Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-04-06
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Gen. Lane recently engaged in a sort OF secret
expedition against the Mexican towns generally,
and to capture SANTA AANA paricuarly-Ccl-
onel Hays and Major Polk with few Dragons
aud mounted rihemen constituted his force.
The expedition was absent twenty-five days,
traversed over four hundrd and fifty miles OF
hostile Mexican territory-dispersed guerrillas,
captured cities aud towns, installed Governors,
seized the enemy's properly, someof which they
destroyed, and some divided among themselves
killed eighteen Mexicans and captmed three liue
on eS-bul Santa Anna was not one of lhem.-
The expedition only lose ''Ihree men and some
halEadozen hosses."
Such is the character of this brilliant affair,
and what do those engaged in it, say that it
proves!
"Tha, the country is entirely conquered, and
that five hundred well mounted and we'll appoin.
ed men may now search every corner in Mexico
for an enemy and not see him, unless he is in
full fight"
Here we have the official account Of Il few
mounted Americans, in hostile array, dashing
through nearly 500mes of eenemy's country,
not before visited by our troops, taking towns and
cities, pulling down and building up municipal
uuu III u WOluy uOlllH luoh DO hhSJ
"darn'd pleased"
We have over 10000 troops in Mexico-have
n suspension of hostties- Treaty of Peace
ratified by us-and the passage of Bill by the
votes of Loco(oco Senators, rdslng 10000 more
troops, when five hundred men, we are told, can
penetrate every corner of Mexico, and not see
an enemy, save in flight. Yet President Polk
and his followers, urge It's passage, to frighten
these poor Mexicans into a Peaoe-or to create
some 500 new Offices for the Administration to
fill win servie partizans of their own stripe
I-LCin. Gaz.
Mn. Claws WIrHDRAwAL.-Tho following,
from tho Cincinnati Atlas, Gun be republished 10
advantage by every Wing paper from the Rio
Grunde TO Easton.
"There are persons in this city and elsewhere
who continue, without authority, to repeat the
assertion that Mr.. Clay will withdraw. Some,
we learn, are so precise as to fix the time OF his
Withdrawal on some day preceding ngnext Tuesday
night, when the great Clay meeting is to be held
in this city. We have TO repeat to every dlsln'
terested gentlemen on still later authority than
we relied on few days ago, that MIR. Clay has
NOT determined 10 withdraw; and that when he
does decide the question whether he will be O
candidate or not, he will decide it upon a care.
(u survey of tho whole ground Of his duty tC
his country, to his principles, and to himself
And if our opinion is worth anything to them
they may have it for what it is worth, that Mr.
Clay will think il his duty TO himself, TO hi'
principles, aud to his country, to accept Of {
nomination by the Wing National Convention
should it be rendered to him. or otherwise to ac
quiesce in the nomination Of any other Wing.
The new system of logic by which il is at
tempted to prove that because A may not be viii
ling to run, or may make slow run, that, there
fore, BIS principles, qualifications, and Nvalla
biIity are established, is not likely, we apprc
hend, 10 gain intelligent voturies."