Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-05

civil wars are ever of short duration. And
to Texas it matters little which OF the bar
barians triumph. They have both, like
Hannibal at the altar, sworn eternal enml-
ty to her. They vie with each other IN
protestations of zeal. Death and destruc-
ton to the Texans!-that, even now, is
the theme of every despatch, the burden
of every proclamation. The victor, be
he Paroles or Santa Anna, is pledged to
carry out, without delay, in all It's barba-
rity, the menaced invasion. To sustain
and give brilliancy to newl y-gotten power,
he must redeem his pledge. Imagine the
sequel! The Rio Bravo is crossed. Ano-
Their league, and rufian soldiery-their
swords yet wet with the blood of their
own countrymen-enter the doomed land.
Must | call up before you the scenes that
are to ensue? Cruel, at best, and terrible
is the trade of war! But a war of exter-
mination! A war, where the eye pltles
not! where the sword spares not where
the command is to save alive none that
breathe! Conquerors, even in the flush OF
victory, have wept over field of battle,
where the strong man died, his weapon in
his hand, the frown of defiance yet unfa-
ded from his brow. But field of slaugh.
ter, indiscriminate slaughter, slaughter Of
the defenceless, the unresisting Ia field,
where mingle, defiled in dust and gore, the
white locks of venerable age, and the fair
soft hair of unoffendng childhood! Think
think what it is-this carnage of ma
ton, without distinction of age, of condi-
tion-there is yet more-of SEX! Do
you remember the words of the dramatist?
The man who lays his hand upon woman,
Save in the way Of kindness, is wretch,
Whom 'twere base fattery to call cowardw
And it is woman--it is that gentle be-
ing whom the desert lion himself is said to
pity and 10 spare--it is the young mother,
her infant charge sheltered in her arms-it
is the wife and mother, fleeing 10 rescue
her person from the pollution of brutal
banditry-to save the child of her bosom
from their murderous steel--it is even she,
to adopt, in all their cold official atrocity,
the words of the decree of blood, who, If
she be ''rash enough TO fy"--at the sight
of this approaching horde of assassins--is
to be pursued until taken or put to death!'
And what then? The report of these
deeds of crime and of shame is TO come to
us across the Sabine. The story of each
succeeding brutality is 10 sink down, in all
IFS damning details, into the hearts of our
people. The South, with her fiery pulse,
and her hot chivalry, is TO hear it, The
West, with her fearless spirit and her
quick sympathies, is to hear it. The
North-yes, the North, less quickly reused,
yet bearing, under her snow, warm heart
of pity--is to hear it. And, when the
shadow of these deeds of darkness has
settled down, like pail over the entire
land, | ask it yet again, what then?- 1t
is no concern Of ours. Let them perish p'
Will that be the language--that the spirit
--of young America! but her adopt.
ed chiId-even dare, in this, to answer
for her. No, no, thousand times no
We may turn over here the leaves of mus.
ty volumes; we may quote black letter
within these walls, in proof that it is our
bounden duty to stand passively by, with.
out an effort 10 save, without protest to
avert, and see our brethren of Texas
their wives and their little ones, butchered
before our eyes. See if the People will
not make the case their own! We have
not yet, in this hemisphere, reached the
age of placid indifference. A nations
early youth, like mans, is full of warm
and generous impulse. You will see it
Mark what the decision of this nation will
be! That we have a right to interfere
l tell you no! Other than that will be
her language-that we have no right tc
hold back! There is law more holy, fal
more imperative than the law of the sta.
tute book--the unwritten law of the hu
man heart--that law, which taught the Sa.
marian that he was the neighbor of hin
who fell among thieves. And that law
speaking from the hearts Of young anc
noble people, will declare to US, that if We
pass by on the other side and abandon
our neighbors of Texas TO their fate, our:
is the crime, ours the scandal, ours, be-
fore the world, the shame! And SO it is
When we sit tamely down, under threat:
like Lhese-when mercy and courage arr
so quenched within us, that we suffer, un
protested, outrage thus infamous ON thu
law of nature and Of nations-outrage
we are expressly told, that is to spread it.
crimson stain even to our very borders
then let our fair national escutcheon trail
shame stained, in the dust; we are no
worthy to give its broad folds to the FIRE,
and gentle breeze of Heaven!
/ speak warmly, sir; feel warmly.--
Who may touch on subjects like that wit
a quiet pulse? Yet do | place my conf
dence in an appeal to sober Judgment, no