New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-05
INVASION Of or soil and attack on oar psOp. by

INVASION OF eGf so'i sno N'ses On Vss go'P"'y
Mexico.
For indeed the man who fnds II necessary 70
his argument 30 declare that he will Sustain his
country In doing rrons may well spare himself the
trouble Of argaing thereafter that she is right-he
evidently does not believe himself and cannot ex'
peot to be believed by others. Assuming Gov
Youngs premises, his logic is entirely suPerhooos
II our Army had been prscipitated at first upon the
Mexican capital without provocatIon or pretext u
would STILL he implies, have been our duty hs good
citizens to sustain the act, and TO insist that Peace
should not be concluded without an indemnify to us
from Mexico for our ex penses and losses 10 the con
test We defy Gov. Young, in consistency with
the principles he has here promulged to show any
coed reason for putting any man in the State Prison
unless it be that those In favor ofsendng him there
are the stronger party Mexico, be intimates, must
make us an indemnity, not because our cause il
just but because our arms are superior. 1t is de-
plorsble 10 witness such obtuseness Of moral per
ception 10 the Chief Magistrate Of this great Com
nonwealth.
We think we understand quite as well 81 HIS
Hxcellency our duty as citizens to obey the laws
ing, stealing or numbering among the duties so in
cumbent upon us. Whatever the Government may
lawfully require Of US that We will do-pay taxes
fulfill the obligation Incurred by public debts and
bear arms within the UnitedStates, and there IS
no power 70 send us one inch over the border But
our understanding our moral sense OF nght ano
wrong, our voice and vote as freeman, the doV-
eminent cannot claim, nor can We surrender them
They are ours subject only to the laws Of Heaven
And 50 far from suppressing convictions and al
lowing impudent falsehoods TO pass uncontradicted
till Peace for fear Of embarrassing negotiations
aud exciting false hopes we feel bound TO un-
mask deception and stand forth for Justice when
ever the opportunity shall be Afforded How
should we 20 to work after Peace to expose the
fslsehoods which for years we had actively up
held or tacitly countenancedl How could we scru
tinize the causes of the War after having for
years sssented that our Government was to be
supported even when it could not be Jastlheo'
and our citizens TO be sustained, even in unprovok
ed outrages on those OF another nation Ii is sheer
deception TO talk Of a searching inquiry into the
causes Of the War after we shall have for years up
held and pushed it on to a triumphant result. We
can need no other proof Of this than the use already
made by the creature Polk Of the fact that Wing
Congressman voted for the first War Supply bill
with the lying preamble attached to it, And 80 far
from wishing such termination as the Governor
thinks desirable, we deeply feel that every inch OF
territory may wrest from Mexico in this contest
will bring curse with it so sure as the Universe
has lust Ruler. We want no iniemnity-no
scknow Judgement Of our superiorty-nothing bat
Peace and that we shall have as soon as Wings
cease demsgoguing and unite in talking and acting
with regard to this War as becomes honest and
Christian men. Heaven speed the day