The Arkansas banner., 1847-06-14

got hold of fit," says that paper, Sis 10 whig's business; and we shall not explain.'
 Letfsr of nhe Whig Commitlee to Gen. Taylor
 DEAR GEx.-We, the central committee of the universal whig party, have been charg- ed with the duty of addressing you com munication, giving our views of the Mexican war in general, and of your connection with tin particular, as we'll as of you personally. In the first place we are bound to say that this IS an offensive and unnecessary war. re- pugnant of the plainest precepis of christiani- ty and the enlightened age in which we live. We believe the war unconstitutional, begun by the President for the basest purposes; con- sequently every order issued by the Execu. tive has been without any hi;ssiag force, and should have been rejected by the officers O. the army as nnliiiy. We abhor the war, and large portion of us will give it none of our aid aud support If we were in Mexico we should give you bloody welcome and a ''hospitable grave.D You are engaged in war of conquest and rapine, alike hateful to God and man; some of us cannot, there fore, rejoice in your victories. We feel to- ward you as we should toward layorite son that had committed highway robbery and murder We have on all suitable occasions, however. assisted you, by discrediting the resources of this country and magnifying those Of Mexico; and we have not failed, whenever we hear of an offer of peace made by our government. to invent what would seem most objectionable 10 Mexico, and earnestly exhort her not to accept it. We have been careful to discourage volunteering by telling our citizens that the sympathes of the civilized world would be against then, in the present contest. We have told the public, always before one of your victories, that you were to be cut to pieces, and after 1 these victories we have assured the public that they were of no use. At any rate, all this we have said.
 And now, dear General, we have word to say to you personally. You must sup pose al first sight that we meant to reproach you by the course which we have pursued liar from it--far from it. Dear General, we know that you being soldier, are a mere tool in the hands of that mean usurper and tyrant, Jim Polk. The law has made him your conscIence keeper consequently you are not responsible for the atrocious crimes of murder and robbery which you have committed. Some locofocos pretend to think that you ought to have resigned rather than be guilty of treason to the con- stitution, murder and robbery. No doubt they think it would have been very fortunate for them if you had resigned; then you would not have gained the laurels which now encircle your brow; and the whg party might not have had an available candidate 1 for the Presidency. The result has proved that you acted right We are not of those who hold that what IS so profitable can be wrong-this is vulgar idea, or a mere ab- straction; the great whig party hold no such mpracucable nonsense. This consideration IS doubtless sufficient to satisfy you of the correctness of our course; but we beg you also to remember the old maxim, Sin war our country right or wrong" Our party, you are aware, is the country's; SO that the maxim properly applied, is Sour party al- ways, right or wrong'--for we have always ! war with these vile iocofocos, and 1t has not always been as successful as your battles
 with the Mexicans. We have in fact, Gen. eraI, i've are sorry to say,) been very much l put to It. We beg you to consider this; and
 if some of the means we have adopted in the 6ght do not appear altogether right, attribute I it to our sad condition. Indeed, the loco focos have been so successful that we have
 no chance left us but to assai the war, righi
 or wrong. We assure you that mos, of us
 did not believe the half we have said; and a
 large portion of us did not believe the other
 half nei,her-just as you did not believe a word of what you said when you issued that proclamation, blaming Mexico for the war Ha! ha! General; you see you have to say
 some things you don't beieve-like us. He I he
 Thele arc some things which we feel bound to notice further, which you, being
 in Mexico, may not.understand as we dc l here. We fear you may consider them per; sonal. Some of our friends have sugg sted that you were the same man that advised the
 use of bloodhounds in prosecuting the Florida war; one distinguished whig Secretary o
 State) has said something about your having a hundred mothers with their babies for sale ! Sc. They are very sorry now, General, tha
 they ever said these things. They did mol ! know al the time that you would occupy the position you do now, they did not dream : that you would be the whig candidate fol
 the Presidency, or they would not have said such things for their right hands.
 ] Again: dear General, we hope you will i not miscons,rue what we have said against marching the army to the Rio Grande, ana against the armistice at Monterey. We arc sorry to say that we have some editors, such as those of the Louisville Journal, who meat 1 welt, but are very shallow-pated and indis erect. We cannot be responsible for wha they say, but we enireat you not to be of tended at them. They did not know that you were the author of those measures; ant what they said can do little harm as they can and will deny it, or eat it hack just as readily as they said 1t; and moreover, Gen eral, what is still better. they will abuse the locos lustily for even thinking what they said: ha ha Ina
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