Newspapers / The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, … / April 22, 1848, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
I J i r V7 O VOLUME X. .':'Hji ill gGREENSBOROUGpORTHGARbiaN: 4 NUMBR.2 ;,w-.:,..'.t...l4 V. I7"r- f M-- ' - -7"- ? -; VXS-t I I I!C . aV--'--J 1 f ' I II17P If L " I III jr- ill II M l i ik lil ' 111 111 - III III '111 III fi'l ; f ! III U III II I. I ! ill I '. . .-'T' T.v'JTT'vr -.7 w . ..... , - . ., . .: , , -', -i'-i ..,. 5 a ,...f, :. 7, .7-,, i ' ? " v.". i rj .'. :7. . j : .'.i'::7 .. ." .i . . ..7' -7 VSSvW . ITT.y 7 7 " I Bl I ' 7" "T , 7". ; v . 77 ".. 7. - . . '7:.- , ' " 7 ' ' --m-"- v- - : vi ": (- :' "':: :;" '" y,';";,.--";: ;y ' , ','t-,r!:l-..w 7',,. ,7 i,-;,-,, , .,; 7'7 j,; , i . .. rrrr;.,,, ,77 '.7. , -il-a ..n.n? ' , : '..l, " "a- ; .,, :-. U Y SW AIM & S HE R'.W.O 0 D. ' 1 riiB,TliaBBDOI.Ll.Ri ATBAn, . A failara en the part of oy cnstomcr to order a dUcon- asiaorwKltia lae uucripuon rear, win be eouaiaered ) licaltT of hit wiih to continue the paper. Incldenti;. of Travel. Li t MBai(T MAHTiatAV. 7- CHAPTER 117 7 " WTHtKHKJi ZIOM JaOfAtEM. As I Mt c a torab in th Ttwkish pemetcry the totit "rooming (Mirc& 30tb) watching the prepra iona for our departure, I almost dreaded thein ketett which crery day would now bring, afirr h calm and quiet weeks we bad spent in the desert. Our encampment looked much lb? some 'at it had done eery morning for a month pasi ; the Arab sertrante busy in taking down and pack ioe the lenis and a noisy quarrel going on in the jnidstxr-fthis morning about a pistol baing been Atolen from one of the tents ;) and the differences were ooly that there were spectators standing by, "nd that ouf camels had giren place to horaen-d Mes. But instead of the rocks and sands of the .dekert, Hebron was before my eyes, and the hills -where Abraham spread bis flocks, and the spot where he and his family lay buried. And be ifor night, I should see the place where Daid was oorn and lived hia shepherd life, and where ,Jeu was born. We had only twenty miles to jtrarel this day to Bethlehem ; but it was quite .enough, for we were eager about every old tree, -.ja.ojLaadJuUriop... -The ahrubsgrew finer, war t tDMshTbTbitis cTluldaSereTwnda'nT stony in parts, and no longer fit for pasturing such flacV at covered them when ' Abraham lived a- mong them, or when the,Ielrews arove in taeirr as soon as I bad. mounted my ass, .cattle from the desert, or wh Dsvld Tnliis boy conVent of Elias, I saw from our ridg ifcood amused himstlt with slwgmg srooom sionea from the brook while his father's sheep were 'iWimron '.he slopes. We sat down to rest and r : and for the hundredth time since we leu ! 5gypi Spurred iotWl "Van enter into the meaning of Davij 'when in ins divine songs, he speaks of the shade of rocks, and .of the beauty of." a tree 'planted by rivers of wa Ker." and all such cool imagps. When om w 'beenslowly pacing W hour after hour, orer jilar ing lands n heated TOcksrundeT- r-wri which makes every bit of leather it metal, and even ,oVa outer clothing, feel acorchmg hot, and op pressing one's very breathing, the sight of a patch of dark shade is welcome beyond belief : and 'when one has dismounted and felt thecoolnes3 ol the rocky wall and of the ground beneath it, and gathered the fresh weeds which cluster in its ere ices.'phrase after phrase ortheTsaIriis and pro phecies comet over one's mind, with a life and freshness as sweet as the blossoms iri one's lopr Our first tight of Bethlehem was beautiful. We came upon it suddenly, just whea the yellow .onset light was richest. Bethlehem was on the "rising ground on our right, massive looking (as all the villages of Palestine are) and shadowy, as the last sun-rays passed over it to gild the western kills, and another village which there lay high up embosomed in fig and olire orchards The val J, ley between, out of which we were rising lay in '-hadow. Before us, perched on a lofty ridge Hvbkh rose between us and Jerusalem, was the convent of St. Elias, which we were o pass to- .morrow. I was sorry to turn awojr i jboyv.eJiaoVjojake the right-hand road, and ride through the narrow strVetaoTlHe great convent; built over tbe spot where Jesus i " Relieved by the friars to have been born. It was too late this evening to see any of the aacred localities; but it was quite enough to have the moonlight streaming in during the whole night through the window of my lofty convent chamber and to think that on this bill took place the greatest event in the history of the woild ; and jhat in lh fields near the gentle Ruth went about gleaning, little dreaming in those days of her '. poverty, that from ner meeting with Boax among the reaper of hi harvests would arise ' such ' evenu to