Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-01-23

war; Bus var Of extermInation. war, where
the eye pites not where the sword spares not where
the command is, TO alive that breathe. Con-
querors, in the flush Of victory, have wept
field Of BATTLE where the strong man died. his weap-
his hand the frown of defiance yet unfaded from
his brow But field of slaughter, indiscriminate
slaughter slaughter of the deenceless the unresist
ing IA field, where mngle, defled in dust and gore,
the white locks of venerable age and the fair soft hair
of unoffendng childhood! Thnk-think what il is
this carnage of nation, without distinction Of age.
OF condItiOn-there is yet more-of SEX DO you
remember the words Of the Dramatisti
The man who laws his hand upon a woman.
Save in the way Of kindness, IS wretch,
Whom 'twere tase hattrry to call coward"
And it is woman-it is that gentle being whom the
desert lion himself is said TO pity and 10 spare-it is
the young mOther-her infant charge sheltered in her
erms-it IS the wife and mother, fleeing rescue her
person from the pollution of brutal banditry-to
save the child OF her bosom from their marderous steel
lit is she, to adopt all the cold official atroci
ty the words of the decree of blood, who, if she be
" rash enough to fly at the sight Of this approach
ing horde Of assassins-is to be pursued until taken
of put to DEATH" And what then The report of
these deeds of crime and shame Is to to
the Sabine The story of each succeeding brutality is
to sink down, in all its damning details, into the
hearts of our people. The South with her fiery pulse
and her hot chvalry, Is to hear it The West, with
her fearless spirit and her quick sympathes to hear
At. The North-yes, the North, less quickly reused,
is to hear IT. And, when the shadow of these deeds
OF darkness has settled down. like pail the
tire land, ask it yet again, what then i'' II IS no
concern OF ours. Let them perish ."-Will that be
the language-that the sprit-of young America
but her adopted chd-even dare, in this, to an
swer for her. No, nc, thousand times no! We
may turn ovcrh here the leaves of musty volumes; We
nay quote black letter within these walls, in proof
that it is bounden duty stand passively by, with
out an effort to save, without protest to avert and
see our brethren of Texas their wives and their little
ones, butclered before eyes. See if the People
Will not make the case their own We have not vet
In this hemisphere reached the age of placid indtfer
ence. nations early YOUTH like mans, is full of
warm and generous impulse You will see it Mark
whatthe decision of this nation will be That have
right to interfere tell you, other than that
Will be Ter language-that we have right to hold
back! There Is law more holy far more imperative
than the law Of tire statute boek-the unwrtten law
of the human beart-tla law, which taught the Sama-
titan that he the neighbor of him who fell among
thieves And that law, speaking from the hearts of a
young and noble people, will declare to as that if
pass by the other side and abandon our neighbors
Of Texas to their fate, is the crime ours the
scandal, ours, before the world, the shame And
rIs When sit tamely down under threats like
these-when mercy and courage are quenched with
IN US that we suffer, unprotected outrage thus infa
nous on the law of nature and Of natiOns-outrage
expressly told, that is to spread its crimson
tonal escu.cheoa trail, shame-stained in the dust
not worthy TO give its broad folds to the free
and gentle breeze of Heaven!
. | speak warmly, sir, | feel warmly. Who may
touch subjects ike that with quiet pulse Yet
do place my confidence in an appeal to sober judg-
ment not to hasty passion. but ask you, to look
into the future before you act. That is the part Of
wisdom. but ask you, to examine, step by step, the
issue Of the policy which the friends of peace any
price would have US pursue | ask you TO reflect,
whether. in taking those steps, shall be sustained by
those who sent here. put you the question: Ill
constituents be satisfied in the present attitude of
Mexico, with apathetic inaction, tame Indifference,
stocial neutrality Each must that ques-
ton for himself but say that it is not my judg
mcnt of our people. | have found them neither cold
passonless- And they must be both, if they de-
handed not that now, at the threshold of these
menaced atrocities, while yet the assassns sword is
undrawn, their government should interpose as 1t has
interposed) in the name of outraged humanity, in the
of violated law, its solemn protest against them.
And should that protest prove unavailing, and the
butchery, in very deed proceed the spirit of their IA
theirs be dead within them if they grudged their
treasure their blood, should both be needed,
rest Mexican barbarty.
Ny conclusions are, them that it is both wise and
lawful to accede to the wishes of Texas, and incorpo
rate that country into our Union and that TIL that
incorporation Is consummated it is our duty pro-
test and if need be, to protect Texas against all vio
atons of International law, with which she has been
menaced. The custom of nations permits this course;
nltloaal honor demands it. Boldncss and plain
dealing, chasteled By prudent foresight are nations
best against foreign encroachment her surest
means to avert the calamties of Boldly, then,
and without reserve, let Us meet this question: Let
us annex Texas at once. The LIBERAL portion of the
world viii approve, the rest will acquesce; and in
ten years. the wonder Will be, not that Texas has
settled quietly down into an integral portion Of our
confederacy but that should have been
found, so blind 10 the interests Of their country to
oppose her annexation.