Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-01
- Circumstance, that unspiritual god
And miscfeator'-
S~ickening Horrors.

The Mexican news which we give in an
other place is most woful. A long list Of cul-
tlvatrd, civilized, perhaps pious, and certain
iy intelligent men, officers in our army. have
been killed and cut to pieces-slaughtered
and mutllated, for no purpose worth The sa-
crifice Of a nights sleep. The mass of cOm-
mon men-brave and noble hearted fathers,
brothers, husbands, mixed with some unwoG-
thy reprobates, doubtless, who have been at
the same time mauled, battered and torn to
pieces, and thrown like SO many dead dogs
to the Mexican Turkey BuZZards, is almost
beyond the power of Imagination to compute.
Tue beautiful brigade OF citizen soldiers who
yesterday displayed their pretty feathers on
our Common, were but a handful to the men
killed on Our SHE in these two battles. Yet
if the whole OF this brigade of ours had march,
ed up to a patent guiIlotine under the big elm
and had their heads chopped of, Boston
would not have forgotten it for a century, and
even our most unSentimental citizens would
have been shocked as they saw the dead car
cases piled up into a huge island III the mid
die of the Frog Pond. Now, we take it all
very calmly. Ten thousand briny riIls will
flow down the cheeks OF the widows and or
phans that are by this horrid burcIery de-
livered over to despair, but we are a glorious
and great country, and the world learns by
this that we Can fighl!-aS what nation can
not!
Call it a victory! We confess it looks to
us more as though the next news we should
hear would be that the MeXicans having re-
covered breath had come down upon SCOTS
army weltering in its blood and overwhelmed
it. We cannot see why, if the MeXicans
were so completely routed, having appeared
in greater force than was expected and made
such fearful havoc of our men, Scott did not
push on into the capital and take advantage
of their panic. Either they were not COM
pletely routed, or Scott was not able to fol-
low. The idea that the British embassy in
tervened to secure so favorable terms to the
routed MeXicans Is TidIculOusly absurd
Mdnltestly the same reason induced General
Scott to yield so easy an armislice, which 90
verned Gen. Taylor at Monterey. But there
is this difference, Gen, Taylor had actually
captured all the ~strongIolds of Monterey,
while Gen. Scott had not set a foot into Mex
leo. Ii he was TO enter Mexico, then was
his time, when the Mexican Army was in
flight. Mexico will not become less panic
stricken nor less fortified by delay. nor will
Gen. Scott under tie remarkable terms Of the
armiskice become stronger.
WIN a peace be adVantageousIy negotiated
on the basis OF an armiSlice We cannot see
how. viii Mexico yield when she knows,
or at any rate believes, that Scott has not the
power to advanced Surely, it will not be
wonderful to hear that the man who claimed
his defeat at Buena Vista as a victory. has
g%Iorifed himself at this "repulse" Of Gen,
Scott.
But suppose our arms completely v%ictori,
Gus. What have we gained to pay for the
blood All Mexico could not do it. But
no part of Mexico can be ours, after all this
expenditure of blood-till zoe pay for ii. Our
piety will not allow it. We cannot rob the
conquered as the Romans did. What we
shall be able to draw from the government q
Mexico into our Treasury, will not pay its
outgoes, to say nothing OF the blood,-hro
nOtJPe.