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WHIG: MEETING IN LAUREL. On Monday, the 14th day of February, 1848, be ing County Court day, the Whigs of Laurel county met at the Court House, in London, to appoint del egates to attend the Whig Convention to be held at Frankfort, on the 22d inst., for the purpose of select ing suitable candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this Commonwealth: on motion, Gen. Jarvis Jackson, was called to the Chair, and Lem ueL Hissard, Esq.,was appointed Secretary. The Chairman in a short address explained the object of the meeting. On motion of G. Pearl, Esq., the chair appointed a committee consisting of Granville Pearl, Esq., P. S. Parker, Jas. Sparks, Hector H. Scoville, W. H. Wilson and W. 8. Evans, to report resolutions ex pressive of the wishes of the meeting, who, after re tiring a short time, reported through their chairman, the following preamble and resolutions, which after being read, was unanimously adopted: Whereas it is recommended by the Whig mem bers of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that the Whigs hold a Convention at Frankfort, on the 22d inst., to nominate candidates for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this Commonwealth. And whereas, it is the de sire of the Whigs of this county to be represented in said Convention—Therefore, Resolved, That Jarvis Jackson, George P. Brown, Ambrose Pitman, Thos. J. Buford, W. H. Wilson, W. H. Randall, J. H. Slaughter, Tunstall Quarles, Alonzo C. Hallack, John McHaurge, Samuel Mc Haurge, William McHaurge, Dr. Jas. C. Wester field, John W. Shotwell, Joseph Speaks, John W. L. McKee, George A. Bush, Robin Jones, Evan Ches nut, William Chesnut, Geo. W. Miller, John Wood, Richard J. Luster, John C. Brown, John Pitman, J. McKee, Sidney C. Pearl, Hector H. Scoville, Sam ual Wilson, Elisha S. Wilson John Denson, John Johnson, John Pearl, James Henry, Thos. Pope, M. Hardin, Mark Wadkins, James Farris, Charles Far ris, Hiram Young, Aaron Johnson, Jr., Lemuel Hib bard Jesse Moore, H. T. Jackson, John H. Jackson, James Buford, John G. Poage, James M. Quarles, Amos Farris, Fielding Pitman, William S. Evans, F. P. Evans, James Sparks,Granville Pearl and P. L. Parker, be appointed delegates to said Convention. Resolved, That said delegates go untrammeled, and that all the Whigs in the county be appointed delegates to said Convention. Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to send a copy of the proceedings of this meeting to the editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth for publica tion. On motion, the meeting adjourned. JARVIS JACKSON, Ch’m. Lemvet Hissar, Sec’ty. The Wark and THE Manner of Crosine Ir.— The discussion in both houses of Congress contin ues. The ten regiment bill in the Senate affords members an opportunity of making their sentiments on the war known, and the loan bill gives a like op portunity to the members of the House. Whilst Congress is thus engaged, the war stands still in Mexico. Except a few accidental skirmishes there has been no fighting since Gen. Scott entered the city of Mexico, and the only business of the army there appears to be to settle quarrels among the of ficers, which the idleness of a camp scarcely ever fails to excite. But there is now, save that we have an expen sive army in Mexico, a virtual peace, so far as we are concerned. The evils of having a hostile sol diery among them, is all that Mexico suffers. We have no fighting to do, for the enemy make no resist ance. In this state of affairs, Mr. Polk proposes, what he calls “a vigorous prosecution of the war,” as the only means of bringing a treaty of peace. It would be difficult to show how to prosecute the war with vigor, when no resistance is made on one side, and even more difficult to prove that, if it were possible, it would ensure a permanent peace—giving us “in demnity for the past and security for the future.” All this talk of a vigorous prosecution of the war, we regard as idle—as worse than idle, and under the circumstances, cruel. Mexico has been conquered— beaten in every battle field—driven from her forti fied towns and castles—and her capital is now in the possession of our army. She can make no resist ance to anything we may decide to do with her or hers. She can only control her will, and by sub mission “own a conqueror.” ‘This she seems deter mined not to do, and the question for us to resolve is—should we insist that she shall? We have said before, that it is not required by either our national honor or her weakness that we should insist on this—indeed it may be questioned whether the national honor is not opposed to in sisting upon any degradation of the country we are at war with. ‘There remains only this for us to do —to abandon Mexico, declare what we want and take it. She cannot prevent us doing the latter, and she will be so rejoiced at our doing the former, that she will never, we may be sure—even were she in a sit uation to do so, which she is not—venture to attack us. We then take up our line of defence, as re commended by General Taylor, and the war, now virtually at an end, ceases to be a great and increas ing burthen to us. We shall not long have to main tain this line of defence, for a treaty of peace would soon follow our adopting this policy. But even if it did not, the present state of affairs in Mexico, where our army remains undisturbed even in the capitol, proves that she is incapable of making any resist ance, much less an attack upon our armies, let them occupy any position.— Balt. Pat.
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