the homan race, that tne snepnera - grandchild, whose divine songs were to soothe her iold age, hould be the mighty king he was, and ; he falber of a yet mightier, who should build the Jreat temple of the Lord ; and that a more distant .descendant should make these glories appear as childiaVitoys in the presence of his greater sov reignty over the universal human soul. - A wise taan of a late century has nobly, J " 1ros peril i the promise of the Old Testament, and Adversity that of tha New'- -Oo this hill was .1 torn ihe prosperityof the .plddwrwnsatjJiiid, bn this hill was born "the Man of Sorrows rho f knew the secret , of true peace, an4 taugbt it in 7 he laying that it profits not a man to gain the Whole world if he lose his own soul. n the morning we went into the church ol the IconvtebtTl caredTitllo re?thirTpBrhb' Its thapels for Greek, Latin, and Armenian worsh jp : and pot much' more for the caverns under jrround, where the friars believed that Joseph and Alary remained while there was no room lor them in the tnn If the 4own was full-to receire them while the people were collected for thecen- susi it is hardly probable thnt they would repair to an underground .cave : but ta ibis cave mass was going on this morning; and striking was the e fleet after coming dowo from the sunshine to the crowded cavern, with its yellow ligbis and their smoke, ana '.ne echoes or the cnauntinir.' ve re turned when the service was over, and saw the star in the marble floor which marks as the friars believe, the precise spot where : Jesus was , born, and the marble slab which is laidjn the place of the mnger When f saw throughout the poun? try how lhe Arabs pow use the caves of ike hills to bed their goats and cattle, ihU belief of the fri ars appearcd'less absurd than it would with us; but still, it is so improbable that the precise spot of these transactions (whose importance was' not known until afterward) should have been marked and remembered, that I fell little interested in them in comparison with the landscape outside, about whose leading feature there could be no mistake. :ii From the bottom of the garden, we overlooked the great valley which expanded to the northeast; and one enclosure there a green po now occu pied by olive trees was pointed out to us as the field where the shepherds were abiding on the night when Christ was born. Behind' it to the east, lay range behind range of bills, stretch ing off to ihe Tfbrth j and a mongthese,- we7knew lay the Dead Sea, and the Jordan, where it pours its waters into that lifeless and melancholy lake. As we left the convent and village, and descend ed there rocky road, with teracod vineyards and ol ive groves on either hand, we knew that Joseph and Mary must have come by this way from Jeru salem when summoned to"tii census: and this was more to us than all the sights the friars had shown us in their zeal and kindness. We look- fed in at the tomb of Rachel, and at the convent.. ofElias; but our eyes, and thoughts were bent towards Jerusalem. I remember however, that nere firit 8aw the waters of the Dead Soa, ly- ;g ,ue ;n a little, gap between the hills. oeiore tue some budd t 7a ings on the rising ground which now showed it self before us. . I was not immediately certain "a a . . t" what tnev were : put the news soon spread a i xnong ws. oat.TingTgTOurifl. was and those buildings belonged to Jerusalem though ;;theysiM the walled city itself come into view, lying along the hills. Most of the party were disappointed. I was notpartly because 1 knew that we were t approach;ng,4t from the least favorable side ; and partly because my expectations fcid much under rated thesiztr a rid' "grand ue r of the city. What we now saw was a line of white walls on the bill side, with some square buildings and small white domes rising within. I walked the rest of the way. On our right werv hills, the summit of one of which was Acel dema, bought by (he priests uith the money which the wretched Judas returned to tbcm, wSeii be found too Tate whVt he bad done in bis attempt to force his Lord to assert his claim to a temporal soveiefgnty. On our left was the plain of Rephaim: When we arrived at the blow of the high ground we were on, we were taken by surprise by the grandeur of the scene. 