The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-03-09
4 Sorry Business.


E,,orr mail from the North strengthens our sus-
melons that this miserable production OF intrigue,
veil he ratified bv the United States Senate 1haf
grave and respectable body IS about 10 sam 'oi ny
It's assent fragrant violation OF aW' ana 70 aooPl
as its own the offspring OF BRUSH cunning 'i,
Mexican presumption. The President OF the olhea
States by sending the treaty 10 inc SENATE ana
that body by consenting to act upon II, nave COM
promised their own dignity and that OF the conll-
trv In the negotiation-if the proceedings can be
ca,led so-wbich produced this precious document,
the American government was not represented, ior
Mr. Trist the moment his powers We're Withdrawn
from him nv the President. became no other than n
private citizen. Strictly speaking, he does not even
stand in the position of an American cit'zen-he Is
no more nor less than Mexican agent. For there
being no person concerned in the nfgot'af'onS, EN-
powered to represent the United STATES, there was
evidently but one party, and that party was Mexico
Mr. Trist citizen of the United, was honored by
the Mexican government with its confidence. and
selected by it, as its agent commissioner to pre-
sent the propositions which il had condescended to
snake to the government of the United States Mr.
Tris. in accepting that office, has virtually re-
nounced his citizenship of the United States and
rendered himself Mexican.
But the act has been committed and it only re-
mains for the Senate reject the treaty, which we
much fear it will not do Let us now come to the
treaty itself One Of its provisions snPliates tle
pavment of the sum of SIS O00. 900, in considera-
tom of the cession of New Mexico ana The Gall
fornias We have always been OF OPINION that the
war against Mexico was prosecuted Win view 10
indemnify * Indemnity for the past, and security
for the. future" Have we by this treaty obtained
such indemnify Ii may be said that the acqnisi-
lion of the immense amount of territory coded 10
us-about 100000 square miles, is ample ndemni-
Gcaten for all expenses we may have incurred by
the war. But do we not pay for this territory! Do
we not give SIS 800 900 for it And can that for
which present payment in full is made be consider
ed as indemnity for past losses9 1t will doubtless
be said that the territory is worth much more than
the sum which we pay for it; but if we recollect
Alright, ii is more than we gave for Louisiana, a
country larger, if We remember rightly, than that
we now acquire. Admitting however that the in
trinsc value of the territory is more than SIS 600,
00O,-what does the treaty say! I'm consldera-
ton Of the large cesson of territory made by the
Republic of Mexico to the United States the United
States agree to pay the Republic of Mexico, the
evident from the language of the treaty, that the
Mexicans consider they are receiving full con-
sideration; that they are mallng fair exchange
This is full and perfect abandonment of any just
claim to indemnify. and an acknowledgment that
the only object of the war to force our antago-
mist to sell certain provinces which we have long
coveted We may chucke over our good bargain
and congratulate ourselves upon our Yankee expert
ness in overreaching our opponent, but we cannd
conceal the fact that if this treaty be ratified, De
confess ourselves wrong in commencing, wrong in
prosecuting. and only right iii terminating the car
as speedily as possible and upon any terms.
There is moreover clause in the treaty, o,hioo
must render it imperative should that provision be
retained. The United States guarantees that MeNi-
can grants of land in Texas prior to the year 1896
shall be respected. Whence does our government
derive the right TO make any such guaranteed Che
lands of Texas. belong to Texas-she alone has
jurisdiction over them. The United States does
not OWL a single acre in the whole Commonwealth
and it does not possess the constitutional power to
enforce the provision we have referred 10, should
Texas dissent. Texas herself he many times re-
fused to recognize the old Mexican grants. Should
the government of the United States now endeavol
to force that State, in opposition to her own VILE
to legaliZe those grants, il would be palpabe in
fraction of the rights of sovereign state, and a
violent assumption of power not delegated. bexas
would never consent TO such an invasioe of hel
sovereignty, and she would not stand alone she
would be supported by The sense OF Justice Of all
the other members of III" confederate: and we can
hardly persuade ourselves that the Senate of the
United States will ratify reatyeontaining prin.
ciple odiouS. and so evidently conflicting with
the spirit of the Constitution. This whole project
might very aptly be called " I'm tratado muy trisoo
OPINIONS OF THE WAsHINGTos 9eIoS-9oe
get the following from the New York Express ol
the 2Sth ut. We don't think much of it:
The Iredty-The Washington Union of Friday
night has a running commentary upon r,mors about
the treaty that had got into the papers, from Shich
We gather
LIST. That the treaty was not. as is allegeR. made
w Mr. Trist by private instructions from Mr. Polk
and that the cabinet knew nothing of it. The
Union say sthere is not q syllable of oruth 6l elu
rlmCr.
ID. That there is no provision in the oreOp a.e)f
the Wilmot Proviso. as has been stated.
Sd. That there is a large cesson of country mar
to Ms. " of greater extent than any country il
Europe except Russia that the territory does
include the bay of San Francisco in the 1881
degree of moth latitude. In fact" adds the
Union eve acquire, according to the reported stip
nlations Of the treaty, all the best ports the Pa
chic line in California. even counting down TO the
extreme cape in the peninsula. We shall gain some
OF the finest harbors in the world harbors which
are essential to the comfort and convenience of the
six or seven hundred whale ships that flock to thai
region. On this account, alone, Maasac hsetts NAV
we'll boast of the acquisition if it should be accom-
plished.''
We also infer from che remarlo % ehe Onion
that Mr.. Polk is not unriendly to the ratification o
the treaty.
ANOTHER VIEW OF Mrs. GAINEs's CesE.-Rhe
Commercial Bulletin of yesterday, Sth inst. has
the tnln iIan The suhinct Of AIrS Eaiuas: