Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-06-06
For The Herald
War SpecuIatiOns.

For me HeTul1
War SpecuIatiOns.
Our war with Mexico will doubtless close
with blaze of glory and bag Of debt hea-
vier 10 be borne than the load of Bunyan's
pilgrim. A young fiery charger scorns hob
bic, but our young dashing country may here
after be compelled to limp under burden Of
debt like the old spawned European nations.
We can't kill men as economically as in days
of yore. as is proven by the Seminole hunt
The laboring classes are famished. grow wan
and pale, whilst shaded by the Upas tree of
Debt-the stately capitalists in such circum-
stances, grow and flourish like the bay Tree,
while the masses are shrivelled into noxious
underbrush. War feeds the spirit of Democ.
racy on arrant poisons served upin thousand
gilded dishes; A. worth hundred thousand
dollars, goes to law with b, an un,hrifty,
vindicive bankrupt. A is certainly fool, for
what can he gain! B is secure in the en-.
trenchmen. of his own poverty. And what
can we gain by tossing back few hundred or
a thousand Mexcans into .her own original
non.eniiyl What by scraping, combing and
SHINING .hem' As says Henry Hugh Breck-
enridge,
Their meat uniting is for market,
We cannot salt il down or jerk it,"
The only booty General Taylor found in
their knapsacks was corn and salt. Bu, the
Mexicans and their allies may now pounce
on the riches, commerce Of the sea. and carve
off the choicest fat that grows on old Oceans
ribs. Privateering will commence. Every
pirate Of every sea may become pro ,cmpore
Mexican. and seize on DOR vessels under cover
of the Mexican flag. Shall i. be said that
such counterfeit Mexicans shall be hung up to
the yard arms as pira.ess Why our own army
and navy is filled up with counterfeit .ameri.
cans-English, Irish, Germans--al nations
all tongues. 10 case of capture shall we al.
low the Mexicans to execute them for violating
the duties of neu,alsl Says the Mexican;-
III you hire the Irshman TO fight. / will hire
the Dutch, I'll hire him too-I'l put Mexi
can captain and two or three sailors on board
every vessel, to give Mexican SAVIOR 10 thu
whole crew. Now, if you go to hanging, re
member tits a two handed game"
Hitherto our nation has been the universe
favorite with all na,ions-no nation entertain
deep. settled grudge against US; but hereaf
ter the Spanish American nations will regart
US as usurpers, robbers. Let the Irish mi
CRATE to Pennsylvania, resoluiionize one State
take one city. and every drop Of American
blood would buzz in our veins, like swarm o
bees. Gould the great pacfcator, Time. eve
put on, the smohered FIRE Of vengeance in gu
bosomsl No. And the Spaniah America
nations will hereafter greet US with scowling.
sullen countenahce. ready 10 rise when the
day of vengeance dawns, TO unite with an,
European power, with the Camanche without
and the CALLED slave within, to overthrow tn
grasping oligarchy of the south. Such vii
be the feeling of our neighbors around on
widening circumference that forts mus, b
bull, a, all assailable points. and it is probabl
that our army will never be reduced to les
Il
than $4,000 men, and proportional navy
A standing army, as all experience proves
is the most expensive. destructive pc
that any nation ever reared. hundre,
thousand vampires at our treasury will Ger
tainy reduce our corpulence, il il does no
render us feeble. According to the law o
nations. our army is entitled TO all The soil
conquers; but two years war would devou
all the silver saints of the Mexican caihedras
and require the mos, villainous drafts on GU
treasury to boot. Bot who will repine, Gu
national ship is launched on a sea of glory. AM
we are swimming most gallantly-it will b,
full Time to make wry faces when the reckon
ing is called for. ]. +. NJ.