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who can prostitute his Office to such a pur-
pose, with the hope of creating a public
against the administration? Aye
he will be ga thing, for the slow unmoving
finger of scorn to point at;' and the people
of Ohio will yet blush to think, that they
ever elevated such a man to the exalted
station which he now holds. The name OF
BEBB will be a by-word and a hiss in the
mouths of the next generation, even as that
of EederaHst is scoffed Al by this. Surely
his sentiments never should have been pub
lished in NJ. ssouri, where no heart will re-
spond in sympathytothem; butin some cold'
region where the fire of patriotism
never burns, and where the sun must al
ways shine ~obliqurly. But the knavery Of
this man is only equalled by his ignorance
and mendacity. He proclaims to the peo-
pie of Ohio that this war, forced upon us by
repeated wrong and insult, is not a national,
but a "Presidentiai' war. Though We had
been made the subject of their SCOTS, their
~taunts, and reproaches ,-Though our flag
ha! been insulted, our ships plundered, our
property seized, and IL citizens imprison-
ed, still in the language of Bebb, we had
no ~"adequate cause" for war. Though
they had violated their solemn promises
time and again; had rejected a Minister Of
peace sent to them under an express under
standing: and had heaped upon us, the
grossest insult in the person Of our Minis
ter, still we had no adequate cause" for
war-no, not even when their Secretary Of
War had ordered their General in COM
mand to attack us "by every means which
war permits"-No, nor when he had cross
ed the Rio Grande and shed the blood ofour
citizens! Shame upon this purblind senti-
ment which a see no wrong, but upon
the part of our W Government! 1t is
allied TO that sentiment which die
tated the action of a certain party in the
days Of the revolution. 1t is the same Spir-
it which denounced Madison and the patri-
OTIS of the last war. The very same spirit
which called together the discontinued
federalists at the memorable Hartford Con-
vention-which would not vote a cent for
the defence of the country, though the enc
my's cannon were battering down the walls
of the Capitol. Aye, the same spirit now
manifested by the notorious Giddines and
those who follow in his wake. A spirit I'M
needed by the great body Of the people who
have nobly and gallantly responded to the
call OF the government. They have rallied
around their country's flag, and borne it
tr~iumphan,ly above the jcers and taunts of
the miserable spirits who would call it a
Presidential war A PRESIDENTIAL WAR;,
Surely none but the verirst fool on earth,
would ever have made .'c 'rclaration.-
A Presidential war waged 10. plumber, and
the Congress of a free and enlightened ma
ton sanction such a war;! A Presi-
Dental war enthusiastically respond
ed to by one Of the most enligLten-
Gu IdllOiIS III CiiIlSlcluOW. VII lie. ne
Tell it not in Gath, and publish it not in
the streets of Ascalon, that such folly hath
happened in Israeli" That a President
"without the advice and consent of Con-
''without adequate cause" and
without any '.justifiable" object, should de-
clare his war; and that the voice of an up
reused nation from Maine to Georgia should
echo and re-echo his war declaration!
Bebb, Giddings & Co., most patriotic
and Sdpicnt men! who have at last discov-
cred thatthis is not a national. but a"Presi-
d~ential'' war, long may you rest secure of
the honor and glory of your discovery.
Mr.. Clay made a speech at New Orleans,
the pilgrim celebration in which he said:
81 am half inclinedt to ask for some little
nook or corner in the army, in which /
might serve in avenging the acrong to mn
'O"ntry. Ihave thought that | might vet
able to capture or to slay a Mexican.
shall hot be able to do so, however, this year
hope that success will still crown our
arms, andt the war terminate in an
honorable peace"