'Zion now appeared worthy of her name, and of her ; place in the hymt;s of David, and in history. We were now overlooking the valley of Oihoo, more com monly known by the name of iluwom. From its depth and its precipitous rocks on our side, I should call it a ravine. This deep dell contains ,the Lower Pool, now dry ; and the aqueduct from ; Solomon's Pools is seen crossing it obliquely. Its opposite side isZion, using very steeply, still terraced for tillage in some parts, and crowned by the city wall. To the right sweeping away from the ravine of Gibon, is tbedeep and grarid vailey of Jeboshaphat, clustered with rocks, relieved by trees, and leading the eye round to Olivet, which moreover is best Seen from the other side of the tits i r -v a city. 1 be DiacK dome oi tne tomo oi uavta was the next object; and after that, the mosi conspic uous roof in the city the groat dome of the Masque of Omar, which occupies the site of Solo mon's Temple. ( , By this time, there was silence among us. I wulked behind our cavalcade, as it slowly ascend ed the beautiful rocky way glad of the ailence permitted by each to all ; for it was not possible at the moment nor will it ever be possible to speak of the Jaffa gate ; and every echo of our horses' feet in the narrow, stony, picturesque streets, told upon onr hearts as we Said to our selves that we were jakihg up ourre.st in Jerusa lem . . ,..''.. ,-. . . . . I CANNOT FORGET. 'TU foIlT'tii folly, I rtnnol forget; , Thine image it frcth in my memory yet, Like an angel of light, '(it still hovering netr,' And wot ds fondly spoken ttill sound in my ear. I have tried thy loved image to banwh from me ; put it ill thy fair form in its soirow I too ; In public, in private, at tun-rise and sc, , Fond memory lingers, I cannot forget Oh ! aV me ne more to eease thinking of thee, " A Ithough perhaps juirted forever we he ; " I fove"tb"cs"eve thw ghiTior' mey he acf, WbHeine'IinsOTsit eSOBOt forget. " A fioon for fi7'oor.--Cey Ion rice has made its, appearance in London, and is retailed at tijree haifpeiicej'ef pound. jltjs as ood; ar the Carolina, bill the grain js emiirer and irpwa," : .Tub mity the world nATMy It it not true that the world bates piety. The modest noi un obtrusive piety 'which fills ibe heart with all hu man charities, and makes a man gentle to others and severe n himself, is an object of universal love and veneration. But mankind iiate the lust of power, when it is veiled under the garb of piety ; they hate canting and! hypocrisy ; they hate ad vertisers and quacks in piety) thy do not choose to be insulted t they love to tear folly and impu dence from the altar, which should only.be a sane? tuary for the wretched and the good. ' , t S ' . .: ,. :. : ,V: i l .rA;- $ldney Smith. A Jtw"t Jlq)robfj-bUQr Noah, of New York, an Israelite, and a ventern edipr,. ihua adminis ters a reproof to nominal Christians, which, as it does not admit of a very satisfactory reply, may as well be patiently borne r When we pass by them the fashionable churches on Sunday, and seethe liveried servants waiting outside, while their masters and mistresses are worshipping with in, we think that possibly the thing may be rever sed in the next world, when the masters may have to stand wUfa.,Prtbttrian. v MR. WEUSTCR'fl 8PEECI1, O N THE W A R IV Til MEXICO. U. iHSatArtyiAKcu 23 .18487; ,jlL: The Senate" 'havinr' under consideration rthe bill from the fouse ol Representatives to author- i, m ti.n nnl ia mwnmnA tliafti.m if itn mil lions of dollars, Mr. Wkbstbb addressed the Sen ate on the subject of the SJexican war il a speech of considerable length of which we find the follow, ing account in the Senate's Official Report ; Mr. Webst'er. said : Mr. President, on Friday a bill passed the Senate for the raising of ten reg iments of new troops for the further prosecution of the war against. Mexico, and we have been in formed that the meaturejs lort.lf to be followed . in ibis branch "of the LgrsTature, by a bill to raise twenty regiments of volunteers for the same , ser. vice. I wae desirous, sir. on Friday Id express my opinion against the object of those bills, a gainst the supposed necessity which leads to their enactment, and against the general policy which tbey are apparently designed id promote. Cir cu instances personal to myself, but beyond my control, compelled me to forego on that day the execution of this design. The. bill now. before the Senate is measure for raising money to meet I ; . r .L'- rt- w. . i ,tj and supporl bf these thirty reg;men:s. -Blfv the sCenelTthrgh which Wf .have passed and are passing here are various. For a fort night the woTld supposes us to have, been occu pied with the ratification of a treaty of peace and that, within these walls IT: " The world sbt out" . notes of peace, hopes of peace, nay : strong assu- rahcerbrpeacerndTmme uttered to console us and to cheer ' us. It has been over and over again stated that we have ratified a treaty of course a treaty of peace : and as the country has been led to suppose, not of uncertain, and empty, and delusive peace, but real, gratifying, and enduring peace; a peace that shall stanch the, wounds of war, prevent the fur ther effusion of blood, cut off these enormous