W* Brtootrtt tt fpvti on Vol. XXII. LITCHFIELD, (CoN$.,) TIM %M>AY, DECEMBER *3, 1847. ■.‘. ..-- -- - No. 32. Whoi « tffrVW B IITT» i ■ — i ■ ■ fTljc iLftcijfirlu Eiujufrcr, H PUBLIUHF.D EVERY THURSDAY M"RNINC ■jPAYME KETVFO’V KILBOIRN, At the Building next East of the Court-house LITCHFIELD, CONN. TERMS* Tillage and single Mail aubsdfihera,£1.5" In Bundles of 20 and upwards, $1.25; or, it £*M for strictly in advance, £ 1.00. •(►•The low price at which we hare placed tfco Enquirer, renders it necessary that our Verms should be strictly complied with. Jonathan T. Horton* ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW. West Cornwall, Conn. Nov. 15, 1847. 27 William K. Peck, jr. iMTTORA'EY t COUNSELLOR JtT Norfolk, Conn. imrb7 craves, Attorney and Connsellornt Law, Commissioner of Deeds for the State a} Neve York, fee Plymouth, Conn. J. B. ELLIOTT, Physician & Surgeon, Kr Office with Dr. M. R. Hubbard, New Hartford, Conn. C. M. HOOKER, DENTIST. May be consulted as heretofore, in Lit,h Held, roshen and tVoodbury. • Litchfield, Sept. 3th, 1847. 18 Edward W. Blake. . May always be found at his resi dence in South street. • Litchfield. Nov. 18, 1847' 87 FASHIONABLE IILLINIIY! RECEIVED a full assortment#! HESS MAMEY'S. —ALSO— Cloak and Dress Trimmings. Cloaks and Dress es made to order on short notice. Litchfield. Not. 1st, 1847. 6w*25 4 LMOSTev.t*.*ru»lw>»He •*#»* «»*? A be found One tioor Kant of the Court Mtonae /-»• t a I R IMF AFOY A TROWBRIDGE IM'hfield, Oct 6th 1817. 20tf IpRiiusT ONE of the best FARMS in Sharon, consisting of 1H*2 acres, spirited in the ▼■lley. Terms made easy for the purchas T. ANSEL STERLING. Pine Boards, Shin GLES& CLAPBOARDS. THE Subscribt r offers for sale MO 000 feet clear and inerceantahle Boards swt Planks. ISO 000 teet clear and merchantable Clap boards MO rived and sawed Shingles. tO 000 feel white wood Boards tnd Plank. 1000 Ranches eastern Laih. together with a general assoriment of building materials M 3m H. M. WELCH. Farmington Canal, Plainville Nov p, 1847. Shut the Door, A!*n> MOLD IT OPEN. KELSEY’S Gate & Door Spring. tV*HE public generally that want Gale and Door Springs are respectfully iavited to call and see the article, (made aa it at mi Id he,) and in operation on the store door «tthe subscriber, oueuovr west of the Court SAMUEL CLOCK, Genersl Agent for Litchfield Coontv. Litchfield, Nov. 84, 1847. 88 BVVTS St db 3.3AT3I3 33! ID* N E VV FIRM XI 1KEAFOY & TROWBRIDGE, HAVE opened a STORE ia Litchfield al the OKI Stand o( LO MEAFOY, one door east of the Com t House, for the JtBrposeof conducting the above business ia •Hits brauches. They havi jow in slots • complete assortiueut of ever, thing in the Hmappropriate for the season. India Kuh kecs of evei) kind. Sole and U, per Leatk «r, Calf, Morocco, Lining and Binding JCJ-Our friends, together with the Pnb Mr generally. are most rtspecifwuy inrited teesH and examine our Goods lor theta* L. O MEAFOl, H P TROWBRIDGE. All those indebted to the undersign* MS requested to cad and settle the name, dttt who have claims again*: me are inrit* «• in call and receive their cash. I- O. WEAFOY. Litchfield, Sept «. 1847.19tf BxMru—A few Pork Barrets for •■M nit hn More of _ *>«W • LJ. SMITH Cijr 9o*t’0 Cottier. I'w ihr htclifi.ld Enquirer. LINES Written nft*r attending the Church of the Pil* gritns, Brooklyn, Nov. 21. 