The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-02

auaty portray pusatons of the popular heart upon the
in every counenance of this vast assemblage To tell you
hat hail your safe return your resides and domestic
hearths with oy would be tame compared with hat en-
husastc welcome which speaks in the language OF nature
from face with eloquence which battles the force
Of words The spontaneous emotions OF the popular hea
in rendering merited homage TO your patriotism, you
valor, and enterprise, may be imagned-t cannot be e
scrbed Being the medium through whom lhis sehuin
to be conveyed and feeling utter inadequaey 70 90
iustice ask you to read your reception in the silent emo
lions OF the hearts around you which is more eloquent
than language. =,
1t natural that the people of ST. Louis should feel
more than ordinary interest in your fate and correspond
ing emotion of gratitude for your sale denverance anu
turn You We're their nelghb1r their daly & '
virtues heightened to admiration by your sacrifices
thus inspired followed you in your long and dreary march,
attended you through the campaign and chung around you
straes itself in unestraned joy for your safety Besides
we additional interest in being paric pants In that
for he ST. Louis volunteers. As your eow-c citizens
share with you that halo of glory which your deeds have
all that can, and all know that you would desire-the
| uniegned emotion of grateful hearts.
officially volunteered in The service of your country ready TO
march and meet her foes, wherever necessity might de.
mand or policy dictate You constituted portion OF that
army whose gaantry and perseverance resolved all doubts
s OF pa4le aaa eVs Ossf s a
only tenants the Bedouin Arabs OF the prairie By
his march, and the brilliant results attending it, the acqu
stion of an empire in extent that little army has thrown
around itself halo of impershable glory IL has by its
daring enterprise secured Provinces destined at no distant
work mighty revolution in the of the World
trade ofhe Indies as New York European markets.
and commands infinitely safer navigation In the dis
trbuon of your after the easy conquest of New Mex
leo, fell your lot to be left in charge of that province,
whilst your conederaes in were adding new States
your conuess And whilst the active labor was theirs,
the privutionI might say the greater per-was yours;
the glory acquired was the common property Of all.
OF brilliant achievements, and is richly entitled to share
its honors alike. New Mexico, chihuahua, and Cali
ornia, eas of single campaign OF the Missouri
tee And i is your Proud nS of bo 10 KNOW NOW
have made acquisitions which must remain to the
enduring of valor In this war ofbrlliant
liar fortune to placed upon the theatre where your vic
tories will not be barren OF results In future times when
into the valley ohe Msssipp through the gorges of the
Sierra Madre and Rocky Mountains then can your country
fruits of yon gallant service Proudly they proclaim
that this the work ofa single campaign OF the Missouri
The place assigned your particular troops the pre-
seryaron of conquered city, was one 81 pnvaon to the
soldier and hazardous the citizen history has not yet
to teach the lesson of the danger that surrounds brave
and exposed to the bl be
ian Alps the victory at Gamma, and pressed their
almost gates of Rome doomed to be
conquered in their wnier-quarers by the Injuries of Ca
pua Your friends saw and appreciated your situation,
proved yourselves equal the pes which
posed Santa fe was no Capua to YOU as results
dictate the honor OF your and avenge your murdered
When the reached you of the treacherous murder
governor and many of his friends it in the dead
Of winter and snow-covered mountains interviewed between
you and the foe but neither the cold of winter noun
tain barriers could check ardor 70 avenge the cruel
deedyou flew to arms and iogeui of all toll and mPed
valley of Taos, and fell the enemy amidst his fanced
Canada and found them in force vastly superior
your but neither stopped to count the numbers
and after brief struggle put them inglorous flight
You pressed and again came with the enemy at
and and quiet was again restored In these two bat
lies, the loss OF the enemy was great in proportion 70 the
fifteen bear honorable wounds from the batleieds OF
Canada and Taos, mark them the avengers of their
slaughtered elowcitzens The result OF these battles has
been secure peace and quiet 10 New Mexico.
But whilst you proved yourselves terrible avenge, you
less prompt in rendering the oivebranch OF peace
You carried with the true American character hcroic
daring in the ightkndness and Cancellation after victory
By practice OF these heroic virtues have acquired
renown no less brilliant than by your gallant deeds Yon
nol only condhHfta your eney, oT 10 ms
bic the head and the heart Your wisdom in managing
your conquered people only exceed by your daring in
In illustration othc character Of the people, and the
may be INDUCED relation anecdote. And hope
the hero Of it will Lardon for the liberty Amongst your
corps you had many valuable and intelligent mechanics
person the New Mexican knows little about, having not
yet entirely abandoned the wooden plough One OF the OF
MILL novel machinery in that country After he had it
completed, and put into operation with waerpower they
assembled behold the machine and seeing it cut
ting the lumber up without hands, they were filled with adj
mation for the genius that constructed it, and forthwith
in the simplicity OF their hearts knshed him, by attach
ing honorable soubquet of Don to his name and the
worthy lieutenant is, in Santa Fe phrase, Don Louis
But gentlemen, your services You have left
your fame by the acquisition OF your arms
becomes Tor again to encounter the deay plains
returning your homes and the bosom OF your families
The eight hundred miles OF barren waste Is again to be
retracednot BEFORE with army, but with the rem
gallant company The thoughts OF home and It's
you, and in the nticpated Joy OF that
of meeting, all the dangers forgotten You again
plunge into the prairie, and overcoming every obstacle,
bravng wandering marauders OF the plain with your
little band have again returned cherished city, to
receive the spontaneous homage of your elowctzens for
your conduct And 1t is due to the cause OF humanity aha
Justice that ii should be noted that the band whose sell
and patriotic devotion have this day assem-
bed 10 commemorate, adopted citizens Let man
question the patriotism the heart whose blood so freely
| rendered sacrifice to liberty
Upon occasion of this kind ii may not DO inappropri-
ate aude the condition of prosperous and happy
country Fourteen months you left under bright aus
pces-you return it under still brighter While you
cung laures in the north, the armies in the south
nave been reapng rich havests of goyvctory has
where upon the republican Standard and there
e this day giving its folds to the breeze
from the Halls of the Montezumas.
Upon the breaking of the the volunteers pressed
numbers upon the country, that not
and people OF Europe They could not comprehend
that feeling patriotism which called forth the offer OF fifty
thousand swords when most 1.-THE OF the number
required. They had standard by which to estimate such
feelings They could conceal their astonishnen at be-
holding such displays OF patriotism country devoted to
the cause of republican liberty
| But, if that astonshed them, how much they
be surprised at victories, chiefly with those von
demonstrations the of The
country We have been year and half in the We
everywhere graced arms the national
unmpared and amidst all this, shipping bread
stuls war, almost
Indeed such the individual prosperity that feed
nantE