The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1847-07-09
From the Somerset Democratic Union.
Hear the Volunteers.

Z From the Somerset Democratic Union.
Hear the Volunteers.
We commend to the attention Of our read
ors, the following extract from a letter written
by volunteer in Mexico, TO The editor of the
Hooking Sentinel. We believe it contains
the sentiments of the entire volunteer force.
What excuse can the wing party offer for de-
nouncing the cause voiaafarity engaged to
fight and declaring them ROBBERS and MUIR
DrRERs?- p Can that party suppose that the no.
Bile hearted boys from Ohio can endorse it in
its denunciatons of the country, its cause, and
its soldiers! While they are upholdng Cor
WIN, inviting him to Kentucky, nominating
him for the Presidency and Vice Presidency,
they seem to forget that many thousands of
voters sill soon return from the field of bat
tie proud of their country and OF their own
brave deeds, who are well aware that Corwin,
after voting to send them there, refused to
vote one cent to pay them for their toll and
suffering
Do they suppose the volunteers will quietly
hear it asserted that they voiunteered to fight
in an UNuoLY, or UNJrsr, "uNNEcE sA Y
quarrel! the war be as DAMNArLE as the
wings declare, then should every man be
AsHAMr Of having participated in it But
to the letter. 1t speaks for it self.
Read! Read!!
"Nothing has of late transpired of much
importanance here. We are encamped on an
extensive plain, about 5000 strong, ready to
whip old Santa Anna or any other one legged
cri,ter, and all creation besides, if an oppor
tunity should offer. venture to say the
world never beheld merrier set Of fellows
thaa those now composing the American ar
my on the plains Of Bona Vista, notwith-
standing we are daily denounced, at home, as
n set of mercenary rob ers, by such men as
Tom Corwm and that, too, upon the floor OF
the Senate of the United States. Great God
1t is hard to bear. Here we are, in an enc
my's country, three thousand miles from eve
ry one and every thing we value and hold
lear Separated from our friends and our
ZONES undergoing all the difficulties, prva-
ions, and dangers incident TO war. We have
marched days, waist deep, through water, and
gain whole days, under a tropical sun, with
,ut drop Of water to moisten our pnrchcd
ips we have been surrounded by the enemy,
md for hours, under a most terrific fire, have
,een compelled TO fight ten to one, in point
If numbers; this, for instance, was our situa-
ion on the plains of San Francisco, where
ess than two hundred of us fought, more than
I've hours, General Urren, with nearly two
housanl Mexicuns Yes, after enduring all
his for our countrv's sake, suffering harlships
Without number after meeting countless dan
yers in every possible shape, and after meet
ne and looking death, unshrinkingly, in the
ace, we are denounced by your milk-s pol
iicians at home, as n set Of mercenaries.
SIX you again, my friend, is it not too much
0 bear! And this language is not only used
gainst us by one man, or two men, but by
he whole federal clan from maine to Georgia,
"But as things are we have to submit for
me, at least; but tell the scoundrels to trem-
le, the day of retrbution is drawing nigh
ie term of the volunteers now in the field has
early expired and 10 give you faint idea
f what the federalist have to expect when
G get home, permit me to state that few
lights since Tom Corwin was burnt in effigy
V the 2d and 81 Ohio Regiment Of volun
GERS, on the plain in front of their encamp-
leni, in the presence Of 5000 American sold
ars, who all endorsed the act by one long,
oud and continuous shout that made the
surrounding our camp rock to its
cry base"