1847; Church of thePileriin* ! round Ihv name What holy memories cling ! Preacher! thv voiceahould be inspired,— Not teas, the songs ye sing ! May the pure faith the Pilgrims held. Their children’s bosoms wa. m— The faith fha< triumphed ovrr death. And braved the ocean's storm; THe faith that planted, deep and sure, Iu the soil the pilgrims trod, A flower no wintry storin shall blast— “ Freedom to worship God ” Ho I ye, whose truant feet have strayed From blest New England's shore, Say, in your wanderings have ye found Jk place ye cherish more 1 Say—is the gold of the sunny South, Mote bright than h«r s| atkling rills? The radiant plains of the tar-ofl West, More greeh that her thousand hills ? Say—in your wanderings, have he seen, Towering o’er path* well trod, As there, the spire of’lhe humble churrh Point towards the home of God ? Say—is that life He only give*; More sacred held than there ? Does the erv of Want assail thee less-= Or the starving suppliant’s prayer ? O, once again; ye 11 wants, say - Since ye left New England’s above. Have you; eye# a lovlier spilt beheld— A pi ice ve can love more ? Brooklyn, Dec. I. 18411; F. mn Vhnii.ott/pe. HORACE GREELEY. Who is there th:.t doe* not know Hor ace Greeter—eiih> r perso ally or by reputation ! and who that ever saw nny body that began to be just like him! Many there be who have the same appa*. rent physical " middle *md man deecntry faff, with the ustail compliment ef limbs and features— yet Horace Gree’ey is Horace Greeley „nd nobody els**. To see him at his edi torial table at work—for he’s a gieiit wor ker, Horace Greeley is—you would be apt to exclaim, in a tone of surprise, Is that Ho; ace G eeley, that does things up in the Trdiutie in such style!’’ Yes. friend, that white-haired, bald- headed, nea; sighted, seemingly “little old man,’’ is Horace Grestey,the edi»»i of one of the ablest papers in America. “ He looks verdant,’’ doesn’t he? “Wei:, my friend it ran’r be denied he has a verdant look withal at times. But if you insist upon it, that Horace Greeley is “ green," you will, I'm vety sure, find you have been moat egregiously taken in. No, no, trirnd, Horace Greele) is not gieen, he is not in fact what he seems—not that the editor is deceitful, no, no, a plain, blunt, hon>-st man is Horace Greeley,— but his looks will lie, ai*titnes, not th> editor, mind. To see ;he real Hori ce Greeley in a slate of development you must see him speaking, when deeply int rested in some gieat subject—then it is *• he Ap pears,” as it were, from behind the cur tain, with all ihe gnss let on—and you loot vainly for any thing green about him. At such limes, that baldness, so sugge-tive, at other times, of sensibility, becomes all at once a part oi one of the most expressive countenances ever at tached to a mere human—and the lew re maining baits so redolent, ns it were, of the same tact, suddenly become i mbued “enih particular hair,’ «ilh wisdom, power, and truth—and then those teeth of hi*,—whiter than the whitest you ever s»w, evidently all unknown to the vile Virginia weed, gives beauty to bis ex pression such as ladiiBCHl! “altogether level v.’ As a public speaker, Horace Greeley is not so U as many who hold ’.be public ear—being near-s-ghted he holds his notes cltse to bis norland in«k< s use ot no g> sturts, or any ot the Irak* ot oratory, to captivate the fancy, but goes on in a s'raigh'-lorward manner to the point—which to those to wbonf manner is everything, is shocking— but o those who prefer the substance to the >ha«‘ow of thmgsfhe is one of ihe most intererting of s; eakers, commanding the serenest attention ot his audience, even on the dryest of »i*t>jtcis. As a writer *nJ*an editor,lewsorpese bun. And the influence ot his pen on public morals, kr. if felt throughout the h nglb aud breadth of the land. .In short, Horace Greeley, though at t Mfpa a ** wee bit uncouth,” especially wfcHi walking in the streets, encased in that venerable whitish sun out of bis, with his trowses hsH wsy up bis legs—a World loo small—shutiing slung, aa ha •Iocs, when in deep meditation, with hi* body bent loan angle of forty-five de grees, and a “ shocking bad hat’’ oti With al—is it gentleman and u scholar, n friend of his race, a man ot genius undisputed, and above all, n most faithful Inlatrer ft* in the vineyard of humanity. Long may he l.ve and remain undaunted by the scoff.