Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-22
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But ROW long did they mean to carry on
this waTl We were, It seemed, 10 go on
I'LL the expenses of the war were paid. Bat
the longer we went on with it the greater
would the expenses be. And how, at the
close, would they make up their account of
thcm! Would they charge only the money
actually spent! Or did they mean to include
all The old scows that had been sunk-all
the old horses that had been manned. or had
been frightened away in the night! Did
they mean TO charge nothing for the brave
men who persisted before the lannon's mouth,
and whose blood bedewed The Mexican bat
tle-helds Were we TO charge nothing for
them, and yet charge for the beasts and the
old scOws! Or If they meant to charge for
our sacrificed citizen soldiers, how much a
head would they charge for the men killed !
"A voice: "IG0 acres Of land."1 Yes he
supposed that might be the valuation in
some quarters. But no do not submit that
question to the lIouse-go 10 the mourning
molhers-go to their destitute, their helpless
orphans, and 10 their heart-broken wives
and let them fx the amount and we should
have enoulh against Mexico to swallow up
her last acre.
We all knew that when a grea, battle had
been fought everybody was talking about the
glory, and the name Of the victorious gener-
al went from mouth to mouth as a watch
word of the national honor; but who talked
or who thought Of the poor fellows who fill
I'd a nameless grave? We did not hear of
them. They did but each count one in the
list Of killed and buried. But SomcJoHy was
to settle for all these. Somebody must
square p-nust foot the bill. If the wild
ows and the orphans could not, God, (said
Mr.. RI will send the bill 10 rot. And YOU
cnunnt dnl,ra then Van mann, eay ~ J;J
not get the letter; Mr.. Marcy did not send it
to me in time" No, no that will not do
there; you must square up. Gentlemen
might perhaps think that the Judge would
not take a case against such respectable de-
f%endents; but they had sent one case Of ap-
peal into that court already, and gentlemen
had better he getting ready.
But perhaps Mexico would not allow us
81 large a sum. What, then, would the Adj
minislralion do! Drive her to the wall 3
prosecute the war still further ? march on TO
The city Of Mexico itself! What it they didl
Suppose We presented ourselves before their
last refuge. What tlen1 We should there
find that old genuine Casiillian spirit that
shone so brightly in their fathers in old
Spain. The cry would be, no surrender. no
equalization but war to the knife! They
might there behold, as was seen in Sara
EpSSd, tuo pIieStS ldylhH dSlue tnelT SdcPT-
dolal garments and hallowing the war by
participating in it in person: they would
there see the daughter making a freewill Of
fering of her ornaments, and delivering them
up to the crucible 10 be cast into balls To be
fred into the ranks Of their counlry's inva-
ders, crying, ''there take /, your bosom
what you so much covet."
And what after this? When we had their
last stronghold, what then? Must we still
90 on and eXterminate the race without re-
gard to age, or SEX, or condition! Would
we make the country a desert that we might
be the owners Of It's deserted soil? If not,
if gentlemen would stop short Of this, then
how much short of it? Would they insist
on halfl or two-thirds! or throe.quartors
And after they got the country, how were
they to govern it what would they do with
it, The gentleman from New York said,
bring it into the Union; establish your civil
authority over it. Be it so and what then ?
Should 1t be a free country, or a country of
slaves! Gentlemen must be ready to meet
that question, for it would surely come. Mr..
r. was ready; and he here told Northern
men, every one, that meet it they must. 1t
would not do then to be sick or TO have
your family sick or to have particular bust
ness to attend to at home. They must be at
their posts, aud they must vote, and vote
right; they must do their whole duty, as
with Gods help, Mr.. r. should do his.
There was no division Of Sc it:mant at the
North. On this question the whole North
went as one man. Northern men in that
House would have to stand up TO the mark,
and do the will of their constituents. And
then, if the men of the South did as he doubt
ed not they would do, as they had a perfect
right 10 do, and as they ever had done, what
was to come of it1 He blamed them not
He wished TO God Northern men had stood
up to their duty as the South had done for
years past. But they must do it when that
question cam they must be here: the thing
must be attended 10. 1t would not do 10
dodge the question.
1t might be said, perhaps, that the Demo-
cratic party had II way OF stopping dissen-
sion among political friends. Mr.. r. knew
well how pow eriul their party means always
Were when the time Of need came; but he
doubted whether the gag would do on this
question, as it had done, in recognizing the
existence of war with Mexico. And even if
they tried it, regardless of the cost, what
would il avaiI7 The people would not keep
still; they could not be gagged they would
not cease 10 agitaie; and they would make
their voices heard. Jonathan was hard to
'O'N"O ""' ""V" onCe ou ulu SF'hlUh up'
he remained at a dead white heat for a long
while. And then, if a representative falter,
ed, wo TO him! The President had not a
land office SO far of in the wilderness, nor a
snb-lreasnry SO dark and deep; no, nor a for.
elgn mission SO distant in tie furthest ends
OF the sea, where he could screen that man
from the awakened wrath of the American
people It would burn after him and his chill
dren, to the third and to The fourth generation.
Were gentlemen ready for this Did they
couni upon a compromise We had had
one compromise upon that question when The
Union was shaken to It's Ct ntre but the man
whose labors effected it was not here. He
mad gwen gentlemen timely warning, but