
human efforts and accomplishments but it has been done
as it in defiance Of the Government What credit
is the Government entitled to for sending General Taylor
the Rio Gande with three thousand troops defend fon-
tier of thousands of miles, far from home, the face of
exasperaed oe sufficiently to surround and crush
him at blow What credit is the Government entitled to
for ordering General Taylor break the amstce entered into
at Monterey and march towards San LUIS Potos and when
it had placed him far in the nero with army of twenty
thousand in his 'front.' withdrew from him for other service
the Of his forces leaving him but thousand regulars
and few volunteer forces to defend himself and the
country against that formidable of twenty thousand
strong under the command of the nvncbe Santa Anna
But let General Taylor speak for himself this subject In
letter dated at his camp, Victoria, January l5 ls47
to General Scott, he says
stThe of force be drtwn from this frontier, and
the which proposed withdraw had
fully my knowledge until yesterday, though hnted
in your Of November IS Hal you, Genera relieved
in the whole command and assigned to duty
under order allowed TO retire the field, be assured
that complaint would have been heard from but while
almost every Of regular force and half the volunteers
in respectable dscpne withdrawn for distant
vice, it that expected, witt less than thousand
regulars and volunteer force partly new eves to hold
defensive line, while large army OF more than twenty thou
sand men is in my front.
speak only Of defensive line 70, the idea Of assuming
operations the direction of San LUIS by March,
May with such troops then be At my disposition
is quite preposterous to be entertained for moment
After all that have written to the Department the subject
of such operations, find difficult believe that seri
ousy expected undertake them with the extraordinarily
limited means at my disposal
81 misunderstood the object Of he arrangements in
dcated your letters feel that have lost the confidence
of the Government would have suffered
main, this time ignorant Of its intentions with valy
affecting interests committed TO my char Bat, however
much may feel personally mortified outraged at the
pursued, unprecedented least in history,
will carry in good faith, while remain in Mexico, the
of the Government, though may be sacrificed in the
effort"
We all know, sir how the heart of the ,ation hrobbed
and how the public pulse embed its vibrations og the fate
Of the old and his band when head that that
army had marched upon it, shorn swas of IFS power and
had that army been and san the vengeance
of this people towards the Government would have known
bounds. And why they not sacrificed Not because
the Government sustained them, but because, with heosm,
bravery and power which no force Of numbers could
they sustained themselves because they thought Of nothing,
they knew Of nothing they would hear Of nothing
quer perish in the effort.
Again When after the splendid victory Of BueGa VISTA
the advantages of which has perhaps acuat
ed and after Vera Cruz, with its impregnabe castle had fall
before the magnificent combinations and herculea Of
Scott and that mighty warrior and chean marching
in triumph TO the halls of the Montezumas, TO what uedt
ask, the Government entitled when at this moment,
the tide triumph rolled the land suspended fomonhs
the operations Mexico and vexod and haase the Congress
beyond for the appointment OF Lieutenant general,
for the express purpose supersedng and degrading e
superior and extraordinary Generals, whose nvncb
bad already substantially conquered the country We
to it rue that the President and his Lieutenant General
had plan for conducting the campaign entirely different from
that adopted by and Taylor, and sight Of which was
promised but may well be doubted now that the conflict
has ended goousy the Generals intended to be sgrac
ed, whether that wonderful plan will be disclosed
But, again, what credit doesh Government eSpec de
rive from the fact that after nearly years Of strife and
will at its Of
Gen. Scott in the heart Of the country with six thousand men,
dred thousand Inhabitants and having within its walls army
| Of thirty thousand strong
Once more. Will gentlemen be good enough to tel me to
what credit the Government entitled for sending Mexico
her energies and lead her armies the reess
unring remorseless and mplacabe Santa Anna man to
be trusted WHERE and bloodhsy human butcher every
where The country astounded, in ls46, at learning
that that Of human cruelty, he who had reved in
carnage and blood in attempting conquer Texas Ae exc
Grated Santa Anna, bad passed bockadng squadron in
the Gull, and had gone into Mexico The thing ex-
raordinary that the Wings wicked enough charge
that he had pass from the President but this the friends Of
the Administration stouty denied, asserting that
Wing SANDER But in December, ls46, the county was
again startled from its proprety by finding in the message
Of the President the admission that Santa Anna passed into
Mexico with bis permission. The Wings Of this House la
bored through the Of resolutions obtain distinct in
formation from the President this very important natter
but all such efforts voted down by the majority here and
the whole kept hidden from the world. But at the
present session resolution adopted calling the Pesi-
dent the information and 10 the pass itself appears in
the following words and figures which should be preserved