The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-30
THE UNION.

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crisis following such events lin the winter of lsi7,
nv opponent representing the people OF Baltimore IN
their name voted the resolutions and declarations already
referred to- 1t bad enough thus to discredt our
country by such denunciaon OF the Chief Magistrate,
who in the and within the limit of the consiitu
tion stands the very embodiment of our national sove
regn II the state OF facts really existed which are thus
arrayed as matter of denuncahon, an elevated moral
would experience pain and modification passing
judgment against our country, though in the wrong:
But when the letter and spirit Of our legislative record
of itself so shocks every lofty impulse of the popular
heart, the proposed declaration acquires import repug
nant and offensive 70 every manly principle of action To
resolve. TO declare that country is in the wrong,
gagged in unjust war; deserving the condemnation and
execration of the word--a uRjust because it
caused by the act OF the President OF the United States
ordering American troops into territory under the urs-
dicton of Mexico $50 to resolve, and to declare, by
the authority of the general assembly of Maryland in
the winter of 1917, when the Congress Of the United
States, the war-making power, had declared in May
1885, that the caused by the act of Mexico =
TO resolve and declare whenthe Congress OF the
United States had in December 1885, extended american
jrisdetion, american aws American propertv, 1mer.
iean lite, beyond the Nueces and west to the Rio
Grande, which point the President of the United States
then only to prerent and rep nuasion and act the de-
tenSiUe so to declare to resolve only to mis-
represent the people Of Baltimore wings and democrats
town meeting assembled in the summer of 1916 so to
declare, resolve, only to abandon the
try and to give aid and comfort to the enemy, but it
resolve and to declare falsely what not the fact
1t was not only to disered,t, but to muepreen
the American government. 1t was not only to declare
in the of the people of Maryland, that the ex
listed by the act Of the President of the United States
when the Congress of the United States had almost
mousy declared that existed by the act of Mexico
the people OF Baltimore town meeting concurrng but
was to resolve and declare falsely that this act OF the
President OF the United States consisted ordering Amer
lean troops into territory under the jurisdiction OF Mex
Notwithstanding the acceptance by Texas of own
terms of annexation early 1915, and when the egs
lave record OF Congress declared in December, 1915,
that A1erica not Mexoan jurisdiction, extended west
! of the Nueces to the Rio Grande and when American
troops not ordered to the Rio Grande until January,
1916 all this, too, apart from the details, which would
illustrate the wisdom, iobearance and virtue OF the
American government.
No apology be offered for such course at such
junctgre Taylor then on the eve of his fierce trial
Of might at Buena Vista, and Scott in movement
against the capital of Mexico The President of the Uni
ted States had just issued his call for 5000 The
in the heart Of Mexico required prompt and efficient
rally to this call of the American commander chief
TO encourage our people to sustain our federal egsa
by my opponent Thus he contributed his aid to provide
supplies, men, and money for the thus he respond
ed to the call of the President of the United States, by
bitter and unounded denunciaons' against the honor and
justice 81 eur own government His resolutions served
not to cheer and encourage the American volunteer at
home or abroad, but winged thelrway to Mexico, sery-
ing to feather the Mexican arrows and cheer the enemy in
the fierce and bloody combats which soon followed at
Benn Vista and Cerro Gordo and under the very walls
The Such se afforded ord to the
would yet battle the glorious successes of victorious
troopsa war SO dshonorable and unjust Illegal,
wanton, and so Unconstitutional, could not long, they
might well believe, receive the sanction and support of
vrtuous and honorable people The General Assembly OF
Maryland throwing itself in the breach, Santa Anna
might well hope with such allies at Annapolis, and such
sentiments and denunciatons proclaimed against fed
eal government that few OF the $4,000 men, required to
sustain our aTuaies an NeSs9, would be recruited in
and money for the war, when the morale Of the people
shaken, and the honor of the federal government
destroyed He might well embody in his pronuncamentos
the Maryland resolutions and cheer on his unhappy peo
Pile in their unequal contests promising them that treach
cry at home should accomplish results which could not
be looked for from his own skill Of their ya!or
have said that apology capbe oferedfor such
duct aware that partisan passion may pardon it. With
some, the mantle of charity will to the faults
that these resolutions develop, and blind the eecor to the
abstract of every patriotic and wise obligation of
statesman called to administer power in national crisis
With Others perhaps, the sacrifice OF principle and char
acter will not be appreciaed every impulse OF patriotism
there win remain crowd Of all parties to arraign and
condemn such weak and unsteady conduct-conduct
which you'd Sp e vote supplies to carry on the
engaged in the war; by bitter and unfoqnded denunca-
tons against their own government and their own
mander-in-chiei. at the very moment that this COM
mander Chief under the mandate OF the making
power, calling for volunteers and regulars to main
tain the honor of the country and the lives of
| our people already engaged In It's de1enCe-cOnduCt
which with one breath denounce the Illegally and
unconstutionality of the war; and in the next gory
the who have volunteered to wage it. Every effort
TO escape the just condemnation which such conduct de-
serves only renders conspicuous the weakness and
unsteadness of principle which could sacrifice the
highest and most solemn obligations Of the statesman
partisan ndnRuDres.
No remuneration at this day palkate the crime
which accompanied the thought suggesting such con-
duct; promises now the eleventh hour to support the
when the treaty of peace is perhaps its way
Washington or when peace is being dictated in the enc
my's capital, will only illustrate more weakness-more
pnsieadness such promises will command less respect
than those to vote supplies which accompanied the ogi
nal denunciations against government; such
promises only add to the enormty of the original
offence desertion of those who participated with him
Annapolis in the efforts made to stain the records OF
the general assembly of Maryland with such mischevous
resoluons-a stain which the caution and patriotism of
the senate of Maryland partially avoided This senate Of
Maryland has of late years. incurred much popular
sure In refusing to entertain these condemned resol-
tons, this body has done much to dignity the political
fanaticsm which has so long marked its action. This
body could well reject democratic measures of reform
and retrenchment-ths body could reject democratic
Judges, and justify such persecution for opinions sake
by promising to the people of the State wing rerench-
ment--whig reform--whig Judges. But this body could
not dishonor and dscredit the State of Maryan and
Justify their wing constituents still less could
this body give aid and comfort to the enemy denounce
and dshonor the American commander chief and dis
credit the federal government engaged in foreign war,
when the brothers, and and fathers OF their c0nst
uents--whigs and democras-were actually engaged in
that foreign war, and had already carried the Maryland
standard in the foremost rank OF the boodiest fields in
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