Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-12-30

flow into our own great commercial emporium.
As well might attempt to decompose the great ee-
of nature which holds together the planets and
systems of the universe, hoce the links of
mighty lakes and rivers Of overwhelming teegraPhs rail-
roads and canals of free trades Of intercourse of interest,"
of love and affection. of the gores of the past the present.
and the future, which must forever bind together the Ame
ricsR Union. Indeed. when look upon the American
revoution-the framing of Constituton-the addition
Of Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Oregon-our everex-
tending area, products and population, Tiumphs in
and in peace must he blind to the past and close
our eyes upon the fulfilling realities of the FUTURE if we
cannot perceive and gratefully acknowledge that higher
than earthly power still guards and directs destiny
lmpes US onward, and has selected great aud happy
country model and ultimate of attraction for all
the nations Of the world.
| GTHere is an article which will be responded TO
most heartily by every true and generous hearted
Western man.
REPoRT THE WAR DEPARTMENr.-Asylum
TOR Disabled Soldiers and provision for the WidorS
and Children Of those fallen batte.-Ths is another
Of the able documents submitted by the Executive
the Legislative branch of the government at the pres
ent session of Congress. Like the Presidents Mes
sage and the Treasury Report, it will aid in render
ing the present proud in the history of our
country. 1t gives full and distinct history of our
military operations in Mexico. which every patriot
will read with just exultation, and which but the
cantng and unconsclonable hypocrites who justify
cOnOemn.
But as the report is very long, and contains many i'm
portant suggestions, cannot review the whole and
must therefore conne present attention of its
| recommendations.
! One of these is the establishment of military asy-
lum for wounded and disabled soldiers We have
such institution for the army; and we feel ashamed
TO admit that never have had At the close of the
revolution the disabled soldiers received pensions for
the remainder of their lives and appropriations for
for this purpose sometimes contested by men,
bers of Congress, mean enough to make wooden nut
meg appeals, for popularity, upon the ground of
omy. At length, long after all the disabled had died.
and only few left of thuse who got safe through
the revolution, pensions were granted about twenty
five years ago, to all survivors of the revolutionary
army. As none were enlisted after 1852, and those
only II years of age then would be SO now, the list
must be nearly exhausted; and therefore these pen
sons have not been very serious burden upon the
country. Pensions were also granted to the disabled
in the of 1912. The list was not very numerous
and must have been greatly diminished by the lapse
OF 30 years These pensions have been the only pro-
vision made for disabled soldiers from the commence
ment OF the war for national existence and have
no hesitation IN saying that they not enough. If
poor man whose only capital is his labor, enters
the army and comes out with the loss of an arm, a
pension of ten or twelve dollars per month is no in
demnIty. We may be told, especially by greedy
spectators in the money of other people, that his
pension amounts to what he could earn with both
life of poverty, above which he has power to rise
and poverty brings sickness and death to physi
cal disability.
Other civilized nations, to their credit be it spoken,
have made ample provision for disabled soldiers. The
magnificent English asylum at Chelsea, and the su-
perb French Hotel des lnvaldes at Paris, glorious
monuments of national Justice If the British and
French nations have called upon patriotism to fight,
they have afterwards left such patriotism TO starve
to toll and waste amid the discomfors of poverty.
And our nation has been just TO the patriotism of
the navy, in establishing the noble naval asylum in
our city,. Now let 1t, and promptly, extend the same
measure o justice to our army. Never had nation
many reasons for being proud of, and grateful to,
its soldiers, whether regulars volunteers. The
gulars who conquered at Palo Alto and Resaca the
volunteers who aided in conquering at Monterey b.
ena VISTA Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras Chur-
ubusco and Chapultepec; never had superiors, and
may challenge all Europe even for equals. And
shall any niggardly spirit of economy; any sneakng
wooden nutmeg, shaving appeals to sordid socitude
about cents and half cents interfere with the national
gratitude that is bound to consult the happiness of
such men! Let us appeal for advice upon tis point
to the gallant officers who have shared all tolls and
dangers with these gallant men, ard have led them
victory, and through them, have led the national
name to enduring glory. What will be the responses
of the far-seeing, Napoeonike Scott, the ndOmita-
BILE Taylor, the accomplished Worth, the indefatgabe
WOOL the high-souled Shields the chivalrous Pierce
Il
serve and what the nation is bound to do for Them
They deserve asylum that shall speak loudly for
national honor, gratitude and justice, the glorious
military monuments of Chelsea and Paris. Let all
who return with muliated bodies broken constitu-
tion be gathered together under roofs worthy of Ame
rcan power and justice, and protected and cherished
for the remainder of their lives, in all the comforts
which they have CALAMITY deserved. The Secre-
tary has earned an enduring title to respect BY the
suggestion and we hope that manlness enough may
be found in Congress to ndopt it without delay.
Another suggestion of the Secretary, equally wor-
thy Of consideration with the last, is provision for
the widows and children of officers and soldiers of the
regular army who die in the public service. This
provision made for the volunteers. But why it
has been done for the regulur army does not adj
mt satisfactory x'anatlon, and is no compliment
to the justice of the country.
One Of the journals. to render the war unpopular,
talks in true tinpedlar style, about the of the
pension list. How oppressive is national justice TO
national defenders. But if Mexico, this
terrible taxation will not endure beyond the present
generation for aer such taxation, shall have no
enemy on the continent fight and therefore need
of an army. &c. Messrs Wooden Nuimegs, annexa-
ton would be sound economy.-Pa- Ledger.
JErrRIEs' OPINION OF YANKEE ENTERPRISE.
Is said the great British Reviewer Jeffres, once re-
marked that it was his firm belief that il premium
Of thousand dollars was offered for the best transla
ton of the Greek Bible il would be by Yam
kee. who, till offer made, had never seen
word of Greek in bis life He would commence
learning the language Immediately, to qualify hmsel
for the great undertaking, and would finish the whole
work quicker than any other person, and bear oil IN
premium