Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-12-21
THE ENQUIRER.
RIG II NJ O n d, VA.
Monday Morning, December 20, Is47.



upon the conduct Of our officers and men are even
grosser and more malignant than at any former period
We are unable to reconcile these uniform attempts 10
blacken, underrate and degrade the American army
with any thing like feeling Of friendship, or even or
binary good will country IL Is all well enough,
at public feasts and publications., talk Of our being
brethren from the same common stock. 1t s very pru-
dent, doubt, when difficulties between the two ma
lions threatened make frequent illusions to our
near relationship of blood language and origin! Hut
we would rather see uniform exhibition Of kindly
gard Ii permanent peace between The two countries
be object worth seeking. as all adult II VIII Certain
~ not be attained BY the constant and untemstng Ell
forts Of the British press to make their people believe
c0unirymen the greatest scound!els on the face nl
CREATION Such q course must breed contempt ana
hatred Of In England, while, on this side, II Will
naturally deep seated resentment, which will
pant for the opportunity ofavenging long train u" I'M
lRiehmond Republican.
} We cordially concur with these sentiments OF
our neishbor-bul, al the same time, we must
express oursurprise that he has overlooked, on the
same "Grst page of the Herald" long article
from the great metropolitan Wing organ, The Ma
tional Inellisencer, which for libellous vlupera
ton and abuse fnlly equals any thing that we have
seen in the British press. The Herald did well 10
group together these extracts from the British
press and from the erea, Wing American-Mexi.
CAN organ at Washington To show how far the
parallel runs, We extract few passages from
each
The London Sun serbs forth lis venom upon
The subject OF the execution OF the desercrs near
Mexco-a proceeding which, the Republican
we'll remarks, "has been witnessed in the British
army thousand times under circumstances OF
infinitely greater arociy, and often for offences Of
much less importance" The Sun denounccs the
"unwiacipled aggresSions upon the neishboring
territories" Of MeXico-ard referring 10 the exc
cuiiou OF the deserers, ads:
"Ot all The atrocities ever rerpera'ed in war
fare, not one is recorded mole COOL deliberate aud
! devilish in its cruelty. &c rs Z FIfhg nhsrc!i"
OF the sentiments n rapinc and sn1nsttcs az ,oaleh
this Me1,can inrns'On has friginGted. II is a
testimony, moreover, that the Americans have Re.
| ceved terrible reception from their opponents
| for il is among the most famous remarks OF The
most wonderful soldier who ever ifod The earth,
that whenever an army is ruthless in victory, De
sure it has very narrowly escaped defeat !"
Next comes the ponderous and truly Mexican
article from The National Inellisencer 1t de-
nounees The President forth "sanguinary strain"
of his message, "almos, in The dialect OF the
shambes," and asserts hat he 'e1apes more coD-
cues, more bulcheIy." II then brings forward
boldly the infamous charge that the war was "pre-
mcd,atcd By the President" and that 'the or2i-
nal Office, OF this war, and The sole true cause
ami motive oiil, was conquest; or, in otter words,
the coercion ct Mexico TO surrender territory
which MIR. Polk ambioned the celia. OF annexing
TO the United States"
We now introduce another and a longer eI-
tract from the lntellgencer, which is as alrocious
libel as was ever penned by British writer:
"Though Congress was sitting for months be.
fore he had brought every thing 10 bear contrircd
to have war completely 10 tlazc, and our sue
coress army placed in what (iheir proves un-
KNOWN seemed an almost hopeless predicamen
| before the country or Congress knew orc word
OF what he was about. II we loek closer and
sean the particulars OF things We must not only
say that President Polk is no, assessed OF that
| virtue OF ruler which he claims, asd-we re-
| sret that we must say it--has shown. AID every
! where in this message shows himself, utterly in
different 10 the carnage and calamities OF war.-
OF little less than stone, indeed mus; his heart be-
| who can look without The strongest commisera-
,ion, upon The spectacle Ot nation reduced TO the
extremity OF distress in which Mexico, known
from the first 10 be incapable OF resisting us,
now stands. Not one spark OF compassion
can hi. breast ever have known, who, az
Ter infliclipg upon a wreched people, desti-
tue of any resource against US but their heredi-
tary obstinacy all the slaughter and hum liza
lion which we have ever where Inflicted upon
Mexico, can coolly resolve in his heart that this
is not enough; no tucd enough, not leafs enough,
not sufficient ravaee not satisfactory disaster, no.
