The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-05-29

ann honor the brave soldier who does his du-
~ in battle; but despise the mistaken, wick
al policy, that sends him TO fight in such a
var Had the President asked for money to
hiring home our army after the taking Of
Monterey and TO send a commission of one
or more of the first men in America TO treat
for peace, would have given my vote with
more hearty goodwill for such a bill, than
any ever gave in my whole public life
often urged this course in private interviews
with leading men of both parties. But all in
yoin Farther battle--more blood-more
lourels-these were the insane and barbRrous
aspratons of men who now hold the power
ora nation Boosting itself the eXamplar of
Chrstendom; vaunting that it tasks for moth
inc which is not right, and will submit TO
nothing which is wrong"
Very truly, your friend.
Tho. CoRwIN.
The Nashville papers state, that at the Con-
yention holden in Tennessee few weeks a.
90, Mr. Sykes, late editor of Democratic pa
per in Columbia, MIR Folks own county, took
OCCASION to renounce all further connection
with his party. In regard TO the war, Mr.
Sykes expressed hmselfwith commendable
fmness and irankness:
He said "Ile believed if the matter had
len managed with ordinary prudence, our
difficulties with Mexico might have been am
cably and honorably settled. The war was
owing TO the mismanugement of the Presl-
dent. The President assumed TO do that
which, under the Constitutional he had no right
@power to do, to decide a question of this
Disputed boundary. If the Army had remain
edat Corpus Christi, and Mr. Slidell not been
sent to Mexico, until the settlement ofthe Or
egOn question, in all probability there would
have been no war with Mexico and this ma
ton might have obtained more from Mexico,
without mourning the stupendous debt the |
war has brought upon the country, than she
will acquire by the warhe had been convinc-
ed, by the discussions in Congress, that the
President was responsible for all the conse-
uuences of the war.
ITO give the President the right to make
war, and then to denounce all who do not
sanction his course, 'as enemies to their coun-
ry'-as the "MeXican party'-as friends,
cOmpatrots and fellow-sodiers of Santa An
ma and Ampuda,' would be TO convert our
Republic into Despotism."
Mr. Sykes said che did not agree with the
Wings in many of their views upon national
questions; he was with them in their oppos-
tOnto Executive usurpation; he believed that
twas necessary for the Wings to come into
power, to save the country from the awful
/ oDsequences of the deep misrule ofthis Adj
mnistration."
We notice Il rather remarkable passage in
one ofthe letters ofCoI. p. NJ. Butler, of the
South Carolina Regiment ofVolunteers, now
on service with General Scott-remarkable,
we mean, considering the source whence it
comes. In Letter to Gov. Johnson, writ
ten after the capture of Vera Cruz, he says:-
"The contest is Unequal, and The serrice an IN.
GL0RIOU,SOne. THE universal uoice of The
,bmG, Nary and Potenteers, is FIR terminating
This contest, and Pedee ,could 6eto them most ,
utcOme ne,cs." |
This doesn't look as though the war were
very popular, us the thin skinned Polk De- {
nocracy pretend. But we suppose Col. {
Butler must be set down MS a traitor accord |
ing TO the Polk dictionary, and the frank and |
honest expression ofopni6n as ayedso,t' Col.
Butler was formerly In the regular army J
served in the Florida campaign us 1t. Col. to 1
the Palmetto regiment, and so ably perform
ed the duties of that station as to be elected v
Governor ofSouth Carolina on his return, al a
most by OCclanation. His opinion, express k
ed above, deserves at least some considera- v
ZION, treason or no treason.-SdLem Register. h