New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-09
WHO nrSe ON The War

We dislike to be invidious, but Truth and Pubic
Good demand fearless scrutiny There mas oeen
quite enough patient endurance OF gross impo'a-
tons ON the character and motives OF the painsPok-
en- friends of Peace Is /, not high time 10 consider
who are most vociferous for War
Are the men who are most ready to shed the
blood of Mexicsns because their impoverished,
mi.governed oppressed Country cannot pay us
what she owes. ihoee among us who are most ready
TO pay their own debts and most cheerful and
prompt in making sacrifices 10 preserve their good
faith and good nsme7 Look around you and an
swer!
Are those among as who insist that the Me1icars
deserve chas,isement, and that We must therefore
chastise them, the men void Of offence that they
could properly throw the first stone al an offend
er7 Consider
Are they who prate of the Mexicaus as de-
graded, inferior people, who should give way 10 the
conquering march of the glorious Anglo Saxon
race the right persons talk Of superior and inte-
rior classes of men Would it b. worth while to
extsrinae any other people, in order TO have these
expand and multiply
Is that Patriotism which ferments and flames IN
every GROCERY, but shuns the portals OF the House
of God the kind which is to ensure the perpetuity
of our Freedom, or the true glory of our Nation?
Finally mad not the Texas Land and Scrip CAMP
lers gone quite far enough in forcing upon the coun-
try an Administration utterly abhorrent TO its sober
Judgment and disastrous TO its welfare, without now
coming forward TO blus,er in War meetings and
denounce the friends of Peace as Trators7 Would
not modesty become them in this crisis1 Their ILL
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at least ten dollars head on every Legal Voter IN
the Land, with unlimited prospect OF more And
now they are calling honest poor men from their
fields and work shops fight suffer and be shot in
their unrigh,eous cause for eight dollars month.
Ought they not either 10 volunteer and fight out
their own war, or else be rather sparing of their
abuse of other Peoplef
There was War Meeting in Syracuse few
evenings since. The chief speaker on the occasion
was large holder of Texas Land and Scrip; the
Chairman is an agent of the aforesaid Spectator
and busy In his law office the Secretary is or late
ly was in the same law Office. The meeting got on
rather badly, and finally exploded on the nroduc-
ton mot by the geers up of the meeting OF the fol-
lowing resolution:
Re,oirea That rs on every OCCASION when country
has been involved In War; the Working Glasses nave been
foremost volunteers foremost In the battles, and fore
most monopollze the glory OF the victories we deem II
no more than Just that the present occasion, they
should wait until the OF Property and Leisure the
holders of Texas Bonds and Land Scrip and the owners
and dealers Human Cattle. have had chance TO show
forth Patriotism and love of Country and of Liberty.
upon the field Of battle
This reminds us that Charles J. Faulkner of
Va. q Wing Spectator in Texas lands, has offered
bounty of $50 acres of land TO every volunteer
from his County for the War. Some fifty have Sc
cured the bounty. Why should not all the Texas
landholders do likewise Since the War is fol
Land, why should one set of men get every bulle
and the other every acre There was never pi
ship that sailed and fought on 30 unjust lay af
this.