ex penses, and return our friends, and our brothers, and bur children (if they be vet living) from a land of slaughter, and a land of still more destruc tion by climate, to our firesides and our arms. Hardly have those halcyon sounds ceased upon our ear until in resumed public session, we are summond to fresh warlike operations ; te the cre ation of a new army of thirty thousand men for the further prosecution of the war to carry our power in the language of the President still more directly into the vital parts of our enemy, and press home, by the power of the sword, the claims that we insist upon, against a fallen, prostrate, I had almost said an ignoble foe. If I may judge af the opinion of the honorable member from Michigan.orotherspeeches delivered in thischam ber, there has not been a time from ibe com mencement of the war when it bos been more ur gently pressed upon us, not only to maintain but to increase our rcililary means) not only to con tinue. ibe war, but to press it with more vigor at the present lime. Pray, what does all this mean? Pray,-sin I ask; is it confessed, lbenrtbr.we are no nearer to peace than we were when wt snatch ed up a bit of paper called, or roisscalled, a treaty, and ratified, it t Have we yet to fight it out to the utmost, as if no pacification had intervened t I wish to treat the proceedings of this and every department of this Government with the utmost respect,, God knows that the constitution of this Government, and the exercise of its just powers in the administration of the laws under it, have been the cherished object of all my unimportant life. But if the subject was not; too deeply in teresting, I should say thai our proceedings here might well enough cause a smile. in'Uie ordina ry transaction of foreign relations in this and all other Governments the course l as been to nego tiate first and ratify afterwards. This would seem to be the natural order of conducting inter course between foreign States. , We have chosen to reverse the order. We ratify first and negoti ate afterwards. We set up a treaty such as we find it, and such as we choose to make it, and then we sent iwo mini8teripleoipotenliary .jonegoti ate thereupon in the capital of the enemy. Ope should think, sir, that the ordinary course of pro ceeding was much the wiser; that to negotiate, hold intercourse, come to some arrangement by authorized agents, and then to submit that ar rangement to the sovereign authority, to which .those agents are responsible, would be always the most desirable metnoa ; oi proceaure- it strikes me that thecourse we have adopted is strange; is grotesque. So far as I know.it is un precedented the history of diplomatic inter course. Learned gentlemen on the floor ' of the Senate, interested to defend and vindicate ' this course, may, in their extensive reading, have found examples. J .know none.i , - i, . " Sir, we aw in possession, by military power, of New Mexico and California, countries belong ing fckberto to the United Statei of Mexico. We are informed by the PresTtfetK that it js his pur nose lo retam : to consider 'them a territories fit to. be attached, a nd lobe attached, to these. United Sfaiet ofjAmc and designs now before the Senate are intended M enforce this claim of the Executive of the U, States, i Wa art ,tp. compel Mexico to agree that that part of her dominions called Ne Mexico, and thai other part called California, shall be ce. ded to ns. '- We are now in possession of these territories A If said, and the will be compelled to yield the title. This is the precise object of this new army of thirty thousand men. - It is the iden tical object, sir, in my judgment, for which the war was originally commenced, for which it hat been hitherto preeecuted, and in- furtherance of which this treaty is to be used but at one of the means to bring about the general result f that gen eral result depending, after all, upon our superi or power and the necessity of submitting to any terms which we prescribe to fallen, fallen, In Hen Mexico! -- . : 7''t;!y- i:'7-',M The members com no tin? the other House the more popular branch of Congress bavj all been elected since, I had almost said the fatal, the remarkable incidents of the 1 Jib of May, 1840; and it has nassed a resolution affirming that the war with iMexire was be gun unconetitutionallv and unnecessarilj by the Executive government of the United States. I concur in that sentiment. I hold that to he the most recent, authentic expres sion of the will and the opinions of the people of the United States. There is another proposition not so authentically announced hitherto, but in my judgment equally true equally capable of demonstration ; and that is, that this war was tie gun, bat been continued, and