Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-04
g COnGuCring Peace
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To VI. w. CHAPMAN.

When the President sent in his War Mes
sage to Congress, asserting that the atrocious
and unmitigated falsehood that our army on
the Rio Grande had been attacked by the
MeXicans on orr o,cn soil, &c., &C., and Con-
gress was rushing through votes of Fifty
Thousand Men and Ten Millions of Money
to prosecute hostilities, Mr.. Calhoun vainly
begged the Senate at least to act with calm.
ness and dignity as became d Senate-to take
time for deliberation, giving the Members
his solemn assurance that War not only
should but might be avoided. He said, we
are not certain whether in public debate or
otherwise, that with but one days delay he
could prevent the War. The delay was not
granted, and the country rushed into War.
A short time afterward, Mr.. Webster ad-
dressed the Senate on the subject and went
far beyond what we could have lone in favor
OF prosecuting the War commencd with such
deplorable rashness. lie would vote any
amount of men and money for the War, but
he thought the President should proiler the
Olive Branch TO Mexico as well as brandish
the Sword-hr thought we should send her
a Mission of Peace as well as a visitation of
War. But this idea was secuted by the
Presidents Organ and its echoes as a betray-
al of p~uslllaninity worthy of the Hartford
Convention "No Mission, no overtures, no
statement even of the conditions upon which
we are ready to end the war let Mexico send
embassies if she wants Peace; but we will
hurl Fifty Thousand Men on her Capital and
C1nguer Peace.'' Such was the Organs re-
spouse to Mr.. Webster's suggestion.
Well, we have now been several months
hard at work conquering Peace. Our Go
vernment has had everything its own way
plpOtu nf coSb orainSt tho ornrtu lJayi.op
Treasury unsullied National credit against
utter Bankruptcy; an ample and gallant Ma
w against none at all more gallant soldiers
than it has wanted or could employ against
a routed, disorganized, dispersed Army, and
a feeble, miserable People so distracted by
intestine feuds and the throes of APP
preaching Revolution as to be unable 10 OPP
pose to our own any positive, tangible re-
SiStance--and so we have gone headlong on
conquering Peace.
Well, what success? We have onquer-
ed the surplus in our Treasury we have con-
qucred the aversion of our Hard Money par
ty to Government Shinplasters we have con-
quered and utterly dissipated all prospect of
a surplus Revenue or even the extinction of
our National Debt for a good many years TO
come. But how near have we come to con-
quering Mexico or %conquering Peace?
Not very, if we may judge from the fact
that Mr.. Polk has overruled the Organs pa
triotic horror of Mr.. Webster's proposition
and sent a secret embassy TO Mexico unask-
ed to treat for Peace not very, if we may
Judge by the clamOr raised by the Polk
journals at the failure Through opposition
from their own party of the effort to give the
PresidentTw Millions of Dollars wherewith
TO buy Peace. We claim a balance due to us
from Mexico; We certainly have vanquished
her troops in the field we have overrun
some portion Of her territory and have three
or four rmies now ad vancing upon her soil
yet Mr.. Folks journals fear he can't persuade
Mexico to come to terms without Two Mil
lions from our Treasury to sweeten the bar
gain. Is not this a new way to conque
Peace
We have inflicted great injury upon an,
caused much suffering to the Mexican PEG
pie. We have blown off the legs and arm
with cannon balls and torn out the bowel
with grape shot of some hundreds of them
we have carried mourning and anguish in
to hundreds of their villages. We hav
captured their towns and villages on tn
lower Rio Grande and will very soon hav
possession of those Of Santa Fe on the uppe
waters OF that stream; another month ma
see our eagles borne triumphant througI
scenes of carnage and horror to Monterey an,
Albuquerque perhaps to Chihuahua ant
Sattlllo. And even then, judging of the III
ture from the past, we will fall something
short Of having conquered Peace.
We have made Mexico feel our power t.
do her evil. Our blockade of Vera Cruz
putting a stop TO all the business of that por
has subjected its People to untold horrors
Peaceful laborers and their families, includ
ing many innocent children, have died by
hundreds, of want and the pestilence it be
gets, for lack of employment and food o
which we have beEett them, but they do no
seem to be conquered yet-we mean those
already starved. We have enabled those OF
the Rio Grande to make a good deal of mo
ney out of us, buying our goods cheap anC
selling their fresh provisions dear, and still
they are not conquered into a peaceful anc
humble frame of mind. On the contrary, al
accounts concur in stating that the Mexican
of the Rio Grande hate us more intensely thai
ever-that one OF our men cannot 90 out q
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