Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-26

morilizing. Many a man who has not yeet
seen the inherent corruption of Il league WIN
oprressors, based upon a compromise WIN
their sin, yet has a vision sufficiently clear 10
see the vicious tendency Of his glowing de-
s%cription of the wealth and glory when
would come TO us in the acquisition OF all
Mexico. The expectation that our govern
ment would propose equitable and honorable
terms Of union TO the Mexican nation, or that
that people would consent 10 an alliance win
the robbers Of their country and their church
es, the murderers of their sons, and the raw
ishers of their wives and daughters, seems
TO us too wild a fancy for a reasonable and
unprejudiced mind to entertain for an hour.
Nor is it more rational to expect the proud
and preiudiced shareholders and negrl-haters
of our country to admit the negroes and half
bloods and mixed races, who compose the
large body of the Mexican people, to full
equality in political rights and privileges
with themselves or that the slaveholding OIL
lgarchy, which is virtually the L. ). Gov
ernment, will throw away a prize, for which
they have spent so much, when it is ready
at their hands. Poorly has the man studied
human character, and especially those pages
of 1t which the history of the progress and
power of slavery in our country u%nfolds, who
dUllCIUdIPS SUCH Il RESULT. III InB AIntTlChu
people were so thoroughly revolutionized in
their moral condition, that they were prepar-
ed for this they would at once withdraw
their marauding armies, and leave their sister
nation unspoilcd. Till they are prepared TO
do this, il were as reasonable to look for JUS
tice and the mild policy of peace from a tribe
of buccaneers toward their victims. Till
then every glittering picture of the advanta-
ges of Mexican annexation, appeals TO their
national ambition and pride, and lust for a
wider domain and power, is an impulse to
drive them on to seize the territory Of MeXi-
co in their own way.
When we try to show DR.. Bailey and his
readers the evil tendencies of this pandering
TO the seIfshness Of an avaricious and violent
people, he slides over the subject by telling
his readers that we do not revere the I'm
lon'-that we DO not worship this God of
the American people. We do not complain
of his Proclamation of our inlidelity 20 the
popular idol, but we are still unconvinced
that he is doing a service to justice and free
dom.
His assertion that it is the liberal and an
ti-war papers which have endorsed his posi-
ton, and that only one or two Of the war adj
vocates have approved it, does not accord
with our observation, nor do we believe that
The commentator he receives from the New
FORK Sun, the National Wing, the Spirit of
the Times, and the Washington correspond
dent of the Ledger, and other open defenders
of the war and the unlimited plumber of Mex.
leo, indicates "a returning sense Of justice
on their part. When they show this 'sense
of justice" by their ceasing to demand the
entire conquest, and rebuklng the robbery Of
a feeble nation, we will give them credit fol
it. Till then their approval is good testimo.
ny in corroboration of our opinion Of the ten.
denotes Of his course-which opinion is fur
Their sustained by the impressions made by
the Era's article upon such papers as the
Richmond Wing and Louisville Journal.