The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-05-28
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WALL Patrietis IN. ---lhe war News
May 81, lS46.

Wht& Patriots i'm. ---iue war NeNSs
The enthusiasm with which theirequistions on
the different slatcs fol troops have been responded
to. wherever the standard of the Union has been.
raised. by crowds Of volunteers, eager to defend
oul soil and pu nish Mexican aggression, cannot
bu, be gratifying to every lover OF his country.
This slacrity springs not from love of bloodshed
or from any feres desire for The
"Pomp and circumstance Of glorious war;
hut from the conviction heir country sn the right,
and has claim to their services, and to every
sacrifice for the preservation OF her unsarn'shea
honor. The promptitude also with which the
Democrucy in Congress met the crisis; boldly
ayowed the existing state of war, and placed IN
the posse ssion Of the administration the means OF
nrosecutinp il to successful termination, Is an
omen Of the speedy return Of Peace and the
maintenance of our character with the nations oi
the world But we regret TO find that amidst the
general spirit Of unanimity, so eonfounding to
those hostile to our institutions, who hope for
confusion and tissention in our councils in the
hour Of national peril and difficulty, there were
| few men who were unwilling to take measures
for the defence oftheir country--whose sympathies
werc with the enemy.
Those in the House of Representatives who re-
fused 10 vote appropriations to sustain the war
were Messrs. John @. Adams, Ashmun, Hudson.
D. P. King, and Grinnell, Of Massachusetts;
Cranston, of Rhode Island Severance, of Maine /;
Culver, of New York; Strohm, of Pennsylvania; !;
and Columbus DeIanO. Joseph Nj Root,
Joshua IL. Giddings. ID. IL. TiIdcn,
and Joseph Vance, of Ohio.
In the Senate,
John Davis, of Massachusetts,, and Thomas
Clayton, Jf Delaware.
We deeply regret that from our noble State
FIVE delegates could have been found SO lost to
all sense Of patrioism-so imbued with the spirit
Of Federalism, manifest in our last contest
with Great Britain, as to hold the vile behests Of
party high than the dictates of an enlightened
patriotism, 1t appears to us that when ence
war had broken out-when American blood hat
been she'd on American soil-when confesscdly
the fret generuls of Mexico were thrcatning thu
destruction of our gallant little army, eneanpet
opposite Matnmoras, the pretencc of the Oh
State Journal that il was necessary to wait 70
assurance that Mexican authority sanctioned III
hostities,s so prepos,erous,that as an apology fo
the Ohio recreants i, utterly, fails and only place
in bolder relief the nfamy of their vote An
the Journals application of the very words of de
nunciation used towards James Madison upward
Of thirty years ago, by Daniel Webster, whe
charging the war to the . weakness and wicked
ness of the President" marks that the Tory syn
pathies Of Federalism are unconquerabe and nj
to be eradcated, and that though the mass of tn
rank and file Of the whig party are honest friene
to their country, their leaders are ready to sympt
thise with any and every enemy in the vain hoF
thai in the hour Of their country's prostration the
may rise to ill-deserved power.
The prompt and energetic action of our go
ernment will in a very shor, time bring the wi
to a successful issue. The ports Of Mexico wi
soon be blockaded, her troops defeated, and vi
less relieved by European monarehies, she wi
be taught that our forbealance hitherto has bee
dictated by a spirit Of kindness-a feeling
fraternity growing out of our kindred institution
rather than from conviction that we had n
wrongs sufficient to have justified the severe
retaliaton--she will be learned lesson that wi
prevent her again becoming the puny lnstrumel
of transatlantic jealousy. glorious vcto
has already opened the way TO. still more gloro
and effectua admonitions 10 sudden peace.
Whig FEEDER; ;alism.l
!, John Davis, of Massachusetts, one of the tv