it now prosecuted, tor the great and leading purpose ol the acquisi tion ol new territory, out of which to bring . new States, with a Mexican population, into this our union of the United Stales, It unavowed at first, this purpose did not remain unavowed long. However often it may be said that we did not go to war for conquest eredat Judctut Jlpella! yet the moment we got possession of the territory, it is said that we must retain il and make it our own. Xow, i think the original object hat not been chanced. Sir, 1 think it still exists in the eyes of those who originally contemplated it who be gan the war Tor it ; that it is as attractive to them, end from which tbey have no desire to avert their eyes now than they had then; or have-had at any tune since we have compelled a treaty of cession. We know in our consciences that it is compelled! We use it as an instrument and an agency, in conjunction with other instrumentalities and agen cies of a more formidable or destructive cbarac- T .l, ; r l?'I ier, io roiurce uic acquiescence oi .tiexicg in tue acquisition by us of new territory, to form new States new States to be added lo this Union. Every intelligent man knows that there is u strong desire in the heart of the Mexican citizen to re tain the territories belonging to that republic W4nehatj teople part withl their tmnory il rtt tney-:mu8twn-regretr with pangs of soriow. That we Iftiow.ihe ces sion is altogether forced end therefore, - because we know it must be forced because we know that whatever the Government, which is oui creature, may do or agree to we know that the Mexican people will never accede to the terms of this treaty but through an impulse of absolute ne- cessity, and the impression made upon-them by absolute irresistable force. Iherelore ie pro pose to overwhelm them with another army. We propose to raise immediately ten regiments of regular troops and twenty regiments of volunteers, and to pour tbem in and upon the Mexican peo ple. Now, air, I should be happy to concur, notwith standing all this tocsin, and all this cry of all the Semproniuses in the lar d that their voice is ttill for war 1 should re happy to agree, and sub stantially I do agree, with the honorable member from South Carolina, that, after all, the war with Mexico ia substantially over, that there can be no more fighting. My opinion io the present state of things is that the people of this country will not sustain this war. They will not gtflo the expense. They will not find any gratification i inputting the bayonet to the throat of the Mexican people. For my part, I hope the ten regiment bill will never become a law. Three weeks ago 1 should have entertained that hope with the utmost confidence. Events since have struck me with pain and shak en my conviction. Still 1 hope it will not pass. And here, 1 dare say, I shall be called u Mexican Whig." A man who can stand up here and say that he hopes that what the Administration projects for the further prosecution of the war against Mex ico will not be carried into effect is M an enen.y to the country;" or, what gentlemen would con sider the same thing, an enemy of the President of the United Stales and hia administration and bit party. He isaMexican P Sir,.! think very bad ly Of the Meiican character, high and low, out and out; but names do not terrify me. Besides, iff am a sufferer in this respect, If I be made the sub- ect 01 reproscn oy tnese aupeouiary presses, were lired abusers of the motives of public men. 1 have had the honor on this occasion to be in very respectable company. Jn, the vituperative, the accusative, the denunciatory sense of that term, I do, not know a greater Mexican in this body than the honorable member from Michigan at the head olbe Wilijt?ry Comm.iltee. ( Mr. Cass. I should like the honorable gen tleman to explain what sort of Mexican I am. Mi. tyehm i Th!i i exactly (.he thing J now. propose to do. i Mr. Pass. I shall be glad to bear the explana tion!. .' Mr. Webster. In his remarks on this bill in the Senate, the other iw, he honorable gentle . . . . . . ! I . L. man told us thai his object was lo frighten Mexi co it would touch his humanity lo hurl ber. .. Mr. Cass. Ioes the honorable gentleman mean to ssy that 1 made such- a remark T ( Mr. VVebster. I mean to aajr that the gentle man said it twice. ' - Mr. Cass. 1 beg the gentleman's pardon. 1 said no such thing. Will the gentleman allow me to state what I did say t I remarked that we had two objects toa ccompL;sh in ris.in these regi ments ) one waa iu vigorous jumetuiiuu ui ic war; and secondly, to produce a moral effect op on, Mexico by convincing her of our Meterminn lion, and thereby hold out an inducement to her lo makepeace,..,- -;,...r',v Mr. Webster. The eent!eman said that, bm principal objectwas to fnghteir1 Mexico,-and j that that would e mora ngmane tuaa.io norm Mexico.