The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-12

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| Of conduct:
"Oh woman, in thine hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
But when pain and anguish wiring the brow,
minlslering angel thou "
Ii is not fair, them 10 take the measure ofmercy in
the men Of Anahuac from the conduct of Mexican
,ro'nan, or of many of them Such an ameliorated
standard would be unsafe guide in form ng judg-
ment of them We in the United States con-
strained to reject General Thompson's index TO Mex
lean character and to resort to those which the men
of Mexico have furnished of t. emselyes. And the
Texans we may well believe, will have in vivid re
membrance, facts of which they have had occular
proof, in dec ding their expectations of mercy from
Mexican officers or soldiers.
1t is plain from this and other considerations, that
if Mexico proceeds, she must encounter much of
gunary battle.
We are DESTROYS Of doing ample justice to the
Creole population of Spanish America, Mexico in
cuded. And we are therefore, not TO be understood
as involving whole people-whatever may be their
conduct under iniqutous eaders--in harsh and
severe sentence. We ready therefore to believe
there many ndipid,iais who would exhibit gene
rosity and feeling like that recorded in the following
story, and Of which Commodore Byron was the OBJ
ject-at time when the Governor Of the province
thrust him into prison unfit for human habtaton,
and denied him the necessaries of subsistence.
The honorable John Byron was shipwrecked and
taken prisoner in South America during the war
between Spain and England in the year l742
The Governor was informed by the Captain,
that he had four English prisoners on board. He
ordered them into a condemned hole, horrid place
swarmlng with fleas, where they were made show
of by the soldiers common soldier, who was
ordered by the Governor to provide for them,
brought each Of them, once day, some pota oes
mixed with hot water. The other soldiers OF the
garrison, and the people that focked to see them,
took notice OF IT, and said it was cruel 10 keep them
at such allowance The soldier replied, am myself
shocked every lime bring them this piitance, but
small as II u.s. II Is partly my own expense. Their
case was then represented TO the Governor, who
graciously declared that if they could not live upon
their allowance, they might staye, for he doubted
whether he should ever be repaid for that
The declaration was soon every where known,
and II produced good effect; not the soldier only,
but the people were at once moved with indignation
and pity the soldier laid aside half his daily pay TO
supply them, though be had a wife and children,
and had not the least hope of recompense. lie
brought them even wine aud fruit, and every body
that came To see them gave them something, even
the mule-drvers would take out their tobacco pouch
IN w oh they kept their money and give them half
real. All this they would have gwen to their sol
der, but he would not receive farming, telling
them that hey might still want it, II will certainly
give the reader pleasure to be told that two airs
afterwards Mr. Byron had opportunity to requIte
this generous humanity, when his circumstances
much better than those of the soldier"
The Spanish chsracter-which is still strongly
dominant in their Mexican and South American de-
scendants-is conspicuously marked by impetuous
and cruel passion but at the same time has traits
sngulsrly contrasted and seemingly ncongruous, Of
humanity, justice, and generosity. Many ind vdu-
ais have been, and no doubt still are, found among
them in whom these latter features are eminenily
prominent. But we must not suppose them in Mexico
the ma orty She has been but too recently released
fom a colonial yoke and is yet too much under the
Influence Of bgotry and intolerance to admit so fat.
terng a suppositon, however congenal to our wish
es and however strong hopes Of future improve
meni.
A handful Of brave men in Texas have already
wrought wonders Some trial, more may avail,
them, invIgoraed they are in numbers as well as
spirits but that Texa. will maintain her ground, and
religious and civil liberty gain in her another strong
ioothod beside that she already possesses in the
Anglo hme lea, we 90 not DOUBT. The rclfc ION OF
the treaty places her, indeed under far more danger
Gus circumstances than she would have been, had il
been ratified. Mexico then would have blown off
her steam in marching and couniermsrching. We
may rest assured the chances are FIVE to one She
never would have come in sightseeing of ten thou
sand of regulars and volunteers stationed on the
Texan frontier, whatever encouragement she might
have received from foreign powers that is a show
she would not have paid the fee for looking at
As little would she have desired TO meet the n q
before which
4" The red eros, dense with hood sank
Keeling IN the freighted food
Let Johnny Crapaud answer John Bulls boasthul
missyes now despatched in his most popular journals
at least twice week, informing him that as Queen
Victoria has condescended to vis' the King d, faoo
such prodigious favor must necessarily put him
under moral durance to stop his thunder in md-vol-
ley, IN chase of the insulting and ai,oay, hostile
Arabt-thst after that TO 60 for any more annexation
see London Morning Chronicle of August Is
1914
tAfghsns we're ahodys enemes-see Blackwood
August, 1874.
THE family Of Savoy is descended from the daugh-
Ter of Charles the first, Henrietta and married TO
Philip Of Orleans, ancestor Of the present French
King So that relation Il his by blood had a
better title the ground Of legitimacy 10 the throne
of England Than Qu,eD Nictoria and her do.oo,t .,