Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-09-30
Correspondence Of the STATE Sentinel.


WASHINGTON, SEPT. 10, lS47.
MEssRs. EDIToRs-Tbat portion of the people Of
this countryside dcmocracy-who believe that the
existing war with Mexico was brought about BY the
peridy of that government, will hear with feelings Of
indispensable delight, of the galluntry and herOism
manifested by our officers and soldiers before the
mighty city of the AzTEcs.
How it is calculated to elevate the character, not
military only but moral of our citizen soldefy, in
the estimation Of ourselves and the civilized world
How well do remember, during the debates in the
American congress upon that most exciting and event
ful occasion-the Oregon questionable many sneers
that were cast, not by foreign writers alone, but by
those calling themselves Americans, at the mpoency
and inadequacy of the ways and Of the United
States government for conflict with public enemy.
With what little effect democratic members repeated
again aud again. their assurances of the readiness of
the masses, at that very moment to fly to the stand
ard of their country in defence of their country's
rights and honor.
How the events Of this war with Mexico have put
to fight and scattered to the winds the philosophy of
such contracted minds.
The events Of this war have astonished even our
selves they have been their own rivals The bat
ties of the 9Th and 9th of May; 1916, knew no paral-
lei bravery, skill results until the siege of Mon
terey furnished it:-boh eclipsed by the san
culinary conflict of Buena Vista all were thrown in
to the shade by the victorious bombardment of the
Gibraltar of America-Vera Cruz the battle of
Cerro GordO disclosed the fact, that none had up to
that time, been demonstration itself, compared with
for it had reserved for that field to prove the truth
of the old adage, that science will prevail" and
now it is said by those who are paid well for know
ing, that the battles the Mexican capital have
never, in the most chgarous and successful days Of
Haniba Alexander Napoleon, or Wellington, been
equalled by few-thot all history, both ancient and
modern, furnish nothing to compare with it,
Is it possible, that the moral, the lesson of this
war; can ever be lost upon, or lost sight Of, by the
American people! Are some politicians unwise as
not to remember that such thing as history invari
ably finds its way the abode of the most obscure
and apparently humble voter in our wide spread do
minons Is it possible that such men expect to adj
dress themselves to the honest yeomanry of
try, dealing out anathemas upon this war; pronouncng
it, on our part unrgheous, unholy and blood-thirsy
and never hear the questions asked them:
elbow came yOa, then, to encourage ii ~
| "How came it, if such be your real and honest be-
lief that in the land were quicker than you to
| peril-not money, time; health and influence only
| but your life withal, in such a cause %
"Did you not raise company, and make every ex-
ertion possible be the captain of that company,
destined, as it publicly and VIGOROUSLY was for the
support of this war, which you tell was in
your opinion conceived in niqnity and rapaci.y, in
spirit of conquest and plumber, lust for aggrand
izement and power!"
"Were you not a member Of the congress that
passed bill declaring that state of exists
between this government and that of Mexico, by the
acts of the latter and did you vote for that BILL
and that 100, under the solemn and awful response
bilities of an oath ?"
'Did your constituency send you there to vote for
sin, and il a talSehood, besides ~
"Did we not see you, on avery particular occasion,
at New Albany, the skeleton of broken-down poll
tician, entertaining. as it appears, these very
sentiments in relation to this war; but very willing,
if you could do so with 1850 or 1000 dollar office,
to endorse the war; by accepting field officers COM
mission, and re-yamping yourself, thereby, in poll
! tics %
If such men think the people of this country guilt
bic enough to swallow such stuff. they will find, as
they generally do but, alas for their schemes, too
late, that they have been following false gods. True,
they are most of them, laryeFs; and think because
they can split hairs before the people, to their own
entire satisfaction, that they have made I'M
answerable argument; but they are, invariably, as
the Frenchman once with the stage coach, pair
fecty diSguste with the results of the ballot box on
cheatery,' and swear by their Maker that the loco
ocos have pipe-aid-have trumphed not by the votes
of American citizens, but by this foreign influence
If such men expect to practise with impuniiy such
things, in such places and on such occasions, they
will hear from the multitude request for them to
show their faith by their ioorks. G.. w. X.