-and sneers of knave* and foots—the good and the wise will ever appreciate him. From the .V. Y. Express Late Br, Wainwright. This gentleman who died on Thursday nighi from ttie bite of a rattlesnake, is no relative to Rev. Dr. Wainwright of this city. He was n native of England, where his lather r* sides, and is said to be weal thy. He lioarded six or seven years since ht 1he Astor House, and beeoming embarrassed, his father, it is said, not on ly paid up his d bts, but settled upon him an annuity. He has left, to mourn his loss, a wile and two young children, » ho ure far, we are told, from being in court' fortnble circumstances, and a'subscrip tion was made up on Friday for their re lief. He has been e igaged for some time in lecturing on In halt of a rmdicul i society, nt 41 Crosnv Street, in which - ' i Stn et he 11 Billed. He was a professor of chemistry, His lemains (which have been partially embalmed) were, nfter Service a< St. Paul s Chapel, placed in a tomti at Greenwood Cemetry, and will probably be sent tor by his relatives in England. it is d smgnmr tact inni nr. w. was particularly fond of fine specimens ot ilii* kind ot snake, this making the tburih he has received ns a present wiihin 1*0 years. They came from hia brolher-in. law, residing nenr Mobite, in Alabama The snake was between 5 and 0 left long. Dr. W. had it in a box. just havw< re ceived it from the vests fl. He steppe,; with it nt the Broadway House, which he hnd been in the habit ol ff. quentirg and while there took it trorn the box. It lay coiled on the floor. He had a little stick in his hand with which he struck it re peatedly, probably with a view to enliven it, hut which no doubt had the elf-ct ot firtantmm- It. Hr finally aaid: *• i? ©me, hoy, I’ll fiut you buck imo rtic tarn, now and was in the act of laying hold of it, when it struck him, with its fangs, in the finger next to the Utile linger • I the right hand, between the last joint and palm on the inside—the blood spirted •tit, and irnmcdintely the arm, and soon the body, began to swell, as already de scribed, the piece of flesh penetrated by the wound having been in vain cut out. The arm and chest turned dark, we un derstand, belore he died—nearly the col or of the snake. THE RICHEST MEN. Louis Phillippe the king ot the F ench is reputed to be wo th about one hundred and fifty millions of dollars- And the value of John Jacob Astor’s p< s ession is thirty millions of dollars. Notwithstanding nil their wealth, there is rot a young man in the country, of sound sense, that would change condition with either ot them. The FiCnch mon arch bar lived three quartets of a centu ry, but old ss he is, he dari 8 not ti ke the air in his owficapital. Without calling up fifty thr usand soldiers to gumd the streets through which he ms> ride. The labor which he performs would n 1 d»r any man a slavt—alt In ugh the work he h«s jerfurmed and the kem Ion sight he hag exercised, would give unv man wculth and distinciion Sir Robert I'e»l is ihe son ol a cotton spinner, nnd be is on« ol the mental gumis ol the world. Tlie load of care tha he bears about, would crush an army of common men. He is but six ty y< ars ol age and is likely to do Eng land much good service yet. Mr Astor m in his second childhood. In the house be is played with Hire a child and amused with toys aud painted dolls A SEARCH FOR HEIRS OF AN ESTATE. Mr. Benjamin Whitley, a gentleman trom England, lias come to this country in search ot heir* to the estate ol Edward North, who d«c*asm many yeais -ince jn Ireland, and who is .<-u|• • ! got the Irtlowing account of Jackson I ftonnour neighbor,Thompson Jciinent. “ Andrew Jackson, father of General Jack iyt in, was son of Thomas Jackson, of Bally, trgan. neat Dundonald—a comfortalile far* iber, possessed of a free-hold property, now Mf considerable value. 