Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-10-15
From the n. o. Picayune, 9th inst
FURTHER MEXICAN NEWS.

We yesterday found opportunity TO look
through file of Mexican papers from the 5th
to the II 9th September, both inclusive We
find very little of incident in them to extract,
but can gather from them very clear idea Of
the spirit of hostility with which the people
are animated towards us. A very determine
effort is made to excite pre- udice against US for
the execution of the Irish Leserters We fini
this execution made the subject of an entire
supplementary number of the Didr1o del Co.
bIerno, of the 10th ut. 1t is in the form Of
an address to the Mexican people, without
any signature, but evidently partaking, in
some measure, of an official character. We
give translation of the whole document, tho
we have not doubt that the circumstances OF
the execution are grossly exaggerated 1t
gives us the exact number hung AMI otherwi- Sc
punished -
MericonS! Among the European vo'un-
teers whom the American army has hired to
Kill us, there are many unfortunate men who
are convinced of the INJUSTICE of this war, who
profess the same Roman Catholic religion
which we profess, but who being harrasse
by the misery which prevails in Europe from
the want OF employment AMI the failure OF
crops, have consented to enlist. Some of these
men, aburing their errors and following the
noble impulses OF their hearts, have passed
! over to our army TO defend our lust cause
From these, his Excellency, the President
tormei the Foreign Legion, known under the
name of the Company of ST. Patrick. At La
Angostura and at Chulubusco, they bore them
selves with the highest inirepiditv, and after
the enemy had gained possession of this last
point, which was only after the defenders had
exhausted their last cartridges, they were made
| prisoners.
The Generals of the American army, who
cannot count upon their soldiers in war sc
ln9uItOus save through the influence of acts
OF teroclty, were determined TO shoot these
! lnshmen. Scarcely was This known in this
city, before every breast was filled with hor
ror at the thought. His ExceIlency, the Min
lister OF Relations, in touching letter to The
English Consul, the estimable lady of her Br
fannie Male>ty's Minister, various private in
dlvlduals, both Mexican and foreigners, we
ourselves, and even the ladies OF families re
siding at Tacubaya. interceded for these brav'
men and we expected that if they coul: no
be pardoned, they would at least be spares
capital punishment
1t would have been deemed base and repug
nant TO the laws of civilization as practised ii
modern wars to offer the bloody spectacle Q
the execution of these men; and yet it cou
have been palliated to certain extent by III
par which these men took in the defence Q
Churubusco but they had 10 share whateve
in the slaughter which was made the day be
fore yesterday upon the heights of the King
Mill. Well, then, will you believe It, m
countrymen this day, in cold blood, thes
Caribs, from an impulse of superstition, an
after the manner Of savages, and as practise
in the days of Homer, have hung mp thes
men as a holocaust-they have themselve
sad ito the names of the General or Gene
rails who there fell! And IN what manner di
they hang them! Noosng them by the nee
, as they stood upon the ground, and so sus
. pending them that they died by inches,
strangled by their own weight, the mode 2
dopted being such that their horrible agon
lasted more than one hour A spectacie VOL
thy of such men, or rather OF demons escape
from he'll ! This they did with eighteen {
these unhappy men, and among them the brav
Capt. Refill, whose head they stuck upon
pike and planted at Churuhusco. To six otf
J ers. who proved that they had not volunteers
but been Impressed, they gave two hundre
lashes each, and compelled them to dig Ii
graves OF their companions.