SATURDAY, MAY Is, 1916.

WAR WITH MEXICO DECLARED |!
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FRoM WEDNESDAY.


Our readers will learn, nine-tenths of them with
wellfounded alarm and dismay, that the Congress
Of the United States have adopted the WAR with
the Republic Of MEXICO, in which the Presiden,
has, without their consent authority, involved
the country and that all the best interests of this
People are staked upon the hazard of the die. We
do not mean of course the hazard Of fierce and
bloody War with Mexico, though that will in all
probability be found to be no childs play but the
imminent hazard of bringing on general War, by
which, even in the heated imaginations of those
who look upon War as synonymous with Glory,
we cannot expect to be gamers, but inevitably and
enormously losers in every sense, the entire de-
struction Of our widely extended commerce being
among the smallest Of the items to be taken into
the estimate.


But the loss far more to be deplored than the
highest aggregate of all such losses, is that to which
we find ourselves exposed by this additional evil
dence of the feebeness of the Constitution of the
United States, which has already become mere
dead letter whenever it comes in conflict with
Executive power, or party purpose in Congress.


This is not the time, however, to pursue with
the requisite calmness the train of thought into
which the events of the two last days are cacula-
ted to lead us. THE MISCHIEF is DONE it will now
and henceforward be the business of all good men
who still retain interest in public affairs to unite





their counses and their efforts to repair it, far as
repair of it be possible, and to mitigate the evils
before us by every means yet in their power.


A large proportion of those Members Of both
Houses Of Congress who voted for the Declaration
Of War, did SO under an idea-wholly erroneous, in
our opinion-that though unnecessary to measures
Of defence, the Declaration only proclaims fact
They looked only to the provision of men aud
money to repel INVASION which, separated from
the fatal power now given to the President, would
not probably have received single negative vote.
Too late they viii find their error, and we shall
hive to see the day when they will deeply regret
having suffered themselves to be deluded or mHu-
enced in the manner in which they have been.