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CITY OF WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY NIGHT JANUARY 81 1877

gives birth to strengthens the arm of the
enemy, and weakens ii leads 10 apathy where
nothing should be but AcroN quenches the fire
Of patriotism in the citizen while il kndles the blind
Jury OF reckless ambition in the breast OF some miserable
cheitan, whose success is destruction, and whose rule
anarchy; it gives holiness TO nsoence and protracs
the misery and suterngs of the unprotected it lends
seeming approval to infamous motives, and casts veil
oil obscuty over deliberate acts OF wrong; and he who
would serve his country. by causing or permitting
cessary delay IN such an emergency, has need to scult
nze the heart and source of all his thoughts and dongs
as tending to roenness and dangerous TO the State.
Our war is with Mexico! sister republic--a nation
pofessedly OF free institutions and claiming stand and
to act upon the same platform as our own. She
was promptly and cheerfuy acknowledged by us,
and encouraged by our counsels. but she has
proved false TO her sacred trust She has prostituted
and impoverished her population she has weakened her
energies and wasted her and she has
degraded her position by servle and hunating treaties
with men and with nations; she has imposed upon her
subjects unjust and taxes without rendering heI
citizens even ordinary protection from riot robbery,
der, and revolution she has encouraged rulers destitute
OF principle and revolution with no higher motives than
ed true virtue and patriotism from her land and reward
ed presumption, robbery, and Incidence and witha she
has violated her treaties with foreign natons she has
neglected education and all modern of reform, and
has failed to secure the honest and industrious citizen
his rights and in the fruits of his labor
That sister republic should Justly stand charged with
such enonmhes, and with total want of national cour-
esy is fact particularly to be depored by this nation
The fesprngs of her existence all centre in the common
source whence free institutions to live in all coming
time
If she fails nation, the evil reaches us in the foun-
dation upon which we stand Republics strengthen
pubcs, as monarchies strengthen monarchies Not by
injustice or the strife OF misguided ambition, Tor these
weaken all such powers but by that high and righteous
zeal which admits of no competition, but that which
strives to excel all other forms of action, in whatever
pertains 10 the good OF man, or to the advancement OF
nations. Mexico has been false to herself, to
the age reproach to the great cause OF freedom. In
her prosperity she had congratulations; in the mis-
To
she had our sympathy but in her wrong doing though
she has been favored by patience she has received
no counenance from us. and in her deliberate violation
of treaties it to ourselves and to the sacred
OF liberty to which we stand in relation, that she shall
not escape with impunity. That we the stronger
power, renders the obligation of redress IMPERATIVE 1t
Is relation OF parental authority, rather than one
OF national pride and conquest. The wrongs which
she has done chiefly, have been done to US, and,
ment, she has persisted in her ill-advised career
She has added insult to injury, and with mock dignity
endeavored to assume an attitude OF Indignation With
her troops of officers who know patriotism but that
which panders to a corrupt ambition she parades the
field with her much abused and hastarved subjects as
if by such exhibitions of her poverty and of ndubabe
avert the penalty to which she has doomed herself to
suffer No power can save her but the infection of the
penalty which, in the course of events, she has drawn
upon herself That the blow is to fall from us, will
prove TO be her ultimate salvation We strike to save,
not to destroy If her struggle with foreign
lon 1t would be not only one of right, but OF liberty,
Die, we owe It to her people, to ourselves, and to the
world, that she be made to pay the expenses of the
and to organize her government that she may be freed
from the curse of revolutions, and go to prosper in
course OF industry, OF right, and of humanity
Her preensions OF right to govern Texas, when she
has proved herself utterly incapable of protecting the in
minion, are too ridiculous to merit refutation. The
wonder should be- that so many portions sections of
her people have been abe in the great confusion of her
AFFAIRS to recognise in any degree, the existence of her
nominal departments In FACT, when review the
recent events OF the war; of the negotiations between the
two nations cannot but feel amazed at the develop
ments OF the low degradation, and want of foresight
the part OF Mexico and are compelled to adopt the pain
full conviction that no power upon the face OF the earth
is equal to her renovation unless be in the terrible
events OF VIGOROUS WAR. Nothing can save Mexico
but this for the great source of all her troubles has been
in the ignorance of her people. and in the wckedness of
her rulers + absolutely necessary That the latter
rise IN knowledge and power This is not war OF mere
pecuniary interest, nor war OF territory 1t to end in
RESULTS OF PRINCIPLE Of the greatest magnitude to all
nations. There are elements in the questions involved
which will affect our destiny in all coming time, and
which are but seeds of power and principle in the
political soil OF all nations. These seeds will terminate
and spring forth in the events of the future, and it will
be In the end that the hand of Providence has, with
an unering wisdom, joined the links OF the great chain
OF cause and effect which bind every nation to its destiny,
and all to the universal and eternal wheel of improve
ment and progress
We repeat It, humanity requires the pRoMprEsr ACTION
in the prosecution of this war; and we feel ashamed of
own New England that her sons are not among the
foremost in the ranks of danger CRISIS TO MET,
IT INEvTABLE Why do citizens and Legislators
permit the petty iealouses of party to deter them from
INSTANT and EFFICIENT cooperation with government!
These, and only these the to lessen the caan-
tiles which await the two nations. The course of duty
for all good citizens is Clear obvious, imperative 1t is
ONWARD, ONWARD. ONWARD; ACTION, ACTION, ACTION.
Let patriotism lead on our army, and prudence and hui
mainly dictate its acts. When Mexico shall feel that
she is willing to negotiate without insult, and that the
only condition of her existence and prosperity to pre-
peace and equal rights home, amty and integrity
abroad when her motto shall be COP MExloo,' and
hand, extend the Olive branch with train of blessings
which she capable of enjoying, and in the possession
OF which we are able 10 render her secure
me se A CITIZEN OF MASSACHUSETTS. +
u" is ariom of all nations God and Liberty"
TO THE EDITOR OF THE UNION