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other Presidsat Who 10 pnWilling To- bring on his
cofnpfr The scontempt Of all mankind and the per-
Detnil hbslility OF Mexidan bapdits Will.eycT re-
sort 10 SO -dissracefnl anexpedicnt. =[


II the mere postponement of peace were the
only afTcct of this practical concert between the
military chiefains of the one country and the,
leaders of patty in the other, would be COM
parntivciy of iiule consequences But what is 10
happen in the mean tine2 Suppose the. speech
sof Senator Corwin and the anti-war articles IN
the National Intefiigencer had been read at the


head of the Mexican and American armies on the
morning of the battle of Buena Vista oraCerro
Gordo, what wonld have been their natural and
inevitable rfcct2 Would .itdnot have raised the
spirit of the enemy, and depressed those cof our
own gallant yolunteers2 a Would 1t not have m
creased the fury and nerved the arm Of the Mexi-
con lancer to butcher, without mercy. the gallant


Y ell, Mckee, Clay, and Hardin, and lheirtb brave
companions whom the fluctuations of battle had


left wounded and defenceless on the bloody field


It is fearful responsibility which Senator -Corwin
and the National Intelligenceri with their ac-
complies have assumed. We could. almost lnl


agine that the ghosts of the gallant dead OF their
own countrymen, kindred, and party, rs well as


of hosts of slaughtered Mcxicans who rush on


death, stimulated by their arguments and promises
should haunt their nightly visions.


~ The National Intelligenccr, not content Win


oppositon to the war, attacks, with blind Jury the
pillars of the constitution. and would In effect,
destroy government, which its party cannot con-


troll The positions assumed by that paper, IN It's


leading article eofihe 5th inst, would, ii practsed
upon as sound, render the government powerlesS
in war and contemplate in peace. f'.


But we shall proceed, in another article, 10


examine more in detail than heretofore, the prin-
ciples therein advanced, and the arguments ad'
daced TO sustain them. ~ i'' "..'