The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-11-26

the wing editors are not Mexicars. Here m
there, like stray sheep in herd Of goat
may be heard the bleat of one who is unwi
ling 10 be COMPOUNDED with the company i
which he finds himself unwillngly place,
Amid the general and unceasing denuu
citation by The wing press of the present wa
IS nnrishicous, nnjustifable, God-abho,
red, disgraccful. Sc, &c., the editor Of N
Illinois Journal darcs 10 raise his VOC
above the din, in favor Of his own country
That n wing ~ ''dceply dyed" and u
unscruvulcus in the advocacy of the prirci
pies Of his party generally as the .diior O
the Illinois Journal, should take sucl
grounds on this question, may well exci.,
surprise. BIZ hi> course is easily account
ed for by the editors own explanation. II,
says his mind was made NJ on this sutjec
''bciure there was war with Mexico, ol
the rumor Of war; Ii was before III,
question had become cntsncied with the
>chems Of politicians and president mai crs
before the editor had mingled deeply in the
party questions Of the day: when lie could
think and Judge cody. calm!y. and without
prejudice. |, was under such circumstan-
ceS that lie formed the conviction
that we had just cause for war with
Mexico, and all the subsequent party tram
n:cls which he assumed could not eradicate
this conviction from his mind.
His ,,,iication Of the war the editor pla-
ces Oh the outrascs committed by the Mex
place. Government, he holds, is bound to
protect it' citizens in every pant of the
world, and to redress their ruus>. when
any are committed against them. Such
wrongs have been Cnmni,,cd by Mexico
in countless instances against citizens Of the
United States. They have been robbed.
murdcrt d imprisoned, and made TO suliert the
most iEhuman barbarities, and the flag Of
cur county has been nsultod ana tramplcd
under foot. "Let any man." continues the
Journal. ".ead the testiin,ny which has
been taken in the cases Of tie Mexican
claimants, and if In can DO 50 without feel
ing his blood alternately freeze With horror
and burn with Indignation, we 10 not envy
the moral susccptibilitics Of lis nature"
And for all these wrongs, the Mexican gov
ernment have steadily refused to make com
pensa,ion. The editor goes into the subject
at some length, aud arrives at the following
natural conclusions. We commend them
to the consideration Of Tie wing press gen
orally =
We had, then. just cause of war with
Mexico. General jackson never uttered
greater truth, we are strongly inclined Ia
believe. than when he dec AIRED in one of his
messages to Congress. that the treatment
which our citizens had received from the
Mexican authorities was "a lst cause Of an
immediate war" This cause was not re
moved. II had existed for ga SERVES Of
years." as Mr.. Polk truly says; and it ex-
listed down 10 the commencement of actual
hostliteS. Such is the conclusion a our
minds, in regard to this branch of the sub
ject and such il has been from the time we
became fully acquainted with the manner IN
which the Mexican authorities had treated
American citizens. five had received the
tenth part Of the bad treatment from Great
Britain. that we have from Mexico, we
should have been at war with her long ago.
Our conduct towards Mexico has, indeed.
been characterized by great forbearance and
All this forbearance and
magnanmity wa, thrown away on the pco-
pie Of Mexico. who are incapable Of being
by the consideration Of such
things; indeed, they only took advantage Of
it. in order TO continue in the course of rob
berry and plumber they had adopted towards
our citizens. The citizens of Great Britain
they respected; because they knew that
Great Britain would call them 10 a speedy
reckoning for any outrage to her subjects, or
for any insult TO her flag.