The New York herald., 1846-06-05
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By the Mails,
WASHINGTON. Juno 3. 1916

WASHINGTON June 3, 1886.
Nothing later from the wars. Hon. W. Thomp
sons book most conclusively corroborates all cur
previous impressions of the physical weakness,
the military ineiIicency, the utter imbecility of
the Mexlcans. The valor which they displayed
IN the TWO late battles the valor of the supe-
riorty OF numbers, certain Of victory, and expect
ant OF large quantities of plunder They formed
the crack army of the magnanimous nation. And
YET what poor show for fight they made. Tho
victories OF Gen. Taylor are therefore, not 70 be
measured from the fact that he whipped the
enemy completely, but from the evidences d1at
he was prepared for them, had every man been
one Of Napoleon's old guard With ten thousand
such troops as he has, there is not doubt Of his
ability TO march into the Mexican capital If the
Comanche Indians, in detachmens OF hundred
strong, can penetrate for hundreds Of miles into
the Mexican States, capturing the inhabitants
and taking oh their cattle and horses by thousands,
what resistance is to be expected from these poor
mongrel Mexicans, enervated by Incidence,
cowardly by nature, and ignorant OF the use OF a
gun, as of a telescopcl The fact is, the country
States of the North. The republic of Iturbide
may be subdued by the Indian tribes i'll the Ar
kansas territory, and they would ask no better
sport; II is, therefore,, perfectly safe for Tom
Marshall and young Clay to lead the renown-
ed "Hunters of Kentucky" to Mexico II is
sort OF a crusade, IN which there is more novelty
than danger-more chances OF a rich harvest than
OF an immortal death under the ramparts of the
enemy. From the book of Gen. Thompson, they
are game too small for white men. and our from
tier Indian alone ought to be employed in their
reduction.
The only difficulty to apprehend is that Mexico
may sell herself to England and France, as pre-
ferable TO a surrender to the United States. In
that case our volunteers will find active employ
ment, employment worthy Of their metal And
we know not but such a contingency as this proba-
BILE Anglo-Franco Hispaniola-M Mexican cornbna-
ton may grow out OF this existing war. Then the
field of glory will be open, indeed AS it is, there
is more glory in enduring the soldiers hardships
privations, and exposures in strange climate,
than in fighting the half naked half Indians, and
half negroes of the magnanimous nation. The
greatest glory in this is in Kidding the earth OF a
race who are of no earthly account whatever.
We have been SO long at peace with the world
the glories Of the "pomp and circumstance Of
war are so refreshing to the long monotony, that
we are positively OVERRIDING the glorification. We
cannot too highly praise Gen. Taylor and his little
brave men who died under the flag of the Union
on the Rio Grande, but we hold that the lombard
ment Of Tripoli and Algiers were little tougher
than the bornbardment of Matamoras, and that
Lundy's Lane anil Chippewa were scenes that
will not be eclpsed bv the beautiful victories of
Palo Alto and Resaca de Ia Palma. Gen. Taylor
than we expected he could do, but we protest that
his achievements, noble as they are, are not supe
rior to those of Gen. Scott. Gen. Taylor deserves
to be Major General; but '.ot at the expense OF
Niagara.
| Nothing new Of material interest done in Con-
gress to-day. The National Fair, we believe,
winds up this evening. 1t has had famous run,
and the next thing will be the modification of the
| tariff to raise more revenues, attempt at it,
which will astonish the advocates of high duties
| and low prices
| The dioramas of the Milan Cathedral, the Holy
Sepulchre, the City of Jerusalem, and the Feast
of BelzhaZzar, now exhibiting at Carusi's saloon,
are the most beautiful show that we have seen for
a twelve-month. They a genuine bona fde
compensation for the quarter of dollar at tho
door