Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1847-11-24


Ken ffotn the Albany Argus
From The New York Tribune os' We'd
;nesua ritten By Horace Greeley who |
protssses III Be il, American citizen and
Whofia ! WHY leader: hHa
81 Lovers Of Peace. ,lis.;ples &c the Prince
of Peace! the valleys and plains ST 1 cider
Republic are smoking with human gore!
their streams run red 10 the revoting seas!
By crash oi cannon shot, aud shower Of
cape. and rattle Of musketry, and thrust
Ct oayonet, tnany thousands of nominal
CEsietians are immolating each othar.--
With courage in their hearts, execra,ions
on their lips and deadly weapons in their
hands thousand after thousands are falling
into graves which are but burrows in the
earth, i somuch as that. Four times as
many Wrythe horribly in keenesl torture
from wounds received in deadly fray-ma-
ny Of hemurcared for, and exposed to eve.
~ pr,vation and want. These are your
brethren! E !
Five times as many Mexicans--guilty
o. the crime of cndeavoring to defend their
country from Invasion, their liberties from
snb]ugatlon, their homes franz spoilafion.
fhetr p1ues and dGugA.ers from insult aud
OUTRAGE, sleep with our brethren in unblest
graves or writhe with them on beds OF IN.
utterable agony. The death thirst parches
their lips, butno ministering hand assua-
yes It; no food cherishes, no fire warns
thousands whom Internal War has trampled
over unheedei, and swept past in its reIent-
less Jury. Hundreds die thus whom sea
sonable attention would have saved; hun
dreds are with difficulty saved to drag out
lew years IN useless torment. On every
eide are severed limbs, fractured Joints m,,.
tiiated bodies, bombarded cities whose
dwellings hive crushed their inmates be-
meath their ruins, &"E ~
sCombatants, men, are not the only VIC
TINS. Hundreds OF delicate, shrinking wo-
men; Of innocent, fearful children have er.
PiGted toith their i,ues the crime OF being
born in JNerico, Beneath the wreck other
bomb shattered homes. they lie buried,
concealed from men but ever present TO the
eye OF God: not unmarked by the siera .4ccu.
sing Angel. Look ut them, AU riIORS
OF THIS INTERNAL BUTCHERY
and hasten to arrest your work of ruin
And still the work ofdeath goes on and
stlll the glare of burning houses, the smoke
Ot human gore. the groans of the death
stricken. the shrieks Of slaughtered inno-
cence. go up increasingly to Heaven. The
voice of mourning begins to be heard in our
cities and townsville tears of the heart
broken widow, the desolate, destitute or.
phan, mingle with and poison the cup o
prosperity; every breeze from the South
bears tidings woe to families before un
smitten. and the bulletins of victory and
conquest are surpassed in length by the
lists Of our killed and wounded. All this
IN the visiorious, conqnering United States
think then. of the shrieks Of inconsolable
anguish which ascend from PROSTATE ant
bleeding .Herico; think how tong lhes.
scenes have been continued and how wide
is the field Of conflict, how numerous the
victims, how dark is tho shroud Of defeat
and disaster in which the brave men of thai
Republic lay them down to die. Why
should we not have hearts to feel, even fo
them! They too, are our brethren-Ge
Tending their native land as we, if it were
assai,ed. would defend ours. STILL WI
CONTINUE TO BUTCHER THEM be
cause they cannot consent to surrender n
much of tier country; as many Of ,thei
conntrymen, to our dominion. as our ruler
choose to exact!-Shao,e on the heuihenish
.fendish reqnisaion!
"Lovers ofpease! Christian electors c
the State of New York! our appeal is t
you! lfyou will but do your duty with rel
crence to our election at hand, the .par, ii
authors and its objects aciii be signaliy an
Effectively ,eJuked, ard its speedy terminn
ton peilnigh injured" .@sEtf
Gould Santa Anna himself, or any Mex
can agitetor, have written an article givin
more said and comfort" to the enemies
the United States, than the article copie
above! These are Wing sentiments, ulte
ed by the acknowledged leader Of Ne,
York wings, imploring this party to vote q
gainst the Friends of the Country now er
gagged in battling for American honor! Wi
the wings, as party or as individuals, re
cognize ard sustain sentiments such as ar
expressed in the article quoted above!
IA According to this appeal. the wings ar
importuned to arrest the progress Of the wa
and to prevent any further "shrieks of IN
consolidate anguish ,ohich ascend f'on, pros
trate, bleeding .Nerico." and tn save tn
'.trare men IF thai Republic from layin
doom TO die 9#.-..
"SHALL WE CONTINUE TO BUTCHER THEM
enquiries this Mexican at heart. Is tLi
wing consolation to the hearts of the man
thousand patriotic Americans who have gal
iantly volunteered to defend the honor {
their country! Will the friends of thos
valient spirits, who have shed their blood
on the soil of M insolent foe in the grea
cause oflibertv and freedom. acknowledg
the truth oftae above infamous accusation
byvoting the whig ticket! Are the bray
hearts who are now with Scott ana Taylo
and Wool and Worth-and who have cal
lantly defended and preserved the America
character from Palo Alto to the city of Mex
leo, to be considered by their brethren a
home, as merely band of desperadoes
sent into Mexico, to s'buieher" the people
to dcspoil their homes, and to Outrage thel
wives and dnughtcrs' .@5A
'..Shame on the hcathenish, .fcndish req1li
sition!" Here is another vilainous express
sion, openly promulgated from this leadin
oracle Of Mexican Whiggery. In the opin
ion Of the shameless writer ofthat treasona
BILE article, the detailing Of men TO vndicat
the honor Of our country is a ...fendish r.
Quisition!" Men and officers in the servic
fthe country! are youto be stigm atized b
one Of your own countrymen, as '.fends an
healhens,'' Fathers, brothers, wives an