Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-05-06
WHAT OF THE MEXICAN WAR


The last thing we have seen worth reading in the
newspapers on the subject Of the War; is the fol-
lowing philippe in the New York " Day Book" Of
Wednesday last;
Tar MEXICAN WAR has been very eectualy obscured y
theuniyesa interest created here in the new and wonderful
REVOLUTIONS in Europe. Mr. Polk evidently made princi
pay Tor the sake Of the newspapers the newsboy and the
manufacturers and purchasers Of alarming "exas' and
fourth editions and became popular accordingly with these
influential classes and powers The war might have gone on
for dogs age" without mumur from the overtaxed
community long furnished abundance Of exciting
news in an otherwise "dy ime The newspaper-reading
public the real governing power in pure modern democracy
requires regular supply Of exciting newsfres. murders,
immoales and ndecences Of all kinds ''wais and
of wars" battles onsaught seges massacles, rows and
considerable fuses generally The in Mexico was
the richest gift vonchsaed by the American Government
to newsrequiring people, 1t kept them in raptuous
stacy of delight during two years. which might but for this
cause have passed in most oppressive duness and anguor
II is evident that this great Mexican has fixed out"
There is no more glory to be won OF claimed in it.
victory, equal to Buena VISTA Sacramento, Cerro Godo,
might be obtained every week without creating the least
citemen here in Mexico The miserable, helpless nfe
ro Of the Mexicans has long been completely establish
ed that the the work Of slaughterng them
would about much satisfaction in this country the
announcement that the army of the United States
ployed in the Of legion ofmonkeys The Mex-
have found their true policy at awhh is to lie pros
trate and unresng though still unyiding, like mud-ture
with head and paws under and shell shut up Armies
may march them and ample them fire and sword
may ayage their fields and habtatons murder and rapne
may have free Of desolaion among them but there
they will lie, in weakness and misery utterly helpless and
hopeless Re beneath contempt silently appeang from
tyranny God and evokng the ardy sympathes Of
common humantybnt in spite of force and fraud, unyied
ing and uscoSaUEREn STILL They know that such strug-
gle last forever, and that this passive resistance must
time be completely successful They know that if the war
is all sde the expense must be all that side
and that there is bottom the longest purse The
nouncement that the treaty rejected by the Mexcans, and
that the be continued for indefinite period, with
inevitably aggravated eocy, horrors, expense, and inamy,
would be received with universal groan of anguish and
disgust throughout this mighty and "rictoots republic
The people have supped full Of horrors " they sick with
the smell of blood from the reekng shambes which they have
erected in hundred fields from Santa Fe to California and
Yscatan The arm is weary with staying The pen ags in
recording the stale and dull repetition Of saughters and the
silent but and steady rbuton of the pestence the
vicors. And the question be uttered and felt if
i
money to come from that to be thrown into this boomess
pit Of pertion, and sensess amless endless crime II
than hundred millions Of dollars have been spent in
two years contest with nameabe result but pofess
slaughter and the acquisition Of barren pesenta soil that
produce in thousand years enough pay the cost Of
keeping it six months, wha mortal estimate the
expense Of wagng this shameful the attainment
of the avowed purposes Of It's proagac and stupid promoters
tits useless- is senselesto attempt TO suppress dis
guise the actual and result of the This nation
worsed, baed, defeae disgaceuly defeated, in this
miserable No power earth change that result
The permanent acquisition Of half the territory Of Mexico
would not improve the state Of the particle. Every
square mile would be added expense and added loss to
the Treasury portion Of il, halcolonized by Anne
rcans, the Government knows neither how to keep
how get rid Of 1t sticks like the Cenaurs envenomed
sunic the victorvicm The embarrassment Of the foolish
who tumbed the country into This weched, mex
tcabe plight, would be ludicrous il it not woful
the suffering people
The history Of the may be considered already writ
and closed though the itself continues indefinitely
intermediate pages may be occupied with the tedious pacu-
lars, but the conclusion is that it the bane Of the
nations prosperity, the death of its honor the grave Of its
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