The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-16

patrotsm at the expense of Christianity and at the
pense u weak and distracted sister republic ask how
can lesc lngs be III the is unjust and unholy in
ITS conception and IFS prosecution on our part how are
giory ana Immortality by those actually engaged in
Pofceps ertn's IN the war; Are not those who volun-
try night the battles criminal those who ordered
the battles to be ought' Can corrupt tree bring forth
good fruit! Can which, according to the views en-
terained and expressed by the senator from Ohio was in
ITS oriSn and the motives in which it conceived and
prosecuted stewed and stepped in coupton-can such
war cover The immediate actors in it with mperishabe
glory and renown These questions the solution of
from Ohio
IAlr CoRwIN here explained and said he had not con-
tended that The war calculated to produce such
SUITS that he had only contended that the of the
war were cedabe to those who were fighting the battles
Oh lielr country IN Mexico
Sir | DO not hold the senator from Ohio to strict
count for all he has said concede much to the latitude
hon IN relation TO his remarks but cannot release him
from his actsthey stand upon the record of proceed
ngs lie voted for the Monterey resolutions, and they
complimentary to those engaged in the war; as the
RE Aarks OF the senator from Ohio.
MIR. President have been slight observer of men
and things, and think see the difficulty in which the
ous to eytricate himself And all that presume CEN
sure the senator for that he does not with
the rankness that becomes his character and the indie
pendence that belongs to hs station and denounce this
war in terms, as he has satisfied you he does feeling
and judgment, as unjust, our part, in its causes,
wicked in its Objects desolatng and murderous in its
prosecution, and ruinous 10 the country in its
quences 1t easy thing to denounce those who
have been placed at the head of affairs by millions of in
teIligen reemen, and who not here to defend them
selves and their acts; but here lies the rub. 1t wW
do TO and denounce those who Drawing the
dangers OF the battle field in foreign land and the still
greater dangers of maIgn and inhospitable climate and
who glorously defended their flag, and vindcated the
honor of the country, in every battle that has been
fought; and The senator from Ohio knoics ii tW 1reU
But tell the senator from Ohio and appeal his
OF Justice and magnanimty upon this point that if he will
not assume any of the responsibilities of this warf
he says unhoy and UNJUST he ought to be ashamed
TO claim any of its merits any of its glory any OF its
nown And again repeat if entertained the opinions that
have been expressed by the senator from Ohio relation
to the injustice OF this war; and the nquity OF its posecu
ton, and the enormlty, in moral point OF vew OF IFS
probable consequences, than would open my lips
for the purpose of praising those who fight our battles in
Mexco or voting supplies OF men and money to carry on
the war, would seal them up forever if attempted
to speak for such purpose should pray that my tongue
might ceave to the roof of my mouth If entertained
the opinions advanced by the senator from Ohio, would
denounce the war IN Its progress and through all Its
stages wicked, UNJUST immoral, and ruinous its
consequences, and that good thing could come out
of it,
Sir LIDO understand that principle of morality which
bestows commentator upon engaged in bad cause
nor that kind Of patriotism which nculcates sympathy
for your kind but renders you cold and heartessy and
Indifferent, with respect to your kindred My sympathes
are Tor the surviving widows, and orphans and kindred
OF those OF my own country who rest in honorable
graves and for the wounded who, in my judgment,
bleeding in righteous The senator from Ohio
has evinced no sympathy for these his Indignation has
not been aroused at the recollection of the fact, that
when the Mexican army marched out OF the city of Mon
erey, after that memorable capiuatioD, and the Amer
lean army marched into it, they found the American
soldiers who had been denied the right of sepulture
by the commander of the armies of the sister
Pubfr lying unburied, and actually in the act of being
deyonred by Mexican dogs For these, all these,
no sympathy; because in regard to them. SO far as
the senator from Ohio is concerned, humanity has
tongue While on the other hand, the honorable
ator, if fresh from reading the Sorrows Of Werter
and kindred productions, collects all the sympathetic
erSles OF his nature around the couch OF wounded, dy
ing soldier, where he finds Mexican female spunging
his parched and about to be closed lips with little
cold water and because she happens be stricken down
by cannon ball while thus engaged the senator rushes
to me conclusion and Proclams here to Mexico and
States commenced this hoTld war to shoot Mexican
men The honorable senator was pleased TO charge me
with having said on former day. that would rather
see hundred thousand Mexican women slain, than one
American woman made widow Sir pardon some
thing lpardon much, to the sympathy and feeling which
the senator from Ohio has exhibited for Mexico; but
cannot permit the indulgence far TO allow the
tor from Ohio to put words into my mouth which never
used, and attribute to me sentiments which never
ertaned. What said then, and what repeat now,
that if the army at Monterey had been captured,
in my judgment il ought to have been, and compelled to
surrender unconditionally the war would have been
ended When was reminded of the further destruction
of life that would have resulted to the inhabitants of
Monterey if the battle had been further waged, replied
the protection of the inhabitants of Monterey, and that it
became American statesmen to think of the gallant
who might fall in the further prosecution of this war;
and of the wives that might be made widows, and the
children that might be rendered faherless by a;d con-
cluded with the declaration, that would not see one
American female widowed, and plunged in grief, or
one American child subjected to the miseres neglect
and pangs of orphanage, for an hundred such towns
as Monterey. Ny sympahies are for my country. |
contrast them with those of the senator from Ohio,
and leave the world to Judge between us I can
not say to my own countrymen, You may fall
in defence of your country's rights unwept, union
ored and unsung; your seed shall orphans be; your
wives be widows plunged in grief; the voice of
ness for bread, and will witness it all unnovei All
my sympa,hies are for poor, downtrodden Mexico and
those pous SAINTS who nlicting the suterings upon
you! No, sir cannot do this leave it to be done by
others, if others can be found to do it.
But, sir the honorable senator from Ohio not content
ing himself with extracting from the origin of the war,
and the objects OF the war, and the probable
quences OF the war; sufficient odum to overwhem those
at the head OF affairs the government his
try, and to bring down upon them the deestaton of
KIND, and the righteous Indignation OF an offended God
mot satisfied with all this he has ransacked the pages OF
history, ante deuvian and posdeuvian the venerable
records OF antiquity and the bloody pages of the middle
ages and the darkest periods of modern tines have been
explored for the purpose of finding examples illustrate
the senator's idea of the enormy of this war; and the
motives which prompted and the objects for which ii is
prosecuted, and its probable consequences The murder
of Abel by Cain, and he says that Cain hero-Neb
uchalnezzar and Cyrus and Alexander, and Caesar and
Tamerane, Nero, and Caligua, and Cromwell and Boz
naparte with ervid description of all their crimes, run
through the speech of the honorable senator in all the
mazes OF meaphorical description; and by process pc
cuar to HIMSELF the senator extracted the worst acts OF
the worst men, IN the worst times, all ages and gath
cred them into dark cloud for the purpose of
whemlng this administration, and bringing reproach
upon the government of his own country All these
men in bad times were just like the President inhu-
enced and operated upon By the worst of motives covet