The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1846-06-05
From the Union
ChapporaI.

''Chapporal." 1t is described as new
toord, and processes to explain its meaning,
which we are told means thicket COM
posed Of the "musqute bash mailed toiih
zines" We are then Informed further.
that the country between the Nuces and
the Rio Grande is $50 miles wide, and is
without grass or fresh water.
There is so much error, tie effect of
ignorance or misrepresentation, which we
iud from day to day 10 our newspapeus in
regard to Texas, Mexico, Mexicans, and
the seat of war, $50 called } that one in
the least acquainted with the people and
the localities, reads such publications with
amazement, that persons will write so
totally ignorant of what they write about,
or so impudently misrepresent what lapse
Of ten days will serve to contradict. The
critical and dangerous situation Of our
army is described in Jeremiads from day
to day in the opposition newspapers, and
the gulibility of some of the independent
presses has been practised upon tojoin IN
the cry, for the purpose Of clamorine
against the administration and abusing the
President. The author of the present
communication processes to know some.
Thing of the people and the country refer
red to, as one of any observation may be
supposed to do who had been actually en-
gagged in the ranging service of Texas for
more than four years; and he says, that all
alarm for Gen. Taylor's safety may be dis
missed; that his numerical strength with.
out The reinforcement of a single man is
sufficient TO drive Arista aud Ampudia
across the Rio Grande, or to cut them up
whenever he chooses to make the attempti
and if himself attacked, "a matter very
doubtful the enemy will be repelled with
scarce an effort. Let this prediction be
borne in mind, aud make its verify as tire
next accounts from the army arrive. 1t
was prudent in Gen. Taylor TO call for
| reinforcements, because, the blow having
been given, and the blood Of our people
shed on our own territory, retaliation
should be eXacted for the insult and the
wrong; and that retaliation should be
something more than merely TO drive these
semi barbarans from our soil. They
should be pursued beyond the RioG Grande;
and taught to feel that the day has gone
by when Mexlcans may rob and murder the
people OF the United States with impunlty.
| The massacrees ofthe Alamo, the Mission,
and Tanning, and the decimalion of the
Mer prisoners is yet to be atoned for, and
every well regulated patriotic mind hopes
that the time has arrived for iquidating
The heavy debt Of blood and plundel ac
cumulated against Mexico.
The Great Frederic regard it as one Of
the most dangerous of military errors to
underrate your enemy, and every one will
admit the sound sense of the rule. 1t is
right, therefore, to provide as far as prac-
tIcaOle for "making assurance doubly
sure" in all our operations against Mexico;
! and if the war is carried within its terri>
| tory, to do so with force in number and
supplies that would enable us to march TO
the capitol, if necessary. For this pur-
pose %, 600 men will be amply sufficient
aud although il might seem wild, insane,
to deliver an opinion that 25 1000 may
traverse a distance of 900 to 100 miles
through an eDemy's country numbering
population Of 5000 900, yet when you re-
cur to the fact, that the people at large
feel no interest in the government, that
the great majority are serfs attacked to
the different esta tes of the great prople
tors, as in Hungary and Russia, and sub.
mitted TO as absolute slavery as the vii.
ains of the feudal ages, one is al no loss to
estimate the small interest felt by such
population for the defence Of the country.
Hence we have seen that in every grea:
crisis of that government, even after the
defeat and capture of Santa Anna in Tex
as, when every passion was appealed to,
and every motive urged. In behalf OF the
country, and their imprisoned idol, mol
one single company Of rOtunieers could be
raised. So much for their patriotism.
How is it as regards their efficiency when
under arms! They are of the worst spe-
cies of militia, with this differences that,
in addition TO the absence Of all military
knowledge on the part of the of licers, the /
men-the rank and file-are uuaccustomed
10 the use of firearms. Ii is the policy of
the present government, as in the days OF
the regal government, to disarm the whole |
Nota man in Mexico, except /
the military. is permitted to keep gun!
and you may fad thousands, hundreds of
in Mexico, of more than middle
age, who never had a gun in their hands.
Hence in all their civil wars, you see no
lew killed in battleswhere there are en-
ragged ten thousand men. Along W ith the
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