The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-06-17
PietY and Justice,

No one can donbt that in matters civil
military, religious, this is a great country,and
that Gen. Scott is-represcnting it very appro-
priately in Mexico. After raining down fro
upon Vera Cruz for four days and nights,
buryng one thousand women and children
under the ruins of their dwellings, blowing
up crowded hospitals, dropping ninety pound
shells through the roofs of churches, sprink-
ling affairs with the blood of kneelng wor-
shippers, the very next we hear of the vic
torious General, he is found in Catholic ca
thedral, which he has just shattered and de-
faced by his horrible projectile amidst the
friends and relatives of his slaughtered VIC
tins, and rs the letter-writers who describe
the scene tell us, q" very solcmnly holding
long wax CANDLE" as if doing penance tortho
dissertation of the church and the massacre
of female Understanding in short like
Louis XIV on his dcathbcd, the ''dmende hon
oraJle to God !" Verify, if the Catholics of
Mexico, after such signal manifestations as
this of the piety Of their country's invaders,
harden their hearts against them, and refuse
to recognize them as as their true friends
and Lenefactors, there is nolongcr any vir-
tue in Paixhan guns and waX-candles, Bow
ie knives, patent rcyolvers, Bibles and GER
tifcates of life membership in missionary soci-
cites
But, as if to leave these Mexican barba
rians utterly without excuse for their contu-
macous persistence in, opposing the disinte-
rested and purely phanthropic, designs of
our government, we have lately had the
most convincing proof that the hero Of Vera
Cruz is as Just as he is pious, 1t seems that
a poor scoundrel Of a free negro, who had
wandered out to Vera Cruz as q sort ofhan-
GER on upon the army, after witnessing the
exploits of his betters in approp1ating tho
wives and daughters of the enemy, on the
principle laid down, we believe by the honor
able Sec. Of War and his friends of the Al
banv regency, that " to the victors belong
the spoils," and forgetting that white gentle
men may do with IMMUNITY, like the privilege
ed saints Of Uudibras,
What other folks arc damned for doing
undertook little business on his own ac-
count. The virtuous indignation Of our Anglo
Saxon army blazcd up at once. The arrest
ofthe offender which speedily followed was
sort of God send to the General. Here was
an opportunity, at once to crafty the natural
born antipathy of our army to black folks,
& to impress the unbclieving MeXicans with
due sense of the rigid impartial justice of
their conqucrors. So the culprit was tried,
sentenced, and hung by the neck in the pub
lie Plaza. And q very pleasant ana SAUSAGE
tory spectacle it must have been to that
owd,hoydcnish dame known as American
Justice, who, we are given to understand is
now campaigning in Mexico in the capacity
of camp follower, with one eye partially ear
of her bandagc, for the audable purpose of
due discrimination as to color. Having hung
out the " slovenly unhandsome corpse" to the
sun and wind,we can imagine the rcdoubtable
General turning with no slight degree of
complacency and satisfaction to the assembled
multitude "There, you poor, miserable,
misguided Mcxcans, saw you ever the like OF
that? There's law and orderfory ou-there's
a sacrifice. There you have the astounding
moral spectacle of Wacb Yankee hung like
doc for insulting Mexican ladies. Now. let
me hear no more of your pitful complaints
of the conduct of our chivalrous volun-
teers at Matamros, Monterey and Saltillo.
There's your negro, gentlemen, and la
dies: YOU can't deny the evidence of your
own eyes it's " fixed fact" as my friend
Colonel q beg his pardon GeneraD Cush-
inc would say there he hangs as dead as
julius Caesar, in expiation of all offences Of
the kind YOU complain of, past present and to
come. If my soldiers had not pawned their
Bibles for whiskoy, l could show you,what as
Catholics you are doubtless ignorant OF, that