Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-30
Mexican War---MO.e B.Ood Shed.

1t will be seen by reference to our col.
umns, that there has been another bloody hat
tie between our army and the Mexicans.-
The exact number of killed and wounded il
not yet Known. The killed of the U. States,
is given in round numbers at 300, and thu
wounded at 200 /; or about one in twenty o.
those engaged.
The news Of this battle and the victory
gained by us, does not seem 10 create much
joy generally through the press. The truth
is, that the war is an unpopular one. The
conscience OF the nation is opposed to it,
There Is a deep, pervading feeling, that we
are is the wrong, that we are shedding inno-
cent blood without cause. There are how.
ever some papers that speak Of it as a glori-
Gus victory. and the conduct OF our troops as
valOrous and praise tVOrfhy. Well, they
fought bravely and what OF that is there any
great merit in a mans standing 10 be shot at,
while he shoots down an other; what gre /
virtue is there in it? The highway robber
aud the pirate do the same thing. We can
Imagine q case where a man can go forth to
battle and be entitled to praise. Where his
country is invaded, where his temples and
his affairs are stricken down; where her cit
les, her villages, her fire sides and her fields
are ravaged and polluted, then a man, not fer
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conquest, hut to preserve his rights, his hon
or, his wife and his little ones whom God
has committed to his care, may go forth to
battle aud be entitled to praise. But in what
does his merit consist? Not, that he has
physical courage 10 stand firm on the battle
field, but that he has the selfdenial. The NOR
al courage to sacrifice life when necessary TO
defend the rights given him by his Maker,
and of those committed to his charge, from
the assaults and tepredatiuns of robbers
Such is not our present war. Our country
has not been invaded. Our temples and fire.
sides have not been defled. We are the in-
vaders. On our heads must rest all the guilt
of this accursed war. The blood shed in it
will be registered At our hands, will he upon
Us and upon our children.
We stop our ears tn the shouts of victory
and listen to the wallings of the stricken in
heart! There a mother wrlngs her hands in
anguish over the bloody corps Of IA beloved
son. There a ~sisier's paid counienance
tells of heart that is stricken and never
more will be confnrted. There a widow
stands clothed in mourning and weeps a hus-
band dead, while little orphan children lifl
their innocent, eyes filled with tears Of sym
pathy, and wonder at her grief. Aud there
stands an aged f,ther, leaning upon his staff,
while the big tears roll down his furrowed
cheeks, and he longs to depart and join his
first bego,ten in the spirit land. Aud think
you, reader, could yon look into the heart o.
The Mexican Father. Mother, Sister, Nidow
and Orphan, that We should find no sorrow
no anguish there! And why all this woe
What good is TO come of itl Why driv,
these Mexican women and children ava,
from their homes, and their freSides, AM
murder their husbands and their fathers 3
Why do we want tsrritoryl Have we moi
land ~enoughl Look at the acres. millions o
acres around Us uncuItivated, and better lane
too Than that in Msxic9; Why this eoOei"a
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