The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-30

executed by the gallant WALKER Per-
haps he is angered that the wing pressd did not
accord the honors Of heroism to him on that
occasion Ifso, we confess it is some rea-
son why his party affections should be alien
ated, for never have we read such severe
sentences Of condemnation as were visited
upon his head for his supposed conduct in this
affair. The brave and daring WALKER was
not bloody-thirsty enough, it is stated, for
the Ajax-Telemon Of the Pennsylvania Re-
giment, He was placed under arrest by him,
because it is alleged he would not become
the butcher Of helpless females and harmless
men by order of Colonel Wynkoop!! The
sacking Of Cautepec, would have been dis
graceful to savages. II condemned Colonel
Wyhkoop, for he is said to have given the
order to do the deed, to everlasting opprobri-
UNI, Well, he may exclaim that it was
" bitter and humiliating" to him and his
men, that no "proper appreciation" Of such
an act could be shown at home. 1t was met,
as it deserved to be met--with execration,
whoever was its author.
! Yet, the Colonel may tell us that he was
not the author Of the order for the sacking Of
Cautepec. If he was not, then has he been
indeed dealt unjustly by, and we see no posi-
blecause for the complaint that he and his men
have not been properly appreciated at home;
for in his own State Col Wynkoop's Regi-
ment has been the theme Of praise, in the
Pennsylvania papers, every day since it left
for the seat Of war--f we except his reported
connection with the Cautepec affair, and on
that they have observed commendable ST.
lence
We come now to the gist of Col. Wynn
koop's accusation against the Wing party.
He says it is guilty of treason, For what ?
For daring to assert its right of free discus
sion upon the origin, the merits, the objects,
and the conduct Of the war Was ever i'm
pertinence equal to this Because that able
and independent journal, the National Intel
igencer, has seen fit to condemn the war and
! its objects, and to hold its authors to n w.,
accountability, it is called by this Col. v
koop, the reported hero Of Cautepec, ".y
Journal, and accused of being guilty Of trea-
son! He charges that this and other Wing
journals prevent Gen. Scott from making a
peace with Mexico! If these charges had
come from Democrat, there might have
been some excuse for their sincerity, but COM
ing as they do from Wing, there is none.
Pray, Col. Wynkoop, who are you, that
you dare make this charge Of treason against
the Wing party of the Union and its leading
Wing journals } Are younot the appointee
of the author Of hostilites between Mexico
and the United States Ought not this con-
sideration have had influence with you in
preventing you from making this serious
charge, lest your accusation would lose its
weight and recoil on your own head, You,
to talk about mounting and scribbling syc-
! ophants Of most unjust party''-you, the
most arrant sycophant on the earth, as is
proved by your very letter upon which we
are making these comments! Your course
merits and receives the "honest indigna-
tom Of all good men,-not the course Of the
j, National IntelKgencer and other leading
/ Wing journals. They oppose the war and
i its objects from high principle, which they
have right to do, and which right you re-
fuse to accord to them. You oppose it, be-
cause you are dissatisfied garrison officer,
who desires to curry favor with the man
who made you what you are, and who, you
are anxious, should promote you to higher
place. This is the difference between you
and the accused, and mighty gulf sepa-
rates you from them. The consequences
which you have braved in writing this letter
are already realized by you. You have de-
served and have received the scorn of all
Wings Of every faith for daring to impugn
their honesty Of purpose in their course upon
the war, and for chasing them with the tories
| of the Revolution, when all the glory of the
war has been won by Wing generalship and
Wing blood freely poured out.
But admitting that the arguments of the
Wing journals have prevented Gen. Scott
from making peace with the enemy, have
the Wing journals and their arguments con-
troled the President, and forced him to car
ry on the war by little and lille as he has
done Surely Col. Wynkoop will not as
sent to this. What then has hindered the
Executive from so conducting the war as to
countervail the alleged reasonable senti-
ments of the Wing Journalist Nothing in
the world. Colonel Wynkoop has doubtless
had access to no other American journal but
/ the Union, and this may account for his ig-
norance in his isolated position, and for his
adoption of the Union's views on the war,
&c. We hope that time and reflection will
yet come to his aid and open his eyes, if they
are honestly closed, to the true state Of
things; but we suspect that it is the glitter
of Brigadier Generalship that has blinded
him to justice and reason and liberation of
other mems opinions. In his eagerness to
clutch the hoped for prize, he, an officer in
the field, by the favor Of the President, de-
nounces all freedom of debate in Repubi-
can Government, and terms it rank treason
against the army of which he is member
Truly-Mr. Polk might well hope to buy
up support from friend and foe, if his patron
age could turn so sturdy Wing as Colonel
Wynkoop from the paths of justice and right
into the way Of error and passion
E.
And now we ask, when these glorious victories
have been purchased by the blood Of ais it proper
lis il decent, that your narrow.minded politicians
should arise and say, You have helped to win 1t ALL