The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-04-13
Frcm he Alexandria Md'er.
THE MEXICAN WAR.

From he Alerandria Inaer.
! TIE MEXICAN WAR.
This long expected event has taken place;
and now the bood-hound, Santa Anna. the ally
of England, biyouacks in the fair valley of the
Rio Grande.
We hear voice from the beautiful hamlets,
OF Texas, calling upon us, by all the ties which
bind us 10 our neghbors, our friends, and rea-
tves, to come across the Sabine and strike blow
! for Liberty Oh for a voice, like an angels
trumpet, to arouse the noble spirits in the great
valley OF tic Mississippi to put on the harness of
war, and 10 urge them over the prairies, with
drums beating andcolors flying, 10 meetthe cruel
and cowardly foe.
Mexico in arms! and for what! To destroy
the last spark of Liberty upon earth--to forge
fctlers for the free arms OF the West, and to
s.acklc the human mnd--and this, toe, in the
10Th century. And who. is her leaderl The
miserable tyrant, Santa Anna blood hound in
the shambes, but dog in the fight Who
gave him his life! The President of the United
States! Who lied for his life? Santa Anna!
The co1rdrd acas afraid to receire a risu eren
from. ourselves, and hco other friends acho called
to see hina-as three school boys would visit a
menagere-to see what kind of an animal it was
that murdered the brave Tanning and his little
band ofimlnortals. We had on cloaks, and he
feared assassination and this, too, in Madame
Ulrich's boarding house, within sixty PAGES Of
the State Department., in the City OF Washing
ton. While we deprecate the letter written by
General Hamilton to the Mexican President-as
unworthy of himself or of Texas-we ncverthe-
less are glad that it was written, for it has made
the tyrant send bragadocia defance to the Uni
ted States Of America, dictated Gnf@ acrHtpR, as
;re belierc, by the British Minister at the Court Of
licrico Our claims upon Mexico are to be re.
pua;Gtcd by the liberal President Of that Repub-
lic and England is TO be paid by crusade
against libcrty-a crusade against the peculiar
Institutions Of the South; and England thereby
is to obtain dominion over Mexico, and her
Queen is to be the Qucen of Palenque.
We. are Informed, from good authority, that,
upon The request of the British resident, the En-
glshmen, who accompanied the Santa Fe Expe-
d,ton, were released and ted; but that or Minis
tc9, when he made a formal demand, was not
IT,; .--;e.'a1 % a..1 Is ~ person was subjected &c Tie
insult Of ragged corps OF body guards, Who like
Fa!s:afi's army had but cne pair o! brseches be-
tween them. Our country has become the !
laughing stock OF Mexicans. God of Heaven,
when will wcn'!c * cea-e? We have now TO re- !
commend! policy repudiated by our fathers, and
objected to by Washington. When France and
EnGland were at war, in our infant state, the
position of neutral was perhaps the best that !
we could occupy: bu! now we have grown old
and strong, we have'the means of living and de-
Tending ourselves within our own boundaries, and
lis now tlil!y incumbent uPea-e5-t to Prevent !.
Enr!aud's Queen from foot hold upon or near :
this continent. She must be routed out of Cana
,la she must leave the mosquitoes and the log !
wood groves OF Honduras; she must be beaten out !
Of Mexico, and her cross must never wave in tri-
uinpli over the Moro olthe Havana.
The time for settlement is az hand. The mon-
s. CT, y%ho !las drank the blood and tears of ma
tons, and paid her armies and her pensoned fools
with cod from the alters and from the charity
boxes of the Eastern world, must soon meet the !
s;ri2lng David by his fathers sheep-fold; and
then, like Golia!l Of Gath, who defed the armies
OF Isran:, sAc will fall loahsome carcase-a
feast for the Eagles upon the mountain side, or ;
by tie brooks OF freedom.
We understand that the Home Squadron will !
carry the gallant Commodore Stewart to Vera
Cruz 10 tred: with Mexico, as the United States !
once treated with the Moors of Barbary, with H. /
structions frs: to command Santa Anna to free
our citizens, pay the money and keep the peace;
and second, to give him ole hundred broad-sldes
as an nitin,Gtnm Let this be done speedily; and
let Gre hundred thousand men arm themselves, !
and with so days provisions, enter Texas by the
buiTs at Na'chiioches. The Squadron could
send its tc;ilars up TIC sum1cinta and replenish
their commissaries there. Three months war,
prosecuted with vgo-, would;plant the Eagle of
the Republic upon the palace Of Montczura, and
then PaIenque thou city OF the dead, upon whose /
housetops the trees of ages are standing waving
their branches in unison with the cry the un-
seen spirit bird, thy giant chambers, where
battalion might bivouack with ease, will know
another and a better people; and thy courts will
become the halls of Legislation for sovereign
State of our blessed Union.
God save the Republic of Texas.
GO 1T LITTLE 'UN.
A chap about eight years old lately stepped
into ore of our oyster houses, chewing his qua
hc tobornO