'I homas Jackson’s louse is iiow occupied by a person named Trotter. Tnere aie several co lateral rela* iioiis, living still in the neighboihood—bul the descendants of the oldest branch of the jjbmily have all died off—the great grandson flf Thomas Jackson having died about ihrce jean ago, without leaving any family, QO-The Usin Senator Cameron, a printer, sent the I Hewing to I lie Columbian fypo Vrap local Society at Washington, at ilvtecent Wfo.ratHHL '*• “ The Poor Boy’s College—The Printing Office—Industry, intelligence, integrity and peisevereru e, will ensure distinction and hon or to Its graduates.” Cash, Accross Florida —The Apa'ach icola Advertiser cnmuius a communication seitu g lonh the lesibilny ot uniting Hie waters ol the gulph with those of die Ailamic. The writer says dial a ship canal 47 miles long connecting die Withlacochee river on the gulph side with Hie A'i. John,s, which flows into the Atlantic. will accomplish ihe object. The expense o| such an undertaking iersumatid ai$500,000. ter The Telegraph from Philadelphia, en iiounces die failure of the LewisioWu Bank, at Lewistown, on Monday la-t. MR POLK’S PRETEXTS FOR HI.S WAP AGAIN UTTERLY DEMOLISHED ! From /hr JVa/ioi at In/r/ligmcrr Drr. 11 TIIE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. (pC^Several days liave flow elapsed since our readers in tins city, and generally elsew here, were put in possession ol he Animal Message ol the President ot the United Stales to both Houses ol Congress. Until to-day we have pur posely I'm borne from comment upon it, from an unafiebted desire not to interfere with tiicir tree digestion of its contents. That opportuni ty having been lalrly iflorded, we now pio ceed to state with pla nness.hul we hope with out tie.ice to any well-disposed reader, our ,lews ipon its leading topics; and hist, be cause il is first in ihe Message, and uppermost ! m every man’s mind, u,.oii so itfUcii of file document a* relates to To ihe War with Mexico. When,on Ihe 13th day o! May ol lavl year, Ihe passage ol the Act ol Congress rccqgiu/.ihg the existence ol v. at wii h Mexico was annouri' n-a in the readers ui the Auliunullultlligtti cir, il was accompanied oy llie expression ol a hiliel I hat by the laigesl poilioii ol in reader* tl e inlortnailon would lie leceived with alarm —alarm justly excited by ihe w il’ulnes* and recklessness with which Ihe Nation had Ueen plunged into a foreign tear which, aside fen* pie weie in no particular prepared lor, I hey were in po way forewarned ol. for ourselves we wepe noi taken wholly hy surprise by Ibe m-ws. In ihe statesmanship ol llie Executive, whatever Cuiitidenre we weie disposed lo place had been ahafcen by the alumsi daily deniun slialious by ilsptliciafi rgan during Ibe trial year of ils existence. We leave watched its successive dcvelopemeid*. giannally disclosing a sell led purpose lo matte war upen Mexico.in Ihe evAit of not succeeding ill inliinidaling her into a prompt submission lo Ihe demands winch Ihe President intended to make upon her That organ, tne Governmei t paper, was hardly a week old, before its readei* were transports#in imagination, lo Ibe lull* ol Ibe Mmilezufm, which weie lo he occupied hy ihe United Slate* af t he crowning set of • a second ronqo-sl ol Mexico.’ The tnscin be ing sounded, volnnleei* were lo flock :rom Ihe Weal to Ihe scene ot ac|u n, and to carry every thing belore them- 'I he Government paper taught us.also, Avtr the war was to be brought un by which thia conquest was to be eflecled. Il foresaw, by many month*, ihe marcl. of our army IromCorpus Cnristi [where,as every one knows, Mexico never intended lo disturb it,] to the Rio Grande, uut that, il they did 'binod would be shed,*snd ‘war must < nsue.’ When, the predietion was realised—when the catas trophe arrived, however, it shocked, it can scarcely be said to have turpruai a* Of th< I and obnoxious Preamble ol the Bill until alter I all deliberation and debate had been precluded cm a question as momentous certainly as ever came belure Congress Had there been limb ing else alarming ii this Declaration ol War with Mexico, ihe despotism thus exercisedo vj;r the minority d the Representative body. | repeated the following day ill the Senatoual body, (theretofore exempt from such sharp practice) was ol itsell sufficient to appal the In arts ol those accustomed, as we have been, to regard ibe righls oi minorities as not less si.creil, than those ol majorities, and among tile righl of proposing ann ndiiienls to or re inrmst rating against any proposition coming be fore ihern. '1 ne minority in each House was tnus.subjected uy a most arbitrary it malignant exercise ol pari) power, without being allow ed a moment,lor ilellberalios, to the alleiua hvc of voting Ini a bill with a preamble, the falsehood ol which they saw and detested, or ol relusing to vote for enactments, (supplies u! men and money,) lo which, all lavish as they were, there would, perhaps, bty fi»r the Pre amble. not have been a dissentient voice. Whatever alarm we and our readers tell at this beginning, has Certainly been lully jostl ed by the progress ol events. Even that pre* cipilation in ihe action of Congress—that pre amble affitniiog two distinct lalsehoods—that lyiaimy by wuit ha vole was extorted trouilhe Houses, have been continually appealed its by the Executive organs as evidences ot.lhe una nimity ot the national will in approbation ol the war In the message before us, that ap i peal is repealed, accompanied with a stale* inei.il in terms, that the declaration that ‘ the War exists by the act of Mexico.’ was passed with great unanimity’ in Congress; though it must he known to Ihe Executive that but a small majority in either House ol Congressap* pmved that declaration, many membeis de daring their repugnance lo it, some their ut ter abhoranre ol it Votes taken ill both Houses ol Ceuigress at thesecond session ol ihe same Congress plainly established this lad, had there belure been any reason to doubt it. 1 lie popular elections which liave intervened certainly leave no excuse for » doubt upon a ny man's mind lliat a uiajoiiiy ol Ihe People of the United States are against this war and its authois. LUMlVdU'll rtrillllJUIVIIIlig) III urn i c-uv» *vit.v popular will, thus c.eariy expressed, any pail uihi- m urinal scheme ol ciimiujiing and an nexing a Coimderalire portion id the rerriTory ol Mexico, the President comes lo Cong e»» and demands its concuireuce in a plan lor col onizing and annexing almost one hail ol Mex ico, with a lecoimntiidalion lo continue ihe war until he Ihe conqueror eonguer* all the irsidue of that unhappy Republic ill Iheevent ol nei not willing!; leveringlrum her body her most valuable provinces Instead ol advising a Peace,Inch ini, Government might have ai any day on terms nl honor, lie inloims 0.in gress, in a sanguinary strain, and almost in '.be dialect of Hie shambles, that he is persuad ed * I h t Ihe best means of vindicating the na hull a /ien or, and iuiereel, and ol bringing Ihe war lo an hoiioruti/r close, will be lo prose cute il wilh ineiea-cdenergy and power in the vital purte of the enemy'r countryT He knows that lie and bis war stand cm dunned by his own countrymen He canii'ij, il he would, mistake il*c senlimenl of it.e people; and yel be craves more conquest, more butchery; be demands a deeper penetration into the vitals of our adversary,and yet further waste of Hiel b.ond and treasures *1 his own country. Before he lakes captive onr senses by ihe se ductive incitements, in which his message a bounds lo a yel wuh-r couise of rash ambition arid suicidal aggrandizement, lei us slop lor a iiinii ent to Comoro r upon what giounds ho places and jusiilie* Ihe career of cruelly and conquest in which he has already embarked otir country. We ale glad lhal Ihe I resident has, in his Message, prelaced his recommend ations ns in the luluie with a summary state ment ol ihe causes ol complaint heretofore ul ledged by him as being ol prior dale to Ihe war. A single paragraph include* the whole sinty, and, as we propose In examine it wilh some particularity, we here re-publish it. •* ii •» suliiclent on ti.e occasion tu .