The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-07-31

MS CUM IL lOf the Illegal cNnCton OF
double tonnage duties on the Brig Weston
At MazalInn, whittier she proceeded in ballast
from Guagmas, her port Of discharge. The
amount exactod was $352,7G.
Do tell
No. Sc.
For all eXactions which may have been
made from citizens of the United States UNI
der laws ofthe Mexican Republic authoriz-
ing forced loans, ample indemnitication will
be demanded.
Why, how you talk What has become of
the $3,000,000, with which Mr.. Polk was to
purchase a peace?
Thomas Toby g. Dr., Of .NeU Orleans
claim restitution of $4,000, tor goods cap
tured and condemned under the same cir
cumsances as in No. /.
Our readers will please recur to No. |. and
see This 'cause for war"!
No. 90.
John Beldcl-has two claims against the
Mexican Government, one for 81 500 on nc
count of damages sustained by him, and the
other for forced loan at San Luis Potosi.
You don't say so
No. 81.
CLAIM Of Franklin and finn ChaSe.-This
claim is for damages sustained in conse-
quence of their summary expulsion from
Tampico in violation ofthe treaty!!!
No. 90.
- BanSiey. Claims damages for be-
ing deprived by the Governor of San Luis
Polosi, of his apprentice boy.
No. "a.
G. ". Staue1enS.-Claims reparation of the
coniiscallon of two thousand one hundred
and twenty-five pounds of chewing tobacco
at Vera Cruz in 1910.
This apprentice boy" and the "cla,O of
tobdckcr" appropriately wind up this most
absurd and silly array of "claims'-nine
tenths of which would be kicked out of
committee roomi in any State Legislature in
the Union on account of their preposterous-
ness! Now UW our readers believe that
the allegation of "WANTON MURDER"
which heads the list of these "outrages," is
sustained alone as follows?
No. %
Schooner IOpnz.-Thc master ofthis ves-
sci contracted in 1892 TO transport 100 Mex
lean soldiers from Matanoras to Galveston.
During the passage the master and mate
were killed by the Mexican officers. and the
crew were forced to run the vessel into Ana
huac. Here they were imprisoned on n
charge of killing their captain and mate, and
attempts were made by the officers above
mentioned to make them confess to that
crime. They were at last liberated on their
agreement to be bound to serve them for
three years. One Of them subsequently cs-
capped to me u = and estf h lie t9 his Gn6
officers divided the Captains money between
them. He thinks that he had or 1000 dol.
And This trumpery, ofa man charged 'o'h
The rny crime wlich he charges on others, is
gravcly brought forward as the sole instance
to sustain the cutlery Of 90 WANTON MUIR
DERS &C. with which paper claiming to
be respectable aims to HUNIBUG its readers
Was ever such trash, utter, unnitigatcd trash,
addressed to the common sense of the read
ers of a yankee newspaper? We affirm that
the samples we have given above are Jarora-
Die ones. We selected them, in running
survey of the whole, because they arc JrieE-
The specifications that are longer arc only the
more silly. If T0monterS are misied Ivy them,
the power to deceive and cheat mankind is
ilimitabc
But we have one question TO ask Of the
Patriot. President Polk aflirms and re-af-
firms from ten to twenty times, in his last
message, that .Herico commenced This ,car up
on as. This is the burden Of the whole of
that part of his message which discusses the
topic. Every locoloco paper in the Union
holds the same language. Notwithstanding
these ''95 Wanton Murders. Robbcres, &c.
&c. of American Citizens" WE have COM
menced no war on Mexico, say Mr.. Polk and
locolocoism generally-MeXico has capped
the climax ofinsolence and atrocity by "CoM-
MENcING THE WAR" after all Will the Pat
riot please inform us when before in the his.
tory of the world, a nation has found it nee
essary to "justfy"a DEFENSIVE war by show
ing how grossly she was insuted before she
was kicked?