The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-07-28

teers aboard the Steamer m. IL.
IIamer.
The Louisville Journal Of the 18th,
publishes the subjoined proceedings. Ii
introduces them with these remarks:
The volunteers are returning home in.
dignant at the manner they are to be dis.
charged. They expected to be dischar-
ged at the first port in this country, and
to be allowed there theirpay and mileage,
that each might return home in his own
way, or go and settle down wherever he
wished. Many of them had determined
To fix themselves in the West, and not 90
home for year or two. But not being
able to gettheir bounty lands and mileage
at New Orleans, they were compelled TO
submit. The volunteers aboard the
steamer Hamer, from Baltimore and Ohio,
on their way from New Orleans to this
place, adopted the following resolutions.
Out of l3S officers and men, 1856 signed
the proceedings.
On BOARD THE STEAMER M. B HAMER,
New Orleans, July 3, 1S4S.
At meeting of the officers and men
attached to the volunteer corps and re-
turning from Mexico convened on board
the steamer M. B. Hamer. Capt. M. X.
Taylor was called to the chair, when the
following preamble and resolutions rela-
tive to the character of the recent orders
for their transportation, were unanimous
ly adopted:
We, the undersigned, officers and men
OF the volunteer corps, attached to the
commands hereafter designated, and on
board the steamboat NJ. B. Hamer. on our
return from Mexico, cannot, in common
with other volunteers, withhold our sense
of the very signal manner in which we
have been aggrieved. Directly contra
ry to all former precedents. when volun-
teers were discharged at tthe next seaport
in the enemys country, or the first land
ing place in the United States, and their
remainder pay and mileage disbursed to
them, we have been shipped for those
points whereat we were mustered into
service, without more regard for our
health or comfort than is usually extended
to slaves or cattle, three or four men be-
ing crowded into the space which should
have been allotted 10 one. Nor could
this distressing arrangement be obviated
by any violation Of our own. We had to
embark in such vessels as were designa-
ted by Government orders received at
New Orleans, and as the stated pay ac-
corded to the officers and men while in
Mexico, where exorbitant prices are char
ged for the commonest necessaries of life
rendered economy futile, the disappoint-
ment originating from being defrauded OF
our mileage, and for the pitfnl purpose
ofsaving few thousand dollars to the
National Treasury, has but intensified our
distress. Add 70 this, that many of us,
non commissioned officers and men, have
toj journey to our homes, two or three hun
dred miles from those points where we
shall be left by the Government convey
ances without money, without shoes or
clothing, and with broken health, like
vagrants or beggars, covered with rags
and shame, dependant on the precarious
charity of strangers, from which ignomin-
ious humiliation liberal mileage or even
a timely disbursal of our legitimate pay
would have exempted us.
The author of conduct so atrocious
whether he be General Butler or Presi
dent Polk, land we consider them both
equally cupabIe, the former being at
New Orleans, at the date referred to
above, to second the execution of the
abominable order received from Wash
ington,) we must naturally hold in the ut
most adherence; therefore,
Resolved, That we must uncondition-
ally denounce the manner ofour transpor,
tation from New Orleans. as anti-demo-
cratic in every respect, because deeply
degrading to the citizen soldier. and,
ResOlOed, That although we have con-
tributed to the elevation into power of
the present Administration, and expen-
ded our sweat and blood in fighting its bat
ties in a foreign land, we shall earnestly
do battle against it ana all falsely styled
democrats at the coming election, and,
Resol0ed, That we shall use every le.
gitimate effort to advance to the Chief
Magistracy of our country, Gen. Zachary
Taylor, who we believe to be sound
democrat, true patriot, the soldiers
friend, the friend of justice and of equal
rights. And,
Rcsolvcd, That the Taylor papers
throughout the country give publicity to
the above preamble and resolutions.
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LoCoFoCo LoGIC.-The Locofocos can
chop logic equal to any body orany thing.
We find for instance, three serious char
ges against the Wings, as follows:
1st. The Wings never had any princi-
Piles.
I'd. The principles of the Wings are
corrupt and dangerous.
3d. The Wings have abandoned their
former principles.
twill be seen from thistha the Wings
never had principles-that their princi-
Piles were corrupt & that they have aban-
doned what they never..possessed. This
logic has never been equalled except by
the lawyer, when defending his client on
charge of borrowing whole kettle and
returning it broken. He laid down as
his points that his client.
1st. Never had the kettle.