Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-11-04
From the National Intelgencer
DISPATCHES from Major Downing.
CRY OF MEXICO. UNITED STATES, M

ers Of balls as thick as hailstOnes. got your
paper containing my letter ,ha. ! wrote on the
road 10 the war. The letters wrote afterwards,
the guerrillas and robbers are SO thick, think
its ten chances TO one if you got 'em. Some
of Gineral SCOTS letters is missing just in The
same way. Now we've go. the city OF Mexi.
CO annexed and think The Postmaster Cen
eral ongh. 10 have more regular line Of stages
running here. SO our letters may 60 safe. J.
wish you would touch The President and Mr..
Johnson up liule abou, this mail-s,age busi-
ness, so they may keep all the coachmakers
at work, and see that the farmers raise horses
as fast as they can, for don't think they have
an idea how long The roads is this way, nor how
fas, We we are gaining soush. II we keep on
annexin as fas, as We have done year or TWO
past, i, wouldn't take much more than half
dozen years to get clear down TO ,'othcr end OF
South America, clear TO Cape Horn. which
would be very good stopping place for then,
if our Government, GO, into bad shedding in
North America, and found themselves in
would have horn in South America ,ha, they
might hold on to.
hope there ain, no truth in the story that
was buzz'd abou, here in the army day or
two ago, .ha, Mr.. Polk had an idea, when we
&c, through annexin down this way, Of trying
his hand a, il over in Europe and Africa, and
tbor nd linz
about il on this side of The water, he's agoing
10 agree to run the Missouri compromise line
over ,here, and cut Europe up into free States
and Africa in,o slave states. Now, think he
had better keep sill abou, ,ha, ill we get this
South America business all done, and well tied
up. /. isn't well for body TO have TOO much
business on his hands a, once. There's no
knowing wha, iiile furres may get ih,o
yet, and there's always danger if you have too
much sail spread in squa. However,
haven't time TO talk about this now.
You will ge. the accounts of the battles in
GineraI Scouts letters, so needn't say great
deal about them. But i,'s been hard uphill
work all the way from Vera Cruz here; and
don't think my old friend Gineral Jackson him
self would have worked through all the difficult
ties and done The business up better than Gin
eral Scott has. But the killed and the wound
ed, the dead and the dying, scattered all along
the way for three hundred miles, it's heart
aching thought don't like 10 think about it,.
|, is TOO bad that we didn's have more men, so
as to march s.raigh, through without fighting,
instead of having jes. enough to encourage the
enemy to bring out their largest armies and
igh, their hardes, battles.
One of the hardes, brushes we had after
got here, was the attack on Chapultepec.
had been into the city trying to bring Santa An
ma TO terms but, when found it was no use,
come out and told Gineral Scot, there was no
way bu. TO fight i. Out, and, although ! was or
ly The Presidents private ambassador, didn't
like 10 stand and look on when he was so weak
handed, and If he would tell me where TO take
hold would give him a lif The Gineral
said he expected there would be hard pull 10
take Chapul.opec, and as Gineral Pillow was
placed where he would be likely to have the
heavies. bruh, Of il, / might be doing the coun-
try grea, service if would jne in with Gin
eral Pillow, as my experience under Glneral
Jackson and insile into military affairs would
no doubt be very useful 10 that valiant officer.
So took hold for lha. day as one Of Gineral
Pillows aids. g4a..sae e;esas .r
When we come TO march up and sec how
strong the enemy's works was, says |, Gineral
Pillow it is as much as all our lives is worth
to go righ. s,raigh. up and storm that place in
the face and eyes of all their guns; l.hink we
ought TO fortify little. Suppose we dig ditch
round here in from, Of the enemys works
A. that the Gineral's eyes flashed, aud be swore
righ, ou,. Says he, No. d-n the dlehes,
I've no opinion Of 'em they are nothing bu, a
bother, and never ough, TO be used The best
way is 10 60 right into The enemy pel nell >
So, on we went, and Pillow fit like tiger till