Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-22
From the Charter Oak.
Vera Cruz,

1t will be seen that another great victory has been
obtained, which is certainly astonishing if the reports
be true That city should be carried by storm a.
ganst 1000 men and the enemy captured with loss of
only 65 on the part ofthe besegers, is wonderful As
exploit of arms ranks with that of Harry Fifth at
Agincourt, and will make new materials for the War
Muse, to build into heroics and our novests to Coop
er into tales
But alas we hear Of terrible slaughter of the enc
my VINO if not our sons and brothers, are somebody's,
and if we shall not find that the brancy of the victo.
~ is furnished by the blood of women and the flesh of
mangled babes it will be still more wonderful. 1t is
no jest to rain those internal shells into city of human
beings, and must need some nobler end than petty
claims the great interest of slavery to sanctify it.
But what will succeed Is Peace conquered i? True
another stronghold has gone down before the ruthless
invader, but there are Distance and Time, Thirst and
the Plague, in the field yet and scattered Mexcans
crowding their mountain passes, in Guerilla bands,
that hang round an army like vutures aloof and un
seen till the hour to swoop, and away again to their
eyrie.
Say that it smadness for them to hold out longer,
but 1t was madness for our troops to 90 there, and the
whole spirit OF the war is frenzy We are mad to re-
olce with cannonboom and huzzas at their monstrous
massacres and how much rather will they be blind
mad and wrought INTO desperation, whose homes have
been shattered and friends slaughtered, and wives
polluted by naughty foe They are mad, and have
cause to be, and 10 signs of submission among
them
Our arms have achieved victory which must be
enough to satisfy the blood thirsty with its glory and
now they have the power to be Just and merciful with
out encountering the fiend Dishonor An immediate
peace could be offered and that unaccountabe thing,
national honor, be kept immaculate. Let the whole
mass of American arms be withdrawn to American
SOIL and the olive offered to the frenzied Mexican from
distance that will leave him time to look calmly
lie would reject it, thrust into his face at the end of
bayonet, and will, as long Gs any of his proud old
Spanish blood is left Let have peace for the love
of God and Humanity, let us have peace
Since the above written, we find further partl-
culars of the bombardment which state that the Mex
lean loss was at least 1000. And what adds to the
immense horror of the scene, 500 women and children
persisted with their ruined homes and slaughtered hus-
bands and fathers. Gen. Scott invited them to leave
and give him a chance to murder their protectors
while they could look on from afar, But they re-
malned their butchers say the Mexican forces refused
to let them go, but how much they desired to go is
left untold. We know something of the brave stock
from which they sprung and may there not have been
LETT spark of that stern fire, that nerved woman's
hands to join the awful strife at Saragossa Better
they might have thought, to die with their defenders
thar to live widowed and tatheress. 1.-THE foul saw
agery is charged to the necessity which war imposed
so much the worse for the war. Mothers ofNew Eng
land, have you reared SONS to murder women ? Our
bloody government has not even the poor excuse Of
Jealousy which the babe-slaughtering Eerod had OF
old.