-: -'.-1 ' y.-,i " '' Mr. Cass, (io bis sett), - Trut. V : : M r. Webster. It ,i true, f , Very well, i thought as much, "Now the remarkable charac teristic of his speecF wbkbrnskes jt o much a Metican stMfcCh is.tbr eptfan joke jt jo the hrsring of, Mexico as well as in the hearing or the senate, We have been accused sir, of be ing "Mexican w bigs, because, what We say here is beard in , Mexico, and Mexico derives countenance and support from what is said here, but the honprtb4 rnember comes forib and tells Aiexico mat bis object is to 'frighten her; His words have passed alone the wires, they i are on the Golf, they are- floating away to Vera Cruz and, when tbey ret there, they will satisfy the Mexicans that, alter all after all, ye gooa Alex icans, our principal objest ia to frighten you !" And, to the end that ibey may sot be frightened too mucb,be gives them notice that the object is to ingbteo them I 7 Mr I 'resident, when fimug, the joiner, was to represent the Ijon, nd fotf on the stage, be was quite apprehensive that he might too much frighten the M duchess and the ladies," and, therefore, by the advice of hit com' rade, one Nicholas Bottom, he wisely concluded that in the heat and fury ol his effort he would show one-half hia-fact and say:. "Ladies, fair ladies. , I would visbyou, or I would request you, or I would intreal ypj) not to fear, not lo trem ble ; my life for yours if you think I came hither at a lion it were pity of my life I ?. Nov 1 am ho aucn thing 1 1 am n man as other men are j m bnug, the joiner 1 . i''.::;..t vaj : But, air, in any view of this case in any view of the proper policy of this Government, ac cording to any man's apprehension and judgment where js the necessity of this augmentation of regiment of the military force of the country 7 1 bold in my band a note, I suppose substantially correct, ol the present military forces of. the Unit ea states, 1 will not vouch (or ns entire accur acy, but I be.'ieve it it is substantially accord ing to lact. J here are now twenty-nve regiments of regular troops or various arms, which, if full, would give cs a lorce of rRMMXJrank and hie, and includiiig officers, thirty, thousand andodd men. these, with the exception o: six or seven buna- red men, are now all without the limits of the Uni led Stales, in field service in Mexico, or on the route to Mexico. These regiments are not full. Casualties and the climate have sadly reduced their numbers. now yield ten thousand men, it would not more than fill up those regiments, so as to give the field officers their full command. I understand, sir, thai the report from Gen. Scott Gen. Scott ! A man that has performed the most brilliant cam paign in military annals; a man that has warred against the enemy, warred against the climate. Warred against a thousand un propitious circum stances, and carried the flag of his country to the capital of the enemy, honorably, proudly, humane I v, to bis own permanent honor and the treat cred it of bit Country, - Gen. Scott I And .where Is he J ".At PuebJjijndefgoeg;nio.qry;b infe nor in office, and other persona not Jn effice, while the bigh powers that ho exercised, and ex- rrcised -with so much distroctton.-ere'terned-ovef to another, I do not mean to say an unworthy gen tleman, but his inferior in military rank and sta tion. -., . " But General Scott reports, as I understand, that to February there were twenty thousand regular troops under his com mand.- and en -roe- Add the thirty regimenta of volunteers and if full they would make thirty four thousand men, officers in cluded, over thirty five thousand, andthere would be a force of regulars and volunteers .amounting to not less than fifty-fire or sixty thousand men, including the recruits on the way. If my infor mation be exact, and the honorable member from Michigan can correct me if it be not 1 presume that it is correct in. February Gen. Scott bad un der bim in Mexico thirty thousand Hoops regulars and volunteeis. Now, all these troops are regu larly officered. There is no deficiency of officers in iru, I'm rr in tha fttafT ttaov nr. ikll. fi.LI Whatever deficiency there is consists of men.