The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-05-22

The Administration--r N Whigs--Ths
4 Mexican war.
The following paragraphs, fall Of eloquenc'
and truth, are from powerful article. In TIL
last number Of tho Philadelphia North Amer
can;
The President made the crisis--the Wing
met IL; the, President declared the war--th,
Wings voted the means Of carrying Il on; ths
President called armies the Wings crowded
their ranks and led them TO victory. Yet ths
Administration presses have dared 10 repsonch
them! Who won the triumphs over which
the country exults with nm exceeding JOY e.
The Wing Taylor and the Wing Scott. What
have the leaders Of the Polk party given 10
the country and the contest? Lip loyalty and
tongue valor. A nd what their opponents?--
Where are the sons OF Criitenden and Webster?
And where,isl.ne prop and pride Of the age
Of tina, most illas,rous md honored Of living
men--Henry4 Clays His blood, reddening The
soil Of Buena Vista, cries to heaven against
the calumniators who dare 10 say that the
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Wings Of America are untrue to their coun-
try. While Henry Clay, at Ashland weeps for
his son--weeps while he rejoices that be died,
as he wished to die, Tor his country--James X /.
Polk, at the White house instruc,s his pension
ed presses to accuse the party of which Clay
is the head and heart, Of sympathsing with the
foes of the Republic. M
What can be thought of the party that af-
fects to love the action, but hate the actors
to favor the war, but prosecute the warriors
70 rejoice in the triumph, but malgn the VIC
tors9 Such is and has been from the begin
ming of the war the attitude Of the Admins.
zion and its friends. We will not renew the
complaints of twelve month against the war
of the President against the war-his attempts
to deny supplies and discredit commanders
for are not these registered in every column of
this Journala But we must direct the atten-
ton Of the people Of Pennsylvania to the evil
dence Of rancorous hostility to Gen. Taylor,
manifested by the Administration for months
previous to the astonishing triumph at Buena
Vista--a triumph which the Administration la
bored to render aBdefeat.
We will not, in this connection, refer to the
A Administration attacks upon Taylor in Con-
gress, the eslura upon his conduct at Monterey,
nor the attempts to supersede and disgrace
him by the appointment of Benton. Nor will
we urge the unnatural fact that the chief, to
whom the plans Of the Administration offer
ed up Taylor and his army as sacrifice, was
its protege and co-iniriguer, Santa Anna.-
The plain facts are sufficient they are of
character that would induce US to suppress
hem for the honor Of the country, were that
possible.
But it is not possible. There is now in the
War Department at Washington lettersfrom
Taylor in relation to this subject, which the
A administration dare not publish. The next
Congress which will be composed of major
ny Of Wings, will compelits publication; and |
the facts which it will disclose will seal the |
doom Of the wretched A administration, and the |
siill more wretched creatures who live by it,
We pity the retainers of Mrs Polk, those IN |
ne receipt Of his wages, for they must, in the
present manifestations Of public contempt,
lespise themselves. The great fish OF the
ocean have their barnacles, pilot.fsh and lol-
overs, but we have never heard that the her
ing bore with it, into crooked creeks and |.
'altry shadows, any such retinue 1t is bad
enough to be the idolator of a false god, but
neanness ineffable' to worship lizard or a
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