The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-03
ssNIoral Treason

,as,onsibla for the proongaton OF this Since
,yo, our article of Tuesday night-since heard the
honorable senator's speech yesterday, the following letter
10 gentleman has been put into hands This
letter is now in our possession Ii is from the pen OF
gentleman who was once a wing member OF Congress
from Pennsylvania and is in command of company
of volunteers and the governor OF the national palace in
the city of Mexico We call upon free and enlightened
people to read this letter We call upon the wing lead
read it, and at the bar of their country for
the ransgressions of which they have been guilty Our
readers will that the writer abjures the wing party
and denounces the conduct of its leaders the 'ors
kind Of treason" Such the changes which the trea
sonabe conduct of the wing leaders is daily producing
the minds of the patriotic of their creed To
such men the democratic party should extend the warm
grasp of welcome. Let patriots come into our ranks
whatever may have been their former party relations
These times of shameless dcreicon, in occupying
high places, call for the efforts of every who loves
his country to put them down. Democracy welcomes
all who will join in the patriotic work. These 'mora
traitors" (as the National Integencer called them in
1922 must be put dowa, and branded with the shame
which their revolving treachery to the interests and
honor of their country deserves. They know the fate
of the opponents of the revolution, and the ''mora
traitors" of the war of 1912 Let their doom be that of
the "moral traitors" of 1917,
1t seems that the condition on which any man can hope
for aspire nomination for the presidency from the
whgs is that he should publish himself to the world as
'moral traitor in his feelings TO his country SO the
Judge of the Supreme Court who has thrown off his err
mne understands it and hence he has taken the test.
and passed the ordeal His letter. if he private
person. would be dsgraceul production but, occupying
the official position which he does it is so, and de
impeachment the bar of public opinion Are those
who are thus dsparagng and degrading their country be-
fore the world extravagan enough to hope for the suf
ages of patriotic people for the highest Office in their
gift So il seems Alas what libel upon the American
character does such spectacle present. But forbear
We follow up the letter from Mexico with article
from the "Ohio Statesman" which speaks in the right
spirit The crisis has come when patriots must call
things by their right If the presidency to be
obtained from the patriotic and proud spirited people of
the United States by acts of this descrptonby open
and unblushing advocacy OF the OF foreign
enemyby accusing and disgracing their country before
the world-let us know it. Butte the letter.
| 81 believe that there be peace. have always
believed this and my belief is confirmed by the
OF every day Let there be decision in the administrations
and then let have vigorous decision in the army
The wings re mad | hang my head with humiliation
and shame when think tina, have been a member of
their party. Mr. Webstes speech has been republsled
here by the Mexcans, every variety of form, well
a synopsis of Mr. Clay's and they have been made the
foundation oil appeals to the Mexican people, confirming
them in their MISUNDERSTANDING their hopes that OF
the of country will the
of war; and putting off forever, in my opinion, all pros
poets of amicabe settlement of it. to that
the ,ohig leaders guilty Of the 1oost kind Of
have discovered here that in the States who has
had all the publications of the country has been
in correspondence with the Mexican Secretary OF State
and has transmitted to him all the articles of the
he
Mexican l have in my possession nearly three
hundred of these articles. Many of them
lated and republshed here and of Them,
tcle from the New York Express" Gan appeal to
the Catholics of the United States oppose Mr.. Folks
administration, upon the ground that the war was reli
gous crusade against the Catholic religion in Mexi
co., has only been published in the Mexican papers,
but printed handbills, and circulated by thousands
all the church in the city of Mexico JFho TELL
peo of facts like these how much of the blood that has been
she'd IN this ,car olcing to the action of such ptbicasions?
From the Ohio Statesman
Mexican FcderaIism-its Duplicity and Its Reward
Every whis member of the United States Senate tina,
voted at all, with but exceptions when the broke
out voted commenced by the of the epubc
of Mexico every wing member of the House but four
teen, by their given under the soemnty of their
official oaths, endorsed the fact At the time
these voted for law authorizing the President to call
out the troops regulars and volunteers repe and punish
the enemy. Then they acted as patriots.
them that party, under the belief that political
they voted and charge that their country commenced
the war Though they voted to send men to Mexico to
fight the battles of the country yet with basenes
that has parallel they take ground in favor of withhold
ing supplies and leaving the gallant whose deeds have
such honor the American perish there
without protect themselves from the attacks Of the
numbering banditt who through Mexico in guerilla
parties food feed clothing their nakedness
The who thus act complain that they denounced
by their patriotic constituents.
The of the revolution, and the bueight Hartford
Convention federaists of the last war, made similar
pants vet they and their children have been compelled
to bear the name tory and of bue-ght Hartford Con
vention federass; and their chdren's children, long
as part acted in the last war, and the
part acted in the revolution remembered, bea
the brand of nfamy which they inherited
Can the Mexican wings of the present day, their chill
dren expect different fate Plainly the hand
writing the wall in days of yore, their doom is
ten In the hour when their country arrayed agains
cruel and perdious enemy, in Just par
as waged these gave aid and comfort t.
the enemy by their speeches and writings prove tbci
country wrong. and by defending and pallatng tn
alsehoods and cruees and pedious conduct Mexico
in breaking solemn treaty stipuations, in insulting the
American flag seizng American property and inpsop'
ing American and finally in that browning
of invading American soil with hostile army and murder
| ing American citizens.
From the fate of those who acted a somewhat similar
though traitoous part, in the day. of the
luton and of the last there is escape for the Mex
cnn wings Of the present day The brand already upo,
hem and it will remain upon them and their descendants
TO the latest generation.