Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-11
SALEM, OHIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1918.

was The marching Of our troops from Corpus
Christi 10 the Rio del Norie. If General Tay-
lor had remained with his forces where he
was, there UouH hare been no inUasiOn-there
tCOun hare been no cOnfict."*
For the statements we have made, we have
not relied on the speeches Of partisan leaders,
delivered for the purposes Of a party hostile
to the administration; we have not depended
on the miserable secrets of conversations, prl-
vate letters, and cabinet discussions, since
public and well-known documents furnish the
only sure ground on which we stand. The
American Congress, Representatives and
Senate, with unanimity almost unexdmpled,
threw the blame OF this war upon the inno-
cent, and declared that this war existed by
the act Of Mexico. Only fourteen in the
House, only two in the Senate, voted against
the bill which made this declaration, and
which turned the treasure, the talent, the en-
ergy, and the life of this terrible American
nation against the miserable and distracted
people OF Mexico. What shall we say of
that declaration 1t was a lie! War exist
ed by an act of the American government;
we think nc honest man, informed of the
facts, can be so simple as to doubt it. The
MeXlcans say that the conduct Of America is
unparalleled In the history If modern nations.
MIR. Castillo y Lanzas is here mistaken. 1t
is not wholly SO. There is one parallel to
our course of aggression upon Mexico. That
is the-parlition Of Poland. While reading
anew the public documents relative to this
matter, the corresponding points in that infa-
nous parallel have forced themselves upon
us. THAT" says a distinguished writer on
public law, was 1.-THE most fragrant violation
OF natural justice and international law which
has occurred since Europe first emerged from
barbarism." Over Mexico as over Poland,
1t was only necessary to siOop, and you could
pick up what you would. There, too, was
a territorial claln,a pretext for remuneration.
There as here the spoiler feared the ~interfer-
ence of England and France, and employed
discrimination, deceit, and the basest treach-
cry" The manifestoes of Russia, Prussia,
and Austria, setting forth their respective
claims, are well known; the writings of the
suppliant slaves, who, at a tyrant's bidding,
commended for their country, however bound
ed their country, right or ~wrong-will not
soon be forgot. The language OF TWO Of the
chief-magistrates of America, solemnly writ
ten in their messages and sent to Congress,
the nation, and the wOrld-language profess
ing the desire of peace, the love of justice
and the right, have brought back to our MEM
DRY the intense irony, cruel and malicious, Of
the dlplomatists of that period. ''rhe c~osrts,"
says a diplomatic note dictated by the Spoil
ers, and sent in September, 1913, to the GO
vernmen of the Polish nation, I. the courts
that is, of Russia, Prussia, and Austria are
SO deeply interested in preserving the peace
of Poland, that while they are busy in get
ting the treaties ready to be signed and rati-
fed, their ministers think they ought not to
lose a moment of that interval so p%recions for
the restoration of the order and tranquility of
that Kingdom" We need not point out the
parallels in the messages of Presidents Tyler
and Polk, or in the speeches and resolutions
of their sycophants and their slaves. The
democrat has learned of the despot, and A.
merican Diplomacy, though but a babe, and
inexperienced, already rivals her European
parents, long ago Graded at Vienna, Moscow,
Rome, or Byzan,ium, rocked by the tyrants
of the earth, and now hoary with centuries of
crime-treason against mankind.
Shall we pause now, and pass judgment
on the conduct of the two administrations
most busy in this crime! We have stated
the facts. Shall we declaim against such in
fanny? We cannot. Our pen falls to the
ground our lips are silent; eloquence were
folly, genius impotent, in such a work. We
pass away from that theme.
= But see Senator Benton's speech of Feb.