Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-12-29
masses Of the wing party recognizes and
sustain such sentiments a. are expressed
in the paragraph above quoted. m 4.

usdsSeS VI uI0 WHY Py
sustain such sentiments a. are expressed
in the paragraph above quoted. !
4 Among those who usually vote the whie
ticket, from erroneous ideas Of national and
state policy, are hundred. and thousands
Of as honest and patriotic men as the coun-
ltry can boast, who would not for moment
continue their connection with party
known 10 entertain such tory sentiments
With many Of them, il is a species ofblind
Iinfatuation which leads them 10 balieye
that their party means right, whatever its
leaders may say, or that they do not really
entertain the anti American sentiments
attributed 10 them. But it does appear to
us that those who could doubt after read
ing Webster, Clay's and Corwin's speech
es, must certainly have their eyes opened
on reading in their accredited party organs
such glaring passages as the above from
the N. Y. Tribune. a4a s.~F74
| We therefore suggest to our democratic
friends everywhere, the prcpriety Of hold
ing up to the eyes Of their honest wing
neighbors, SO that they cannot avoid real
izing the truth, all such expressions from
an unprincipled partizan press stepped to
the very lips iii toryism Of a blackerz hue
than that Of the Federal Tories of the
Revolution, because the same excuse
does not now exist, as then. Let them see
that ifthey continue to support that party,
they must necessarily endorse those sen.
! timents and adodt them as their own.
Every honest man, even if indifferent
as to his own political character, should
have some regard for the honor and feel
ings of his posterity. II blessed with chill
dren, with sons, he should shudder al the
thought of its being said Of them in after
years, that their father was Tory, under
the assumed name Of "Whig. .s..@ ~
Read carefully the above sympathetic
appeal in behalf OF 'pros,ra,e, bleeding
Mexico calling upon American voters
to 'save the brave men Of that Republic
from laying down to die" &c, and observe
that, throughout the whole Of it, not one
word Of sympathy occurs for the hundreds
o: American soldiers who, after having
been lassoed or taken prisoners, have been
inhuman!y murdered by these ''traue men
of Mexico" or, having fallen wounded
in battle, the last spark of life barbarou>ly
extinguished and their PROSTATE bodies
horribly mangled by these same brace men
who are the exclusive objects Of federal
sympathy.
Read it again. "Shall we continue 10
butcher hcm!' inquiries this Mexican at
heart. This is uhig consolation and en-.
enlargement to the many thousand patri-
otto Americans who have volunteered te
vindica,e the honor Of their country
"Still we continue to butcher them, be.
cause" &c. This :sbecause" is an un,nit
iga'ed, palpab'e lie, that could only have
been conceived against his coutry by the
vile heart Of a Mexican Tory. "Shame
on the heathenish, tiendish requisi,ion y
The question is well asked by cotempo
rary: Fathers, brothers, wives and chill
dren Of America! ye who have heart.
beating in unison with your own kindr,
and cou'r, men, now eng 9ged in protsc
ing ours and your coan;ry's homer at the
! lannon's mouth-will you allow them te
oe reproached as 'ieathens and fends?'-
Shall the thousands Of gallsnt spirits VII,
have watered the sell of a most PREACHER
Gus and insolent foe with their hearts
b!ood-shall Ringgold, Brown, Hardin
Mills, Guthrie, Walker, with a host o
bright ornaments to the army-shall oul
own Iowa Volunteers, some of whom hav.
left an eye, and others leg or an arm OF
the field of glory, with our Mills and ou1
Guthrie, who have yielded up their live
- shall all these be stigma;ized by thei
bre,hern ., home as band Of desperadoes
those mission 20 Mexico was merely t.
"Jutcher' her people, to despoil ,hei
homes, and 10 outrage their wives an;
daughters? Patriotic wings OF Iowa-fo'
we address ourselves not 10 the politica
mountebanks tits Tor YOU to say whether
this foul aspersion shall go unrebuked.
The N, Y. Courier and Enquirer is The
only wing paper that has uttered its dis
sen, from this infamous wing and Mexi
can attack upon the country, and the army
4 and the cause Of the country. 1t says, in
lignaat-a and with & eat justice:
/ "Here by implication at least, our arm,
is charged with rape, robbery and murder
snd here, too, is bold attempt to identify
the wing party, with a reckless opposition
TO the war, at the sacrifice Of the every
j ;,st bopost and patriotic sentime nj