- I Now, sir, there is, a plausible reason for saving that it is (Jifficg)i to recruit at home for the supply of deficiencies in the volunteer regiments. It will be said that volunteers choose to enlist under officers of their own selection ; that tbey do not in cline to enlist here as individual volunteers, when the regiment js abroad under officers of whom tbey know nothing. There may be something in that; but pray lo what does that conclusion lead I Does jt not lead lo this, that all these volunteer corps must moulder away, so far as the privates are concerned, and come to nothing T Meantime the places of the commissioned otikers are con tinually filled, the regiments being full of officers, although rthe privates,' by casualty and disease, are reduced to be (ess in number than ihe offi cers themselves But however that may be," in regard to the recruiting for the regular service, you can fill up the regiments by pay and bounty, accoraing to existing laws, or new iuws, n new laws be necessary. There is bo reason upon earth why we should now create five hundred new of ficers for the purpose of getting ten thousand new men. There are officers to command them. All that is wanted is men : and there is a place for them, and 1 suppose that no gentleman enn stand up here or elsewhere and say that the recruiting service can go on (aster than it will be necessary to go on in order to fill up the deficiencies in the regiments abroad. ' V But now what do we want with a greater force than we already have in Mexico. Without ask ing what) need there is forasupply of deficiencies in the existing regiments, what do we want bey ond the thirty thousand regulars and volunteers now in field service T What is ibe purpose f There is no army to fight. J suppose the enemy has not five hundred men together under arms in any I part of Mexico. Except in one instance, perhaps, there is not nan that numoer. .Mexico is prostrate there is no Government to resist us. It is no torious that theGovemmeiUflf Uexico ie on out side. It isour instrument, by which we hope to establish such a peace and accomplish such a treaty as' we wish. As far as 1 can understand the matter, the Government of Mexico owes its Jjfeand breath and being support of our arm ; and to hope 1 wil not say how inspired that somehow or another, and at no distant period, there may be pecuniary means ajrisiflg from our three milliojst, or our twelve jpij. lions, or some other of our millins. What dp we propose p .do, then, with those thirty regiments that we design to-our into -Mexico t Are we coins to cut the tbroois of the. Mexicafls! Arc we gftmg to plunge the sword deeper and deeper in to the vital part of Mexico I ; Y hat do we propose todo ? ' Sir. I set! uo object, and yet we are .pres secfDd urged t6' o'dj)pUhisriroposilron in its full knMhT.ten Ivgunents of regulars, eric! twentv rejiuiems of tolantetri Wc Te .o!J, and th public it told, and the puMif telieves,, iba'i wo T are on the verge of,, a safe and honorable peace.'- - Every man looks out in the morning for. .-tiding - , of confirmed peace, or confirmed hopes i of peace. ,7' He gathers it from the Administration, and every n J organ bf the Administration, from Dan lo Beer - aheba ; and yet the warlike operations the in- -curring of additional expenses the IrrjposKion of hew charges opon lbs Treasury; are pressed here as if peace was not io all our thoughts; at least , notin any of ou; expectations - -' ;.. dayi and I Ssy that, according jo, m,y best judg- ment and apprehensioo of matters, the main bb- j ject of these bills it. patronage offics-ihe grati- fication of friend, , Thi very measure for ten ' additional regiments createt four or five hundred ' officers, cnlonela onit nKBltrn ij u. . only, fowhprfl j hjie some respect, but Jhcn ' ""-r-jsMwii vviiiiavtvitjt uviiuui aru ,j, Sir, I hope, Without disresDect to theaa ahnlletnta1". and aspirants, and those patriots, tome of them pairwis reaoy.to nght, and those olber i)atrio gaged in the tranaport service, commissaries, even ' down to sutlers, tt id genus bmnt people 'who. v handle thefpublic morieyiioiit facing (he foe one and all, the (rue descendants, if hot the true representatives of corporal Nym; who tafj '' ' Jf , ;r--For I .hall toiler b. -7. ' - , Unto the ctmp, and profits will eern: A : uvi wining ugui, oui, wining to oe paid I , hone, without dltretriect to an of than ing io their rank and station and merits, that ihey may be ail disappointed. 1 hone: nr. at iU V weather grows genial and the seasoir adsanr ; they will, on lb whole,; fid it their interest to nlJiM I hsamsitalVAa ema1 aI ko,a vnTIJ : . rm w ihvis4'm wm w .ies. lajiiu inorninarnv in the cart, and take their destination to their rr- tpective placet of honorable private occupation uu iiiri .vwpipyHipoi, v " nave-, my , good wishes, that, biddinir adieu to the avenue niTih r j.i Jr. r.L.r, ,3 'W . - ' wiuiuii.anu lue Duriirai oi in, I r.f inp.i a k,mi.,a Ihev mav reach their homes in ooai health iham. f af " " - f pa,iw itvH " selves and find their families all very happy tq ' But, sir.poWo major canamuif ..This wa , near tne toutnern portion or the United StateKout of Mexican territofyr and with such populaiion as