The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-03-24

know what my friend old Hickory would
do if he was alive; he would hang you
riehtup to the first tree he could come at.
What hang me for doing jest what
was sent here to do!" says he. For I've
made jest such bargain as the Presi-
dent told me TO make; only a leetle bet
ter one"
"Thal's nothing here nor there" says
|. "ynu know circumstances alters cases.
And you know well enough, or you ought
10 have sense enough to know, that, as
things now stand, the President don't
want treaty, Now says |, MIR. Trist,
answer me one plain question: Do yon
think you have done right at all to make
treaty after tho President has ordered
you home!
"Wcll," says he, u think circumstan-
ces alter cases too; and when the Presi-
dent ordered me home, suppose he
thought couldn't get through with the
Job ho sent me TO do. But thought |
could, aud so kept trying, and I've got
through with It al last, aud dome the bu-
siuess all up according 10 my first orders
and | don't see why the President should
mt be well satisfied"
well" says !, "what's the items of
the bargain! What have you agreed
uponl"
"Why." says he, 1--WE have tho whole
Of Texas to the Rio Grande; we have all
OF New Mexico, and all Of Upper Cali
fornia. And we pay the Mexicans ff.
teen millions of dollars, aud pay our own
citizens FIVE millions that the Mexicans
owed them. And VIC stop firing. draw
our charges from the guns that are load
ed, and so home
"Well now" says I, "Trist, don't you
think you are pretty feler 10 make such
"a bargain as that at such time of dayi-
The President will be mortified to death
about it. Here we've been fighting near
about two years to make the Mexicans
pay over that FIVE millions of dollars they
owed our people, and now you've agreed
that we shall put our hands in our pock cts
aud pay it ourselves. The whole plan Of
the war has been carried on by tho Pres
ident on the highest principles to 60
straight ahead aud conquer peace,
man fashion; and now you've agreed to
back out of the scrape, and buy a peace,
and pay tue money for it. You know
very we'll that the President has declar,
ed, time and again, that the war should
60 on Ill we got "indemnty for the past
and security for the future"-them's hi
own words--and now you've agreed io
settle up without getting one jot of eth
er. For the past, we are at least hun
dred millions of dollars out of pocket, be
sides losing ten or fifteen thousand men
F AS for the men suppose you my say
We can Offset them against the Mexican,
we have killed, and us we have killed
more than they have, may be ii foots up
little in our favor and that's the only ad
=, vantage you've secured. AS for the hun
,, dred millions Of dollars, we don't get
penny of it back. So all the indemni,
. you get for tho past is few thousan
dead Mexicans that is, as many as re
. mains after sublracting what they've xii
I led Of us from what we've killed of then
Bat the p-Sheaf Of your bargain is tn
security for tho future The cities an
castles that we have fit 50 hard to take
and have got our men into, and all SO we
% secured, you now agree to give 'em a
right up again 10 the enemy, and marc
:; our men of home with their fingers i
), their mouths; and that's our security f
- - the future, AS for the fifteen millions
dollars you agree to pay for New Mex
= co aud California, you might jest as we
= a thrown the money into the sea, fer the
was ours afore; they was already COZ
quered aud annexed, and was as muC
: ours as if we had paid tho money fi
! EN-.
:. Here | turned on my heel and left hin
for was so disgusted at tho conduct
- the feller that | wouldn't have any mor
talk with him. And now, my dear Co
onel, there is nothing for us to do but
= look this business right in the face an
-" make the best we can of it. If thel
V was any way to keep the things out
sight, it would be best for you to thro
i the treaty into the fro as soon as you g,
y it, aud send on word to Ginera Scott
IS go ahead again, But that is inpossibl,
s it will spread all over the country, an
9 beknown to every body. And Pm COZ
d vim ced it will be tho best way for you
turn right about, make out to DO glad
N what can't be helped, aud accept the tire,
% ty. The nomination for the PresldenC
rs is close at hand, and you must get read
Il to go into the election Of your secon
II term on what you've got, and make II
o best you can with it. If you should r
y ject the treaty, the opposition would g
l. the advantage of you again; they won
70 then cry out that the Mexicans had as
N ed for peace aud you had refused il; al
there would be no end to their grow
I; ing about this oppressive war of invu
is iou, Buff you accept the treaty it pu
'g an end to their growing about the WI
gu To pacify our friends that are very G
II ger for the whole of Mexico, you mt
II" tell 'em to look out and see how much V
:, have already got; keep telling of a
:" That hall loaf is better than no brea
oe tell EN- to keep quiet till after your nc
election is over, and may be you'll ca
ST. irlve some plan to be cutting into 10th
st. half. Keep Mr., Richie blowing the
en- gau. all weathers, to the tune of half