The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-15

We lay before our readers further details OF OF
the prouest events of the present day In addition the
letter of MIR Kendall OF the Pcayune, embracing many
the incidents Of the several engagements, and the list OF
the honored Dead and OF those who have been wounded
and shed their precious blood the their country
we publish letter from highly gifted officer of the
army which presents the most graphic and correct de-
tails which we have yet seen 1t is letter never in.
tended for the public eye; but it bespeaks taste and
talent which would do honor to any writer. The details
are, of course, corect because they from eye
witness and an in the stirring scenes, who has the
judgment to seize the most important events and the
power describe them We add to his description the
Mexican of the events, they presented
by two Mexcans who write without reserve TO their
intimate friends at Tampico. We subion also transla-
ton OF the whole of the remarkable Manifesto of Santa
Anna. There have been no dispatches received directly
from the camp by the Secretary OF War the Adutant
General. But the documents which we now lay before
readers sufficiently authentic to command general
conference.-the not to exhaust the public curiosity. We
wait anxously for the official details of of the most
brilliant battles which has ever been fought
Perhaps the history of this continent does not furnish
daring and splendid achievement The bosom of
every American swels with pleasure and with pride at
this glorious event The Mexcans fought to defend
their capital They were acquainted with the country.
They knew all its strong and all its weak points They
knew where defend and where to strengthen them.
They had collected artillery enough to make any posi-
ton which they might take formidable to any assaant
The country itself presents Businesses at almost every
step-mounans which were to be assembled, and passes
which to be overcome. Thus entrenched the
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or more, of all armso regulars and volunteers They
had their best generals in the field We had from 900
10 5000 troops, the best perhaps in the world excel
leny equipped in other respects but decidedly inferior
in the number and character OF the artillery but they
were scattered TO make different attacks, and they pre-
scented only about 0.ooo to meet the Mexican masses
at one point. Our troops had the advantage of
superior skill and discipline OF confidence and expe-
rience, and Of an indomitable courage which knew
no fear and defed every danger. 1t these
high qualities in the soldier and all these profess
sonal aainments of the officers which constituted our
strength and gave the decided victory the engage
men One of the Mexican correspondents is grossly in
correct, when he says that his countrymen offered the
bayone and declined it. On the contrary as the gall
liant Worth writes, vanqushed them principally by
the force OF the bayonet The superiority of our arms
demonstrated by the result of the several battles in
which we engaged. We drove the enemy from all
their boosted entertainments. We bravely overcame
and then captured all their artillery and all their
munitions. We seized all the strong points which
they had entrenched. We have killed, wounded, and
taken prisoners five six thousand, it is estimated
and we have lost about one thousand of our
own gallant troops We have retaken the two
cannon which lost at the battle of Buena Vista, and
wresed from their hands the only trophies of the war OF
which they boased We have taken prisoners the Riley
corps OF those infamous deserters who had abandoned
the service of free people We pursued the flying en-
envy to the very gates of the capital, and would have
taken it, if desire TO negotiate peace had not arrested
the victorious general mid We seize the
| city whenever we please. We have forced them to
open negotiations, and TO listen to terms which Santa
Anna had recently refused to consider The confu-
sion and the CONSERVATION which had produced were
so great that they glad to avail themselves of
temporary armstce and enter into negotiation Policy
may have partially contributed to this delay but il was
the alarm which they had conceived which principally
operated upon their hitherto reluctant commander
! Thanks be to brave and ndomitable countrymen
Thanks to our regulars and 10 our volunteers Thanks
to the brave and experienced Scott Thanks to his gallant
to Cadwalader to Smith, to Shields (hom death seems
to have spared only to add another evergreen laurel TO
his browD Thanks be to the brave officers who have
shared their dangers well their honors Thanks to
the brave men who have looked danger and death in the
face, and who have proved themselves worthy of the
glorious republic in which their lot has been cast Words
cannot do adequate justice TO the unconquerabe courage
the lofty patriotism they have displayed, the inextin.
guishable glory which they have reflected upon their
country.
| Nor can language do full justice TO the brave men
who have poured out their blood and sacrificed their
| lives on the altar of the republic. Their blood is
beyond all price Their lives are, indeed too pre-
cious to be sacrificed, except for the glary of their
country. We know how TO appreciate their loss-ihe
heart of every patriot feels for their untnely end Pub
NJ gratitude will erect monument to their memory And
while the cypress with the laurel who does
not sympathse intensely with their dsconsolae families
The following letter specifies some of the honored dead
the chiyalrous Ex-Governor Colonel Pierce Butler, Of
South Carolina, Captain Thornton of Virginia, who
has passed through many eventful scenes from the
very Of the war, and other officers whose
names registered in the list OF Xxi lied and wounded
Judging by the number who have fallen in the battle,
there Drawer and nober set OF men gathered
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We may expect the official details in a few days We
shall then be better able to estimate the loss we have
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