Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-12-29
Unparalleled Toryism.

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! The following specimen Of unmi,iga;ed
Fitoryism j. from the pen Of Horace Greedy
editor afthe New Yovk Tribune. Greedy
4 has snaached the palm from the brow .
i Coswins und has the honor Of having per
petrated the basest piece Of "moral trea
son" yet on record. Friends Of America
read, ponder and reflect. The author 0
this vile abuse Of our army and our coun
ftly,is the editor Of the leading wing papel
in New Y ork.--Iowa Sentinel. .a.s
] Lovers Of Peace! disciples Of The
Prince Of Peace! the valleys and plains o.
a sister Republic are smoking with human
| gore! their streame run red to the reoolfing
seas! BY crash Of cannon shot. and shower
Of. grape, and rattle of musketry, and
i thrus. Of bayonet, many thousands Of nom.
| inal Christians are immolating each other!
| With courage in their hearts, execrations
upon their lips, and deadly weapons in
their hands, thousands after thousands are
falling into graves which are burrows in
the earth, if 50 much as that. Four times
as many writhe horribly in keenest tor.
ture, from wounds received in deadly
fray-many Of them uncared for, and ex.
posed to every privation and want. These
are yonr brethren! ..s.a
give times as many Mexicans guilty
ofthe crime Of endeav orirg to defend their
country against invasion, their liberties
from subjugation, their homes from, spoila-
lion and their rires and daughters from IN
suit and outrage, steep with our Methren
4 in unblest graves, or wri,he with STEM on
beds of unutlerabie agony. The death
thirst parches their lips, but no minister
ing hand assuages it; no food cherisher,
no fire warns thousands whom internal
War has trampled over unheedea, and
swept past " it'll RELENTLESS fury. Hundreds
die thus whom seasenable attention would
have saved; hundreds are with diff sulty
saved, to drag out few years in useless
torment. On every side are severed
limbs, fractured joints, mutilated Bodies,
bombarded cities whore dwellings, have
crushed their inmates beneath their ruins.
| "Comba:anis, men are net the only VIC
Tins. Hundreds Of delicate, shrinking
women; ofiunoceDt, fearful children, haze
erpialei Nth their Tires the crime OF beiag
born IN .ierico. Beneath the wreck of
their bomb shattered home they lie buried.
concealed from men, but ever present 20
the eye of God notunmarked by the stern
focusing Angel! Look at them, AUTH
ORS OF THIS INTERNAL BUTCH
cry! and hasten to arrest your work Of
ruin. .s.-.,......-.rs E.use H.. ....,....
''And still the work of death goes on;
and still the glare OF burning houses, the
smoke OF human gore, the groans Of the
death stricken, the shTieks OF slaughtered
innocence, go up increasingly 10 Heaven.
The voice Of mourning begins 10 be heard
in our cities, and townsville tears of the
heart broken widow, the desolate, desti-
tute orphan, mine'e with and poison the
cup Of prosperity; every breeze from the
South bears lidings OF y ce to families be-
fore unsmi,ten, and the bulletins Of vic,o-
tory aid conquest are surpassed in length
by the list of our killed and wounded. All
this in the victorious, conquering United
States think then, of the shrieks of in.
consolabe anguish which ascend from
PROSTATE and bleeding Mexico; think how
long these scenes have been continued and
how wide is the field Of contlici, how nu
merous The victims, how dark is the
shrcud Of defeat and disaster in which the
brave men ofthat Republic lay them down
to die. Why should we not have hearts
to feel, even for them? They, too, are
our brelhren-deiendit G their native land
as we, il it were assaulted, wonill defend
ours. STILL WE CONTINUE TO
BUTCHER THEM, because thy cannot
consent to surrender as mueh Of theil
country, as miny OF their counrymen IL
our dominion, as our rulers choose to ex.
act. Shame on the heathenish, flemish re
quisition'' ="
Lovers Of Peace! Christian electors o
the State OF New York! our appeal is IL
you! Ifyoa but do your duty with ret
erence to our election at hand, the war
its authors and its objects uW be signali1
rebuked, and it speedy termination welt mig
insured" 49, r7-a
Could Santa Anna. Paroles, or any 9th
er Mexican charlatan, have penneda NOR
bitter and sweeping denuncialion agains
the Uhit.d States and cur brave volunteers
than the above article? In all The wa
proclamations from the military chieftisn
of Mexico, can warner sympathy, or
more lnnamatory appeal in behalf Of Mex
leo, be found? These are "whig," ALA
tory sentiments, uttered by the ncknowl
edged leader Of the federal party in lh'
State Of New York, and by far the mos
jealous federal organ the United States
We will not ask whether the '"w higs,
as party, will recognize and sustain suci
sentiments Such query were altogether
superllucus; because. as party, they hav'
on all occasions shown their readiness Il
recognize and sustain anything, howeve
detrimental 10 the honor and Interests G
their country, SO that it offer the slghtes
prospect Of giving them the reins Of gov
eminent. Judging from such expression
as the above, and from their conduct in al
!, times past, we verify believe that, but 10
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