Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-07-30
From the U. S. Gazette.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND ITS WAR

L llE hDMlINlO hA llON AMI ITO w An
The voice of the nation is daily raised with a
stronger and sterner emphasis against the present
war; No government, however despoc, ever
dared to carry on a contest so clearly condemned
by the people who were required to yield their
blood and treasure to maintain it. The despe-
rate proposition of the government organ TO sup
port it by indscriminato robbery of the temples
of religion, has aroused TO heightened indigna-
ton, the popular sentiment Of disgust before in
spired by the obvious disregard of every princi-
pie of justice and morality by this adminislra.
ZION.
The administration proclaims it TO be treason
in free people to look, with thinking eyes, into
the usurpations by which it forces the country
into Il war; the Wings disclaim and renounce
the doctrine with horror. They will think and
speak as freemen; and doing so they will pro.
claim that the President was guilty of outrage in
commencing the war without the consent Of Con.
gress. They will condemn the secrecy, the stra.
tegem, the cIandeSline trick, by which this mis-
fortune was precipitated; and will denounce the
object Of the administration, the renewal anl in
crease of power by offering conquest, spoil and
glory for popular suffrage. They have seen this
war thus guilty commenced, carried on from a
selfish desire to secure from it fictitious advan.
tages, TO reward partisans and overthrow oppo.
nens, at anv sacrifice of the interests Of the
country. The nation has blushed over the
wretched scheme Of sacrificing Scott and Tay.
lor TO political image with epaulettes, an item
Grant hero that never saw battle but who was
10 traverse and conquer, by scattering proclama
lions from one pocket of his new regimentaIs
and treaties from the other. 1t may be treason
10 execrate those abominabe tricks by which
corrupt aud stupid men SEEK in the affairs Of life
and death 10 a continent, to win a palry advan
tage for lacton-but the Wings will condemn
them, and the nation will be found sustaining
their course.
1t is certainly time to make the policy of th
administration the subject of rigid and respon
sive investigation, for up TO the present momen
we are not informed as to its objects. May no
the people of this republic be trusted with
knowledge Of what they are sluicing their vein
for! May they not inquire what good is proms
ed from all the palpabe evil by which they are
surrounded! Already our National debt is hea
Wy, and it will be greatly swelled by yet unIiqui
dated claims. Thousands Of valuable lives have
been sacrificed, and widows and orphans, a me
ancholy multitude, ask why they have been rem
dered desolate. The resistance TO our arms in
creases, and becomes more inveterate. The de-
mands of the war daily enlarge; still no CLEAN
of hope breaks through the policy of the admin
iStration.
long continued war must bring poverty, al
we'll as debt, for we cannot, at will, summon W
the gaunt form of European famine to enrich US
1t must render necessary standing army of con
quest, for war will soon become a habit; and i
must induce The military prohigacy which has il
all ages proved fatal TO a virtuous liberty. Bu
worse than the worst that has been anticipated
it must lead to the permanent occupation of Mex
leo. What then! We win Mexico and loos
our country. We destroy our Union, or extent
slavery, or secure both results. But can sucl
consequences be endured by tho people of thi