Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-28


8 stances, AS A NATIONAL CALAMITY, to be avoided
if compatible with national honor. The principles
of our Government, as soeH as its true poicy are
: opposed 10 the sUBJUGATIoN OF OTHER NATIONS,
AND THE DIsMEMBERMENT OF OTHER COUNTRIES Jy
conquest"
The prediction that the election of man enter
tanning these principles will be "hoste 10 The pur-
suits Of peaceful Industry" &C., and tempt"o as
piring youth" to set about iavolcing the country
IN foreign Dars," would be, under any crcum-
stances, quite cool. But, considering ,cho is the
seer that makes the prediction, and for uhose
benefit it is made, il is cool enough to refresh one
even in the dog days. While Gen. TAYLOR is,
emphaicay and avowedly, FRIEND OF PEACE,
Gen. CAss in whose behalf the Secretary of State
brings "ths patronage Of The Federal Gouera-
ment into conflict soith the freedom Of elections"
delying the angry glNsts of the "enlisted SOL
diers," &c.-General CAss, we say, is no less
emphatically and avowedly the FRIEND OF WAR;
He, he is the " aspiring youth" who. as he has be-
fore been "ready and anxious may be expected
to be again "ready and anxious to involve the
country in foreign wars" Look at his whole
course on the Oregon controversy ;'as to which
we would refer our readers to some notices of it
in our paper of the 29th of July last. In what
light it was viewed by one of the ablest, most dis
tnguished, and most decided members of his own
party, will be seen in Senator BENToN's speech Of
June !, ls46, e. G. the following passages:
Mr. B said it try the failty Of poor human
The great organ, and five hundred small ones fol-
lowing its notes. and many ten thousand tongues had pro-
claimed the $40 40 line, and right up to IL and thus
acting upon the patriotic feelings of the people, had prepared
them for with Great Britain for that line, chen Uere
sttch thing and for Frazers river this side It,
without knowing was there. The people had been led into
error; afned 10 tie lcar pDat upon mistake and now
when the mistake shown the tug of another came
upon poor human nature To admit the erro and ask par
don Of God and the part justice and candor but
this was humang TO vanity and selfove and the pride OF
consistency To persevere this error after detected
the part OF human fraty and the Senator from Mich-
gan, the part Of his party has obeyed the law of fay
ne has persevered in he crets into design cat
IN the beginning mistake! We now to have war; AS
far as the Senator and his party make il, UPoN DESIGN
AND WITHOUT PRETExr; for he could Frazier
rye which the sole object and would be the cause
Of war"
"The Senator and his party-the big organ and those
which have followed its no,eshave been leading the country
TO war with Great Britain upon mistake upon bIunder
upon an ignorance OF treaties and geography The mistake
has been exposed by leading the treaties and producing the
geography Instead Of admitting the error the Senator from
Michigan for himself and friends psrseyeres in il and thus
what mistake in the beginning becomes desga-a design
10 hare toar c Gre0t Britain, .cout daring 10 nun.e
the prefert
ave are the Amcrican Senate acting in the e,es The
present age and Of postery, and upon great resp9agb-
ty by our acs war may he made, ard are bound by
every sacred and every human obligation make mistake
in bringing about so great callniy. War is a caiaay in
itsey-a war upon mistake double calamity bt Ar
upoS DESIGN, after The mistake detected calamity for
which there is 1t rises the magnitude Of the
greatest crime"
"Was there any thing so ridiculous ever aay thing
so arcica any thing meing the rebuke of the peo
pe thus msled and deceived at first by ignorance and
by design 2"
"The people have been misledgrosiy and .idey nais-
led; gnoranty at first, bound to belege-de-
sigaedIy now, as we painfully The y-fcur-fory ine
never existed The treaty proves it yet lis existence sill
affirmed msead the unlnorned and to save the mslead
ers from the modification Of exposure"
And when the treaty and the Produced and the
mistakes shown, instead of confession aud repentance
nent and attack upon HIM who exposes the error and
the courty from sESsELEss, IGNORANT USJusrIFIABLz
WAR"
This day has been tho humila,ing Of nv Senaora
e have felt for the American Senate when have
member cngng to and endeavorng keep the peo
pie in error, at The risk Of Qr by to do
awsy the plain words Of leaty by garbng and muape
scraps Of speeches depecae another enaorwhen the
great question Of tho peace and honor of the country
in the presence Of which every selfish feeling should have
stood abashed and rebused"
oH .ubAiIAN Qucst!ON ptn. OASS was JUS
as ready aud anxious for war as he had been on
the .OREcoN question. Who that thinks of WAR
as Gen. TAYLOR and Col. BENTON do, can forget
the mingled ferceness and lesity of Gen. CAss's
speeches on our Mexican relations! His willing.
ness 10" srallor Merico Tomorrow ;""to c,nea
The domains Of Werico 10 oar o,cn I" &c. The
apprehension that the election of Gen. TAYLOR, the
friend o peace, would lead to ,car, is not the only
fear that haunts the Secretary of State. Hear him
once more:
"Undcr this precedent, too, officers of every
grade in the regular army, whilst actually holding
and exercising their military commissions, may
become candidates for civil Office before the peo
pie of the different States and engage actiUey a.
partisans 10 secure their o,cn election-an eUenl
Uhich bW three short years ago vould haze bee,
deemed impossible IN This country"
Cool again! Military officers electoncering
How shocking it would be for officers of the army
TO follow the example Of the enlisted soldiers" o.
every grade" in the civil line Positively, this
whole peroration brings before the minds eye
parsonage whom an esteemed contemporary once
presented to the notice of the honorable Secretary
to wit, OnY CANNON.
The Cincinnati Gazette OF Thursday SAYS :
I" Never were the Wings Of Ono actuated by a
frmer or better spirit than now. Every man is