Democratic banner., 1847-01-18

UuIdI dOuTcSS VI
copied into the last Missouri Journal. Mo-
what opinion we may have hereto
fore entertained of the political sentiments
of our neighbour, nothing short Of occular
demonstration ever could have ~pursuaded
us, that he could endorse, by transferring to
his columns, a document so outrageous to
the feelings OF every true hearted Amerl-
can, And even now while we see 1t with
our own eyes, and read the miserable stun
it contains, charity bids us believe that 1t
was done altogether by mistake-that Il
was not carefully read before it was insert
ed, but inadvertently put into the hands OF
the c~ompositor. We can not find language
sufficiently strong to express our detesta-
ton of the malign partizan spirit which
could prompt the following:
elbow can we reflect upon the motives
and means which brought about the an
.nexation of that province [Texas with
such a constitutional constitution fasten-
ing slavery forever upon a vast region
wherein a n%eighboring Republic had al
ready broken every yoke and let the OPP
pressed go free
"And how, with the constitution of the
United States in onr hands, proclaiming
that congress alone shall have power to de-
clare war, can we behold a President of.
the United States trample that sacred in
strumenti in the dust, deliberately, and with
the advice of congress then in session,
the country in a foreign war of
conquest, and yet not dare give uttrrance
to our indignant condemnation of his I'M
constitutional acts! Where is the man who
does not know and feel that this Mexican
war is a Presidential war? A war which,
before its commencement, congress would
not have declared! a war begun without
adequate cause, and without any great,
iustiliable, and commensurate object, COM
with the interests and integrity Of
the Union. A war conducted without wis
dom of design at Washington, and relieved
rom utter disaster ind public odium only
BY the prudence, bravery, and brilliant ex-
ploits of gen. Taylor and his gallan. army
Of regulars and volunteers, who have tri-
umphantly upheld our national banner, and
won for themselves iinperishable renownI
and the gratitude of their country"
Governor Bebb has by the production of
this preciOus document branded upon his
own forehead a mark of infamy so black.
that time can never efface it. Destitute Of
every spark of manly and patriotic feeling,
he has shown himself a violent partizan, a
b~lack-hearted knave, & a consurnmate fool.
His own country he would stigmatizc as
"A robber nation, while he would deeply sym
with her enemy, as an oppressed
and injured people-a people struggling a.
gainst "a foreign war Of c~Onq"est," waved
against them "without adequate cause, and
~iMo"t any great, j~"stifabh, and ON
mcnsurdte object" In a word, he contends
that the administration have trampled the
Constitution in the dust, and riveted slave
upon a region Of country sacred to free
dom, for which"A SENSE OF DEEP HuMrLIA-
TON AND GUILT should fall upon us; and
for which the administration should be helG
strictly accountable Who will say that
the Mexican nation will not find scoMroRr'i
in the expression of such sentiments, COM
as they do in the inaugural address, of
executive of one of the greatest States
in this Union? And will it not encoura We
them to renewed efforts, when they hear it
boldly proclaimed in America, that the
President is to be held to a strict ~accounta-
bility a: home, for this outrageously wan
and unjusiifable attack upon them, not
by a national but by a "rEEs1DEsr1AL.
If Mexico can credit the story of
his high 'JunctiOnary" is it not natural
that she should think that the sympathies
Of at least a part of the American ~people
are arrayed not in behalf of a President
who has t~rampled in the dust the constitu-
ion OF his own country, and swithout ade-
luate cause" assailed a sister Republic:
in behalf of the injured and Innocent
party? Has not Governor Bebb told them
n language as plain as light, that this war
IS waged upon them, not by the will of
he natlIn, nor by the advice and consent
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