The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-07-31
SYMPATHY FOR THE MEXICANs!

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SYMPATHY FOR THE MEXlCANS -
! is the cutlery ofthc sluvcholdcrs' northern
allies, against such as oppose the grasping and
aYaricious spirit of the slave holders admins
tration and its measures to enlarge the area
of Slavery. Sympathy for Mexico! Who
has shown sympathy for Mexico but our beau
tiful President, who gave her back her greatest
| General and PRESIDENT Who shows more
sympathy for Mexico than DO those who are
sending MILLIONS of SPECIE there and
spreading it among her people so profusely that
some of her towns have actually invited the
army to take quarters within their limits, that
they may share the spoils, and grow rich out
of the extravaganza of the U. States' Who
have made the people of Mexico more fush
with cash than they have been before for half
n century and who are pouring into her
limits the means of supporting her heretofore
starving soldiery' Surely no body except
he who gave them back their leader, and those
who support him in such measures
ind are not the peopIe ofthe q States ,rorthy
of some sympathy? What if the Wings do
think little oftheir own countrymcn What
if they desire that no more of the lives of their
valuable citizens be destroyed THAT no more
of their women be made widows, and more
children be made fatherless? Will not SIX
THOUSAND LIVES of our citizens, already
lost in this war to spread the curse of slavery,
suffice
And should they not have some sympathy
for future generatons-that they should not
bear the burden of untold millions in the
shape Of national debt bequeathed to them,
to bow them down and crush them our
selves with taxation that leads TO the bon
duge Of poverty;
Who is The true trieHd Of ms country ?--Surc-
y he is that friend who tries to save the lives of
her citizens, who would avoid INJECTING the
sorrows of widowhood upon thousands of her,
daughters and the deprivation OF thousands oil
nvl 6uuurrn OF their fathers protection and
support who would keep the country free
and unburdened of debt to grind down her
poor by taxation and enslave future genera
tions as Great Britain has enslaved her chill
drcn by mourning, in wars upon us, India and
weak nations of the earth, debt, to discharge
the interest of which the nail that is driven in
the poor man 5 coffin must be taxed Is not
he the true friend of his country who seeks
deliverance from such evils as these, rather
than he, who, for mere party, aids to bring
them upon the country and her citizens!
All Mexico, and whole world like her,
would not pay for half we have already lost
in the war upon her, and we have SYM
Pathy enough for our o,cn country to say that
it is time, high time, that the war should be
stopped, stopped at least, as General Taylor
says it should be stopped, by withdrawing our
army from foreign country, & cease this war
Of aggression. We have not enough of SYM
Pathy for Mexico to send millions of specie
there to afford her "the aid and comfort" it
does, and without which she would not find
money enough to keep five thousand soldiers
in the field
Who is it, then, that is affording aid and
comfort to The enemy-who but james X
Polk and his purty'
Withdraw our army, cause this aggressive
war to cease, and we leave Mexico poor, pen
nyless and weak, incapable of supporting an
army that could conquer fifty of our bold
yankee women.