national wee and degradation Gully deep: 10! that
the viciim.peu2le, though covered with blood, ami
PROSTATE 10 the ius!, still, wi;h desperate though
feeble hands, fights though vainly, for its hearhs
and aItars-lhaI, therefore, as Mexico does mol
| Weld, We must now begin 10 strike her Yin her
vital paris" and besides seizing Tor ours perpetu-
ally lerritoIies'the utmost that even rapachy has
dared avow Tor our aim, most practically and
peace.lovinsly exhorts us 10 60 on ravasns The
rest of Mexico, until the nation yields or is de-
siroyed. Hhy the pcry sarage Of The court gaTd,
in other limes-ihal most brutal Of mankind, the
b.y Of Tie bailyick wio ,he'ced np an car or nose
or seooped out Nth thumb PROSTATE adrsrSargs epe
-pas humane, aras generous, IN compa'iso" 'caa
thus; for he, when lie fought, never fought The
weak, but rather his match; nor. when his RI
val champion lay easping and helpless under
him, game 10 the last, and ready 10 die
sooner than utter the craven wofd "encnsh,"
would he have ever though, al proceeding 10 mu-
tilale the vapquished, by way Of forcing him to
confess himself conquered, aud them moreover
have hcipsd himself 10 whatever he could tind in
the manned mans pockels No: even in his
hardened heart there would he manly pity, be.
cause there was courage: II be did mol al once
raise IN his enemy with respect, he at least would
moi begin ITO strike at his vital paris" and well
for him. too, that he would not; for the very crowd
of court green, coarse as il then was, was yet
undebauched of every RICH, sentiment by parry
nolitics. and 'woud not have suffered in The 6uAV
what il now enduIcs in The President. So much
tor The mercieS and The computations OF him who
proposes 70. The iucrc ~ fvc misera6lc md1ons Of
iadeniqAieS, which he hmsei acknowledges Mex-
leo could not raise The means OF paying, 10 butch.
er or enslave whole erDPile OF Republics!
The Inteligencel's article winds up with a
virtual encouragement TO Mexico 10 continue her
obstinate and infatuated opposition 10 peace, de-
claring that "none Blu, a nation oil cravens and
fool, ever resigns itself 10 making terms at such
moment" and that
"Slill, in The pernaci'y of her relusa's tc
treat, Mexico has shown some CLEANS oil ina
old Numaniine spiri; which preferred DEAN
10 surrender; that iberian obsinacy which The
! Moor could never q1ell, nor even The irresii.
bic armies of Napoleon iamc. Whether she has
caueh, il from her race, or whether the growing
fierceness of universal national haze such as
always springs up in country overr1n by !nva'
ders inspires il, we should respect il. ]! is honor
able; il will be found formidable. Such spirit,
once fairly awakened, has ever proved invinci-
BILE; ard We shall. find to our cost, IT. by pro-
Ion ged and cruel warfare, such as President Polk
would have, we stir it up throughout, Mexico"
The Inelligencer's article is APPLY danked by a
raving editorial OF the London Times, Of SINH
lar character. We make brief extract:
"7ae deepest scAsme which has ever been devil
sed for territorial aggrandisement and military
aggression by the Cabinet Of an absolute power
al the head Of grea, army would not hare been
more systematically carried on than the subju
CATION of Mexico has been by the successive
Presidents OF the most democratic republic in The
world. Three years ago they (hc Americans
affected TO deny the possibility OF war witt
Mexico, We, the President ordered the troops o
the Union to march into The disputed territory or
The frontier, with perfec, knowledge that sucf
an act was an unprovoked declaration of war
Butchery and page cannot be the main objects
! of any army in our day: some politleal pGrpos