Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-31
THE DOCTRINE AND IT'S coNsE.
QUENCES.

NOENok-
QUENCES.
-" And said, as we shall cycr say under ike
circumstances, sustain and snccor our flag
ana men, wherever planted or marches. ~
Ctfcias1hi GaSeGe.
80 lar as we can see, this is a total ADAM
uonment OF the country TO the tender care Of
me Executive. Suppose the Administration
had ratified the act of Comtnodore Jones in
taking possession Of Monterey-and ii would
have been no worse than ordering onr troops
to march to the Rio Grande-then he editor
OF the Cincinnati Gazette, If ia Congress,
would have sustained our ilag and our men
on that usurPed territory! Especially would
ne have done this, had resistance been offered |
by the local authorities to the Commodore.
Fsny not Is it notshis principle to ~s'sustain
and succcr cur flag and our men, wherever
planted or marched"1
] Again: Suppose Mr.. Polk, under the i'm
preston that England was about purchasing
Cuba, should send an army and a fleet, TO
Havana, and secure the control of the island,
and the Cubans should resist--,he editor Of
the Cincinnati Gazette would sustain and
succor our flag and our men-that is, would
sustain the Executive in making war against
Spain, on his own authority Such II the
meaning of his declaration, if it mean any
: Thing.
t 10 what a pass has the country come,
when sober citizens, men who have filled
: high judicial stations, and who have been dis
tinguished for their conservatism, thus SOL
EMMY pledge themselves to a doctrine which
virtually invests the Executive with dictate
rlal power! What is the true doctrine? If
me president march sour men," o. .iaa.
'our flag" where they ought not to be march
ed, where it ought not to be planted, and cam
i not he yiihnut n yiota tioo ~ ,Lo ,,;r;. r A..
Constitution, and of the rights of another ma
ton, let him be admonished at once by reso-
luton, and the Withholding OF supplies, that
he must back out. The opposite doctrine,
that avowed by the Gazette, is anti-Repubii-
can, and if adopted by the American People,
VIII make Congress the tool, and the people
the slaves Of The President.
Look at the doctrine under another aspect.
The President assemblies tho fifty thousand
volunteers, and directs a march upon the cap
ital Of Mexico. The order is obeyed, but un-
expected obstacles are lnterpc scd. Fever
/. wastes their strength-starration thins them
out-ambuscades pick oil their best officers,
The President is inexorable. The army may
be saved by retreating TO a strong position
but, no-Gew supplies are demanded fifty
thousand additional volunteers, ten millions
II OF money additional are required. What
y 'S'iN Wv SuiNOl ~ "a ~ tDil2 ltSS : HAS
the President offered peace2 Dou't know
Has a opposition for peace been received
3 Don't know. Could peace be had on honor
able terms? Don't know. Does the Pfesi.
j, dent hlrbor the project OF conqucs,an annex,
t alton! Don't know. What do YOU know
Nothing but this S1st0in and succor our
Fag and men whsrerer Phanted or mcycaed."
c Is it not evijen. at once that such a doc
= trine cuts the sinews of all opposition to the
= Executive Power, however wrong headed it
may be? Congress may know that the Pres
! ident is running the country, ami BY withhold
ing supplies, can comrel him to a better
course, a course that shall save our men and
our flag; and yet, if composed of men held.
ing such a doctrine, it would deem it mos
unpatTio.ic not to aid the Executive : : 10 sus
t tain our flag and our men," where it know.
they have no right TO be.
/, A DECEPTIVE GFATEMENT OF TIIY
CASE.