New-York daily tribune., 1846-12-26
voL. vi. SO. 22i.
A Chapter on /" Aid and Comfort,
Corregpondsnce Of The Tr5uae.
Wy7TTNCTcS. !

" EA7T!INCToS- DEC ~ -Ss'-
The Loco Foco organs, throughout the country
are making an issue with the Wings On the aexi-
can War They, forsooth, claim to be the especis!
friends Of America, while pat down a. the
friends 0f Mexico, Il seems TO mater not that
they cannot refer 70 single Wing organ %
single Wing orator. who has said one single word
in iayor OF Mexico 81 We have done is 70 fight
for our country bus, at the sane tine 70 acknowi
edge the existence Of such things as truth and
fiction AM man vho dsrss 70 state the simple
truth to acknowledge the existence On earth Of
such thing justice 10 state pain historical
facts denounced as AntiAmericans as if fraud
and falsehood we're The only virtues n indigenous
to American soil Since the controversy has been
raised abou, giving aid and coEafo., Aeocsns
we may as well hare say give you. therefore tie
following estima;e founded facts more reliable
than those which Mr. Walker found. lis estimates to
! show which fairly siTes the enemy mos; aid and
comfort,
wHio CLANS TO FATEIoT1sd.
Believing do that ,he Annexation Of Texas vas
carried in the worst poa.!bs for. predicting IS we
did that would from the election OF JAMES
X. POLK get rallied to the ppo.; Q. our county
We told Fugiand in plain that re Owned Oregon
up to 492 and tba. would light for tup TO tha; born
dairy As far IS VIC being in minority, could set "e
sustained this and would have had it but :or the ineo
rous surrender by Loco-Focosm OF our r!sL;s Il Orc
ron below 4go IA predicted, the administration
backed out OF its position Oregon. Our LccoFo.
co rulers first claimed up 81 40 then they offered to
take 49o and England offered to compromise
6s,o,r a. the Administration snsched III IT, hnd The
Whigs afraid tina; the offer would be 10 give away
the whole voad with about two;hrds ofthe LocoFcco
Senators for what left rejoicing that the tfndi,r
and cowardice OF the Administration had surrender
ed up the whole for to be .he whole or none
From the fact that Loco. Focosm yielded and
TO- every fresh and insoeHt demand Of England il fair
TO presume tina, had TIC Senate confirmed hc treaty
COMPROMISING our territory below the in parallel Mr.
Polk would have soon yielded nll up
Sung to desperation by the ridculc with which this
sleek mouse OF cowardce craTyled from the mountain
OF bombust on Oregon l.oco-F ccosm, with 1a,ed
BREATH fkuked ngloriously from the encounter WITH
foe worthy Of brave mans steel and leaPed. SUI
more inploriousy upon poor crippled Mexco Had Mr.
Polk known tdut Mexico valiant of tight he
would have her tasatike at the dew! before he
would have consented TO provoke quaTre! with her.
Bu, thank Providence we had Wigs in the field, and
Wings throughout, the country ready to join them That
gallant Wing TAYLOR that other gallant Wing HING
GOLD sustained arms and covered even Loco-f oco
imbecility with blaze oil Wing glory which viii con
,inue Shine their country character wnic Pnlp
Alto and Resec8 de la Palma recorded IN the page oi
history While Loco-F ocosn talked OF Patriotism IN
the nGa Oi congress, ana III
the spoils of Office the Wings were sustaining the stars
and stripes deepening the rod of that glorious standard
with their blood and adding fresh lustrc 10 ia stars
by the story OF their heroic deeds AZ the hFst blast
o wars trumpet those who had yelled for war and
shouted for Annexation, skunk ngloriously back into
their lucrative Offices while DESIIA OF Alabama. BAEER
OF Illinois WATSON of Maryland CLAY Of Kentucky.
with other Wings in Louisiana Mississippi and all over
the country hurried 10 the field. Another contest came
aud LocoFoco cowardice and imbeclity were forgotten
in the shouts OF approval which went up 20 the sky
from this broad land the deeds OF yaor done at
Monterey by TAYLOR WORTH and WATSON. oil Wings.
supported by the brave common soldiers who conttcd
In their gallant galsry 10 rescuc our country from the
difficulties into which LocoFoco ignorance and folly had
plunged her Gen. TAYLOR md his brave Whis associ-
aies looked back from the sierras oi Mexico proud o
their coun,ry's hac, wavng untarnished over their
heads They Mexico without gallant General 10
rally her troops. La VGGA was prisoner, ARsTA was
defeated. AMruDIA signng the record OF his own
disgrace, with the big drops o swcs, rolling down his
face reluctant testimonials wrung from him OF the valor
and bravery of Wing patriotism Such is the Whie re.
cord. Now LEI turn to impartial history, and see
t,,tpY tl,a