Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-02-19
THE PROTOCOL.

OF all the miserable specimens of the very
worst faction Which have ever been turned up,
the Protocol business is the lowest and basest
| we VIII endeayor to explain the matter in as
few words az possible. A Protocol is simply a
letter or note from one minister to another
Alter the late treaty with Mexico had been rati-
fed at Washington, but before it was ratified by
| the Mexican Congress, Messls. Sewer and CHI
ford We're sent to Mexico TO explain the amend
ments. Before they gotthere, however, the Con-
gross had latifed the treaty, and it had become
the law OF the land, so far as the United States
We're concerned. then Mcss!s Sewer and Cliff
ford made their explanations by means of a PRO-
tocol. The treaty vas signed by the Mexican
PRESIDENT, and It's stlruations went into i1nmedi-
ate effect. Cur trooTs evacuated the country
and the IS, 100000 was paid over to the autbori-
ties. All this took place before the treaty went
back to Washington with its final SIGNATURES
Had the explanation or Protocol contained any
thing different from the original treaty. the coun.
try might have been put to much difficulty, and
the treaty woald have been reconsidered by the
American President and Senate
| 1t is over this contingency that all this noise
is now made. No difficulty took place. The
Protocol was found to contain nothing which did
not conform with the original treaty But in
the bare contingency they find an instance q
great official delinquency, aud radical flaw in
our late negotiations They have been Also
lutely trying to prove the treaty itself a non-en-
| tity, the questions between Us still open, and
this country and Mexico still in a state ct war
and all for the sake of making an issue with a
Democratic President. We are acuuaint-
ed with no instance of absolute faction more re-
markabe than this. The year of 1848 was as
fruitful III dishonest political mar uuvers on this
siste OF the Atlantic as it was fruitful in glorious
revolutions on the other side of the same. But
this new matter with which the Whip press and
party have opened the Spring campaign of 1919
surrasscs them all.
Since the foregoing paragraTh his were written,
the message OF the President has come to hand
Never was a mares nest SO utterly riaed, Pres
ldent Polk has proven that dying lion has still
the strength to sprawl so small iackass as Mr..
| Stephens OF Georgia. From this message and
accompanying document, it appears that the
substance OF the explanation, the substance of
| the protocol was absolutely submitted to the
Senate, III the form Of letter from Mr. Buchan-
an, along with the treaty itself!-so the SUD.
posed contingencies could under no circumstan-
ces have arisen. What becomes ofthis rampant
tomfoolery which. the Mig press have been
getting>up for the last ten daysl Even as the
| thing appeared in their own statements. the is
sue was below argument, and below contemlt
But their own researches for filth have turned
up the jewel The least contingencies had been
guarded against-and the Presidents conduct
stands forth to the last iota, model for all sue
ceeding rulers, and the sternest of all rebukes to
his tactlous opponents,