might be found resident therein.' I have oddos- eu mat project, i am scrainst the creation of new States. , I am against the acquisition of territory t form new States, And this. Sir. it not a matter of sentimentality, which I am to parade bpfpro mass meetings or oeiore my constituenU at, bom. It is with me no matter of declamation, retrret, or." expressed repugnance, , It it matter of firm, un- ' changeable purpose, to yield, ia no force of cir-' . camstaoces that hive occurred or that I mav eon CDnsider,-illy'tofiCTrrftTid'ihreforfi i3ai h i am asuea to oay whether for the sakrof -peace I will take a treaty that brings two ne " State into this Union on it tOutnernbdUndary,:" I say no, distinctly no and I with eery man in the Union lo understand that to my judgment and my purpose. I have said on the southern; boundary, because there the present nroDosition takes its iocalny. Iwonld ay tbe fame of the - weslere,-the northern, ihe-easterpf Or-apy-other - uounaarr. t woo hi resist to-py, pna to the efllf, here and every jy here, inj proposition' to add ny foreign territory, oq the south or west, north or east, to the Stales of this Union, as they are now commuted and held together under the Constitu tion. I do pot want' the colonies of England on ' ihe north ;jf 'a little desire t.h Mexican ponnliu tibn on the south, f resist and rei-ct all. and all wjth:.equal resolution; and therefore ( tayw. that. if the. question is put to me to-ds? whether I will take peace in the present state of the country ' distressed as il is jn the eijgency oflbi. wtr, odious as it ie in eircoYhstahcet io .afflictive lo ' the communKy, and' so disturbing to the business' of those whom I represent as those which now surround us I say still that if (he question be pul to me whether 1 wilf haa peace; with biJar States, I say no-po no yy" hy f Because, sir, there is no necessity of bejng driven into the dil emina. in my judgmept, piber gentlemep mtf think differently, t own ne man's conscience but mine own, I mean to makeaa clean breast for myself, and I protest that 1 tee, no reason whatever to beliee that we cannot obtain as tafo a peace, at honorable a peace, ana as, prompt a peace, without territory at with it7,7Tfi thingt are aeparable. There ia no necessary connexion between tbem. Mexico does .pot wish tit to take her territory that the may receive par money. Far from il. She yields her assent if the y iehj J. it at all reIuctanUv7and we all know it. j( b yield, it is the result of force: and there jt not a man here that does not know it. : Let me aay, sir, that if this Trial paper shall finally be rejected in Mexico, it is most likely to be, because those who, under our protection, prepared it,Corwt pursuae the Mexican Congrea p ibe' Mexican' peojpfe to , agree to this cession of lerrirory. 'I'he thing most likely to break up w hat is now expected jo lake place is the repugnance of the Mexkari people to pari with Mexican territory; f They would prefer to keep their territory, and that we should keep our ' nijney ; or we resolve that we should keep our money and allow tbem lo keep their territory. We shall see,- I pretend to no powers of predic tion, I do hot know xvha,t gf Jiappen. - The times are full of strange events But I think it p;obab!e bhat if '.he treaty which bas gone to Mex- ' ico shall fail to be ratified, it wiH be. because of the aversion of the Mexican. .CfHigresa or the Mexican people to cede the le rritonVs.or any por tion of them, belonging to their republic. inave saiu.sir inni wWiSU"1'? flTe peace for the preset tban. to have a peace that brings territories for new Slates," and the reason is that 1 teiiee we can tel peace, foil as' soo.o without territory aS tvith it a peace,; more safe, more enduring vasJy more bondraUe to tis, the " great republic of the westt-ra world., .1 Bet r gen jje.men say thai we must have sortm territory, that the jwogerw I. iJT . i tee no proof of it w bale ver. I do not doubt , that , there are individuals nere and thereof an'oter- Ciising tha racier disposedUle emigrstlpp, who now nothing' about New Mexico, boi thai it rs far off; who are tired of the dull pursuits of agricul ture and civil life, I daru say that there are hun dreds and thousands of suchrsoris who wisbfor territory in which to see It their fortunes. pat- -ever is hew Is auractive io such minds ttbey leer the spirK of a borderer, nnd that is, I take iiiobe 7 pretty tolerably content with his condilionliil s'oiiie- body passef beyond him ; and then his diHitfon tc vkhc up nis 7 traps ana pass Devon u nun yi no '."? pss?d, himself and art down further t-flikan ; - 4.1 9' r
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 22, 1848, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75