New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-01
ChristIanity mud War.

If some pestience were now raging on our South
Western border, moving down hundred or two
human beings per day, aud threatening to overspread
the land what proIusion Of prayers and hastings,
aud deprecations Of Gods wrathful justice. would
be heard from all our ten thousand churches If
news had bat arrived that the inhabitants OF the val
Law of the Rio Grandc no matter which bank
siding, were pinng and dying for food, what thrill
ing appeals would be made 10 Christian benevo
lence through al our newspapersl what meetings
would lee held 10 raise supplies oil corn and cattle
for our suffering. dying fellow men! Yet now,
when we hear OF hundr after hundreds reckessly
slaughtered there-dying in agony and scorching
thirst their ill.,, blood ouzing gradually away into
the burning sands md their bodies iumbcd hur.
riedly into holes like carbon, mobs assemble to
shout and dance over the glorious tidngs; and
every ear i. strained for more bulletins of butchery.
We hear that the Mexican Arny is starving, after
being subsiscd for days barely and salt, in
n region where fresh water is often rarity, and we
think not or care not that when an army begins TO
siarvs the People must have starved already, and
our patriots lQrrah That s right Give TO EN-
Block up the mouth OF the Rio Graude! Let them
have nothing TO cat Humble them Chastisc
them Cut them down. Such is War--euch the
devilish spirit hich creates and 10 cherished by il
And what is our Christianity what is the Chcrch
lin which term we include all organized societies of
Chrisans doing TO arrest this complication Of crimes
and horrors2 Look at these extracts in addition to
what we have published already Of the same pur-
port
Major Ripgold received al shot while
seated his horse tina, carried away the -sh on his
eg from his knees up and passed through the withers
of his beautiful thoroughbred charger. David Branch
Ia frequent winner tho turf Captain Page hed hi.
lower law shot Off The wonnds OF the men were very
severe most OF them requiring amputston OF some
limb The surgeons eoipg the lice long night
aud the groaRs Of the poor sufferers nere hearrsndiuS
Too much praise cannot be gwen to the devotion and
prompt action OF medical olcers was ssd duty
Tor them took advantage Of the halt
TO 60 over the field Of battle. WAS truly shocking
sle6, Our artillery had literally motcsd them down
1Asre tcere hsups of dead yfnR hser and ri;h tie
nost ghastiy rounGs rsieh made sAIGder
The lumber killed could not be accurately ascertain
ed bu, of killed and wounded there must have been ut
east 800 On the field was found n
dog wing by the body Of his master. No entrestes
could prevail upon him TO leave the body OF him who In
life had csressed him.
The enemy were giving way faster and
faster On we all pushed. hemmcd into narrow road
with dense chsppora! on each side the artillery sdvan
cling aud pouring In Ito bloody ro and clearing the road
When we arrived We heard of the den,h Of Major
BROWN tho gallant defender OF the Fort which now
bears bis name. He was struck in the Icy by shell
three days before arrived. Amputatton becsms me-
ccssary but from confinement in boGlbproo! hurrow
and debility arising from excessive fatigue and watching
his systen could rally He died few hours before
tho cry of victory reached them Tho defenders Of the
Fort have suffered every thing. They have been ha.
raised night and day, and all looked hsggard from the
want of sleep The enemy completely Invested them and
thsy were exposed TO cross rcs from every direction
Nothing but special incorporation OF Divine Providence
saved them.
The enemy have fired at them some . 700 shells and
sho, and only killed officer, sergt, and wounded 10
men Thi, has been &, q cost of $4,000. Rather
expensive work that rate the Mexican Government
will DO much surer to 6ast up than their shells The
whole interior OF tho Fort is hed up with bombproo's
Ia which the men took shelter. ronld rather hare
teasa; dy battles than have been confined IN Ii during
the hombardment.
We hsve Just hear. Of horrible murders
committed on the lst of May. by party Of RaacAercs
on party Of 10 citizens coming across the country from,
Corpus Chr!sd to this place. Two OF the party were
women They wers surprised and captured near the
Colorado The RaEehros st.ipt them, tied them to-
gether by took them across the river deliberately
cut thef throeis With large knife and threw them into
the river. Two OF them escaped by swimming. One Of
them. WILLIAM RopGSRS. wandered for five days with
cut ANYTHING To cal in the Chspporal and finally
taken prisoner on the Rio Grande and carried TO Mata
uoros He was sent by Gen. Arlsts and is now
under the treatment OF one Vt our medical officers Did
yeu hear OF anything moro earosrous-moEe per-
From Ls..e- ynSlisaed in Tie Herald.
Al an occasional ull OF the war, the shrieks Of
tho wounded and dying could he heard while artillery and
cavalry horses were rushing nadly and with
War while raging In al lis hsrceness the ned O; bat
te SOUL siirr ng and poec excitement: but siter :hsi
has passed. away Is scSenss and horrible 10 think o.
even mach less TO DO obliged 10 lock upon its saAst
" hafeariies viii not freeze your blood BY telling you
the Aorrid sights have seen the shrieks have board
while at tho Instant might see saccksnsliar
orse and hear the shouts OF the reveers have rssd
accounts OF battles. but never description Of one
Consider that nil these are scenes of ar as they
appear to the ric.ors-,o those who have los, bu,
hundred Of hoir comrades, V bile they have killed
moro than thousand Of their adverssses and driven
the restover the Rio Grsnde To as the loss OF such
men as Ringgold Brown, Page, Inge, &c is very
serious drawback on the joys Of triumph. But,hese
Mexicans are also men, Christians after their own
sort with each his circle of parents, brethren and
of,ena wife and children to mourn in anguish I'M
soo:hed by peais Of exu,s,ion his hdeous death and
unmarked grave on the banks Of the Rio Grande.-
If our Christianity be any mere Than form, will i,
no. make itself heard and felt with regard 10 The
prosecution of this War?