individuals who pronounce against the justice of our cause, such sentiments as are particularly odious, should be placed on the register. Where an indindual expresses sympathy for the enemy, or wishes the death of the President, or the downfall of the National Admin- istration as a punishment for having engaged in the war, the sentiments of the Tory should be registered in his own language as nearly as possible. All statements intended for entry on the record, should be verified by the name of the witness or contributor."
The wickedness of this article, is not concealed by the absurdity of its pretended proposition. Its evident design was to intimidate the opponents of the war, by exciting against them demonstrations of popular violence.
It is a call from the Government organ upon the dema- gogues of the day, to stifle by brute force, all open denunciation of the war. Confiding in the countenance REVIEW OF TIJE MEXICAN WAR. 253 and patronage of the executive and his partisans, the editor of this paper assumed a dictatorship over the pro- ceedings of Congress, rebuking either House with vulgar insolence whenever it declined an immediate comphance with the wishes of the President. Such members as voted against gi-anting further supplies, were stigmatized as Mexican Whigs. At last, a vote of the Senate dis- pleasing to the Administration, was announced as " ANOTHER Mexican victory." Happily the purpose intended was not effected. Indignation, and not intimidation, was the result ; and the President's editor was, by a formal resolution, "for having uttered a public libel on the Senate," excluded from the pri\alege of, admission to the floor of the Senat^, a courtesy that had hitherto been shown him. The course pursued by this journal merits attention only from its being the acknowledged organ of the executive, and from its obvious accordance with the spirit and design of Mr. Polk's official denunciation of the opponents to the war. jNIany of the officers of the army, following the hints given by the President and his organ, professed