Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-06
To the wings of Grant County.

he framed. u on VIII nave i've utitpdt1s "
speak for you in the Convention which Is to
frame it. You have had experience Of the
wisdom of the Democrats in framing Con-
stitutions. Shall Wing principles be with
out their full representation in the next
Convention Grant is the great Wing
county of western Wisconsin. Toward her,
are turned with confidence, the eyes of all
Wings in the Territory. Let every Wing
then, be prepared 10 do his duty, aud LET
our delegation he composed entirely OF
Wings, staunch and tried men, selected
wholly with reference to their principles
and their ability. 1t is not alone TO secure
for Wisconsin a good Constitution that you
are called upon to organize and act As o
constituent portion ofalc grcat Wh'gparty,
YOU owe il TO yourselves md your country,
10 throw, il possible, the Influence and
power of Wisconsin upon the Wing side;
and this can be done only by organization,
activity and vigilance. Wisconsin viii soon
take part in the conduct of national aiialrs.~
She wllb called upon to aid and encourage
the bloody war of conquest now raging
which threatens the standardization OF
Mexico, g. countless injuries to our own ma
tional welfare, or 10 assist in arresting the fur
Their progress Of rpscalty, rapinc, & misrnlc.
To use the eloquent language of the adj
dress to the Wing Convention lately assem-
blcd at Syracuse, New York; "llitherto
there were well-known and well-recognized
bounds for our country; but now, that the
spirit of conquest has been LET loose, who
can tell where il his country, whether on
the Rio Grande, the Sierra Madre, the Rio
ella or the Gulf California, or whether
part Spanish, much Indian, and some Negro,
Santa Fean or Californian, may not be as
rood nm American citizen as HIMSELF Our
flag il borne, with fixed bayonets 10 sur
round il, and unmuzzled grape shot to clear
its way, in the conquering footsteps OF
Cortos-from the terra caliente of Vera
Cruz--by the base of the snowy peaks OF
Popocatopctl, 10 the eternal city of the
Az,ecs:--and Mcxicans of every color, and
every breed, sprung from eommingling
Moor aud straight. haired African as well
ms from CASTLE and Leon, arc made Amer
lean citizens, or prepared forbeing made SO,
hy the gentle logic of red-moulhed artillery,
laundering from the heights OF Cerro Cor
do to the bloody plain of courtreras and
Churubusco. Wherever that flag is, with
its stars and stripes, the emblem of our ma
tionalty, there our hearts are, but wei wo
TO tho men, we cry, who dispatched il upon
its mission of conquest, and what Is yet
worse, the conversion Of a free, into a
slave-holding territory.
Felow-citixens -- disguise the Mexican
war assophistry may, the great truth cannot
be put down. nor lied down--that il exists,
because Of the annexation Of Texas, that
from such cause we predicted such a
consequence would follow, and that but for
that cause, no war would have existed at all.
Disguise lis in,ents, purposes, and couse-
qucuees, as sophstry may struggle TO do,
the further great truth cannot be hidden,
tina, IFS main object is conquest of a mar
ket Cor slaves. and that the flag our victo-
rious legions rally around, iigh, under, and
fall for. is TO be dc>ceraied from its holy
character of Liberty aud Emancipation in
10 an erfand of bondage and slavery. In
obedience to the laws, and in a due and
faithful submission to the regularly eonsti-
tuted government of the Constitution, we
will rally by anddefsnd our flag, on whatever
soil. OF whatever sea, il is uniGrled--but be-
fore high Heaven, we protest agains, the
mission on which il is sent; aud we demand
It's recall TO the true and proper bounds OF
our country, as soon as in honor, il can he
brought home. We protest, too, in the
name Of the rights of man, and Of Liberty,
against the further extension OF slavery in
North America. The curse which our
mother country inflicted upon as, in spite Of
our fathers circumstances, we demand,
shall never blight the virgin sell of the
North Pacific. We feel thar il would be a
horrible mockery Cor the columns Of Anglo
Saxon emigration TO be approaching, and
looking down upon the dark, hcuishsed
races Of Asiaiic despogssn, with Afr,ca Gu
slaved under the banners thai head las