Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-07-14

gaining elemehts'o of discord, brought order out
OF chaos, and upon the broken fragments of q
disunited confederation, reared the finest gov
ermentat structure of any age. Gather around
his 'cofch and see ''christan die" and sure
iy you will exclaim, ''here first, since the NOR
ming stars sang togetheD" have We "found in
one glow OF associated beauty" General with.
out rashness: aPatriOt without cruelty; Chris
tian without fanaticism; Statesman without
ambitich and Hero worthy our entire appro-
baton.
Peacefully and low he sleeps on the banks of
the Potomac-Requiescat tn pace. The MEM
DRY OF his virtues will never fade from the hearts
Of his countrymen, but flourish in everlasting
youth, fresh and green as the v,rdure that
bends DER his tomb On the margin of his own
favorte river.
Fellow citizens, have spoken of our rapid
progress, you can follow that progress rapidly
| through the war of 1912, when the proud mis-.
| tress OF the seas was hurhbied on her own ia
vorte element. You have perceived our civil
growth and prosperity, to which, there seems
no lmit-while recent events upon our south
western frontier, have added new lustre to our
arms, and wreathed the brows of our soldiery
with never-fading laurels.
Fellow citizens, it does not become me
on this occasion, to discuss the origin or
causes of the Mexican war, its history cannot
yet be written. We meet to-day on common
ground and unite In the toast of the heroic De-
catur. Our "country, may she aiirays he right,
but tight or crong, our country" We can
see and rejoice that we are not the "Jes eaerate
sons OF worthy sires, that the military spirit of
rs is not dead within us. " hilc we have
Taylor and Scott, Walker and MAY,
Davis and Worth, while the blood of Yell,
/
Clay fertilises the everglades and while the
bones OF our soBs bleach on the plains ofMexico
we need not Fear that insult will be heaped up
on our National Flag, or European interfer-
ence in the affairs Of this eontinent thrust upon
us at the point Of the bayohet. The saihe ener-
gy of character, the same exciteable daring, the
same fearlessness of spirit, the same contempt
for suffering and danger that distinguished the
sens OF 10, is now displayed under the burning
sun of Mexico, In the bloody battles of Resaca
de Ia Palma and Pale Alto, in the lightning
like mahpdVefs Of their flying artillery; in the
headlong charge Of the Murat of the arrnyLt.
Col. May, in the characteristic words yf Old
Rough and Ready, 81 will be in Fort Brown to
night if live," are seen the energetic working
of the Anglo American character, turned from
the peaceful occupations of creating cities; rail-
roads and telegraphs, 10 the terrors of war and
bloodshed. Along the blazing lines of Monte
rey, prodigies of valor are performed, solitary
seargeants guards boldly charge up to their
heaviest guns, and sweep the cannoniers like
chaff before the winds of heaven. Gallant
Worth takes battery after battery and points
their own artillery at the devoted city. Texan
Rangers 'fghting ON their own hook" with
crowbar in one hand and rife in the other,dig
from wall to wall through the city, shooting
and picking to the very centre of the Plaza
sold lack" rides through the bullets, bearing
charmed life; and nine thousand of the finest
and best disciplined troops of nation that has
BEEN engaged in wars and tumults for the last
thirty years, surrenders a walled town, nearly
every house of which is built of stone, consttu-
ting by itself a perfect fort, to four thousand
raw levies, a large portion of whom, a few
months previous, were occupied in the peaceful
avocatons of rustic life. Search the records
of war and you will not find parallel.
To recount all the brave deeds of SOUR army
in Mexico" would fequire more time and talent
than your speaker is now possessed off and to
all Of you would be but 'twice told Tales. But
the iiiothig of the 9Rd Of February; that one
hundred and fifteen years ago was the glorious
birth day of Nations regeneration, must not
be left unnotIeed. That mornings sun shone
over the hil-tops Of Buena Vista, Int up the en-
campment of Taylor g. the myriad hosts OF Santa
Anna, that filled the horizon like swarms of To-
Gusts, you recollect the result of that contest
you remember that less than 5000 volunteers
routed and put to flight more than 2O,0 90 of the
Mexique hosts, and, as on remember, you ex-
nit and feel glad at the success of our chieftans
and soldery. But should you turn to the list |
of killed and wounded who fell in that saigui:
nary struggle and recalled that one of those |
brave men, was of more importance TO his coun- |
try, than myrads of those Mexican maggots
that batten on the corruption ehgendered in that
misguided revolutionary republic. You must |
feel, with the rough old Hero of that battle, |
"no cause to exult over victory thus dearly
purchased
The fall of San Juan de Uldoa, the Giberater
of America, where the gallant leader OF the |
sortie at Fort Erie, gained new iinfading lau-
reIs. The campaign of California, the ex-
petition of Fremont, Tuspan, Alveiado, Chi
huahua, San Louis Potosi. The march of Don
iphan like the tonquering expedition of Cortez
all the numerous battles of that short but
brilliant campaign, all show the ndomitable en-
ergy s. irresistible proves of our citizen soldiery
All honor to the brave-peace to the. ashes of
the dead, that died for their countfy.
Fellow citizens, while we thus exult with heart
felt gratitude at our situation and our pros
poets, it becomes us as men, as Patriots, to
guard against future and impending danger.-
[ am no cfoaker, nor do believe that the thou
sand and one important events and changes of
party tactics and party warfare, that are con-
stantly overthrowing our Cover nfneDts and I'M
dermning our constitution, will ever move, the
one milIlunth of a hair, the firm columns
of our Republic. But lock about you, there
may be cloud in the horizon, albeit no larger
than mans hand, that may yet darken our
whole political heavens.
1t may yet be that the very elements of our
prosperity and success, will be the chief instru-
iuents of our overthrow, and oh! how poignant
will be our anguish, if our future history shall
manifest to the world that our own rapid growth
and overlapping ambition were Inherent with
dissolution aid ruin.
$50 the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain,
No more thro' rolling clouds to soaf again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,
Keen were his pangs, but kcener far to feel
He nursed tho pinon that, that impesd the steel,