Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-11-18

made, to deign 10 suspend their oPinionsuntil
/ that publication, assuring them that therein
they shall learn what has been my true con-
duct, and what that OF my unjust detractors
As the calamity which is iniquitously urged
against me is so atrocious, hurl it back with
all the energy of my character, and with the
force of innocence UNANIMOUSLY outraged.
challenge and summon all my accusers to come
forward with their proof, and if, they fail to do
so, i denounce them as vile calumniators and
enemies of the nation.
callupon Gems. Scott and Taylor, and up
on every individual in their armies, and con-
jure them to declare upon their honor whether
the Mexican general, who he's fought them in
the north and in the east and in the centre, too,
of the republic, down to the 10th inst, has dis
charged all his duty to his country.
Fellow-citizens: Misfortune has deprived
me of the Incompatible satisfaction of offering
you splendid victory; but misfortune has
never been deemed treason. They insult you
who endeavor to persuade you that such infa-
my can have fallen upon veteran of indepen-
dence, covered with honorable wounds receiv-
ed in defence ofyour rights, and who has grown
grey serving his country with affection and 10y
atty. Remember that these same men have
before abused your simplicity, misleading your
judgement, and cast upon the pagei of our his
tory the blot which stains il, in the record of
remember that by these men were sacrificed
the two chiefs who at Iguala traced the plan Of
our independence; that they were guilty of the
act of removing from the sacred soil in which
1t was buried the foot which your fellow citi-
zen lost in fighting a foreign foe, to make pub
lie mockery of it under the pretext that it had
belonged TO one whom in that moment of de-
llrlum they called a TYRANT. If my conduct
during those fourteen months deserve reproach,
"a 4 a. "a L
nation because its results lbave not been fortu-
nate, | am ready to meet aiN charge which NAV
be legally and fairly brought against me; but in
the meantime believe myself entitled TO the
considerations which the fundamental fact Sc
cures to me, which my services demands and
which Justice exacts.
If you will await events as / desire You in
order to judge with certainty, you will per-
ceive that those who from their clubs have
managed to dilfUse distrust and malignant re-
Elections upon my conduct, taking advantage of
our misfortunes, are the very ones who are has
tening to treat with the enemy and to yield to
him what l refused. These same men aoho
cried ont ''iuar uithOm truce" and Stigmdtis-
cd as 20 Treason" the drmistice a1hi:h ncceSsitu
compelled to enter into at the capital, lchen
ii lras the duty of the GoUernment to listen to
that of the United States these men are nOlO
stirling hypocriticaIly to persuade you that
there are no elements of lodr, that the nation is
exhausted, that its necessities and its Sufcrings
require peace at any sacrifice. Time, repeat
TO you, will best teach you the wicl1edness of
these factions, the authors of our misfortunes.
Well you know that ! am not the only chief
towards whom victory has been shy. Palo Al
to- La Resaca, Matamoros, Monterey, New
Mexico, Chihuahua, the CALIFORNIA;, Vera Cruz,
Tabasco and Padierna answer for me. Mexican
soldiers have encountered defeats none of us
have been traitors. There may have been some
towards, but this can never be said of him who
sought the enemy every where, of him who
was the first in danger, of him who alone has
offered to the nation in this war trophies won
from the battalions of the enemy.
The position most eligible to serve the nva-
der is the Government, and yet refused it re-
peatedly, prefering the hardships of cam
paign to the luxuries of palace. The pressing
solicitations of the representatives of the peo-
pie, which brought me from the field If La An
gostura to the capital to put an end TO civil
war which was devasting it, induced me toex-
ercise for some time the executive power. i
laid it aside as soon as public tranquility was
established and went TO meet the army of the
enemy, which had then taken Vera Cruz and
the Castle Of Ulua, having to raise while upon
the march an amy which though small and
undisciplned, disputed as far as possible the
passage of the enemy at Ceuo Gordo. My du-
ty and my design has been TO hight, and have
not been restrained threefrom by obstacles or by
the superiority of the enemy. If after that
event | returned to resume power, it was
to defend the capital which was about
being abandoned by the enemy. In few days
raised great Notifications and mustered
numerous army; | collected resources and
sufficient material of war. Important actions
were fought before the enemy set foot in the
centre of the city, the ground being disputed
inch by inch, and the losses of the enemy give
the lie to those who propagate the story that
the city was abandoned by the army without
fighting. The details of these notable events
will appear in the historical review which am
about to prepare.
In the city of Guadalupe HidalgoI delivered
up power to the President of the Supreme
Court of Justice, by decree of the 10th of
September, with the purpose which unfolded
in my manifesto of the same date, and with no
such motive as has been Indignantly alleged
If erred, it was in not foreseeing that the
man on whom l bestowed power would first of
all employ it in rendering useless my services.
But this extraordinary incident will be clearly
explained in the review before mentioned, he
being responsible for the injury to the nation
which may ensue from a measure every way
impolitic, and in my opinion pregnant with Ia
/ tai consequences.
] AID ;s the cifizen who has thus cOmnoried