Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-22

try. She has not violated the integrity of our
territory, nor insulted our & rg and pIundered
oar on the high seas but certain
of our citizens, who have gone into her ter
ritcry in pursuit Of gain, well knowing the
turbulence and amarcliy 10 which that conn
try is subject, and doubtless charging for it
in the price Of their vcndibles, have been
plundered and abused by Mcxicans during
one or another Of the insure clions and out
breaks frequently occurring there. This il
wrong; Mexico ought 10 make reparation FOR
ii.-as she once agreed to do. and rarity did.
If she had proved utterly bent on withhold
ing rpparalion, our Government should have
taken proper means Tor procuring il, either by
declaring a on-intrrcours with her or by
lpyying an extra tax IN her products to be de-
voted TO the payment Of the claims Of our
citizens. IL all had been as Mr.. Polk states
it. it would have offered US no excuse for in
vadiug the territory Of Mexico, suhjecting her
innocent people 10 a d~espoiic and hateful
yoke, and shedding the blood of thousands
including many inofensiye women aud chill
dren. We demur, therefore, 10 Mr.. Folks
indictment altogether.
But when We consider the wrongs we have
Inflicted on NeNioo-ihe organization Of the
Texas rebellion In Washington, under tho
very eyes and with the palpable connivance
and encouragement of our Government-ihe
open drumming up Of recruits and munitions
for it in our principal Southwestern Cities,
United States officers aiding thetein-the
marching Of our army in 1885 into Texas 10
encourage and aid Houston 4 Co. in their
struggle with Mexico-ihe wrestling from her
Of Texas by means Of men, munitions and
money fresh from the United States-the An
~nexation Of the booty to our uwn ample pos
sessious-the imprldent, scoundrrlly claim
Of extending Texas to the Rio Grande over
thirty Mexican towns and cities which no
Texan ever ]rnteIel except as 4 Mexican pri-
soner-an act which Mr.. Benton in IA truly
proclaimed one of L" unparalleled outrage -
when we have seen Cot. Fremont at The head
Of an armed L. 5. force, patrolling in time Of
peace an extensive region # Mexican terrific
~ which we were then npening for a rere-
tirion of the TeXis game, and AT last yenlur-
ing down into the settlements and be riding
the authorities of that feeble province-and
when we h W. seen hosIili,ies finally provoke
I'd by marching our army down to the Rio
GrAndp. driving back the Mexican Rangers
al the Sal Colorado, brrakin! up the Mexi-
! can Custom House NJ San Isabel, planting q
battery against the city Of Maiamorns, and
at length closing the navigation Of the Rio
Graud,. thereby blooming The Mexican army
and people TO timirt-whe n We consider this
long rr4in Of oUtragrs. il does seem a~trocious
that we. in view of the anabasied infamy of
our ItPpudiating States and vast sums of
which they have plundercd their Foreign
Cred,torS-in view of our repeated r~elusals
TO pay our own citizens their claims for French
spoliation Of fifty years standing-shpuld say
Que word about the money due us from Mex
leo as an excuse for or palliaiion of this war.
As to the enemy and all that, we consi-
der our own rapaciiy and injustice our most
p~erilous enemy, AMI the worst possible ca
UNITY which could befall us an easy triumph
TO and great apparent gains from our Govern
menl's wrongs aud viIIanies toward Mexico.
Better far that the punishment Ct those crimes
should be promp: and signal SO as 10 operate
as a warning against snch in future. or the
novice who brtakes himself To the gaming
table and loses, there is boPc; but w to him
if he comes OF a winntr! His doom is seal
ed.