Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-22
The Mexican News.

By the news from Mexico it will be seen
that the armistice has been brought to a close,
and The work of human butChery is going on
more fcarlully and more savagely than ever.
This, too, it appears, is after the Mexicans
had Ql1sred TO relinquish Texas to the n eu-
ces,-which is as far as there ever was n shad-
ow of a claim for-to make the barren desert
and chapparai between that river and the Rio
Grande, a sort of neutral territory, on which
they would place no military armament, and
to cede TO US as much of Califor MIA as would
make nine States. each larger than New
York. including all the best harbors on the
Pacific Ocean.
10 us, it does appear, that those who would
Justify the further prosecution OF so lnhuman
a war, against an inferior race, under such
circumstances, must be void of all the high
er characteristics Of honor and manhood, and
be possessed of the spirit of tiends incarnate.
Tell US not 0 Irrational honor. Does that con-
sist in depressing the weak, and trampling in
the dust the unfortunate! If it does, Heaven
defend US from National Honor and Glory.
This whole Mexican war, from its incep-
ton to its close will be one of the blacklist
and most damning stains upon our national
character, second only to that horrible system
Of human slavery, in which it had its origin.
Why will a single northern man any longer
countenancc its prosecution for a single mo-
mentl Why will they not demand, as with
one voice, that the internal drama shall be
/ closed, and our armies withdrawn from Mex
leo? Twenty thousand of the young men of
our country have already poured out their
blood to manure the soil of Mexico, or be-
come victims in the camp to the pestiIentlal
climate, and to the Trivations Of a soldiers
life. More than a hundred millions Of dol
lars have been squandered in this unholy and
unnatural war. Are these not sacrifice enough
to the slave power, or must we 20 on butch
ering the Mexicans, sacrificing our own men
and rXhausting the treasure of the country,
till our fendish cravings are glutted with
blood, and our national credit is PROSTATE in
the dust2 Every blow that is now struck by
us in this war, is a blow aimed at liberty, and
SHOULD be so looked upon by the free north.
The slave power already holds the country
in fearful thraldom. Shall it be permitted
still further to strengthen itself, and shall we
permit ourselves to be made the willing tools
Of its triumph and of our own degradation,
and that, too, at The sacrifice of national hon
or, and in violation of all the impulses of hui
m~anity! We trust not, for we cannot be-
lleve that we are yet so degraded.
We would, now, respectfully ask those
VINO JuSt!iy lhe prosecution OF a war, WHICH
they admit to he wrong in itself, and to be
carried on for infamous purposes, where they
propose to stop2 Our Government demands
of Mexico the c~ession of more than one halt
of its whole territory, to cut up into new
States, to be peopled by Shareholders and
slaves, and from which laboring lreemen will
Of course be excluded. 1t is now evident
that the MeXicans have determined never to
cnhDIt hpt rather Snp thoIT pountrU laid UAs.
olate, ard themselves buried in its RUNS
How long do those to whom we now address
ourselves, propose to carry on such a war, un,
der such circumstances, and for such objectsI
We never look upon this war but with a feel
ing Of shame for our country, that 1t shonld
so degrade itself in the eyes Of the whole civ
ilized world; of indignation al those who SO
recklessly brought it upon as; and of pity Of
contempt for those, who, knowing what IL
right and what is wrong, have such an obtuse'
ness ai MORA, perception as not 70 60 a3's "a