that this is a SOUTHERN WAR." Said the Charleston Courier : " Every battle fought in Mexico, and every dollar spent there, but insures the acquisition of territory which must ividenthe field of southern enterprize arid power for the future. And the final result will be to adjust the whole balance of power in the Confederacy, so as to give us the control over the operations of the Government in all time to come."
The Federal Union, a Georgia paper in the interest of the administration, remarked, " The Whigs of the North oppose the war, because its legitimate effect is, as they contend, the extension of southern territory, and of south- ern slavery. It is true, this is a war in which the South is more immediately interested. Its vast expenditures must be made within her limits. During its continuance, !N^ew York, the great emporium of commerce, must be shorn in part of her greatness. Exchange, usually in her favor, must now be reversed, and in favor of New Orleans, where the supplies are furnished for the army. Let the South now be true to herself, and the days of her vassal- age are gone, and gone for ever."
Said the Mobile Herald : " The natural tendency of the slaves under our humane pohcy is to increase. The effect follows that, if we have no outlet for them, no soil to put them on, they will be huddled within the extreme south- era limits of the Union." After showing that insubordi- nation, and loss of profit, would result from a too crowded slave population, the editor proceeds, " These evils may bfe avoided by taking new territory in the direction of Mexico. The profitable existence of slavery is by no means incompalible with a more temperate region, but it is incompatible with a very dense population. We need 'plenty of soil to render it profitable As the war was waged only for territory, Mr, Polk was anxious to secure its object as speedily as possible/ and, thinking it probable that money judiciously distributed in Mexico might hasten the cession of California, recommended to Congress, August 8th, 1846, an appropriation of two millions of dollars, to be placed at his disposal, for the purpose of facilitating a peace. The very proposal utterly destroyed