To the War with Mexico.
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When, on the l3th day o! May ot last year, the passage ui the Acl 0l CUpgress rectXniziiig the existence ui h at w.lh Mexico was anDouII> ced to the readers C: the .N aitU1df hlteifigtn- cer, Il Was accompanied by the expression Ui a bclIet that b! the largest portion Of iis readers q e InlormaiIon would be IeceIved with alarm -aiarm jIstlN excited by the wIl'ulpess and recklessness with winch the Nation had Oeen plunged mo toreign War which. sslhe pe,,~ pie were in no particular prepsred Tor, they were iH DO way torewalned Oi. Tor ourselves We were not tskvii N holly by surprise by the news. In the stai esInanshlp "t ihe Executive. whatever confidence we weie disposed tn place had been shaken by the almost daily demcn- straiions by iisofhciaf organ during the first year Of lis existence. We have watched its successive developments. gradually disclosing settled parpuse to make war upon Mexico,ln The event of not succeeding In intImidaling her into prompt submission 10 he demands which the President intended to make upon her. Ttat organ. the Governme, pspe'. ~ss hardly . week old. before it's readeIs were

 ranspOrte9 In imagination, 70 the Halls ot the Moniezuiiia, which were ,o be occupied bs

 the United States as the crowning act of 2 second conquest of Mexico.' The i0scin be- Ing sounded, volunteers were 10 hock rom the West to the scene oi actlrn, and |" carry every

 thing before them. The Government paper taught US, also. hstc the war was 10 be brought on by which this conquest was to be eHec'ed

 It foresaw, by many months. lhe mascL of OUi army from Corpus Cntis'i Lwhere,a AS every one knows, MexirO never intended To disturb it J to the Rio Grande, and thai, if they did blood would be shed, and war must tDsue.' When

 ihe prediction was rtalizrd--when the caias. truphe arrived. however, it shocked. it car scarceiy be said to have Stvprisc6 uA Of th1