The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-08-04

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Meeting Of the Returned Volunteers.
| In compliance with the last resolution we
publish below the proceedings Of meeting
Of returned volunteers from Baltimore and
Ohio, held on board the M. B. flamer, on her
recent passage up the river. Out Of l3d
officers and men, 1856 signed the proceed.
ings:
| OK BOARD THE STEAMBOAT M. b. HAMeR.
NeW Orleans, July /, I848
Alta meeting of the officers and men at
tached to the volunteer corps and returning
| from Mexico convened on board the steamer
M. B. Hamer. Capt. NJ. X. Taylor was call
cd to the chair, when the following preamble
and resolutions, relative TO the character OF
the recent orders Of their transportation, were
unanimously ndoted.
We, the undersigned, officers and men Of
the volunteer corps attached to the commands
hereafter designated, and on board The Steam
boat NJ. b. Hamer, on our return from Mexi-
CO, cannot, in common with other volunteers,
withhold the expression Of our sense OF the
very signal manner in which we have been
aggrieved. Directly contrary to all former
precedents, when volunteers were discharged
at the next seaport in the enemy's country, or
the first landing place in the United States,
and their remainder pay and mileage disbursed
70 them, we have been shipped to those points
whereat we were mustered into service, with
out more regard for our health or comfort than
is usually extended to slaves or cattle, three
or four men being crowded into the space
which should have been allotted to one. Nor
could this distressing arrangement be obviated
by any volitiOn Of our own. We had to EN-
bark in such vessels as were desis mated by
Government orders received at New Orleans,
and as the stated pay according to officers and
men viii in Mexico, where exorbitant prices
are charged for the commonest necessities of
life, rendered economy futile, the disappoint-
ment originating from being derauded Of our
mileage, and for the pitiful purpose of saving
a few thousand dollars to the National Treasu-
ry, has but intensified our distress. Add to this,
that many Of US. noncommssioned officers and
men, have to journey to our homes, two or
three hundred miles from these points where
we shall be left by the Government convey
ances, without money, without shoes or cloth
ing, and with broken health, like Migrants or
beggars, covered with rags and shame, and
dependents on the precarious charity Of stran-
gers, from which ignominious humiliation a
liberal mileage or even a timely disbursal
OF our legitimate pay would have exempted
US.
The author Of conduct so atrocious, wheth-
er he be Gen. Butler, or President Polk, (and
we consider them both equally culpable, the
former being in New Orleans, at the date re.
ferred to above, to second the execution Of
the abominable order received from Washing
ton,)we must naturally hold in the utmost alb
Observation-Disclosures,
Re'oired, That we most Internationally de-
nounce the manner Of our transportation
from New Orleans, as anti Democratic in eve.
~ respect, because deeply degrading to the Cit
zen soldier; and,
ReselUed, That although we have contribut-
cd to the elevating into power Of the present
A administration, and expended our sweat and |
blood in fighting it's battles in foreign land,
we shall earnestly battle against it and all |
falsely styled Democrats ct the coming cleo
ton; and,
Resoired, That we shall use every leeiii-
mate effort to advance to the Chief Magistrs-
ey Of our country Gen. z. Taylor, whom we
believe to be a sound Wing, . true patriot, the
soldiers friend, the friend Of Justice and Of |
equal rights. And,
Re'oised, That the Taylor papers tn rou ghout
the country give publicity to the above presm-
BILE and resolutions.