New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-16

the arma OF the MexlcensY nor INC lODsu's W nc "
plonatists nor the puny pens Of the National IN
,eryencer will be sufficient 10 remove our bounds
r., east of that river There our boundary Is planted
ana the bullets Of the Mexicans nor the paper shot
OF their friends in this country will be able TO shake
the determination OF Executive upon TINS qnes-
ton
Now a. it is notorious tina, the Rio del Norte
nerer was the boundary Of the Province OF Texas
but rather the centre Of the provinces OF Coahuna
and Santa Fe and our insisting on this boundary
must compel Mexico 10 surrender TO US several IN
ouestionably Mexican cities with valuable mines
for centuries in her undsputed possession, and many
thousands Of her people or fight to maintain them
il is certain that our Administration has resolved to
ou,h our feeble neghbor TO the wall, and either
crush her or get fight out OF her. Wesee not Row
war is to be avoided
The Rev Horace Greeley finds fault with the execu-
ton Of Henry g. Green, FOR the aYocious murder o. ns
wife He calls it choking the breath our OF ieHo"
Albany Argus
We are quite willing that every animal shouiu
express i,s emotions 10 the language natural 10 IT,
aud 80 shall make no objection to the closing orgn-
me,a Of the Argus. The paragraph 10 WIN" :,
alludes having been written by an assistant anu
never seen bytbc responsible Editoroi The tribune
I'LL its appearance in the paper we take III" oppor
tunity to define our position
We object most strcnuously to the lar requiring
that men shall be hung, but not to their being hung
90 long az the law requires it, The Courts the Gov
eroor the Sheriff. have done their simpleduty in the
premises, and we cast no blame on them. Yetw
think the People do wrong in authorizing, com
mending Executions Let consider
Green was a cruel, wicked, wantoD, horrible muir
dcrcr-his crime one Of the most revolving and in
cxcusable that was ever heard Of So long as any
body is to be hung he was just the man. Yet we
believe no good has been done by hanging him, but
much evil.
l. lie is nat yunished. All his spiritual comfort
ers believe that he died peniteni, regeneraie,
Christian man, and has gone to Heaven, whatever
may be the fate of his hapless wife. His execution,
then, was not the dismissal Of malefactor TO his
doom as perpetual imprisonment would have been,
but the elevation Of q saint to glory. God had for
given him ali his sins, and ready TO receive him
to endless Joy but frai sinful Man decided that,
though fiji for Heaven, he was unfit for earth. and
hung him Those who most deemed him saint
were most resolute for choking him 10 death as a
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| this unmcrcful deed devolves on us.
| , The murder rs not rcdressed. Hanging Green
does not bring life his poorvctim nor in any way
heal the wounds inflicted her relatives and friends.
1t does not wipe out the stain of blood from the
land it rather deepens it.
| g. II does not teach men that murder riH SURELY
be punished. Here is one case Of so-called punish
rncnt. but all around US homicidcs are committed
and the sayers escape detection or conviction. In.
nocent men frequently hung, and guilty murder
ers still oitener escape Not half the murderers in
our State are convicted and ii is far worse in tho
newer Western States. The punishment of Death
often defeats conviction the jurors sreading to
convict unless on the positive evidence where
the consequence is so terrible and so remedilcss
T. II DOES teach rerenge for injuries. The
crowd who gathered and swarmed, and swayed to
and fro around the place of execution eager for a
sniff Of the butchory If they could not be gratied
with sight of it, went away-softened, penitent'
meek forgiving think youl No, sirs no more than
the wolf who has first Tapped blood They had Ia
ken striking lesson from lofty quarter in the
school Of an eye for an eye Let one of them but
suspect that his sister is wronged his wife untrue
or his friend traitor, and his hand will nsnctivey
| grasp the knife or the pistol The community in.
siss on blood for blood-why shall he lie, hes wrongs
20 unavenged ? Why shall villainy go unscatbcd
simply because human laws have not provided for
| its punishment All friends these bloody in
structions' will return TO plague tn inventor and
80 long as life for life is the law of the land shall
find Man lifting his hand in passion against his broth
er-perhaps longer. We do not say that the worst
members of a community will be uniformly as good
as the laws of that community but IL is idle TO
pect that they will be better They neverwill.
| ~. The Aiboay Argus thinks our intima.
ton that Polk wrote 10 Kane to have his Pennsyl-
vania Tariff letter of May last suppressed, a very
absurd one. We tell the Argus that the statement
came TO us ina shape good deal more direct than
an intmaiion, and that we have fall faith in it.
verify. That the Kane letter was just like all Mr.
Folks previous doctrines on the Tariff the Argus
roundly asserts but nobody will believe. Mr.
Folks previous efforts this subject were design.
ed to Sc, forth the absurdity, folly and suicide of all
attempts whatever TO protect Industry by Tariff du
ties. The Kane letter presented him as the cham
pou of equal Protection TO all interests and thi,
was construed in Pennsylvania to mean Protection
by adequate duties was written on purpose that
it should bc so construed Hence the banners dis
played in Pennsylvania For Polk, Mullen
berg and the Tariff of ls42 hence the speeches o.
Buchanan, McCandless &c. claiming Polk al
least as good friend of the Protective Policy al
Henry Clay.
We tell the Argus that We personally urged
Mr. Kane to publish show his letter 10 Po'k Il
rhich The published letter Of May "A was an an
swer-and Mr.. Kane no, at all inclined to dc
any such thing and did not. He said, indeed, iba
he had no copy, or none with him; but as he wa,
then boarding at the house with Mr.. Polk
this was palpaby but a come-off They dare NO
publish that leticr-chy not, the public can Judge
| VIII The Tribune please give the public its prescn