Year: 1863

pendence OF Mexico is to be maintained. How to be


maintained after we all her territory How


W KEEP up the national independence the separate


sence Oh Mex % alter have taken all her territory


And st it should be thought by some that his was talking


IN speculative ard not practical point hs would say


as me Iisdent proposed as appea cd from looking at


the map that We should TAX. amost If the Mexi


can territoy that the unsettled half which was GER.


alny worth m're than the settled half tn the


part could establish lard Offices sell the lands and in


troduce an American population into the country But
when we cans to take the other half land aresdy b


longed to individuals, and could derive little benefit
from it for be believed it not proposed TO kill the
Mexican population to drive them out to cousc thec
lands aud their property or to make them slaves How
then could we derive any benefit from the densay settled
portion? And if we already entitled to the best
half how much longer should prosecute the before
should be entitled To the half? The question


hop, not speculative but practical question press-
ing close upon and the President seemed never To
have thought OF it at all!


Them again. relation to the mode of prosecuting tho
war, or OF securing peace rhs declared that
we were to prosecute it more vigorously, uat at last
IT dropped down in sort of despondng tone and told
us that the continual of arms may fail to
cure satisfactory peace and perhaps may wheedle
ne Mexican people to throw IF their rulers and adopt
Government And then it oncudes that we may fail in
this and goes back to the md thing and recommends
more vigorous prosecution Of the war; which it was ad
mitted might fail to secure the end desired


In all this the President showed hns elf dissatisfied
with the conclusions he had assumed He took up one
suggestion and tried to argue to it, but argued him.
self out of it he then up another and went through
the same process, and returned To the frs showing
self dlssnt SIZED with all, and appearing like on
hot shovel hndng place which he could settle down.


AGAIN, IN relation TO the termination of the war the
President nowhere he bad read the message right nti-
mated any opinion to when this would come to an
end Ii did not to have occurred To him to saw any
thing about that. Now, if be remembered right General
Scott was thrown into dslavor if not into disgrace by
the same Administration for ntmang when the COM
menced that peace could not be in less
or hive months twas than twenty months before
this last message wten it had been most
vigorously; officers aud men had done all that it
thought could do and hundreds of things be-
fore dreamed of and the President who impatient
at veteran officer for having expressed the opinion that
it would take at least four five months came to Con-
gress with long and elaborate message in which he did
not even express an imaginary of his to
when 1T would terminate How is tbs2 Was not true.
he said before that Mr. Pok lostthat he did not
know where he was that he did not know what to do
He was not satisfied with any position. He forgot to
tske the points that most obviously out Of what
he did say All this went to show that he most
petey bewildered and he Mr. ncOln) should be most
happy to be assured that there not something abou this
conscience that harassng than all his mental
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