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On the fourth of the present month closes one of the most remarkable governments that has occurred in our national progress. The administration of Mr. Polk will, when time shall have softened party asperities, and the conflicting intrigues of faction have been forgotten, stand out in the page of our national history, as the most active and successful, if not altogether the most famous of the governments of the first century of the Republic. For the number and magnitude of the measures that have been perfected in the compass of four years, no former adminstration can vie with it; and certainly none have had such great difficulties to encounter, either from a powerful opposition or from party treachery. A war forced upon the country by untoward events, that were beyond the control of the administration, has been carried successful to a conclusion, at once the most glorious, the most brilliant, and the most substantially beneficial.

The military power of the country, which before had been held in so light estimation, as to excite the sneers of European writers, and tempt the self-sufficiency of Mexican leaders, has developed itself with such vigor and imposing strength, as to command at once the astonishment and admiration of Europe. Never before, in the short space of twenty-two months, was a nation of 7,000,000 souls repulsed, invaded, conquered, dismembered, and pacificated by a treaty ceding half its territories to the conquorer, who, when attacked, had but an army of 11,000 men. With prompt valor, citizen freemen left their plows, their anvils and their planes, turned upon the invader, hurled him back upon his own mountains, and in an unchecked series of brilliant victories, utterly destroyed an army that had been in existence for a quarter of a century, and which was officered by veterans of the Spanish war of independence. A rapid succession of triumphs, unclouded by a single defeat, was crowned by a treaty annexing 526,078 square miles, or 336,689,900 acres of territory, having 900 miles of coast on the Pacific,

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