Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-01-15

objects for which the war in Mexico waged unless we
can agree with the President in his umatum announced
in that portion of his message IN which ne declares that he
will make peace unless il give him all the CALIFORNIA; and
New Mexico unless in that ultimatum,
bound honorable men, TO refuse him any more men for
the purposes he has avowed In SO refusing to grant him
any men for the prosecution of the with such OBJ
ecis hold myself acting in the very spirit of the cons
ution and according to the acquisitions of the fathers who
made it.
Mr. President the honorable chairman Of the Committee
Military Affairs when he introduced this bill to the cons
deaton Of the Senate, submitted with it remarks 10
which desire to invite your attention. That may mis-
quote isrepresen the honorable Senator will read from
his speech published by the Reporter Of the Senate
In presenting this bill do propose touch any the
disputed topics which divide the great parties under the
of the other of which every czcn
Try arrayed shall leave these if introduced ALL be
introduced by others had hoped till heard the incidental
discussion which day since question Of
taking up this BILL that these exciting subjects would be post
poned tor future opportunity and that the propositions
submitted would be considered upon their military merits
taking for granted that the propriey Of voting the addition
al force required would not be controyerted well
that we could not escape M discussion Of the origin o. The
mnistration connected with it. Nor, indeed did wish TO
avoid it. However severe may be the attack trust i will
be earnestly and easily repeled for consider the
ground which the Administration occupies as perfectly inn
pregnable."
sometimes happens, sir, that by blowing
pet may invite opponent into the field, who would have
very quiet if he had not been deed The honorable
Senator has uttered this note Of Defiance and suppose
intended for gentlemen this side Of the chamber He
N
up He says that the entire ground Of the Administration
is mpregnabe," that attack upon can be easily
pelled and will be, he trusts, earnestly met" Now,
sir although Of the humbest of the members this
side of the chamber yet will take up the glove, and de-
sire to how easily the champion of the Administration
will repel two attempts my part to question the
proprety Of the Of the Administration in carrying
this
Many years ago there certain parsonage in Stale
of Texas (then province claimed by Mexco) by the
Of Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna He met some Anne
~. ac
certain place called Goad and induced them surrender
him under the promise that they would be fairly and honor
ably treated prisoners of He took every of
them, the day. and shot them, by one deliberately
lin cold blood He violated his solemn pledge before God
and and, bloody rufhan-murdeous villain as he is
he slew hundreds Of my counymen, after pedgng his honor
give them quarter. On another occasion this same Don
Antonio Lopez i..ass.A..-
of countrymen place called the Alamo. These
things fresh in the recollection every American There
is honest American heart that did not burn with ndg
nation against this erocous an account of these afro
cous acts. WE'LL sir when this war declared in May,
1885, the President of the United Staesthc head Of the
Administration and OF the Executive Governmentgave this
Santa Anna, with all his titles, free pass through the
American fleet into Mexico
Mr.. JOHNSON, Of Maryland, Tin his seat) On the same
day which declared.
Mr.. CLAYTON. On the very day. my honorable friend
remarks which the declared the President of the
United States issued his order TO let the peured assassin
without let or hndrance into Mexico. This, sir, of
those points which desire the chairman Of the Com
mee Military Affairs easily rcpel the attack which he
has invited am bound, sir hold up the conduct Of the
President in this instance not only to the Senate but to the
American Peoples and ask the champion OF the Admins
taon any gentleman the other side of the chamber
to demonstrate the with which he repe the
charge Of misconduct misconduct the part OF the
President of the United States in admitting that murderous
ruan into Mexico What sir have been the consequences
Of that act Why, let me, in reply take up newspaper
which good authority with my honorable friends the
other side. In the Union OF this morning find the fol-
lowing paragraph:
We have received file of the North American printed
in the city OF Mexico from the Sd of to the 9TH of
December. We find the following in the American OF the
last named date II has already appeared in the New Orleans
papers:
Mexican peace commissioner still in the city hear
but OF course effect nothing 1t is said that they will
not to Washington as long Santa Anna in the country
The Government dare pay their expenses would
the commissioners dare there and make treaty for the
President Anaya and the would be shot Oh
what deplorble condition have this people reduced them
selves to ~
ask would not the ejaculation have been more appro-
pirate oh 10 what deporabe condition has the Presi
dent Of the United States reduced this people and his
country Upon his head sir, and no other, must this sin
rest and if the honorable gentleman the other side Of the
chamber has ingenuity enough excate the President from
this position he shall indeed be in oil time hereafter my Mag
nus Apollo If ne point out any mode OF salvation for
the President from this charge will reflect infinite honor on
his character advocate This Don Antonio Lo
peg de Santa Anna, who murdered counymen at Goad
and Alamo being admitted pass free into Mexico has waged
against country all his admission
He has rallied thousands and of thousands Of Mexcans
that other could have rallied against He fought
US at Buena Vsta-at Ccrro Gordo-at Conreras-a Chu
busco-at Mono del Rey-at Chapultepec-and at the city
Of Mexico He fought till he driven from the capital to
the mountains, where he remains with his gueras,
ready TO murder the peace commissioners Of his country
they should dare to with Such is the whom
the President of the United States introduced into that
ty and this the state of things which the American
people have been brought by the conduct OF the Executive
might here, sir request the honorable chairman to repel
another charge made by the Senator from Maryland Why
the gallant Taylor left without than 400 troops
nearly all vouneers-o resist the attack Of this Santa
Anna with 10000 Mexcans the bloody but glorious battle
Of Buena Vista And why the less gallant Scott left
so long without sufficient troops to from Pueba upon
the capital Of Mexico During all this time the President
had the power to call upon his unexhausted fund OF $4,000
volunteers and refused to send them But must not
dwell on these things They sufficiently urged by the
Senator from Maryland
The present times sir, do not resemble the early days OF
the Republic We hear much, especially from honorable gen
emen on the other side Of the chamber Of Jefferson and his
democracy These not the days Of Jeersonian democa
cy The Of the President Of the United States
not like those Of the fathers Of the Republic No. sir, let
recur TO an incident in the history Of the administration OF
Thomas Jefferson, at the period when great excitement pre-
vailed with regard the title the lower Mississippi in the
year 1903, when the whole West in fame lest some
foreign nation should occupy the mouth Of that mighty river,
and impede the growing prosperity Of the great valley Of the
West. Al that when the minds of all