The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1847-04-21
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THE WAR AND IT'S OBJECTS.
ORCESTER
Il-<ZlUESDaY, .APRIL 2E1si7.

sve wo men aud chldren-detalls alike shocking hu-
mainly and eproachfu 10 the civilization Of the age and
the religion profess. Is 1t not time then for the peo-
pie of this country ask, in thunder tones, for what
purpose all tins outrage and cruelty is practiced? For
what purpose did the Arkansas cavalry so out in the
neighborhood If Salto and thirty of the
armed and nofensive Mexican peasants, before the
eyes of their wives and chlldren2 For what purpose
were eight hundred Mexican women and children mutt
lated aud torn 10 pieces by bomb shells and shot
at Vera Cruz For what purpose was Monterey, s'the
beautiful" made Of desolation, and It's streets
literally deuged with human blood For what purpose
the three thousand Mexicans slain at Buena
Vistaf For what purpose were the hundreds of Amer
also slam al the same place For what purpose
is it that the finest young Of the on the MeKays
the Hardns, the Cays. and the Lincons are sent there
TO be slaughtered if they bu, dogs, and thus
lost to their families: their friends and their country p
Aye, for what is it. that human is thus outraged and
heaven itself put at defiance!
The war has already involved the nation in an ex-
Pense OF more than hundred millions of dollars
which will have 10 be drawn chiefly from the hard earn
ings OF the free laorers of the North For what pur-
p,se them this immense load of taxation to be brought
upnus?
: We suppose the supporters Of the will answer,
that II is TO conquer peace.' He be dolt in
deed who is imposed upon BY such an answer. Does
nation commence and carry it on at such an enor
nous sacrifice Of and Of human e merely for
the purpose OF making peace For lie, II be forever
remembered, the war has been entirely aggressive on
our part, and entirely defensive on the part of Mexico
She has trespassed territory of ours, nor set foot
ipch soil had
quiet possession Again, thenwe ask, for what purpose
is this cruel, sanguinary and expensive prosecuted
We have said, heretofore and have repeated it, that
the waged for conquest and that the object of the
conquest is the extension and confirmation of the system
of slavery. portion of the Locofoco party have de-
MED this while another portion frankly admit and justify
il. II any have doubted that conquest the object,
those doubts ought to be removed 1t is stated by
the Mexican papers, twha had partially leaked al
home, before that the proposition for peace which Sc
nor Atocha carried out from government 10 that of
Mexico fixed upon the 26th degree of latitude as the f
iure boundary between the two nations This would de-
prive Mexico Of three quarters of the whole territory,
which remained to her after the annexation Of Texas,
and four ffths of all, if Texas is included
But, The most extraordinary part OF the proposition is
that which proposed the part of the United States
keep up standing army the frontier. The osiensble
obJact Of this force is o suppress smuggling, and TO
prev mt the ncursons Of the Indians. lis real object
man can doubt, is, the support Of large standing
army at the public expense, 10 keep the slares in are
and to preren their escape into Merco BY making ii
treaty provision ii becomes permanent, and Congress
would not have power to repeal it.
AL the from Mexico agree that the people of
sgan us, and more and more determined not 10 submit
TO humiliarg conditions Their cities may be captured
and their country by troops, but that is not
subsection of the people. The deadly nate which
sggressions have inspired will but confirm their proven
bal obsnacy, and predatory guerrilla warfare of the
most annoying character will be kept up upon US. The
places actually garrisoned by troops will be all tina,
we can claim, and the expense Of holding these mus,
soon become gfievous burthen Thus, we are making
bitter and reconcable enemies Of our neighbors BY
our atrocities committed upon them; we are saddng
ourselves with an immense and rapidly increasing ma
donal debt; and involving ourselves in labyrinhNof
difficulties, from which ii every day more difficult
TO extricate ourselves.
How long. then, will the people Of the free states
quietly submit to all this wrong aud outrage? How
long will they permit themselves and their property TO
he used as the slave drivers OF The South please and for
the most Infamous of all purposes For il needs but
word from them. spoken earnest and adhered to- 10
bring peace and arrest the aggressons Of The slave pow
err Let them determine, and proclaim the determine
ton, that heir and their money snail not be used
for the further prosecution OF this war-ihat no slave
territory SHALL be annexed another slave state ever
be permitted 10 enter the unon and tie thing IS settled
tor they have The majority and carry out Their de-
termination and when such determination IS carried ou,
the South will have object 10 gain by the further
prosecution of the war
This, in our opinion. is the only way in which we are
10 hope for peace, for long time yet to Let the
people, then, speak all occasions till their voice
heard Let the The aggressons Of slavery be
denounced all occasions and every where. Let the
voice OF manly truth and honest Indignation be heard in
streets and our assemblies lie, the press do its du-
W and the public sustain ii according its duty in this
respect is performed And let the miserable dough ia
ses. who willing for an, petty personal benefit they
may derive ,hereison be the tools and uphoieis of
slavery and its slave begotcn war, feel the whitening
rebuke which their unprinciped merits from ev.
cry honest and liberty loving freeman.