The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-08-30


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"a linE warned ifia: fofI fioas
Eepnpht no pTssse. haarts no il,Sts
Their county called Let ns. desk ffis
grave Of the dead The aroe,Iesf laura|S
our sacred tears of efatt, ,,de. moiHi. 81
Eens perpstnate and ch ist, sits 's s,as
g ia The varied Htf iris az ADDRESS. and in all
the ceFemoiii az |recept ions. whleh have al.
most deneds YOU 8 nos yours Te turn. yo,,5
cannot have sfai led to req no i1turos
ofthe general lssentirn wi htch las ;actaatad;
these things, In relation both To sthe spirit
with Which DIR common; country SO promptlys
lfespondea to the call 10 arms, asswell as the
tone of graf i1cation with which the returned
soldier has been eceived. f II Is not that a.
1deep national animositY had stirred the very
ltonndati ions ok society and armed ,he releni-
1less passions our pe0ple d Il, aWar of revenge.
They ast under no snch Impulse. Far1rom5
it, sEhs5E Mexican gTs6ptG were afar of.
Their goYefnnlent tneasnras, Till wi few
lyearssen itii slight except tile dissinis
lar descsnt and col oloRiai origir,, all tended to
remove ahoEas ssonycsa 81 conf ct, which the;
history bf Europs siiis The ation, had
furnished in, sict ample variety. 1t WAS not
that al Sturbulen ioctious and tliscontented
ttealing was Sat work lin the under current of
isocietys and those, who held tho reins, ,of pows,
Ter, saw no alternative hut 70 throw DO I'm
the embodied form Of war, and ssaye ala
OF the state from lta explo osiofi hict
UuI people: as bDdy, and cur people. their
varied geographical and .ssgQi div ylsiossS
exhibited no ynptoms sSE djstont but alE
was quiet and Srepose. saa toD
youthful, our civil and tsolitlc t5sedi,aii tos
perfect, our state OF prosfeTl TOO great, 70
hnu WITHIN our. limits that tnfgga number sof
the discontented and the rec klessi that make!
war ue unnaturai put; tne cessary st5mu,
liant OF society q refuge from th6 diseases OF
state, the fruit Of bad government, u Nor, last
Of all causes Of war, wasiit the expedient Sof
an ,odious and totterng administration, to
divert public censure from ITSELF and furnish
an object OF national passion in the excitement
/ Of conflict 5i !; s1,
| To none of these sources did il owe its ORR
gin, either in the administration Of our gov
ernment, or in the feelings Of the people
i 1t was simply war Of necessity, which tbs
1iresources of diplomacy had in vain struggled
/ to avert, well comprehended BY the great
body Of the country. ....! . ,sfsi
Our political relations with the Mexican
nation had been Of the most friendly charac-
ter, since the period when she, Iby}virtue of
the right Of resistance, had severed her con-
nexion with Spain. soGi
/ She received our sympathy as the nearest
republican neighbor upon THE, continent.
But it did not. escape our attention, that the
frequency Of her revolutions and the entire
want Of confidence in 1.-THE successive forms
of government and their executive heads, to-
gether with her utter inability to afford pro-
Election to her several provincial districts, af-
forded q bad omen of her fitnessg either to
tlsustain the form of republican government,
or that she had within her that eticiency OF
public sentiment qnd spirit, which must hold
4 any form of government from falling into
faction. 2.5s s.f.S ,s |, sls..i
1ne rrov!ns:u Sf :: a"1, ".,H" iyi"g witnlh
our aGknoWledged y. iltnts, put iost by an un-
wise aencleney OF political forecast, had as as
Il serted her her,lndependence, and was acknowl-
eoged az auc e'uS ny most OF the nations OF Eu-
rope Pc, $85:t ;.s3.,
enc exercised al the attributes % 81 s0ycr-
eignty mat can make an INDEPENDENT M nation,
ana not one vestlge or sign OF slexican a,'-
thority o renamed within ,a her borders.
Inc confilct c!:t TO reduce her to subsection
aad resulted In the entire discontinue OF the
.neXIcah arms ana the captivity OF the MeXl-
can resident Years had passed, anu no ap;,
Pearance OF design or egens intention had