The Mexican War

Altliough we nnv dirFer fronj many of qup reabra, y et vn regard the present molo of' condjcting tliR Mexicnn war ns l)ay.aijous, on our part, in the extreme. Gen. Scoti's forcé nt i he taking of Vera Cruz H id not excecd ubout 12.000 men. He lias since garrisoned that city and other plnces, some have been küled, multitudes have died, and great nuinbers, freed by the e.xpiratior. of their term of service, areleaving him. At t!ie lalest accounts he lind with him about 5,000 efl'ective men, as lhe aggressive forcé for subduing a populación of 8,000,000 o f bitter enemies. VVith tliis forcé he was nliout marching on a capital containing 150,000 people ; and could he arrie there without anotlier battle, (an event not at all oro bable, J h ia forcé would be scarcely inrge euough lo garrison the citv. He do not now recollect an intance in modern warfure in which so small a forcé has been rasii cnouglt to attempt to penetr;i!e ÜOO miles, to tho capiial of an enemy's country, while dependant on alano transportation for so great a. distance for all its supplics. Ic theicfoiX! regard the enterprise as extrcincly pêrikniï, and we cannöt but anticijKito that, if persiaied In, iis resull will be disastrous. The wholo nation is now elatcd by inany "glorióos victories"; but it would bo uell to rtmcmber that noihing is more uncertoin thtn the fortunes of war. The sligliiest reverses of, our pari will dis-oKe the clmmi of invint;ibility, and will proportionate'y dopres- oar own troonfl, and encourage iha Mexicana. We make tliese remarku beca use e thinr tiiey ore true, nnd not rrom any disposiiion to unjustly find fault with the arlminitration : for, in ourjudgment, the war, abominable ns it is, bas boen conducted by th govprnmc.it anl its su'iordinntes, with mach energy and abiliiy. As for General Taytor, accounts nre conüalictory. But all reporta ogree thai bo cmnot now muster moro than 4,001) men fur a mu-cli to San Louis Potoi. - We do not beliere wfth lilis Toree h will commpnoo a journy oí nearh 1,000 milrs ttffOQgh a hos'ile cuntry, leavinr all iho terriiory thua far conque red at the mere) of ih rtiemy.