Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-11-22
VOL. Xiv, NO. 2.---WHOLE NO. 2249.

ent will they all appear, should it hereafter
be made apparent that President Polk and
secretary Buchanan not only repudiated in
practice the whole Monroe doctrine. but
treated with the most sovereign contempt
all the appeals of Nicaragua for succor, as
her Supreme Director has asserted.
What pity it is that the Secretary of
State does not take the editors ofthe Union
INTO council on this question When Mr..
FOLK wished to go to war with Mexico, with
out asking Congress, he secretly sent fleet
into the Gulf, aud Gen. Taylor's army from
Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande. Not
word was whispered by one of his partisans
IN Congress or elsewhere not syllable was
breathed by one of his cabinet Ministers
while the fleet and the army were in actual
motion against the territories of friendly
power. War was intended, and war was
made, not only without the consent Of Con-
gress, but without condescending even to
ask their ADVICE and, however preiudiced
party press of the day may seek to falsify
the facts and conceal the truth, the history
OF this nation, written out, as it will be. in
some succeeding generation, will record the
truth that the facts connected with this
transaction were carefully concealed. not
only from the people of the country while
the troops and fleet were in motion. but
from that Congress whose sole province and
right it was, by the American Constitution.
to declare war. This studied concealment
OF purpose while Congress was in session
we now commend to the consideration of
our venerable contemporary of the " sole or
gan" when he is making demands through
his abusive columns for a disclosure of
everything done and to be done in relation
to the question of the Nicaragua passage.
Time will show which of the two admins
trations-this or its predecessor-has been
most true to the interests and honor of the
country and we will stake what is more
dear to us than any pecuniary consideration
upon the result.
We are not yet done with this subject
but we fear to fatigue our readers. The
theme is fruitful, and one upon which it is
not unwelcome to dwell We at least shall
not be driven from it by the complimentary
ascriptlon of our labors to the Hon. Seer e.
tary of State or any other functionary. We
should be happy if, in the language of our
venerable neighbor, they savored of an
odor" so distinguished. We beg, however,
ITO decline being considered the organ or
mouthpiece even of that distinguished IN all.
We have only to maintain our independent
position in Our own honey way. If we
might trench upon the classic province of
our neighbor for an expression, we would
say, nutfus addictus jurare in UerJa magis-
tri.
But however the Union may compliment
or disparage our efforts; whether its cry be
confined to the subject of removals and ap-
pointments and offices-about which the
people, who are not office hunters, care as
little as they do about the illusions of the
Unlon-or whether it continue to oppose
the administration no matter what face it
may wear, we shall look to the public inter-
ests and honor, and continue to vndicate an
honest and upright administration, no mat
ter who may "oppose it to the bitter end"
In reviewing the conduct of the administra-
ton, we shall not hesitate to hold up to the
repFobation Of honorable men of all parties
the attempt of factious editors to break down
the administration before it commenced.
and who, we are now well assured, mean to
continue the unjust system which has in
view nothing but the spoils of office till they
are driven back TO the secret hiding places
from which they never should have emerg-
| ed,