Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1847-10-29
From the North American.
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outstanding hestony stolidity of this ad
ministration, rise superior to present ex
,.encv in Mexico The sacrifice may be
fearful one before our laggard rulers sue
cessfillly interpose lit may cost US a price
al which we would not purchase a thou
sand Mexicos, were every vale Temple
and every bill 81 lie Po.osi; but any Mex
lean triumph must be brief one. If we
cannot co quer we can desoiate. The
country Is called upon to save or avenge
It's army; and the universal heart bursts
forth to meet the summons. Under such
promptings nothing Ia impossible TO tin
American people If need be the country
will be loosened from its Fooied base, anu
precipliated In mass upon q voted and hap
less NJ -xico. Our army III danger OF az
nIhI itIon, the first Thought rs rescue.
That thought viii win victories, multiply
triumph>: and so far as its mission is Il
save our brethren, Il is hallowed. Be- ond
that, uhat profits 1t
Ii the war be renewed and extended,
If we pour an hundred thous nd enraged
soldiers upon the SOIL of Vi .xIco, what can
we not affect We may sldy an hundred
thousand men, women and children; ",
may leave their cities ashes, their hamiet-
a desolation, their vailIeS wilderness
their land one wide Golgotha. But uhot
rlH al ProH ~? Oar people not YAM
pyrts. cp!cUres IN bioui; they have no We
na app, tie for the sha low graves of the
recent battle and the smoke of warm bIood
IS no gracious incense 10 them The
woes of others are not our enjoyment =
their tears cannot so water our prosperity
scenes OF carnage, viii no spirit arise thai
the freeman anu The TREND OF humanI
vii shrink from, uhen II returns 10 20.
son our own atmosphere lac hcen-
uousnesS, the ferocity and the cruelty oil
.uch a warfare not the three graces OF
repubIcanism. Inc sword that has drunk
the blood of conquest Is ever after thlrs y
w o TO the country that teaches the dark
lesson 10 her sons her own bosom NAV
bleed for 1t But does the contest dig
Mexican graves alone Already have ten
thousand of our b. ethren persisted in those
remote battle fields or IN the still more
terrible hospitals that attend them. l. |
ms nothing IA one sense II Is: 1t Is no |
thing 10 the SACRIFICES which, the WI |
projracted, rendered III ire deadly by ma
tual vengeance, aud con iuctcd IN The spin /
recommended by the government organ
must demand. How wIld IS the tnudnl $
Of var, when the victor pays one death
Tor two, and swe;ls tae proportion, to thou
sands, he consIders himself the gamer
WHAT species of Christian reasoning can
be found To demonstrate the prof., ?
l'als country reused, like young q
mt To the encounter. and refreshed rather
than enlccbIed with the red WINE Of battle,
may win more than the luxury of carnage.
We may commence a career that VIII |
pluck the laurel from the crImsoncd brow
81 ancient Rome, and earn u name al
which the world viii t"rn paIa Tn. eI,.
ments OF this glory are within rs the pas
slons and the power; bla irh4i IrlH II prof.
u.s. Ii has ever been won b crime ana
followed by curses. The game, whether
hrlri or protractcd has been an unhappy
ON and the deso!ator has been even mos,
wrrtchcd than tbs victim. Wal such ii
career add 10 our wealth, our social Gle
,Iton putty or happiness, our freedom
or our security Far from IL Luunche,
upon that sea, our destiny w.!l BE- one Q.
storms and darkness, peril wrong an
wrrtchcdncss. \ free aud fully cIyliIzcu /
ltople should desire no glory save thal |
winch i derived from the Right - Clio |
~ that can mng With that -"hich never
fades.
SIch a var pronis : also great acqu-
sltion Of territory. One half Of our neigh
hor's land would not. under such a stat,
~ things, satisfy n: We would - and tn,
plan has nQw It's advocates - seize and
appropriate the whole. For what IS tn,
moral difference What highwaymau
spares his wounded victim nalf the prize
tor which the crime i committed w.
max seize all Mexico. fattcuinI its fields
rs We advance, with human carrion; bu
chat ,cU Il prrf' uS' We have more than
enough OF territory already Il held rs IA
colony. Mexico would unpov,rlsh u. L
united with Us rs an Integral and suytr-
clgn part Of the contracvlcv, ii would u,.
grade, emhlIruSS unj finally divide Us l.
would make no cXI>t6g States richer, but
On the contrary. would tend To render al,
fcehlcr ana poorer. The p,olcct has me-
advantages, and l. urged only bv the IN
sanity Of rap.ne the mad appetite Ct
conquest. Bat has il no dl>adyantlg : ?
Yes, many, and most fearful. lis fist
fruits will be the slavery Question. II >la-
very BE- extended over the territory, orr
slavery be not extended over Il. the Union
IS most seriously thrs atrned. Ii eN.ea-
tet, not only i the country accountant for
wrong NJ which the world Will shud Ter
h1t the supremacy of the South u e>ttb-
hsayt for all time, and the Northern
States reduced 10 colonial vaSsllage n
Snnt.n- and grlevous rs that from winch
ne Revolution relieved US. These are the
'uumphS al war.