-buy, liuii ill*- W4MOII vh Imioii ul Hit; light* ol ,,*18,11 tfi.u |»K ^ny "I oiii citizen* coiimkiIU-u ov Mixm, iit-1 *ci& lauti ihn* 4 l»>ltg *«'l U S ol years,and >.er CM,regalU ol sol emu >realrc» stipulating l,*r indemnity lo olii llijuied ciljZens, in<1 only ennolilUMd antplt cause ol war on our pail, bui were ol such all aggravaltu character as would have justified u» betore the world mi resorting In this extreme remedy Willi an anxious desire to avoid a lupiuie between I tie two countries, we forbore for yearslo assert our oleai rights by lurcesund c mluued lo seek tedress lor the wrongs we liarlsubeud by amicable ingot ill lull, In Ihe hope that Mexico might yield III pacific coun sel, and Ihe deli.a,.os , t justice. In Ipis hup* weie disappointed. Our minister ol peace senl *<• Mexico was insullinitly rejected. Ihe Mex ican Gove.nineiil relused even lo hear Ihe terms ol adjustment which be was aulhoi need lo pro pose, and finally under wholly unjustifiable pretexts, involved ihe two countries in a war. by invading the territory ol Ihe Slate ol iexas, striking Ihe first blow, and shedding Ihe bluett ol our own citizens on our own soil.” ^ In undertaking again lo review these avpp men,! by the Executive now that they are # gain oflered in his just ificatian, and in suppur* uf that rfar ad iulerntcumum against Mexico, which he recommended lu Cungree, we are welt awaie that uu lurce can be auaed lo the reasoning, nor any strength lot he conclusions ol that admirable tract Irom the pen of Ihe venerable, pall lot ic and learned Jllltrt Gall at in, in relation to Ihe Mexhan War, which we have lately had Ihe saiialaction of spread mg be lore our readers. To his authority up on any question ol public law or ualipnal obli galion, we. at least, who have knoarn him Irom the days ol his great pubic ser'icea in the Public Councils, first as s leader of the re publican pigiv in Congress, next as a member ol the Cabinet*of President Jeflcison during all his administration, and of that uf Mr Madison until be was called lo represent hiscoonlry a broad as Ihe assoc isle of Adams, Clay and Bay ard in the great negotiation which ended 11^ the peace ol Ghent—we, whose fi-* essays in . ur present vart from the passions of the day and • bove them, one whig after a most distingnichftd career of public service, Utl popularity and reputation unexhausted,and quitted high trust* while they yet courted his acceptance ; oneyf the foremost men, in a word, ol that illustrious era ol our statesmanship, which has now httf4~ ly a survivor, one therefore almcst in the last extremity ol age, and jet so fortunate aft.J)** have pieserved, equally undimmed, its abijiien and its honors. To (he authority of such a name as that of Albert Gallatin, his Address adds a strength of reasoning which nothing in the present day can meet, aud that luminous commard of all the great principles of Public and of National Law, in which he had Scales* ly an equal in his own times, and has nos t^r superior. The trusted coadjutor—and it may even, in Finance and in Diplomacy, be said (o' have been—the instructor ol Jefferson, of Mad* ison alid ot Monroe, we have here, as of onS i ising from tlie dead, a voice, passionless as it is wise and solemn the judgment of an an tique and genuine sage «l Republicanism—yea of Democracy—upon iheeutire question of this Presidential War. Armed and mrtitied with such a documerd.it is with unwonted confidence that we proceed once more to expose these hollow pretences and insincere professions of the aulhorsanda* pologists for the war with Mexico, which have heen controverted heretofore with no other ap> parent effect than to induce a mere pet tena cious repetition of them. _ Referring In his last annual cotnmunicatlO“ to Congiese for particulars of his bill of arraign' ment, the President again recites alleged wrones by Mexico, through ' a long series of years,’ &c, as being such as not ouly to Con< stituie ample cause of war, but as would haw justified the United States betore the whole world in resorting to this extreme remedy.