Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-06-02

conscience Of conscience wings! Verify.
~ old Montague said, 4 homnse dc piQue'
Man is his own sharper. The conscience
(especially Of "conscience," aud not
rarely Of s.cotton" wing, in politics, is
the most elastic material in the world =
To-day you cannot stretch it over mole
hill; to morrow it hides a mountain :"
The committee condemn themselves to
contempt, TO say nothing Of the morality
If the act. by their own report of these
resolutions. They are entitled, nResolves
concerning the .Msrican war and General
Taylor, his officers and men," and the last
resolution requests the governor to cut
oiithe fourth and fifth resolves and send
them to Major General Zachary Taylor,
and keep back the rest, to be secretly for
warded TO Santa Anna for his encourage
,ncnt, We suppose.
A grosser insult could not be perpe-
iratcd to that gallant commander, GeneraI
Taylor. and his invincible army, and we
mistake much the elevation and integrity
81 his character he would not regard it
as such.
Let US see how it would strike brave
man 10 be thu. treated by the double-iaced
Massachusetts, legislature. The resolves
that are 10 be sent to General Taylor say
not word Of the Mexican war, but the
title is, "Resolvss concerning the Next
can war" This title must so with
them. Of course the inquiry would be,
where is the other half ofthe resolutions,
and what do they say of the Mexican w.r?
They would be found in the papers, and
when PIT together they fsad just in this
wise. We take nothing but their sense,
and qaote mostly their very language. -
Thus, then, they read
"General Taylor: the Massachusetts
legislature believe that you are engaged
in the prosecution Of an offensive and
unnecessary war, gepugnant to the plainest
precepts of christianity and the enlightened
age in which we live They also believe
that its immediate origin was in the act
f,he executive, which ordered the Amer
lean army at Corpus Christi to the Rio
Grande, although they know, and you
will we'll remember, that you yourself re-
commended this movement.
They further believe that its purpose
is to give additional strength to the Stare
po,rer,' and they know Gas one of their
brother wings has said in New Hamp-
shire) that you are STAKEHOLDER and
have hundred mothers, with or with
out their babies, for sale liz the shambles,
and that you furnish creole virgins for the
bells of New Orleans, and riot on the ru.
in Of souls for whom the Man of Sorrows
died."l
They also tell you that massachusetts,
riu neuer sanction ,car thus begun and
sDoged for purpose so alien to her soil.--
That an offensive and unnecessary war is
one of the highest crimes uhich man can
commit, but when is superadded war for
the extension of slavery, its criminality
stands out in the boldest possible relief'
And we especially tell you, Major Cen
eral Zachary Taylor, for your personal
benefit, that the heroic deeds Of brave
men. wrought in the prosecution OF this
war, cannot relieve its authors from, anu
portion Of its guilt And we say this,
although you advised the occupation of
the Rio Grande boundary, and all the
wings in congress, but fourteen, were the
'au.hors of the war, by whose vote alone
that war was declared to exist!
Nevertheless, although you are eneag.
ed with the President, as his chief instru-
ment, in perpetrating The highest crime
man can commit and instead Of resigning
your commission when called on to engage
in this crime, have accepted major gen.
erals commission from the guilty author
% the war; James X. Polk, and are fight
ing and killing innocent Mexicans and
plundering their towns, against the
plainest precepts of Christianity'--and al
though WE ABHoR THE PURPOSES FOR
WHICH THIS WAR WAS BEGUN AND Is CON-
TIHuED,' yet JUSTICE! and love of
brave deeds alike demand that we should
remember and HONOR those whose valor
and skill have shed undying lustre upon
the arms Of the North American republic
by carrying on this gerry ,var which we so Ut
teriy sABHsR'!!
And therefore, General Taylor, though
we have twice voted down resolutions of
thanks, before you got to be popular, vet,
as some of our political friends begin to
think it likely you may be an available
whig candidate for the presidency, and
we may want few offices if you come
in, we have concluded to ask Deacon
Briggs, our worthy conscience governor,
to tear off all that part which curses the
war you are engaged in, and which is ne
cessary TO quiet our abolition friends here,
and send you this vote of thanks We
should have said nothing against the war
to hurt your feelings, only that we are 10
bad fix, and have to shuttle along the
best we can, so as TO pacify the abolition
lists, and at the same time not offend our
southern slave holding whig brethren"
Reduced to plain matter of fact, this is
the exact Interpretation of these hypocrit-
ical, double.faced resolutions. The quo
tations are directly from the resolutions,
and the meaning is clear and obvious in
all its contemplate inconsistency of prin-
ciple and purpose.
Self respect would never permit the
gallant Taylor to read such resolutions at
the head OF the brave men who with him
have perilled their lives in this Just and