Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-08-27

ocFacy; but five look more closely, we shall see
that the family are more or less noted for these
excentrci;es even to the remocs antiquity. Some
with beil4r judgment. impule her faiings to the
Vaccinations Of Aristocracy. who, they say. doth
continually assume the garbof Democracy aud
lhcrel attain To power This think The most
probabe opinion. In our next we shall give some
traits of the 'Archies," family Of near kin ito the
"Cracies." He shs $50
MExIco,-B our news ofthis week our readers
are Informed tina. as far ms Mexico. can proceed
m The matter of war, she has proceeded. Her
will is good enough but, as every body has aiW avs
known, the ability IS wanting.
We are however none the less al war, because
our opponent is loo feeble to carry fire and sword
through our land Becarse her artillery cannot
thunder at our gates. Blood may not flow like
water because cur opponents may not be able TO
shed it ; still We are a, war, and as consequence
our army is called from It's garrisons aud.encamp
meais to occupy and guard a territory which but
last year was foreign soil !; and if they meet the
soldiers of the nation that bot Short time since
we recognised as the owner of that same soi,and
who have never yet yielded their Claim, they are
required to say and vanquish them, This then,
after oil that has been said 10 mystfy the subject
of Annexation, is really ,car Of conquest; thing
utterly repugnant 10 the genius of our government.
Peace is the natural relation Of one nation to an.
other war is acknowledged to be the Contrary of
the natural relation, and is ouly TO be exercised in
self defence, when one party has shown itself so
regardless oftae natural righis OF another, to
eudanger IFS possession of those rights, The party
so aggrieyed is justified In appealing to in
selfdefence. No war can possibly exist itliou
most heinous guilt on the one side or the other
In the present contest where must the blame resi-!
Since the feebeness Of our Antagonist renders thus
war of lttle consequence as far as profit and loss
are concerned ii may be useful TO exfmi its
moral Darlington the right and wrong of the case.
Has Mexico threatened the peace Of the; United
S ates Never, and if she had. her impo.tncy
renders 1t no more excuse for the United States
commence aggressions, Than threat would be an
excuse for giant to crush piginy.
Has she invaded our territory has she burned
our shipping at our wharves, and shot our citizens
when endeavorng to escape from the conhagra-
ton; has she demanded that an "armed emigra-
+, ton should be stopped, and have we complied =
After all this. does she still persist beyond all
bounds of justice until we are driven TO war p
a..,i i.l- she at a distance, feeble
nation bat few years out OF the most enihratng
colonial bondage, humbly endeavoring 10 initiate
our own example of self-government, and at this
| time does distinguished" citizen Of the United
Sraes iu conjunction with the President, create
revolt in one of her provinces, to support which
men are enlisted, money is levied, arms and anu
nition is furnished, no, from the sea coast alone,
hut m 70 hay
province which she could conEessedy, but for
this, reiaini When years have passed and she
still asserts her right though unable to enforce it,
do we cody step IN, annex the territory IN dis
pute, march our forces into it and congratulate
ourselves over the ease with which we can kill
every Mexican, who may, in the discharge of his
duty appear in the field and call it jusiifiabe
war Here are two pictures dra from life, tell
US which you recognise as the one representing
the Mexican war aud its causes? Oh say you
we recognise the picture but 1t is caricature =
A carcature is il? Then pray, what is the tact!
Almost at the same identical moment the soldiers
of the u States were searching the houses OF prl-
waite citizens at Buffalo to sIeze arms which might
be used in Canada, rebeious province OF Britain,
and an armed steamboat lay at the wharf at Pitts.
burgh 200 miles dis.apt without molesiation, re-
ceiving men, money arms destined to AID IN sub
dung Texas revoltet province of Mexico. lis
this carcature of the Punic faith Of the "brag
uaion" of the earth? Had different parties Prac-
ticed such contrareties, this would have been an
excuse, but no such thing, in them all the same
party prevailed aud the same men were conspIc-
uous. In the one case our government was
| wrong, in the other, as certainly right. Our con-
duct toward Great Britain, nation at peace with
Us ; The Laws of nations and the common sense
| of mankind declares to be right. 4
As certainly then our conduct towards Mexico,
another neutral nation wrong, from thar con-
duct pursued bv the same set of men its present
crisis, the war has resulted. can we doubt who is
! wrong in the contest.
| 0JThe Argus, or as we understand, some OF
the old Hunkers in Ann Arbor call il, the Our
goose understands that the Sentinel, supports Gen.
Van FosseH as the Wing Candidate for Governor,
of course this all joke in the Argus, as far as the
Sentiments concerned; we have never intiala-
ted any preference of candidates, being content TO
abide any decision Of the Convention. on the Prn-
Eciple laid down by b. W. last fall, ''to vote Tor
any thing rather than ao opponent; but- why IS 1t
that the Gen. now retired from the field is still
L ....,. H.. III man suck q re of sDemocracyT Is