Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-06

kill and destroy nations. TO prosecute successfully,
every dictate of humanity be dsegaded all the better
impulses OF be smothered if exngushed
and every possible effort made TO do evil and that continually
The characters of moulded modified by the cir
cumstances which surround hemby their occupations and
associations Every eson of blood which geets the sight
serves to blunt the sensbes and every participation in evil
TO butaze the feelings and harden the obdurae heart Of
But bad as the influences OF regards those inn
medatey engaged therein little less destructive are they than
the operations OF that spirit at home which prompted,
ostered and cherished by men who have ssked their repu
ton upon the issues of predatory onslaught upon neigh
boring domain
Again The sacrifice OF life itself outweghs all the advan-
tages of the most successful dusmen of difficulties which is
hoped for by those who originated the Men from the
peaceful walks OF life have been induced pecous
taons to go forth to the battle and TO death. They have
severed those ties which bound them TO their homes and
Their friends and, after having braved the hardhps OF
the camp forced marches, want exposure, sickness, and
innumerabe privaons they have been marched 10 seek
death IN the lannon's mouth, and found it. Twenty thou
sand men have thus been taken from the enjoyment of life and
the blessings with which Providence had surrounded Them
and consigned to nhospiabe graves in foreign land Think
OF it, who imagine that the horrors Of be magn
ned Imagine that an army OF twenty thousand eew-be-
lngs, IN the ygor OF manhood with strong limbs and bound
ing spirits with high hopes and bright prospects, to-day
marshaed before you, and then say would be willing
to see the earth open and enguph them in ruin
if every foot Of land which owned allegiance to the Mex
lean flag could be recompense No man, not even
Polk HIMSELF hardened raise his voice in favor OF
SO terrible sacrifice Yet this number of have
gone to their last rest and with them double the number Of
foe and the only in its incipcncy the game of
death is but just begun.
Finally Sad has been the havoc which has made in
the domestic relations throughout the length and breadth of
land Every death has the bosom of
afflicted family, and clothed it in the habments of
ing Parents have wept the unmey fate of their sons
OF promise, and the widows wall and orphans cry has been
mingled sad requiem to the departed loved Here has
the shock not only been felt with the severity, but has
extended through series of gradaons throughout the ramca
tons social life, and awakened painful sympahies in the
boom Of those whose feelings moved by other than
the impulses of common humanity Noonly so, but every
shell from our mortar every ball from our rifles, has sent
desoaton and death TO the hearhsones Of unfortunate
foes and severed ties just strong and just holy those
which bind US to the objects of our love- All sad is the
retrospect of those horrors which follow in the train of
enless and sad will be the fate of that nation which in
duges in wholesale bucheries without adequate
provocation Let the responsibility upon those who have
involved Us the calamity For ourselves we have
tested against IT. and ever shall protest until shall be an eff
fronery to claim co-tenantcy in humanity with who
hate blood.