Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-03-02
From the Norfolk Argus.
Another Wing Witness on the Stand


Another Wing Witness the Stand.
1t is with feelings Of pride in times Of high party
excitement, when all the ambitious and evil passions
of man at work, whea the general good is forgot
ten ia the bitter elements Of Strife and the honor Of
the country sacrificed at the shrine OF faction-at
period Of such discords and contentious is peculiar
y refreshing to the eye of the patriot to be enabled
TO rest occasionally green spot to behold
high in fame and in the confidence of the people,
bursting the shackes OF party and munfuly susiain
ing the good cause Of the nation. These remarks
elected by reading eloquent defence Of the justice
and conSututlonany of the war, by David Paul
Brown, ESQ.,, at great meeting recently held IN
Philadelphia, tor the purpose of nominating General
Taylor for the Presidency Mr.. Brown Is wing Of
the hrst water aud was opposed to the election OF
Mr.. POk-but he loves truth and justice, and MOLLY
volunteers to defend both while at the time he
indicates the administration from the assaults OF
those men in high places, who lind nothing good
emanating from the President. though he were as
''pure the angels that administer at the right hand
of the throne of grace"
But we will no longer detain our readers from the
soul-stirrlng extract from the speech which follows
"The was. in my opinion, the offspring Of two
fathers, and though not strictly attributable to it..
arose mainly out of the annexation of Texas. This
act was consummated by our delegated authorities,
and the government must not be censured for what
was the act of the peoples representatives. This
10 constellation, De-
came Of and 1t was our bounden duty to cling
to- and stand by her, and repel every blood in
yader that daoed TO leave his footprint upon her viz
GIN soil. am not prepared TO say whether the rea-
for the annexation of Texas right wrong;
but the law concentrating the deed ratified by
Congress, there is end of it. and it is wrong to
blame the President for carrying the law into effect
i have been shocked TO De called upon to witness
among men high in power, and who have grown gray
In the service Of their country, who have stopped
low to the government for the conduct OF
the war; and by doing have crippled her resources,
and interfered with her energies, by utterDg state
menS that must class them among the allies OF Mexl-
CO. for their degree, their profession, their
previous services, but must condemn their treasona
Bile conduct, and ask for your apprehension ZAP
plause) | am not of those who insist upon the
country right wrong but contend that she rs al
ways presumed to be right and If wrong, the onus OF
the proof rests with those arrayed against her and
if there is reasonable doubt in the absence of proof,
we are bound to give her the benefit of that doubt
in the criminal code, and make her prosecutors pay
the cost
"Thc mass of the country, the bone and sinew of
the people, always right, and if they find that the
rulers In the fault their only resource is to kick
them out, and put better in their places. As the
has been legally declared. and the people are
bound to sustain it, and not TO enlist under the Next
can banner, and take part in the treason of uniting
for the Mexican government why should any pOr-
ton of citizens join with Mexico, that nation of
outcasts-that government founded in treachery and
blood-whch, for the last three hundred years, from
the time of fernando Cortez down to the present mo-
ment has been attended with remorSeess treachery
making the country a continued sea Of blood They
have never kept faith, and the victims of their blood
thirsty cruelty fatten the soil of their own country.
al have recently Mexican document in
which the events of the rehearsed the re-
trbuye Justice of the Creator for the bloody crimes
committed upon her soil during the last three hundred
years Il may therefore be fairly inferred that neith-
er the President Congress responsible for th,
war, but that it a destined event. Upon every
Mexican tent that whitens the plains Of the country
upon every palace that udOrns her Cities is written,
by the finger Of OmnIpoence, on the wall at Bel
siazZars feast, meme, rnene tekei, apharSin You
have been weighed in the balance and found wanting
We are selected as the instruments in the Divine
hand, not in regard Of righteousness, but in
order 10 punish their inquity. Unite with me, there
FORE in resolving, whatever may have been your opin-
ions at the onset in regard tn the justice Of the
to stand by the country her just endeavors bring
it to a speedy and honorable clOse'