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Show MEXICO. The want of a stable, responsible government In Mexico, cnpable of repressing and punishing marauders and bandit bands, who have not only taken the lives and seized and destroyed de-stroyed the property of Aiiierican citizens citi-zens in that country, but have insolently insolent-ly Invaded our soil, made wur upon and murdered our people thereon, has rendered ren-dered it necessary temporarily to occupy, occu-py, by our armed forces, a portion of the territory of that friendly state. Until, by the restoration of law and order therein, a repetition of such incursions in-cursions is Improbable the necessity for their remaining will continue. Intervention, implying, as it does, military subjugation, is revolting to the people of the United States, not withstanding the provocation to thai course has been great, and should bi resorted to, if at all, only as a last resort. The stubborn resistance of tha president and his advisers to every demand de-mand and suggestion to euter upon it, is creditable alike to them and to the people in whose name he speaks. |