The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-07-04
For the New Era.
HEREFORD. N. C Inne Of

HEREFORD. N. c.. June 26rh. 1916.
MR. EDITOR The war, indeed. has cam
menced IN very earnest--a war at home and abroad
ana now Is 1t that the wing party AZ home is
symPa'hlsIng with Mexico, and is so loud and
n''.ei =" us aennnciations of their own land? How
~ ,"a' '"e Engish papers are yelling the in
lernai reasonable cry-"That the war with
Mexico is unrighteous and damnable 2" How il
IL mat they chime in SD admirably with TIE WHO
curses mere; that their hearts seem To beat II,
unison with the enemies of our country. From
"hom did lhey learn these lessons of bitter de-
nunciatlon! why is it that they pull the same
chord-strlke the same string, with Delano Sow.
erance, Adams, and the abolition Gddinos. of
ONO; striving for damnable effect, and treas
ohao'e design. How is it they echo the same
sentiments pouring a continued stream of fire
camping the energies of our people--sweling the
tide OF notwithstanding the seeds of discord
and laboring to put our country wrong in ,he
eyes OF christendom 2" From what quarter did
they learn these lessons--from whom. of all
Americas SONS, have they learned to lisp THE
foul earthquake plot?
Answer, Mr.. Editor, these questions for me.
for my heart is panied with the recital NJ NV
country's wrongs, and I dread to think Lam bn,
young man; but history The faithful chronicter
OF bygone events,-engravingt the past, as with an
iron pen upon our hearts, tells me that our coun.
try had her enemies. MEN who abored to nut
HER In the WRONG in the eyes of all chrislen
dom. when Washington, Morgan and Greena
and the generous Lafayette, gallant band of ulo.
rlous brothers, were struggling, through winters
SHOWS and summers heats, with handful ofbrave
men, against that power, who now symoatbises
with Mexico. powerful and potent as she was
and who now denOunces the war with Mexico-
aPing the language ofDelano-as '.damnabIe and
unjnst!' And when Mr.. Madison, after having
borne for eight long years the insults. the ,auots
the jeers of The English Parliament. -patiently
suffered under accumulated and accommodating
wrongs, heaped upon us by the British power-
determined IN me spirit of patriotism to avenge
those wrongs, history informs ME that there was y
party in our country who loved ENGLAND better
than the birth place Of Washington. who heaped
burning Goals OF flre upon the head of that great
man, that man who, COLOSSUS like. upheld the nil
lars oil the constitution, in the hour of peril and of
dangeT-a party who true to their Instructions
and afnnItIes, held Hartford Conventons-tbrev
obstacles in the way of our success-pave a sbou,
for the red cross of St. Georpe-celebrated the
defeat OF Hull, and the disgrace of our arms-d,
cIaIed II unrIghteous for christian nation 10 plo.
~ IN Inc success of our troops-groaaod when
Lawrence, the gallant Lawrence, expired in TIC
blaze of victory jim fine, "labored to mt o,r
country wrong in the eyes of christendom >, and
who denounced the war--ihat war, the cansee re
which, as Mr.. Jefferson well observed would
have been justified more than seven years before
say there was party who denounced that war
as 4" damnable and unjust"
But, Mr.. Editor, the Tecapitulation chills nv
blood, and turn, for the moment, TO the rec;,.I
Of other wrongs. ! said that there was n,,,a
al home, who were laboring to put orr copn,,v +,
the wrong,-and party in England. who. silt
ing the same chord, creating discussion and d;vis
ion. reiierating the Same foul plot. thopcb ,v;,h
different views. Bot. out of this has grown an
evil state more depIorabIe: The Mexican Jour.
nails backed and sustained by these feelings arc
saying 10 their countrymen, that there IL ore
in America who lean to our success~wbn ~
sympathising w.'h US, and declare the wa, 10 ~
"DAMNABLE AND UNJUST" party who ro,IJ
glory in the success our arms and the Jisayaoo
of their e"nm who think their country wrong and
ours rRn'1"no are dsmping the ardor Of their
people, anu " consequence Of this, - II troops