The national whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1847, 1847-07-30
BEARING FALSE WITNESS AGAINST
YOUR NEIGHBOR

YOUR NEIGHBoR
Ma. EDITOR: fear that our country is on
the high road TO ruin, and that il is destined 10
live as nation Of confederated sovereign States
amuch shorter period than what its best friends
and the oppressed of all nations, desire. While
Rome and Venice were viruous, honor and
integrity reigned supreme in the bosoms Of their
citizens, but when ambition, personal and pc
cuniary interests, based upon falsehood, became
the object Of their leading pauper public men,
the State set the example of crime TO its citi-
zens, and both ultimately fell from their origi
nal elevated and dignifed position before the
world and posterity We, too, until this un-
fortunate and disgraceiul war with Mexico
commenced, stood high in the estimation Of
mankind but now, sir, what will be thought
Of US by every civilized and rational being,
who scans the objects for which il was begun.
Will any one say that the men who might
have prevented its breaking out, and who com
menced ii in violation both Of The letter and
spirit of the Constitution, which they swore
to observe faithfully, are free from the snspis
cion, will not say the fact, that base and mer-
cenary anticipations were al the bottom of il.
But, sir, as if the public and undisguised plua-
der Of Mexican territory, to meet the unpaid
and never to be paid Texas land scrip, which
the government Of that State issued before il
came into the Union, and for which it is yet
responsible--the wholesale murder OF innno-
cent men, women, and children, at Camp Blu
ena Vista, China, Maealine, Santa Fe, and
hundred other places--the Dissertation of
Churches-violation Of women, and other bar
barities loo shocking 10 mention--the one-twen-
tieth Of which we have never heard of, the
Government has stopped its neck SO low as TO
seek for aid from the most vile, unprincipled,
and immoral class Of men in the country, to
write down the moral character of a people,
against whom we are perpetrating all the out
RACES above enumerated. sHall-civilized J"
"sem- barbarian J" "ignorant;" 'enemies 10
progress )" SIC. &c., are the set terms Of those
base penny-a-liners Of Government for the most
inoffensve, moral, innocent, and religious peo-
pie on this continent. It is the old Anglo
Saxon or rather Anglo.Norman gone over
again, "rob those of their character first whom
you intend to rob Of their purse"
Sir, the Mexican people as nation, will
compare in points Of civilization, honesty, and
honor with any other on the face of the earth.
lis true, historians, like the Trollops, Basil
Halls, ct id onne genus enemies to their cast
and their creed, have stated otherwise, but that
does not make them so; the only thing fear
is, that we shall find them loo much so for us
before they are done with us. That miserable
pander TO "the powers that be-" who writes
for the Baltimore Sun, has taken up his chapter
Of calumny on Mexico, and commenced study.
ing it. A month before the Union recommended
the robbery Of the churches, he was studying
the chapter on sacrilege, and gave US some Of
important matter. Such men believe there is no
harm in robbing an individual or nation of lis
character, or its property; thinking that He,
who holds all men to strict account for what
ever wrong they do their neighbor in either,
will accept the puerile and wretched apologies
which they set up as an excuse TO themseve
for their crimes. Misaken--miserable men
the day Of restitution must come-if not, the
day ofretrbution, and no act, if wrong, though
done under cover Of national authority, will
screen the guilty one from the anger of just
God French Atheists and German Rationalisis
will, Of course, sneer at the concluding para
graph above but he who has particle Of
faith in the truths revealed TO us in the scrip
lures, that "God will render 10 every man ac-
cording 10 his works, " must now feel remorse
of conscience, which will continue within him
while he lives, if he have had anything to do
with precipitating this war upon US, with all
its attendant horrors and evils,
FIAT JUSTITIA RUAT CELUM.
The Burning Of Las Tigas.--On our reach