The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-14

/ From the Mexican Government paperl
The Execution OF the Dcserters n
| Mcricdns! Among the European volunteers whom
the American army has hired to kill us, there are
many unfortunate men who are convinced of the in
Justice of this war who profess the same Roman
Catholic religion which we profess but who being
harassed by the misery which prevails in Europe,
from the want of employment and the failure of crops
have consented TO enlist. Some Of these men, abur-
ing their errors and following the noble impulses OF
their hearts, have passed over to our army to defend
our just cause From these his excelency, the Pre-
sdent formed the Foreign Legion, known under the
name of the Company Of st. Patrick. At La Angos-
tura and Churubusco they bore themselves with the
highest intrepidty and after the enemy had gained
possession Of this last point which was only after its
defenders had exhausted their last cartridges, they
were made prisoners.
The generals of the American army, who cannot
count upon their soldiers in war so iniquitous save
through the influence Of acts Of ferocity deter
mined to shoot these Irishmen. Scarcely was this
known in this city before every breast was filled with
horror at the thought. His exceency, the Minister
Of Relations in touching letter the English con-
sui, the estimabe lady of her Britannia Majesty
Minister, various private individuals both Mexicans
and foreigners we ourselves, and even the ladies' of
families residing al Tacubaya, interceded for these
brave men and we expected that if they could not
be pardoned they would at least be spared capital
punishment. 4..r .
1t would have been deemed base and repugnant TO
the laws Of civilization as pracsed in modern wars
to offer the bloody spectacle of the execution of these
men and yet it could have been paliated to a certain
extent by the part which these men took in the de-
fence Of Churubusco but they had share whatever
in the slaughter which was made the day before yes
terday upon the heights Of the Kings Mill. Well,
then, will you believe it, my countrymen? This day,
a 4 Z. 4.
sttion, and after the OF savages and as pruc-
tised in the days of Homer, have hung up these
men holocaust-they have themselves said it.
to the names of the general generals who there fell
And In what manner did they hang them? Noosing
them by the neck they stood upon the ground and
so suspending them that they died "by inches
srangled by their weight, the mode adopted
being such that their horrible agony lasted more than
one hour. A spectacle worthy Of such men, or rather
of demons escaped from hell This they did with
eighteen of these unhappy men, and among them the
brave Captain Refill, whose head they stuck upon a
pike and planted it at Churubusco To six others,
who proved that they had not volunteered but been
impressed, they gave two hundred lashes EACH and
compelled them to dig the graves Of their compan-
ions .....
Mericdns: These are the men who call us barba-
rans and say they to civilze us these are the
men who have plndered the houses of the surround
ing villages who have stolen children from their ia
miles, who have slept in the inches devoted to the
sacred dead, who have, with blasphemous revelry,
clothed themselves in the ornaments of the AFFAIRS
who have thrown upon the ground the body of Jesus
Christ, and have made themselves drunk in drinking
out of the sacred vessels, Accused may they be of
all Christians, as they are Of God
Colrntrymen: The Supreme Government COM
manded Its commissioners, you have seen ii al
ready published, that they should inquire of their
commissioners first of all, why they had brought
war upon our Republic with blood and fire What
injuries we have done to them that they should thus
seek to revenge themselves Their mode of con
fusion at not being able reply to these inquiries
and Of satisfying their dspcasure because we would
not consent to an ignomnious peace, has been to
light up anew the flames of war; to send from the
Kings Mill day before yesterday our assassnated
countrymen who had in no manner offended them,
and to gut their dabocal rage upon the dcfcncelcss
men whom they had in their power.
Meredns: The Supreme Government conlurcs
us in the of the honor of our race in the name
of our dignity as men and of God himself, that we
should all unite by one unanimous and continued
effort to revenge these great Outragcs to yield never
, to dismay and to wage this war without truce and
without reenting May rcmorsc seize upon every
selfish or cowardly Mexican who cannot say to him
self that he has fulfilled every duty public officer
and good citizen; who has contributed by every
means in his power towards this warwith his per-
son. with the influence of his position with part OF
his fortune, with his labor by maintaining number
Of soldiers by aiding every way those who fight and
who has not so employed the means which God has
given him for his service and that OF the country in
, which God has placed him, that His images shall
, not be cast down, nor His holy name blaspheined.
MEXICO, September III, l947,
ri IA thoi,
convention, for the selection of their candidate ior
Presidency, on the 4th of July, 1913. This is tn,
day on which it is proposed that the Wings shall
i meet in. convention. We suggest now that our
friends shall not meet on that day, but the 23d OF
September lS4S the anniversary of the storming OF
9 Monterrey. What says the Wing prcss2
a.. The Democrats carried IL members of the
City Council OF Baltimore yesterday, and the Wings
y d. Verify are on the lowermost side of the wheel
now.
, MONTGOMERY AGRICULTURAL FAIR-We learn.
says the Baltimore Sum- that in the late agricultural
fair, held at Rockville, Nd Mr.. f. Whitman, of this
city and Mr.. f. Coyc, Of Washington, received sew
era premiums for their agricultural skill The COM
mitteeon agricultural implements express their graft
# fication at the display made by these gentlemen.
SJMr Adams, OF Monroe Ala, was sitting one
day last week at his dinner table, when he was as.
saulted by number of msmuflins and slain
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Il MAJOR Chevale resigned because of a difficulty
: with Gen Wool, not Gen. Taylor. He was valua-
n bic officer
VI The Norfolk Herald also thus speaks Of the difficulty
between Mr.. Wise and Mr. Tod
at Is said that Mr.. Wise, expresses, in his free
way, the most marked disgust at the style in which
ms successor thought proper TO deliver himself on
his first interview with the BRAZILIAN Emperor; and in
truth he has cause. Mr. Tod almost us good as told