—* This every one at all acquainted with hisloay know; to be gross exaggeration. The long eg* istence of claims for wrongs now alleged to have been so enormous is of i seif proof of tfaffe fast that they were not at any time deemed j|||f Congress to constitute a sufficient cause ol war. Most of f hem had beside been actually adjuaf* edbv a treaty betwcog I he two Cauiil rise. Which was'in rriecouree'nf t.imiui cswuii^u *jj m mm ico when ihehsstile demonstrations of our A#' • ministration suspended the payment of stiptt* lated indemnities. A* fo what remained dt unadjusted claims, there was nothing until the occurrence ol this war to prevent their peace* able and even satisfactory adjustment. A* to (he refusal by Mexico to receive our Minister being, as the President intimates, a efficient cause ol war, it is a sufficient answer, fie the President, that M>e army was order ed to march to the Rio Gra.ide—where ac* cording to the programme of the government paper, thewar was to begin—two month* be* fore our Minister was finally refused to bo r*‘ eeived by the government of Mexico. But let it be admitted for the sake of ar^M ment, and for that sake only, that according to the customs and laws of nations in less nvili-* zed, less moral and less enlightened ages than the present, we really hid cause of war with Mexico, an fat as war between two Christian nations is ever just or necessary; yet, waryvjth Mtwico, distracted, weakened and impovished as she then was with intense factions ami di* visions, was neither necessary. m.tgnanimolfV nor honoiable on our part. Sitcli a war even for just objects, being unnecessary— the only inevitableeflect indeed upon the claims for ; which it would be waged being to fasten them upon our own Treasury instead ot Mexican-* could never rebound to the gloty ol the cigin*, try,and much leas compensate lor the rivers of I blood and heaps ot f reastire which have been diiriHij naoicu is hub woi. But, to pass all this by, whether the existing war bejust or unjust.necessary or unnecessary is m.t the question now at issue between th* President and the People. Was this war thf act ot the Sovereign People qf the U. States, declared in their name, in the only manner known or .acknowledged by I he Constitution** by the Senate and House of Representatives Congress, to whom slone it belongs Is deftr-* mine whether war at any time and under any circumstances, be just and necessary 1 Of was it. whether a crime or a mistake, th# uqj authorized act of the President, to whom tbs Constitution had d.nied all pi wer over the question of War ? This is the question, nof c an all the w re drawn sophistry and specif * pleading of the President’s Message of last year, referred to in that which is now befor* us, i eceive s singte individual, be he whig _qi democrat, of common sense of cofnthOn iti Icrmation. against the well known and weU su'heiii tested facte ip the case. Need we add that whoever the Ptesiden* be, who, tramp ling down the barrier* which the constitution lias erected for the protec in.o of the general welfare, i nd for the security of life, liberty and properly of the citizen, of his nwb mere will and pleasure plunge* the country into a w*y with or without cause—that man is a Despot. Th* Nation that qui^y folds '** »rm* Mexico did not strike the first blow,- Mexico did hot shed the bloo.1 of our citizens on on# own toil. . t This whole question, if will he seethra* solve* itself into one of territorial bound* 'rbid. *1 the breaking o«|.of tl te rimry between lhejiwsc*nn Grande, Del Norte, belong ~ Ttel