Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-30
From the Ohio Statesman.
Mexican Federalism We. Hard
Cider WhigerV,

The Journal attempts u reply to an ar.
ticic in the Statesman on the subject-of
the protection of the war. and in SO doing
makes up list of killed and wounded in
the different battles, much greater than the
truth will warrant. Its editor then adds
the following, which we COPY, mainly for
the purpose ofplacing it on file for future
use:
Ear be it from us to attempt 10 rob the
administration of the credit which il may
derive from this war. We freely award
to it, as history will, the credit of slaught-
cd thousands--of widowed hearts land
desolated homes-of orphans tears--of
widespread immorality-of squandered
millions-of an enormous public debt
of all untold evils, social and political,
which have resulted and will result from
this most unnecessary warfare. Not for
the wealth of India would we take upon
our soul lhe credit of oil this--not for the
broad acres and fair cities which Mr..
Polk may fitch from the whipped but not
conquered Mexicans, would zee possess
the Presidents brain, through which will
fit, until its workings are quieted under
the sod, the ghosts of the pale dead who
have found their graves in the sands and
chapparals of Mexico. No--let history
give it all to the administraiion-and when
coming generations turn back to the Eages
in which it is written, they viii mark il
! as the darkest record--the foulest blot
upon the annals of this government"
The above, it will be borne in mind, is
from the organ of the party that, in 1910,
was moved with the war spirit so strongly
that their papers teemed with praises Of
Gen. Harrison, because of his victories
at Tippecanoe and Fort Meigs. The
''ghosts ofthe pale dead. who found their
graves on the MaUmee, the Thames,
and at Tippecanoe, were quieted by tho
hard cider which was drank by wing edi-
tors and wing orators in praise Of Gen.
| Harrison. ara
On the very battle ground, while yet
the plow turned up the skeleton Of the
soldiers, the Bacchanalian reyels of whig-
cry, during that campaign. were heard,
and men drank, and drank to intOxication
that they might do honor TO the hero whose
praises they then. for party effect, sung.
Reeking from that campaign, and still
redolent of the perfume which the cider
barrel gave, whigery now loses its love
for military glory, in pity for the poor
Meric0nst ii .gIHqtgs3 10
When these songs, and shouts were
iheard--when the cider barrel was drained
by the gourd full, to wash the dry throats
of wing orators, our country was at peace
with all the world; and of course, vhig-
cry, in peace, was the. ''scar party" But
now the is charged. The enemy
invaded our soiland murdered our citi-
zens, and the Congress of the United
States, underline official oaths Gifts men,
bers, declared that for these acts. state
of war exists. Whigery is now. Sin trar,
the peace party; and the editor of its or
gan, himself cider sucker Of 1910, talks
most piieously of "widowed hearts, 's'.or-s
phan's tears, and "wide spread gimmor.
ality" For his eouutrymenr-for the
murdered Col. .Cross-for the base butch
cry of Lieut.. Miiler, whose heart was torn.
while still beating, from his body, before
life was extinct, and placed upon = bush