The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-12
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Sm-I have been for long while convinced that
the public are kept In ignorance Of the real state Of
things In Mexico, by those having control Of such
documents as would throw different light on them
lhan that through which they are usually seen. As
some evidence Of this the Union OF Saturday night
last publishes what purports TO be letter Of Major
LALLy 10 Gov. WILSON Of Vera Cruz, but which Is
only part Of II; the following having been sup
pressed for best known TO the editor lhnve
been Fortunate however, in having obtained u copy
Of the suppressed passage direct from the original,
which herewith send You for publication. have
also given copies OF the same tovarous other papers
in order that the country may the course that this
administration is pursuing In the premises.
Ertrdct Of a letter from Major LaHy 10 Col. H.
Wilson, Gopernor Of Vera Cruz, and by him trans
mated 10 The Adjuiant General, Washington. The
letter is dated
JALApA, Sept, II, lsl7.
"You speak Of rumors in relation 10 Capt. Walker.
have no doubt they are true. IL appears that Col
Wynkoop heard was in great danger, and three days
after my arrival at this place he came down with 300
men, Capt. Walkers company included. The men
were drunk when they came to town and remained
until they went out. Several robberies were com
mtted here, but the most reprehensiblc net was In
going TO Cautepec, where they met with no resls-
lance but robbed almost every house, and To cap the
climax, robbed the Church and destroyed what To
them was useless, but to the Church valuable. The
same thing was done ut Sanmiguel. have promised
to pay the Church for Its losses under Gen. SCOTS
proclamation" @
How long will the country sanction such brutality;
or is 1t willing excuse in its own officers what II
condemned Gen. Proctor for, during the last war
with England2
Capt. Walker however, is only carrying out the
Union's "specuations" to the letter. and may not be
altogether TO blame for what he does. We know
that that paper justified short time since, the
hanging of twenty-one Mexican citizens at Santa FEE,
near Vera Cruz by the same officer, on the mere
suspicion of harboring guerrillas. How long, re-
peat will the people allow the fair fame of the nation
to be thus suied with the murder Of defenceess men,
women and children, Mexicans though they be! Or,
how long will they look with competency OH the
| figure of an old man totterng towards the tomb,
whose gray hairs dripping with the blood of those
who have done him no HARM and whose hands are
still stretched out in the attitude of fury for more,
more blood bioodH BLOOD N ARIEL.
GENERAL CUsHING.--Some OF the United States
officials in Boston said TO be very bitter in their
opposition to the General; but Mr. Polk has writ
ten letter to leading democrat in these parts ex-
pressing his unqualified approval of the nomination,
the cusomhouse gentry in the event of their making
war against it, and thus giving laid and comfort to
the wings, will be qualified by the middle Of Novem-
Der to answer that pertinent question: Who is james
! X. PolkP'
| Thus writes the Boston correspondent of the New
York Herald