There will probably be war between Mexico and the United
States, however limited the means and adverse the interest of either country to any such absurdity. The Mexican people are mad with helpless exasperation, and their leaders are but too willing to take a ready opportunity to further schemes of personal ambition. And in like manner, it is supposed that President Polk and his partisans will not neglect the factious advantages offered by a popular war, its jobbing opportunities, so pleasant to the greedy adherents of all factions, and its exhaustless re- sources of " humbug." American blood and treasure will be wasted ; but it will only be a vent for the waste energy—for the Tougher and good-for-nothing part of the population. Mexico, as a state, may be destroyed ; but is it not worth that to have opportunities for writing boastful messages to Congress, and list- ening to boastful songs about "the star-spangled banner " ? The best of the joke is, that Texas has no objection to be the scene of war : it shows what an uncomfortable country that must be already.
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