The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-05-12

tnated them; and am surprised not to
have seen these letters, speeches and
conversations properly analyzed and ex
posed.
But with the rank and file Of the Ar
my, or, to use favorile Loco. Focoism,
with 1.-THE Masses" the case is different.
They feel the toll, they perform the druid
geries of soldiers life; they breast the
danger and storm the rampant. .for which
perhaps, the only reward that await them
is the approving conscience for having
done their duty by thei" country. They
feel tina; "even to speak well Of ones
country is good, but TO die for it is NOBLE
and they are ready to make the gener-
Gus sacrifice. But if tomorrow their
voices were taken upon the Peace policy
of Henry Clay or the subjugation pro
jects of Mr.. Polk, am convinced that
their universal response would be: Give
US back to our wives and homes, our
friends and our fresides. Let US leave
this inhospitable cline and return to our
own, our native land"
Bulwer, in one of his works, speaks Of
the letter of French Revolutionst Gin
which the word Virtue was introduced
twenty seven times and God not once"
Of the same order are Loco FOco letters,
conversations and speeches; they are
filled with democratic Progress" and
Manifest Destiny" but contain nothing
of Justice and Right They cannot see
the incompatibility of con9uests and Re-
publican institutions, which involve the
right of the governed to voice in the
Government, but appear to be blinded by
the prospect of the fat offices and pro.
Consulships which the acquisition ofMex.
leo will open to their eager grasps. For.
getting their own country, they waged
war upon neighboring Republic under
the spe1ious preteXt of elevating lis peo.
pie; Patriotism is a narrow sentiment
and must give way to Philanthropy, as
warm for the arid plains of Mexico as
the genial hearshs at home. If the faa
payers of the country can be gulled in
to continuance of the contest by the
interested representations of such meu
they ought 20 pay the piper" to a rounC
tune for their folly.
The present Administration is not onl,
) unpopular, it is dead with the Army
; They look with modification and rage up
on its attempts TO disgrace Gems Scot
and Taylor,-the one by Withdrawing
from him Its confidence, and what wa
of more Importance, his troops-the 9th
lher by diSplacing him from the commanc
and ordering Court of Inquiry at til,
: Instigatou. and for the purpose of graf
: flying the malicious envy of o-Foc,
| subaltern.
The Loco.Focos ought to sing smal
about responses from the Army Wher
the President stripped Gen. Taylor G
his veterans and left him with but hand
: full of raw recruits to face the best ar
: pointed army ever raised in Mexico,
"response from the Army" went hom
l which swept like tornado over the Ian
. and is still roaring and raging, and wi
not be appeased until the present Ad
ministratiOn is hurled from power int
+. oblivion.
The Mississippi Rifles, with part G
the Battalion of Texas Horse, have bee
: sent to Massapie, 110 miles beyond Sal
tllo. and four companies of the Virgin
ia Volunteers, with the remainder of tn
3 Texans, are ordered to Parras. Tn
other forces remain as they were on tn
e departure of Gen. Taylor.
" Three deserters we're shot at this po
u on Monday, 18th inst. 1t was for se
9 ond desertion, and in the last atteml
y they wantonly murdered Mexican DO,
so that they richly deserved their fate.
Several dueIs have been fought latel
by officers of the army. One at tn
9 place between Capt. Wilkins and Co
q let of the 10th Infantry, in which the la
= ter was killed; another at Mier betwee
u Lients. Mcpherson and Mattocks,
i which the former was borne from Il
:, field to die. We expected still another
II at this place few days ago betwet
!, Capt Archer of the the Virginia Volu
/ teers and Capt. Hunt of the ArtiIer
l. as the Virginian denounced Richard
j. the public resorts for cowardice, &c. b
y no challenge passed, and the affair h
" blown over.
d. No other news of consequence. II
:: troops are generally healthy. JUAN.
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