The Northern Galaxy

The Washington Correspondent of the Journal of Commerce says it is the intention of the administration to continue the war, to subjugate and hold the whole of Mexico. He says, 'this question as to the means will necessarily bring up, in Congress, a question as to the policy of subjugating and holding the whole of Mexico.' It is a newly declared policy, and the country is not yet ripe for it. The war bill of May, 1846, was passed with a singular unanimity, but with the avowed object of repelling an invasion—of revenging the 'American blood shed on American soil.' The administration itself, shortly after the battle of Monterey, entertained the project of adopting a defensive course, and defending a line. How it was influenced to abandon that project is a matter of secret history—secret now—but likely, from what I learn, soon to be made public.