The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-19

him ior his good, but solely for
Dies-So, them am understand that You wish 10 en-
u.s. noe into your service to kill innocent man at your h
shglt'on, ard for your bsnsfts
nnn.dLiPs;;,1lhp is our wish, WIN you enls. Z
D.eS -Whatam to get for doing the deed
hnapPs-one thousand dollars.
DteN do you wish me to kill amy others
hnqEps-ki this one man, and the money is yours, and
we WIN discharge you from service the deed
Dick -Wel, see wrong in enlisting into the
wee OF fo men to klons at their bidding and for their
benefit than "a enlistng into the service of millions called
State TO kill thousands their bidding, and for their ben
eh So am at yonr service, and win execute your pleas
The Knapps furnished their with dirk and bud-
geon. AT midnight he entered the back window with
dark lantern crept up the front stairs and entered the sleep
ing chamber of Joseph White He was asleep. Dick
struck him on his head with club then turned down the
clothes and stabbed him thirteen times ia the region OF his
heart then covered him up left the house, hid the bud
Dick and the Kuapps taken up, and impr ,oned
While awaiting their trial. Dick hung himself The knapps
were tried, condemned, and hung
What would you cali Dick Cfowningshied A
ASSASSIN, is the and all will insist that this is the
his character and position What would you cali the
knapps! The nstgators and prime movers in the deed
tween Crovningshied and Knapps that of hired
assassin to his employers. The community would not en-
ure the OF the employers or the employed among
them. and they put them all to death.
ZACHARY rAYLoR-HIs EMrLoyERs-ms BUSINESS
There is town in Mexico called Monterey 1t contain;
say 20 900 inhabitants more or less They never Injured
the people of the United States in thought Yet their
existence opposed their ambition and lust of gold and
rey So those who compose the United States, through
into their service They meet Zachary Taylor and ask
People-Will you enlist into servcel
Zachary-What do you wish me TO dol
Peogte.-We wish you to kill the people OF Monterey
Zach.-What have they done
People nothng only their existence IS opposed to
| our interests.
l'eopefes; they injured u.s. and never intended
| Zdeh.-Why, them do you wish 10 kill them9
peopsimply and solely because they are in our way
| zacA;-Would it be right to XIII them!
People That IS our affair, not yours we wish you 10
Zach,-Bn suppose knop them to be innocent-must1
| People Yes, if we bid you.
zaeA-B@t suppose believe that to kill them would be
Peope-Yes, five bid you kill them. We wish to enlist
p SS ai s. as ana all
we bid them kill, even though they believe 1t would be
Zaeh.-IIow many do you wish me kill
Peope.-No particular persons, or number but we wish
enlist to butcher men by the day. till we have gained
our end
zaeh.-so, then, now understand you: You wish me
s, eas into, yoa sers 10 s at Sg ama for
your benefit You wish swear by the Eternal that
eye hiatt kill them would be m~der'
Zach But suppose / should enlist, and then should
be willing to kill all whom you command me to kills and
Peopc-Once enlisted, you do bidding, or be
killed yourself; and if you attempt leave service
without consent, shall shoot or hang you.
| Zach How much money will you give me!
Peope-Two hundred dollars per month.
Zdch.-Weli' the ministers and churches say war is
right and Christian practice II then it is right TO
list; and when enlisted to go for my employ ers rght or
crorg So am your man Henceior,h am ready TO kill
all you bid me kill, though know them to be Innocent,
and though believe it would be murder.
is name hcnceorth We have work on hand at this
Zach- Name it, and it is DONE
Peopie-There is town in Mexico called Monterey
Go, STAY its Inhabitants, and destroy it.
Zach.-(iive the means, and the deed is done.
So the means are supplied by his employers Now be.
is the day chosen by hun to make the attack See the
scenes enacted by ZACHARY, the soldier lie is acting as
the agent of hc0-how had he been the execraon of
mankind!
will not detan senators by reading any extracts
did not know that the time for taking up the special or
der had passed, should not have trespassed so long
on the time Of the Senate;
Mr. FOOTE. will, them if the Senate will bear with
me, read few additional paragraphs:
Look that nursery! See that mother watching her
harres oade W an at them an in
their limbs and bodies torn to fragments and
nursery is an infant sleeping in the cradle mother sits
by rocking and singing its lullaby Zachary hurs can
Look into that dining room. There are a father and
mother and five children at the dinner table ball thrown
and killed around the surviving mother There is school
house In it seventy five children with their teacher.
the torn limbs and dead bodies of fifty of those children
srewed about and their teacher and companions
covered with their blood There daughter standing by
her brok hearted father to comfort and sustain him
Zachary hurs ball at her, and cuts her body in
two and there she lies manged corpse before her father
For the love of Heaven, spare that houe cries young
Zachary. he aiming deadly missile mt
tcuar dwelling. 81 CARE NOT IF EVERY OTHER HOUSE
TOWN BLOWN AToMs-but do not destroy that one
ZIchdry.-What is your reason!
Young man.-My betrothed lives there-she whom love
my soul.
Zachary-Alllovc and domestic affections be for
gotten here.
Young man-Bu do spare that one One OF your own
companions begs you to spare it,
ZIchdry.-lt is the bidding and for the interest of
that and all in shond be DESTROYED
We must 20 for employers, RIGHT OR WRONG.
Young nlanOh, spare it! To what danger is she whom
love exposed! Think OF the must feel find her
a mangled corpse.
Zachary.-Young man. you seem to nothing about
the other houses, and willing to them % blown
atoms Yet every ball and bomb shell throw tears
pieces wife or husband parent child some
brother sisterall of whom objects OF affection
Others and their death much agony surviving
relatives the death of your betrohed would YOU She
must die Such is the bidding and pleasure of my EN-
ployers.
bomb shell is aimed at the house and in an instant
where the parents and their children assembled and
explodes ragged piece OF iron strikes the young woman
and tears away her head and shoulders
Says another witness of the dongs Of Zachary: cit
awful sight to look upon the dead-some shot with
cannon balls, and some with small shotsome with their
heads shot ofsone with their legs ofsomc with their
botres scattered the ground"
Says another eyewitness of another "Bodies OF
Mexicans were lying all about in every drecton-some
with their heads entirely partly shot o8others Without
legs drms-othes with their enfraus torn ouf-l crept
about on my hands and knees and every few PAGES
would come dead bodies and at one place DIS